what was unfolding. make no mistake those responsible for wednesday s chaos will be brought to justice. what do they do now? weaponize government. go after their number one opponent. the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack. those who are responsible for wednesday s chaos will be brought to justice. well, you wonder who will brought to justice in the republican party. republican party that now, because of kevin mccarthy and others like him, now defend a man, former president, who stole nuclear secrets for the federal government. who stole military secrets from the federal government. who stole top secret classified plans for the federal government. to invade iran. a house speaker who s perfectly fine, now, with donald trump sitting back after launching a riot to overthrow the federal government. who said that? my gosh, that s so terrible that i would say something like that. kevin mccarthy must think that s the weaponization of federal government. those are
absolutely for most concerned about the welfare of our troop and so we will remain focused on this and again, this will develop in the next several days and ours, and we will keep you posted. us defence secretary lloyd austin there. our correspondent sean dilley was at that briefing was at that briefing at the pentagon. here s his reaction. to deconstruct some of that language there, we understand from lloyd austin that he was on tour, that is he was posted to south korea at the time. he has been identified by our partner cbs as private second class travis king but even that is something the pentagon is not prepared to confirm or deny at this point, partly because of what we heard mr austin say there, which is that we are currently working to notify the next of kin, there s not a lot they don t know, they re currently very concerned about the welfare of their service man, something retreated from the white house, from presidentjoe biden, not too long ago. but it s a puzzle, w
the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, said the pentagon s main concern was for the soldier s welfare. we believe that he is in brk custody and so we are closely monitoring and investigating the situation. we are working to notify the soldiers next of kin and engaging to address the incident. in terms of my concern, i have absolutely foremost concern about the welfare of our troop. and so we will remain focused on this and, again, this will develop in the next several days and hours. earlier i spoke to our north america correspondent sean dilley, who was at that press conference, and asked what the white house and the pentagon were willing to divulge at this point. the pentagon themselves said as much and as little as you would expect they could. at that time in the afternoon, as it was, it was 1230 eastern time, the pentagon wasn t even naming this soldier because they were engaged in discussions with the next of kin. they were saying they were monitoring the situation clos
before the grand jury. we are learning at this moment that david spunt is live in washington. what does this mean and what are we hearing it means for the former president? sandra and john, quite frankly it means the former president may face his third indictment in as many months. sources confirmed that they sent this letter not only warning him he s a target, but giving him this opportunity to appear before the grand jury this week. donald trump posted about the special counsel jack smith, deranged jack smith the prosecutor with joe biden s doj sent a letter. again it was sunday night, stating i m the target of the january 6th grand jury investigation and giving me a very short four days to report to the grand jury which almost always means an arrest and indictment. smith appointed the special counsel last november, already indicted him in the classified documents probe taken to mar-a-lago. in fact, there s a hearing going on in about an hour with his attorneys and sp
a very high health risk due to the intense heat. the island of sardinia has surpassed 42 celsius today and wildfires are raging in several areas of southern europe, including mainland greece. these pictures are from an area close to athens. let s cross live to those areas around athens to bring you some live pictures coming into us now at the bbc. you can see that thick smoke covering much of the horizon trying their best to bring some sort of water, some sort of firefighting relief to quell the flames and stop the spread of the wildfires. lots and lots of fires across greece but also exacerbated by the high temperatures that are so high that people who are fire fighting the fires are struggling to keep them in check. joining me live are our correspondents across europe azadeh moshiri in the greek capital, athens and sofia bettiza in the italian city of palermo. we are looking at those live pictures north of athens, you are southeast of athens, and the fact that all of thes