who s got loads to say. it s thangam debbonaire, shadow leader of the house of commons. hello, hello, hello. and thank you so much for mentioning us in the house of commons last week. this is how it went. the leader famously once reassured this house that another prime minister wasn t hiding under a desk. words immortalised on the bbc s newscast intro. now i hear from the parliamentary press gallery reception news that she s a big fan of the podcasts. so, mr speaker, i ll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. is that where the prime minister really was on monday evening, hiding under a desk? so this is a great way for our politicians to get on the podcast. just name check us in parliament, put us in the historic record forever for historians to read about. and then you can come on. yeah, but i m the first, i was the first to put newscast in hansard and that was very exciting moment. i mean, if this starts an arms race, it will be amazing. who knows? bu
appointed judge who will make that call. plus, trump s legal liability. simultaneous investigations are underway from january 6th to georgia. what poses the most peril for the former president? also, rudy giuliani s role in january 6th should come as no surprise to those of you who remember the new york police riots. we ll talk about rudy event than in rudy now. i ve ever jury guesses comedy paves the way for others to follow. this is american voices. erican voices. we begin this hour and texas. a judge will hand down a ruling that could affect the future of abortion access across the country. it could affect laws that protect reproductive freedom. it comes down to one man, a judge with a long history of antiabortion beliefs. judge matthew because merrick has, quote, the opportunity to impose the most far-reaching limit on abortion access since the supreme court overturned roe. he will soon rule on a lawsuit seeking to revoke u.s. government approval of mifepristone, a ke
migrant relocations, vowing that we what we saw this week is just the beginning. he says he will spend every penny from his $12 million relocation budget to send more migrants to liberal areas. reporter: the ongoing feud between republican governors and the biden administration over immigration policy escalated this week with florida governor ron desantis jumping into the mix and sending 50 migrants to martha s vineyard. texas governor greg abbott send migrants in front of the residence of vice president kamala harris. now, the white house was very critical of these actions this week, saying it was a political stunt. the department of homeland security also saying the lack of coordination between these states and the cities where they re sending migrants, can, quote, wreak havoc. the city officials both in martha s vineyard and washington, d.c. and new york and chicago have been trying to shore up resources to help those asylum seekers sent by texas, arizona and now florida
Yeah, its great. Nice to see you. Some Breaking News for you, official figures released in the last hour show the uk economy is no longer in recession. The economy grew by 0. 6 in the first three months of this year. The uk entered recession after output fell during two consecutive quarters at the end of last year. Most economists had predicted growth of 0. 4 . This is the fastest growth rate for more than two years. Well, i think its encouraging that we, in the last quarter, have grown faster notjust in france and germany, but also the United States. But i think more significant is the longer term data that is coming out now about the uk economy. We can see that since 2010 we have created morejobs in the uk than anywhere else in europe. Weve attracted more greenfield foreign direct investment, notjust done anywhere in europe, but anywhere in the world outside of the United States and china. In terms of the most rapidly growing industries, we have by far the largest Tech Industry in eu
After 18 arduous months, ukraines conscripts and wounded wage a war with no end in sight. In our third film this week from the ukraine war, mark is on The Front Line in the east where the conflict seems to go on without end. Also tonight, amid the rwanda refugee row, could the uk really leave the European Convention on human rights that churchill helped to found . The Home Secretary Suella Braverman this week floated the idea, apparently with the approval of number 10 . Its extremely unlikely that the government is going to withdraw from the echr. If you look at the judgements of the Supreme Court and indded of the Supreme Court and indeed the court in strasbourg, they have said rwanda is legal in principle. The defeats the government has suffered are on technical grounds. We discuss this and the battle for the soul of the Conservative Party ahead of its conference. And sir michael gambon, bafta and Olivier Award winner, with roles from Professor Dumbledore to the singing detective, di