Yet been released. The question is when will they come home, and what are we giving iran in return. Joining me now, National Security counsel coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby. Admiral, thank you very much for being with us. I know that we believe, the United States believes those imprisonments and trials and charges were not true. And were happy to have these individuals back. When will they be on a plane back and out of iran . I dont really know right now. Were still working out the details and parameters here about eventually securing their freedom, and when that will be, what that will look like. But we dont really know right now. Were just really happy that theyre out of evan prison because the conditions there were just intolerable. Theyre in house arrest, but still in iran. Theyre not home yet, and we still have a lot of work to do to get them there. Have we been in touch with them directly . Do we know what condition theyre . We have been in touch with them t
for talks on defence, including the plan for australia to get us nuclear subs. britain s chancellor warns uk tech companies are at serious risk from the collapse of the silicon valley bank, and says ministers are doing everything they can to protect them. and the countdown to the oscars begins but who will be smiling at the end of hollywood s biggest event of the year? the controversy over bbc sports presenter gary lineker and his tweets criticising the uk government s policy on asylum seekers shows no sign of abating. yesterday, it led to widespread disruption of the corporation s football coverage as fellow presenters and commentators pulled out in support of the former england international. he d been told by the bbc to step back from presenting its flagship football show match of the day. now the bbc say today s coverage is also likely to be affected with reduced coverage on the live broadcast of the women s super league clash between chelsea and manchester
the head after a political rally in the nation s capital. the ecuadorian government is blaming foreign nationals who belong to organized crime for the murder. the country s current president, guillermo lasso said clearly an attempt to sabotage the election but vowed voting would go ahead as planneded. joining me, the washington post bureau chief samantha smith. good to have you. the government believes cartels were behind this. do they know which cartel? we don t know yet. what we do know is that the shooter was, he had a tattoo of a local gang in ecuador, but we also know that six others, foreigners, all colombians, in fact, also arrested in connection with the attack. the shooter was killed by police after the assassination, but the others are implies custody and the investigation is ongoing,
any specific talks to all of this? we don t know about any specific talks that to all of this? we don t know about any specific talks that have - to all of this? we don t know about any specific talks that have been i any specific talks that have been planneded or put in the diary, but i would be astonished if they hadn t been set up already or the bbc was trying to set them up. tim davie the director general he was in washington yesterday, he is now travelling back to the uk and you imagine this is going to be his first priority, in his interview yesterday, he said gary lineker was the best sports broadcaster in the world, he wanted him back on the bbc, and he did suggest that perhaps there could be a compromise for presenters like gary lineker that are freelance and don t work in news and current affair, tim davie said he was going to look at the guidelines again, so perhaps there could be gary lineker back on tv, next weekend, we just don t know at this point, but it s a situati
he was ready to resign and convinced, wrongly, it turned out, that president trump was about to fire him. top justice department aides scrambled to draft a statement about who would succeed him. by the afternoon, mr. rosenstein was back at his pennsylvania avenue office seven blocks away, still employed as the second in command at the justice department, and for the time being, at least, still in charge of the russia investigation. if you need a reminder about just how vital rosenstein s role is in the russia investigation, take a look at how trump s lawyer, jay sekulow, planneded to mark rosenstein s departure. i think it s really important that there be a step back taken here and a review and i think it s a review that has to be thorough and complete and a review that has to include an investigationtrans py transpired with statements and al ga allegations going back to strzok and page and bruce ohr and time-out on this inquiry. our colleague, joe