point and what it tells us about the investigations, ongoing into the former president. tonight with the context the former democrat senator and us district attorney doug jones katy balls the deputy political editor of the spectator and the republican strategist doug heye. hello welcome to the programme. it is unprecedented. never before, at least in the modern age, have federal agents searched the home of a former president. the warrant that was executed on mar a lago yesterday, while donald trump was in new york, would have required close collaboration between the fbi and the secret service guarding him, and no doubt it was signed off by the attorney general, merrick garland. but what were the agents looking for? and why the sudden urgency? what we do know, is that when donald trump left the white house last year, there were thousands of documents still in his possession, some of them classified. the washington post reported, that injanuary, 15 of those boxes were r
it was finally hereconnected yesterday. here is sam kiley. he has the latest. this is very troubling news, sam. reporter: pam, the international community remain extremely concerned about the future of the nuclear power station with increased allegations again of shelling both from the ukrainians and the russians both accusing each other of threatening that nuclear power plant by shelling in the environment. so just about 20 minutes drive from here on the ukrainian government side, casualties, civilian casualties but that has been used and is being used as a fire base. a lot of pressure to try to let international observers into that power station. that is where on this very extended front line fighting continues with confirmation a third american has been killed fighting on the ukrainian side with russian backed rebels on the east offered to hand over his body, his remains, we don t know when or if that would be followed through on. this in a weird way is an almost step fo
president biden s meeting with chinese president xi jinping. what the two talked about in hours-long meeting. did they reach any agreements? and what s at stake if they did not? good news, the price of turkey is down this season, but other thanksgiving favorites could cost you more. we will explain why and how you can save. 9 to 5 norah: and our conversation with the queen of country. what the future holds for dolly parton. i m always dreaming, and i hope to do that till the day i die, which i hope is a long time from now. [laughter] norah: good evening, viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. we begin tonight with the war between israel and hamas escalating around the besieged al-shifa hospital in gaza city. israeli troops stormed the hospital in what it calls targeted raids in a search for hamas militants. israel defense forces interrogated people inside, but say they have not found any members of hamas and found no e
said that it was expanding its ground operations there. 0ur middle east correpondent tom bateman, who is in jerusalem, has more. well, there has been intensive aerial bombardment by the israelis over a prolonged period of time, the heaviest that we ve seen at night time during the course of this conflict. and we heard from daniel hagari, the israeli military spokesman, in a live televised address to israelis, that he said that they were widening their ground operations. he talked about this being what he called a very significant attack against underground networks of hamas, he said, and also terrorist infrastructure, as he described it. now, one of the first signs that something significant was taking place here was that all communications for ordinary palestinians in gaza went dark. there was a complete blackout. and remember, this is on top of more than two weeks of a complete cut of the electricity grid in gaza. now, i mean, i had tried for hours to reach people in gaza.
practice yesterday. but tonight his colleagues, both republicans and democrats will go ahead with their annual game. it s a rare show of political unity. less unified, president trump hits back at reports he is under investigation for obstruction ofjustice. he calls it the biggest witch hunt in history. and the australian prime minister pokes fun at donald trump s winning ways. we ll let you judge the impersonation. i am christian fraser in london, katty kay is in washington. we still don t know how many people died in the grenfell tower blaze police say it will be more than the current death toll, which stands at 17. and such is the destruction inside the building it could take firefighters weeks to recover the remains. today sniffer dogs, much lighter than people, and specially trained to locate bodies, have been sent into the building to help with the search. 37 people remain in hospital, 17 are in critical care. our home affairs editor mark easton has this report. slowly,