One of lifes most underappreciated talents is to know when its time to move on to lifes next chapter. So i stand before you today, mr president and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. For more on mitch mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, heres our North America correspondent gary odonoghue. After repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides have at least reached a partial agreement on some other Spending Bills that they have been arguing about. It looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through senate and the House Of Representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday, by which time they will pass Spending Bills on six separate departments. Now, they havent reached an agreement on the other six departments, but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22. So in some ways, this is progress being made and in some
Wait for the state of the nation address. Just a reminder that we will be covering this in full on bbc news live page with analysis of President Putins speech as it happens. You can watch our live stream of the speech there, just press the play button. The dignitaries arriving for the speech they are in moscow. Bbc news website to find complete coverage of this, or the bbc news app. Lets speak to olga ivshina, from the bbc russia service. Tell us about the speech today, what are we expecting . fine tell us about the speech today, what are we petting . Tell us about the speech today, what are we expecting . One thing has been stable over the are we expecting . One thing has been stable over the years are we expecting . One thing has been stable over the years for are we expecting . One thing has been stable over the years for putins stable over the years for putins addresses and press conferences. This year is no exception. He is late, but according to his standards, five or ten minute
Peter bowes has moran if this came as a surprise. Has more. I think it was inevitable that this would end up in the Supreme Court. Donald trumps claims averted been rejected by a lower court and he claims he is immune to this kind of criminal prosecution because he was president at the time. This relates to the allegations that he tried to overturn the result of the 2020 election and mr trump faces multiple charges including one that he conspired to defraud the come of this was a trial does do to start very soon next month and it is been delayed and it is now on hold reading from the Supreme Court that they intend to hear arguments in april, the third week of april and a decision expected at some point injune and we know now that this trial, if indeed it goes ahead, it will not be happening until at leastjuly and were getting into Political Convention season in the election is looming in november and one of donald trump tactics has always been to try to delay these Legal Proceedings ag
One of lifes most underappreciated talents is to know when its time to move on to lives next chapter. So i stand before you today, was a president , and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. For more on both mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, heres our north america correspondent, gary odonoghue. After repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides of at least reached a partial agreement on some other Spending Bills that they have been arguing about. It looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through senate and the House Of Representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday by which time they will pass Spending Bills on six separate departments. They havent reached an agreement on the other six departments but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22 so in some ways, this is progress being made and in some ways
So what is driving this revival in bitcoin . Erin delmore reports. Its been more than two years since we have seen Bitcoin Cross the 60,000 mark, but the cryptocurrency did just that on wednesday, even soaring to 64,000. It may be closing in on its all time high of 68,000. There are a few reasons why crypto enthusiasts are fired up About Bitcoin these days, newly approved Spot Bitcoin Exchange traded funds have investors buzzing and there is a change coming up in april when bitcoin miners start getting less bitcoin for their efforts and the spectre of lesser supply fuels more demand. 0ne lesser supply fuels more demand. One more thing than any background here, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut Interest Rates this year, that stokes investors because interest in alternative investments like cryptocurrencies. But its not all smooth sailing, some uses of queen based global, the largest trip to exchange in the us unexpectedly saw their balances drop down to zero among the bitcoin buzz