Our washington correspondent, sean dilley, reports. We love trump hes the first president to be charged with a federal crime and if previous cases are anything to go by, Donald Trumps 30 indictment is only likely to boost popularity with republican voters. The charges he faces though are serious. The 45 Page Indictment accuses the former president of knowingly spreading false claims about election fraud, to trick and persuade states in helping him overturn the Election Results. Helping him overturn the Election Results. The attack on our nations Election Results. The attack on our nations i Election Results. The attack on our nations i january Election Results. The attack on our nations ijanuary six, our nations ijanuary six, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. It is described in indictment, it was fuelled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the us government, the nations process of collecting, counting and cer
for energy because of the rise of renewable energy. hello and welcome to the programme. it s eight o clock in the morning here in singapore and 5pm in san francisco where the bbc s technology correspondence sat down in an unexpected interview with elon musk. the billionaire, tesla car boss and new owner of twitters in running the social media site has been painful and a rollercoaster. it s one of his first interviews since he ought twitter. it s not every day you get invited by one of the world s richest and most influential people to a sit down interview. earlier on tuesday, i d received a response to an e mailfrom mr musk let s do an interview tonight, it read. just a few short hours later, we were setting up in twitter s headquarters in san francisco. hello, how you doing? we re about to go live, very surprisingly, we onlyjust found this out, on twitter. but that is elon musk. we didn t know about that. but you never know with elon musk. when he sat down, he was in the
announced by his predecessor, kwasi kwarteng, in last month s mini budgetjust three weeks ago. in an emergency statement this morning, he abandoned indefinitely the planned ip cut in the basic income tax that was due to come next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april. instead of for two years, and then that will be reviewed. today, jeremy hunt claimed all of those announcements will save £32 billion a year, but he also warned that there are going to be more difficult decisions ahead on tax and spending to cut government debt. he will be addressing mps in the commons later this afternoon, some time after lipm. before then, there will be an urgent question in there will be an urgent question in the commons asked by sir keir starmer. it will not be liz truss responding to that, it will instead be penny mordaunt. so plenty ahead in the commons. in terms of the market reaction, jeremy hunt said that he had sought to reassure the markets this morning and
it says those who approved the strike were convinced they were targeting hamas operatives. the strikes on the three vehicles were carried out in serious violation of standard operation procedure and that the brigade chief of staff, an officer with the rank of colonel in reserve, and the brigade fire support commander with the rank of major will be dismissed from their positions. the strikes this week left seven aid workers dead, three of them british. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams has been monitoring today s events and gave us the latest. the investigation s findings are stark this should never have happened. monday s devastating attack, a combination of mistaken identification and bad decision making. the israeli army has been giving more details about what they say happened on monday night. they say about half an hour after the convoy left the pier near gaza city, a gunman was seen boarding one of the aid trucks. after the aid arrived at its destination in de