End of his home where large parts of the country for the midwest and the south remain again today under severe storm threat, we will get back to that shortly. Also back from vacation and back on the trail, but President Biden is heading out west today, but the scandal over his son is creeping closer to the oval office. Good morning everybody its a tuesday in annville. Yes this is americas newsroom. President bidens can add to arizona today and he will talk about client and the economy but hes not going to do anything about the border, but he is overshadowing his trip and the new details on their sons overseas consulting and how it really blurs the line between politics and profit. Bill we are learning that one of the former Business Partners visited the white house at least 36 times during the obama years. Which is more than previously thought, meanwhile weve obtained a letter from the then vice President Biden to another of his colleagues that contradicts the argument that he was comp
rules that prevent exactly the sort of thing that went on here, and there is no way that this business could have gone on for 5 minutes under those circumstances. unless they approved of it so he is the business. dana: you are right about political power as a commodity, and the impact on the public s trust would you expand on that. yes there s a lot of talk about whether or not joe biden did something affirmative for burisma. was the using of his influence to get the prosecutor who was looking into burisma of fire, was that a result of the payments that the people were making into the bidens? it s all very interesting and it needs to be investigated, but the nature of the business year was biden s political influence in the idea that it was a commodity that you can have access to.
of grooming and trafficking teenage girls for abuse. guilty of five counts of grooming and trafficking teenage girls for abuse. maxwell procured the girls for the financier and convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein. she faces the rest of her life behind bars. lawyers for some of the women abused by epstein have welcomed the conviction. south africa has lifted a night curfew on movement with immediate effect, as the government says the country has passed the peak of its latest covid wave driven by the omicron variant. elsewhere, the us and europe continue to experience record levels of new infections. presidents biden and putin are holding another phone call as the us tries to build a common response with europe to russia s massing of troops on the ukrainian border. now on bbc news, review 2021, the business year.
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thank you for your company during the course of today. now on bbc news, review 2021, the business year. ben thompson reflects on how the uk economy, businesses and jobs have changed amidst the coronavirus pandemic and in the wake of brexit. 2021 has, for many people, been a long and difficult year. a year of change and uncertainty. and worry about lives and livelihoods and jobs and prospects. and early hopes of a return to something more normal have been replaced by a realisation that covid will be around for much longer than we first thought. its impact on how we live and how