To suppress certain opinions and silence critics of the kremlin. Those who oppose the bill also argue that the legislation could negatively affect georgias chances ofjoining the european union. The bbc s Rayhan Demytrie has been on the ground in tbilisi and sent this report. They marched in with a warning against the protesters who have been demonstrating outside parliament for weeks. Protesters stood defiantly, refusing to move away. And then violence. All in the name of a contentious law, which protesters fear will mark the end of georgias democracy. You get a sense, now, they are moving more intensely, and the protesters are beginning to boo. Theyre being pushed away from the square. We will be in the eu. We will be in the eu freedom to the georgians georgian people are standing for their rights, to make a decision, which is to be against this law. We do not wish it. It is dragging us back into the same hole that we finally crawled out of. A similarforeign agents law exists in russi
Another legal setback for hunter biden as the judge rules his federal Gun Crimes Trial will proceed as scheduled. A big primary for voters in maryland and West Virginia as republicans speak gain control of the u. S. Senate and Secretary Of State Antony Blinken visits ukraine as the u. S. Sends in more weapons. Rain showers for donald trump start the crossexamination of the key witness in the former president s criminal case. That trial of course centers on 34 case against counts on falsifying Business Records for a payment to an Adult Film Actress who alleged a sexual encounter with mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election. This is the first ever criminal prosecution of an expresident. Former Trump Attorney and selfdescribed fixer Michael Cohen was immediately grilled on crossexamination about his often profane social media posts. Concerning his former boss after prosecutors on direct tried to link the former president to that payment and the record of it. Correspondent nate foy is outside
that he missed omicron and attempt, every time he hears somebody knock he thinks it s another variant. the democrats aren t giving him money? first time i ve heard that. the amazing thing about china, isn t it biden talking about, if he hasn t already, taking off the tariffs off chinese goods? he s considering it. some people make an economic argument that that s caused inflation to go up. the tool kit of possibilities, that s one of the things. it s a schizophrenic response, though, don t you think? i don t know. i didn t prepare for chinese tariffs today. let me handle this, dana. that joe biden ran on getting rid of covid, getting covid under control. it s true, there will be another pandemic, potentially in our
to proceed with those taxes on technology companies then he would threaten retaliatory tariffs on french wine. something he threatened to do before. he does have to right to do businesses with china what was that all about? that s right, lauren. we are going to have to fact check that. he cited something he called a national emergency rule that was implemented in the 70s or last used in the 70s, justifying his tweet where he hereby ordered all american companies to look for an alternative to doing business with or in china. there s a lot of speculation as to how the president thinks he has the authority to make that decree. he also ordered mail carriers to sing at out packages they thought contained fentanyl. this is the president pushing harder on china before he implemented the tariffs today. sarah, thank you.
recession. we re not definitely going into a recession. but aaron s right that it is the trade war. these farmers have stuck by this president with the goal of trying to stop the threat of chinese ip theft. what i think the advisers around the president concluded is the chinese dug in for the long haul. they believe in a pre-election panic next year they will get an agriculture-only deal for from president trump thatp does the touch ip theft, if anything. and farmers are devastated for generations. some of them have to sell their farms. they ve sold their cows. there are skyrocketing rates of suicide in the dairy community. these devastations will last at least ten years, if they are lucky. probably 20 to 30 or in their lifetimes. these supply chains will not be reversed if the president reversed his tariffs today. so the problem with the trade war as aaron brought up is that he is running out of ways to mitigate the damage that the