language in the report about my recollection of the events, it is even referenced that i don t remember when my son died. how in the hell dare he raise that? frankly when i was asked the question, it wasn t any of their damn business. let me tell you something. since the day he died, every single day. every memorial day, we hold a service remembering him, attended by friends and family and the people who loved him. i don t need anyone, i don t need anyone to remind me when he passed away. the simple truth is, i sat for five hours, passed away. the simple truth is, i sat forfive hours, two days of events, going back years. at the same time i was handling an international crisis. their task was to make a decision about whether the charges in this case. that is their decision to make. that is hisjob. they decided not their decision to make. that is his job. they decided not to move forward. for any extraneous commentary, they don t know what they are talking about. it has no pla
thank you for being with us. president biden s memory has been called into question after an investigation by a us prosecutor in to how he handled classified documents after serving as vice president in 2017. the report found that mr biden had willfully retained and disclosed material but said he will not face criminial charges. the report says it would be difficult to convict him as he comes across as an elderly man with a poor memory . our north america correspondent john sudworth is in washington. in legal terms at least, this is a vindication for president biden. the report by a former trumpjustice department official finds there is insufficient grounds to charge him for his mishandling of classified documents after leaving the vice presidency under president obama. and it says that unlock president donald trump s alleged behaviour in a similar classified documents case, president biden has cooperated in full and in his reaction today, the president seemed to suggest t
things might get complicated. he won t necessarily sing the army s tune, because in a sense he will think, well, look, the army have turned to me because there was no one else to turn to . you know, imran khan is ruled out of contention and the other candidates are regarded as too young and inexperienced. these elections have been described by some as the least credible in pakistan s history. phone and internet services were cut for much of the day. results are being counted slowly. whoever wins will have huge challenges running pakistan, but they will not be governing on their own. you can keep up with the results on the bbc news website. next, newsnight has been reporting on concerns from within university hospitals sussex nhs foundation trust for months. and today, the trust s board met, after a report from the royal college of surgeons warned of a culture of fear when it came to the executive leadership team . joe s back and has led our coverage of the sussex trust. joe
of october, bringing annualised inflation down sharply to 3.2% % over the past 12 months. it has been 3.7% previously and that was down from a peak of 9.1% in the middle of last year. let s hear now from our north america business correspondent erin delmore. it is finally heading in the right direction. . , , direction. that s right. and this re ort is direction. that s right. and this report is being direction. that s right. and this report is being seen direction. that s right. and this report is being seen as - direction. that s right. and this report is being seen as good i direction. that s right. and this - report is being seen as good news. we saw stock futures jumped on the news and we have seen that momentum sustained into this morning. when we look at numbers like this, we look not only at the number but the direction the numbers are moving in. as you said, we see inflation at 3.2% year over year in the month of october, down from 3.7% in september. we have
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington where it seems every hour, President Donald Trump is in more and trouble. This time its the sacking of the fbi Directorjames Comey thats causing the trouble. The New York Times is reporting that President Trump asked mr comey to drop the bureaus investigation into alleged ties between russia and Michael Flynn, the National Security advisor at the time. Thats been denied by the white house, but theres no doubt just how serious this allegation is. One senior democrat said other senators were shaken and called for a Special Prosecutor to be appointed. Well, this stunning and breathtaking revelation that the president is accused of reaching out directly to the head of the fbi did stop an investigation of general flynn under the circumstances raises serious questions about obstruction of justice. It is a fundamental question here. Is anybody, including the president of the United States, Above The Law . Can everybody be held acc