There is not one rule for friends and another for foes. One rule for the powerful and another for the powerless. One rule for the rich and another for the poor. One rule for democrats and another for republicans. Or different rules depending on Ones Race or ethnicity. To the contrary, we have only one rule. We follow the facts and apply the law in a way that respects the constitution and protect civil liberties. John Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier today sounding off on what he says are attacks on the justice department, valuing It Will not be used as a political weapon. So begins a thursday afternoon. Im John Roberts in washington. Hello, sandra. Sandra we will see where the next two hours to excess, john. Good to be with you. Im Sandra Smith in New York and this is speed 27. Garland calling attacks on the Department Dangerous and outrageous, but his address comes as allegations continue to pile up that the doj is being used to target conservatives, like former president Dona
again. and so i don t want to be in the prediction business with something as heavy as that. what i will say is that my meeting with the director of the masad last night, we met for more than twice the expected 45 minutes because we had a very detailed conversation about how to move forward to secure the release of the hostages. ultimately that will be something that we have to work in a very sensitive way between the u.s. and israel, working with qatar, with egypt, with other actors. and so i will leave that conversation where it belongs in those sensitive channels. but i will just say this has seized the attention from the very first day the president of the united states and every other senior member of his team and just this week the president met with the families of the american hostages to reaffirm for them that we re going to do everything in our power working with our israeli counterparts to ensure every hostage comes home safely and i ll leave it at that for today.
fighting in the streets, some people have had to make their way through that in order to get to these airports, especially in the earlier days, so it is a difficult and dangerous journey and once you get to the airport, then you have to work out what flights you can get on because for some of them, they won t know what time the flight is supposed to leave or how many flights there will be. of course, we now know from the foreign office that a total of eight flights will have left sudan by the end of today. they will be carrying british nationals, but not everybody in sudan is able to access that information very easily, so that just gives you a sense of how difficult it will have been for most of the people who will be arriving here today and what a great sense of relief it will be for them to be here, but for many, probably still a lingering sense of anxiety, wondering what will happen to those who have stayed home, those who haven t been able to leave and of course what wil
song let s get it on. welcome to bbc news. thousands of people are continuing to flee from sudan while the temperary ceasefire still holds. germany and france say all their citizens have now left the country. three planes carrying british nationals have arrived in cyprus. officials have said flights will continue around the clock. the latest is that 300 britons have been evacuated so far. the ceasefire is broadly holding. there were reports of some clashes overnight, but nothing major. there are also reports of prisoners breaking out ofjail, including some facing war crimes charges by the international criminal court. britons are still being told to go to this airbase, about 20 miles north of the capital, for the flights to cyprus. a total of 2,000 people from 50 countries have now crossed the red sea from port sudan tojeddah on a ship organised by saudi arabia. meanwhile, tens of thousands of sudanese continue to try and reach neighbouring chad, egypt and south sudan. 0ur co
oppositon activist alexi navalny is now charged with terrorism offenses. welcome to bbc news. thousands of people are continuing to flee from sudan while the temperary ceasefire still holds. germany and france say all their citizens have now left the country. three planes carrying british nationals have arrived in cyprus officials have said flights will continue around the clock. the latest is that 301 britons have been evacuated so far. the ceasefire is broadly holding. there were reports of some clashes, but nothing major. there are also reports of prisoners breaking out ofjail, including some facing war crimes charges by the international criminal court. britons are still being told to go to this airbase about 20 miles north of the capital for the flights to cyprus. a total of 2,000 people from 50 countries, have now crossed the red sea from port sudan tojeddah on a ship organised by saudi arabia. meanwhile, tens of thousands of sudanese continue to try and reach neighbo