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125 fans were killed in a stadium stampede. iranian officials warn against unrest as crackdowns continue on street protests over the death of a woman in police s custody. the british prime minister admits the decisions which mark turmoil in financial markets could have been handled better. i stand by the package we announced and i stand by the fact that we announced it quickly because we had to act, but i do accept we should have laid the ground better. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it is newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. with more than half of votes counted in brazil s tightly contested presidential election, the right wing incumbentjair election, the right wing incumbent jair bolsonaro is ahead by a narrow margin. he has 46% of the vote compared with 115% has 46% of the vote compared with 45% for his main rival, the former left wing leader lula da silva. the results have surprised supporters of both candidates is all opinion polls gav ....
witnesses from a criminal grand jury. and hurricane fiona takes aim at canada while another storm takes forms and could be headed for the united states. welcome to the lead, i m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this day. we stop with a secret court battle be waged by donald trump s lawyers. sources are saying the attorneys for the former president are fighting to keep witnesses from testifying before a federal grand jury about trump s te tee attempts to overturn the election. our reporters, evan and caitlin, broke this story today. tell us more about this legal fight. what exactly are trump s lawyers arguing here? because it s secret right now, we don t know exactly what they re going to be arguing, but it is a fight that is before a judge in the federal court in d.c. it is because there are grand jury proceedings where they re trying to get information close to trump, things that happened in the white house, say, on january 6th or before them, maybe things th ....
as a potential subject of this criminal probe. this is one of the documents right here. and there is specific language in here about willful retention of documents. in other words, they say, he knew he had them and knew what they were. this is all part of the argument over whether it will release the affidavit justifying the search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because they say evidence may be destroyed. but the judge did set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit, a process that could get into gear next week. and ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from several former trump officials who are scoffing at the former president and his allies arguments that he had a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 officials and all of them told us they never heard any such thing. we ll have more on that in a moment. first, let s bring in katelyn polantz with m ....
days of hostilities. but, it s reported the israeli military has struck targets in gaza within minutes of the ceasefire coming into force. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. russia s war on ukraine has turned culture into a battleground. in countries supportive of ukraine s resistance to putin s invasion, some russian artists, musicians and dancers have been stripped of their platforms or they ve been asked to denounce russia s military aggression. when does solidarity turn into censorship? my guest is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. is art the loser when politics takes centre stage? semyon bychkov, a very warm welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all of the great musical maestros, you re peripatetic, your career takes you all around the world, you are constantly travelling. is there one place you can point to and say that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist? no, i don t think so. ma ....
manufactured in a lab by the chinese military. according to this top radio conspiracy theory they could be a possibility. if it s true, and people believe that s what happens i would believe that the chinese government is responsible for killing millions of people around the world. would also raise questions about motive, why would china unleash this on the world? two americans, that s unimaginable that the chinese government thinks very differently from the way we have. america has been the dominant power in the world for more than 100 years. empires destroying themselves always paves way for new empires. american attitudes but everything are shaped by generations of affluence. we will always be in charge, but the chinese government does not assume that it s us or them. there are still millions of people whose family members starved to death. china is very aggressive and ambitious in ways that others can t begin to comprehend. when a government like that used c ....