of asian men is jailed for eight and a half years. china and russia have denounced a defence pact, agreed by the us, uk and australia, that will provide australia with nuclear powered attack submarines. russia said the pact would bring years of confrontation to asia. the chinese foreign ministry said the three countries were on a path of error and danger, calling the deal a violation of the aims of the international non proliferation treaty. here s the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson wang wenbin speaking at the daily press briefing. translation: china has repeatedly stressed that the aukus pact - and the three countries efforts to advance cooperation on nuclear submarines and other cutting edge military technology is typical cold war mentality. it will only spur an arms race and undermine the international nonproliferation regime and harm regional peace and stability. peace loving countries have expressed their serious concern and opposition. the three countries lates
another witness announced for tomorrow s primetime hearing. and new reporting on how donald trump had the secret service scrambling on the day of the attack. plus, we ve got the top headlines from last night s midterm election primaries that may serve as a warning to democrats. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senators had hoped to reach a bipartisan deal on gun safety by the end of this week, but nbc news has learned that that timetable may slip. perhaps into next week. senators have hit a snag on how to expand background checks. two people close to the talks tell nbc news at issue is whether to add waiting periods for 18 to 21-year-olds and to enable the fbi to conduct background checks on their juvenile records. a spokesman for republican senator john cornyn of texas said he is not considering waiting periods but does support the provision on the juvenile records. democrats, howev
hostages under a temporary truce agreement with hamas will not happen before friday. the deal was agreed last night by israel and hamas which is designated a terrorist organisation by some western governments. it could also mean a delay to a four day temporary ceasefire and the release of 150 palestinian women and teenagers from israeli prisons. our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports and there are distressing images from the start. a reminder of how all this began on october 7th, hamas gunmen storming across the borderfrom gaza, hunting israelis to kill or capture. around 240 were taken hostage. among them, shiri bibas, trying to shield her two little boys from the horror all around them. ten month old kfir had just started crawling. ariel, who s four, loves climbing and batman. now they and their mother are expected home in the coming days, along with dozens of other women and children. they don t know yet that hamas killed their grandparents. shiri s
pleasure. well, it s great to have you here. what do you think are the qualities you possess that made you a good spy? no one s asked me that before. um. i m tenacious, i m a. ..a bit adventurous. that s how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you, but on a day to day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican. ican. i can prevaricate with the best of them. let me take you back to the beginning. you ve described entering the cia through a side entrance, by which i think you mean that you weren t sort of formally recruited. that s right. you sort of fell into it because you married a guy who, it turned out, just before your wedding, you learned was in the cia. wasn t there a movie or a book? something titled marrying the m