as several commuters are shot on a train during the morning rush hour. tonight with the context, from london, anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in a changing europe and democratic strategist mary anne marsh is in cape cod.. prime minister borisjohnson and the chancellor rishi sunak have been fined for breaking lockdown laws. the metropolitan police have confirmed that prime minister borisjohnson was fined for his participation in a gathering gfx in the cabinet room on his birthday which was onjune i9 2020. it s been reported about 30 people attended the party, organised as a surprise by carriejohnson who has also been fined. at that time gatherings of more than two people inside were banned by law. an exception was allowed if the gathering was reasonably necessary for work purposes. (biv)the fines suggest the police didn t think this event was such an exception. despite becoming the first prime minister to be fined for breaking the law, borisjohnson says he intend
seeing too many showers, there will be some, possibly heavy and thundery but i think there will be a few paces towards the south east which stay pretty much dry. it is going to be windy, particularly around some western coasts, temperatures a mere 100 hours later, after legionella bacteria was found on the barge. is this an ignomious end to rishi sunak s big migrant week? can the government put this disastrous week behind them and reboot their migrant policies? joe pike s been taking soundings from inside government. and we ll be joined by the former austalian foreign minister who wrote a review of britain s border policy and labour s shadow immigration minister. also tonight. in the latest episode of our good newsnight strand, mark examines how germany weaned itself off russian gas in double quick time, contributed to the falling price of energy and avoided this. well, catastrophe. i mean, european crisis, the shutdown of much of central european industrial and manufacturing
of killers to exist in russia. i don t want putin ruling russia. did you get a sense of why he was so determined to go back knowing that this was always a potential risk because he wanted to change things. he really did think that being there, being a voice from inside, not stuck outside as an exile could make a difference. i obviously was concerned enough to ask him why he was putting himself and his mission at risk by going going back. but that is you say was the answer he gave at the time that is almost three years ago. and now here we are until it s absolutely confirmed independently. all we have is the russian service, the russian penitentiary service. we ve said but he collapsed after going out for a walk. they brought the ambulances, they tried to revive him, but they could not. and the russians are saying that investigations are underway into the cause of death. but the very important thing of former, in fact, national security surely official told us earlier this mor
former president trump heading back to court today. secretary of state antony blinken speaking now in da boats. and the call that sparked an fbi investigation into roger stone. what he allegedly said about assassinating two democratic lawmakers. we ll let you hear it for yourself. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s wednesday, january 17th. it s 5:00 a.m. in washington and also 5:00 a.m. in new hampshire. republican candidates ron desantis and nikki haley are scrambling to keep their presidential hopes alive after donald trump s decisive win in iowa this week. the gop front runner made a de detour to a courtroom and he s going to be back there again today where e. jean carroll is expected to testify and a jury will weigh how much trump owes for defaming her. trump also touched down in new hampshire, where he took aim at his rivals. she came in third. she lost to somebody that beat her by. desantis campaigned in
a weekend of chaos and drama in russia, what we ve seen is extraordinary, and i think you ve seen cracks emerge that weren t there before. mercenaries declared a mutiny, and then called it off. in under 24 hours. this is something that would have had to have been planned for a significant amount of time to be executed in the manner in which it was. it was a visible rejection of his war policy. by a guy who can his ally. there s a lot we don t know precisely where prigozhin is. he did say that vladimir putin s reasons for invading ukraine were invalid and that s something that s going to struggle to recover from. growing questions about vladimir putin s leadership going forward and whether his iron grip on russia is weakening. this makes him more vulnerable, arguably, than at any time in his two-decade rule. on the streets of a major russian city residents cheered wagner fighters as they withdrew. a calamity for russia averted. but at what cost and will