Effective bankruptcy in the next few years unless the Funding System is reformed. A report by the local Government Information Unit has Found Services like parks, Leisure Facilities and libraries are at risk of being cut, while council tax could rise in some areas. Our reporter Vincent Mcaviney has more. Yay well done. Alex is about to turn 18, and on top of the regular worries parents have about their children, mum, sylvia also has to think about alexs autism and the extra support he needs to gain independence. Support thats under fire for her and other families as Birmingham City council struggles with financial difficulties. What you get is families that are on their knees with a trauma presentation, traumatised kids, and they never get decent outcomes. Theyjust end up constantly trying to get the basics, which everybody else s child gets naturally. And its Notjust Birmingham thats struggling. Across the country, councils are warning that front line neighbourhood Services Like parks
The whole town is alive. Its going to be even better when we win a world series here. Dont jinx it. Thank you. We will celebrate. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington, which is celebrating. But were awaiting the president s Press Conference with italys president on a day when mr. Trump is already refusing to accept blame for turkeys incursion into syria despite the call with turkeys president , saying its not our problem, we are not a policing agent, his words. I wish them a lot of luck. If russia wants to get involved with syria, thats really up to them. They have a problem with turkey, they have a problem at the border, its not our border. We shouldnt be losing lives over it. The president will meet later today with Speaker Pelosi and other bipartisan leaders at the white house about the crisis in syria which now has russia taking the upper hand and americas allies, syrian kurds,
fleeing for safety. Even as the president repeatedly today attacks pelosi for the expanding Impeach
the world s eyes are understandably on ukraine. and we turn now to a very special guest for that region. the career department marie yovanovitch who served in the state department for over three decades. president obama first named her ambassador to ukraine in 2016. where she remained in that post until president trump ousted her in 2019. but it was after a sorted smear campaign led by rudy giuliani who was asserting that she was a problem and in protecting what was basically the integrity of not allowing a quid pro quo of the bidens. trump disparaged her in the call with zelenskyy, saying she was bad news and would go through some things. a dark warning about someone who was a servant, a public servant and his own employee. she was a star witness in donald
residential apartment complex in a nearby city. at least one person was killed there. several more were injured. now, one person with unique insight into all of this is marie yovanovitch. she was removed from her post after a smear campaign led by allies of former president trump. this morning she is out with a new book, obviously written before the russian invasion. yovanovitch warned we have failed to call out russia s behavior in a way russia finds persuasive or taken steps to stop it that moscow finds compelling. if we continue to fumble around, we will some day, maybe soon, find ourselves in a serious confrontation in a context not of our choosing and not to our advantage. author from lessons from the edge, marie yovanovitch.
suddenly recalled by the president afterf a month s long smear campaign led by his personal attorney, rudy jewel yany. how could our system fail like this? which country s interests are ser served when the very corrupt behavior we ve been criticizing has been allowed to prevail? reporter: and this remarkable response in real time from the president on twitter. now president trump did not tweet about carlen or any of the witnesses during their testimony but first lady tweeted invoking the president s youngest son. carlen argued trump was wrong when he said artsical two gives him power to do anything he wants. he says the constitution says there can be no titles off nobilities. so while he can name his son