alert here in washington. it was the day the house was going to vote on green lighting the impeachment probe of president biden. it happened to be the day that hunter biden was supposed to show up urn subpoena to testify behind closed doors. suddenly, the cable news networks were throwing out banners, unclear whether hunter biden will testify. and, boom, there was the president s son who had insisted on testifying in public talking to reporters. for six years i ve been the target of unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter. well, here s my answer: i am here. in the depths of my addiction, i was extremely irresponsible with my finances. but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. it s shameless. howard: so hunter was using the media mob to try to turn the tables on the republican committee and make the case that he was ready to testify before the cameras knowing full well the panel had rejected the offer. and for all this t
got to be some sort of video component to this. i guess a part of the drama of the announcement, no one knows what this thing is going to look like or sound like. we will be interviewing ron desantis and he quite an announcement to make. it will be the first time that something like this is happening on social media and with real time questions and answers. not scripted. jesse: not scripted. okay. this is obviously a nontraditional way to announce. usually candidates have a big rally with a huge crowd behind them holding up signs, clapping. you capture the raw energy of supporters live and then it s distributed everywhere. it s possible desantis didn t want to compete with the trump rally phenomenon. you don t want to get into a crowd measuring contest with the former president. trump also isn t on twitter he is on his own social media deal truth social so that could be a factor here. we are wondering how the event is going to be editing and distributed throughout the med
also in the programme. president zelensky addresses the european parliament saying ukraine is fighting to protect europe s way of life president zelensky pleas for. we start with the devastation following monday s earthquakes in turkey and syria, where mass graves are being dug, as the death toll climbs rapidly. nearly 20,000 are known to have lost their lives. rescuers are continuing desperate attempts to find and free survivors, four days after the quakes hit. the world health organization has warned there could be a secondary disaster with survivors living on the streets with very little food and water and in freezing temperatures. our middle east correspondent anna foster is in gaziantep the epicentre of the biggest earthquake to hit the region on monday. this heavy machinery is starting to arrive mainly in the big cities like this one, it has to be said, when you think about the rural villages, towns that are as badly affected, it is so much harder to get the equip
hello and welcome to the programme. an attempt to make british space history by launching a satellite from uk soil has ended in failure. a jumbo jet carrying a rocket took off from newquay airport, in cornwall, with hundreds of people watching. but when the un manned rocket was released at 35,000 feet or 11,000 metres it didn t make it into orbit. 0ur science correspondent, rebecca morelle reports. the mission started so well. at it was time for the jet to take off at spaceport cornwall. it is left for the plane but this is left for the plane but this is just the beginning. is left for the plane but this isjust the beginning. the next step is to release of the rocket and start a new era for uk space. rocket and start a new era for uk space- uk space. launcherone, two cosmic girl uk space. launcherone, two cosmic girl on uk space. launcherone, two cosmic girl on this uk space. launcherone, two cosmic girl on this historic. uk space. launcherone, two cosmic girl on th