We will start with developing news out of the us. This is georgia and this is to do with criminal proceedings against donald trump. You may be aware of the latest developments in georgia and those allegations of election interference. The way the system works there as there is something called a grand jury system. 0rdinary members of the public sit on that and they make a preliminary decision about Whether Terminal Proceedings should go ahead. In this case, they did. There have been reports in the last few hours that personal details, some of those ordinary members of the public, have been allegedly leaked online. We now have allegedly leaked online. We now have a statement from the Fulton County sheriffs office. Lets take a look at that and then we can on partygate. It said in a statement. As a lead agency, our investigators are working closely with local, state, and federal Law Enforcement agencies to track down the origin of threats in Fulton County and other jurisdictions. That is
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Because our key trading partners are slowing down, we will, ultimately, feel it in our wages, our incomes, ourjobs and general living standards. there has been much said in recent months about the conduct of some of those elected to our parliament. here on this programme we ve revealed shocking allegations of sexual harrassment and a culture in which power imbalances are allowed to fester and where many younger members of staff feel unable to trust the systems put in place to protect them. now a new voice has added his own account of falling victim to harrassment. sir chris bryant, the labour chairman of the committee on standards and priveleges that s the group of mps whose job it is to uphold standards in parliament says he himself has been inappropriately touched during his two decades in parliament by six mps. by by five mps. the allegations of sexual misconduct come, of course, against a backdrop of wider concerns about behaviour during a parliamentary period which has bee
this is a playbook we have seen a lot of countries where people get elected, and then, they use the institutions of democracy to consolidate power. and in israel s case, what is netanyahu going to do with this? he s gonna expand settlements in the west bank. he s going to deny minority rights, particularly to arab israelis. he may intervene to prevent investigations into his own corruption. he s gonna do whatever he wants without having to worry about a judiciary that serves as a check. when you look at trump, the good news is, in the american system, there are checks and balances. there s a constitution that has divisions of power between the courts, congress, and the president. here s the bad news, jen. the bad news is that we are heading into election in which already, the courts have been packed with far-right judges. so, he doesn t have to worry about the supreme court that s gonna be a check on his powers. and frankly, republicans control the house and they control the senate
And frankly, republicans control the house and they control the senate. so if donald trump gets a weapon, and he does these power imbalances, where he turns the justice department into a vehicle for his own political vendettas, and he tries to take control, essentially, of all aspects of u.s. government, fire civil servants, those kinds of things, it s probably not gonna have much of a check from the republican party if they have the levers of power. here s what i would say to americans. israelis are out on the streets in unprecedented numbers right now. i know some of them. i know that if you ask them, they wish that they would have mobilized before the election. we have an opportunity. we know what donald trump wants to do. he wants to run the same playbook with autocrats like netanyahu or victim orban in hungary have run in the past. it s what he wants to do. he s telling us that s what he wants to do. do we want to be standing up in the streets and try to prevent this when we ve lo