Threatening the judge in the 2020 federal elections subversion case. Also, georgia d a fani willis, as a trial date for donald trump, it is alleged coconspirators. How will it fit with the other three criminal trials hes facing in the middle of a president ial campaign . Plus, a live report from maui, where the governor says the death toll has risen in probably over 1000 people could still be missing. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin with two pieces of Breaking News tonight. The first, weve just learned, of charges in texas connected with alleged threats against judge chutkan, obviously presiding over the 2020 Election Subversion Trial of the former president. According to the court filing, the woman who lives in alvin, texas left a threatening, racist, bigoted voice mail for judge chutkan on august 5th. Allegedly saying if trump doesnt get elected, quote, were coming to kill you, tread lightly. And then a curse. She allegedly continued, quote, youll be targeted personally
Where President Trump is under new pressure over the sacking of james comey. The former fbi director will give evidence to senators on thursday about whether he was pressured to drop an inquiry into links between a senior white house official and russia. Ahead of that hearing, Written Testimony has been released from mr comey. In it, he says he believes the President Trump asked him to drop the investigation into general Michael Flynn. Here are the key lines from james comeys statement. Our washington correspondent david willis says mr comeys evidence is eagerly anticipated. They are saying that this could be Bigger Box Office as far as capital hill is concerned and the Clinton Impeachment and indeed, watergate. We had this Opening Statement released on the Senate Intelligence Committee Website revealing, amongst other things, that President Trump called for this pledge of loyalty for the man he later sacked, james comey, and he called for the investigation into Michael Flynn drop. Wha
And career. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. It is 7am in singapore, Midnight In London and 7 30am in pyongyang, where north koreas State Television is reporting that officials are considering a Missile Attack on the us territory after donald trump up his rhetoric dramatically over north Koreas Nuclear ambitions, saying pyongyang would be met with fire and few we threatens the us. Mr trump spoke after a washington report cited us official said north korea had produced a Nuclear Warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles. Lets have a listen to his comments. North korea best not make any more threats to the united states. They will be met with Fire And Fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as i said they will be met with the Fire And Fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. Our corr
And career. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. It is 7am in singapore, Midnight In London and 7 30am in pyongyang, where north koreas State Television is reporting that officials are considering a Missile Attack on the us territory after donald trump up his rhetoric dramatically over north Koreas Nuclear ambitions, saying pyongyang would be met with fire and few we threatens the us. Mr trump spoke after a washington report cited us official said north korea had produced a Nuclear Warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles. Lets have a listen to his comments. North korea best not make any more threats to the united states. They will be met with Fire And Fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as i said they will be met with the Fire And Fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. Our corr
Anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, we head to manila where the kings music lives on. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in new york, where donald trump has made a fiery and at times angry defence of his reaction to the clashes in charlottesville over the weekend. He had been hoping to talk about his plans for americas infrastructure, but instead was drawn into a series of exchanges with journalists on why he had not issued an immediate condemnation of racist and neo nazi groups. In response, he seemed to hold civil Rights Groups equally to blame for the violence. What im saying is this. You had a grip on one side and you had a grip on the other and they came out each other with clubs, and it was dishes and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch. But there another side. There was a grip on their side, you can call them the left, youve just called them the left, youve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. So you can