this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency s humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a full blown catastrophe warning that more than 800 thousand people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea today. those not able to leave there by plane are taking boats across tojedda in saudi arabia. our correspondent andrew harding reports. on sudan s coast, the scramble to escape goes on. with airlifts ending, foreign nationals register for a boat ride to safety. this morning, some 300 of them arrived here injeddah, saudi arabia, having crossed the red sea from port sudan. all sorts of embassies on hand to claim th
and techniques to get them over the line. jack is a 21 year old airman from massachusetts and currently facing 15 years jail. he has been charged with leaking classified documents thatis leaking classified documents that is alleged to have posted on the online chat form discord this year. the documents reveal secrets about ukraine and american allies. the documents revealed us assessments of the war in ukraine as well as sensitive secrets about american allies. when the fbi finally arrested teixeira on the 13th of april, the new york times and other journalists had already identified him as a suspect. how they did it is a fascinating story in itself. and two of them are here now. one of them, haley willis, works in the visualjournalism team at the new york times. haley, welcome. now, you were outside his home as the fbi turned up. talk us through what happened. yes, that s right. thank you for having me, katie. so we identified jack teixeira through some digital sleuthing, wh
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another week of shows. we re so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. welcome to the booet. joe biden just sat down for an msnbc exclusive. they just if he in the tapes. what you re seeing just happened. and you will only hear this exclusive on msnbc tonight, including starting this hour when stephanie joins us live with the first excerpt. there is no bigger inview in american government or politics. and we and stephanie have you covered with that coming up. i also have more on the expanding scandals, swirling around clarence thomas and his controversial activist wife. new evidence about her secret payments provided from a republican kecked insider. so we re going to get into that and what has become basically a pile of questions for not only clarence thomas but his colleagues on the court. what are they going to do about it. we ll get into that later tonight. it is one of those very newsy fridays. from the supreme court all the way over to the
course, and this is a picture of a guy, i m not saying the guy in the picture is himself cute, honestly, what would i, know not my area expertise. but i think just as a picture, regardless of the guy, i think as a picture this is kind of cute. just in terms of composition. in part because it s kind of got a swirl effects. like on the upper left side of the image, we ve got his eye that s looking kind of whisky, kind of head downstream, but then on the lower right side of the image he s got the biggest mark, heading straight up towards his ear so the whole thing is kind of a swirl you know? just as a picture as a mugshot in particular i think that s not bad. that person is the attorney general of the great state of texas and that is in fact his mugshot. his name is ken who s indicted in booked into the collin county jail in texas on felony securities fraud charges a few years ago, those felony charges are still pending against him, he was still under indictment on multiple fel