One year to the day his Health Secretary and Chancellor resigned over his handling of the Chris Pincher affair (allegations of sexual assault that No10 denied knowing about) does Boris Johnson wish he had handled things differently? I asked the former PM. His response: a snore
One of the greatest privileges of my life was that I was on shift on BBC World that day - this was our show. Behind the scenes were were all screaming at our monitors, blind with tears of laughter, completely incapable of saying or doing anything for a full ten minutes.
Incredible beyond words. A US Globemaster C17, carrying more than five times its passenger limit. 640 Afghans saved from
The Taliban.
“The crew made the decision to go”. American heroes.
Via
@marcusreports
@TaraCopp
BREAKING: ABC News can confirm that the Trump “family member” referenced in the Inspector General report who had a friendship with dossier author Chris Steele, was Ivanka. She met him in 2007 at a dinner in London when he was still working for MI6.
Horrible news from Japan. Here is Shinzo Abe in happier times - installing a door knocker that was a gift from Canada, for his wife Akie when he was still PM. As
@Ned_Donovan
movingly says, he always had time to see the lighter side. Thinking of Akie and their family
Reporter: How long until you will be able to figure out they are serious about giving up nuclear weapons?
Trump: That’s a good question, within the first minute I’ll know
Reporter: ...how?
Trump: My touch, my feel, that’s what I do.
- Verbatim
Senate Intel Committee Chair Richard Burr says he does not believe the Ukraine whistleblower’s identity should he made public. “We protect whistleblowers. We protect witnesses in our committee.”
Happy news alert: Mamoudou Gassama - otherwise known as 'Le Spiderman' of that miraculous balcony rescue that you may remember - just had his first day on the job at the Paris Fire Brigade
Ivanka Trump invited dossier author Chris Steele to Trump Tower in New York in 2010 to discuss the possibility of the former British intelligence officer working for the Trump Organization in doing due diligence on their business interests abroad as part of his work at Orbis.
@jamesmenendez
One of the first responses to sudden commotion in the newsroom is to assume there's been a terror attack. I remember colleagues on the Home news side of the newsroom rushing to see what happened, with a bit of panic. We were screaming. It took them a sec to see we were laughing
Sikhs fought alongside British forces in the War. Here is a picture from 1913 of the 2nd Sikh Royal Infantry, and of Sikhs marching in France. More than 80,000 Sikhs died fighting for Britain. But Lawrence Fox is angry that 1917 showed Sikhs in the army:
Breaking: Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide overnight at MCC Manhattan, the federal lockup where he had been held pending trial on federal sex trafficking charges, three law enforcement officials told
@ABC
News. Via
@AaronKatersky
A long time ago I was crying in the loos after a boy called me a “Paki” who should “go home”. My teacher who was adopted told me: “Being parents by choice, like being a citizen by choice, is a greater act of love and patriotism than simply being so out of circumstance by birth.”
@mattmosk
@ABC
Important thing to note about the Steele/Ivanka revelations as noted in the OIG report, is that when Steele was first approached to do research work for Fusion GPS, he maintains he was favourably disposed towards the Trumps - his opponents claim he was always biased against Trump
State of the UK Govt right now:
Foreign Sec gaffe may cost UK citizen extra 5 years in Iran jail
Minister under fire for meeting w Netanyahu brokered by lobbyist without telling FCO
Deputy PM under investigation for extreme porn
Defence Sec quit amid sex misconduct claims
@mattmosk
Also want to point out, as I mention in the piece, ABC first learned of the contacts between Ivanka and Steele a year ago but has only recently been able to verify. ABC has incredibly high editorial standards. Wanted to publish sooner - but we had to be sure. Proud to work
@ABC
I've just seen that I have the only byline on this story but I have to give credit to my amazing colleague
@mattmosk
who has been tirelessly working with me on this, and put a huge effort in helping to verify it. He's the best of the best
A serious blunder by
@BorisJohnson
that could have dire ramifications for Nazanin Ratcliffe, British mum held in an Iranian jail. He said she was 'training journalists in Iran'. She was not, and was actually on holiday. Statement from Thomson Reuters Foundation:
@foreignoffice
The American Embassy in Baghdad is under attack this morning. Staff inside are on lockdown and witnesses say guards fired stun grenades at a hostile crowd of PMU supporters who torched the gates and shouted "Down, down USA". The President's first tweets this morning on Joe Biden
The Democrats will do anything to avoid a trial in the Senate in order to protect Sleepy Joe Biden, and expose the millions and millions of dollars that “Where’s” Hunter, & possibly Joe, were paid by companies and countries for doing NOTHING. Joe wants no part of this mess!
ABC News first learned of the contacts between Ivanka Trump and Steele a year ago, but has only recently been able to view some of their communications.
.
@margbrennan
has a one-on-one with Ivanka Trump. Unfortunately she didn’t ask anything about Christopher Steele or the Trump Tower meeting.
That’s a shame.
Breaking: Dossier author Chris Steele had a meeting at Trump Tower, and maintains he was not biased against President Trump and in fact maintained a close friendship with a family member and was, if anything, “favourably disposed” to the Trumps. Extract from the OIG report here:
US official confirms to ABC that ballistic missiles have been fired from inside Iran at multiple US military facilities in Iraq including Erbil in northern Iraq and Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, the official said. No information on casualties -
@Elizabeth_McLau
@LMartinezABC
“They told me: ‘You want to see your mother? Look over there, look at the smoke. That’s your mother.’” Please watch this powerful storytelling from
@DavidMuir
@ABCWorldNews
on the children of Auschwitz. And go to
@AuschwitzMuseum
to learn more
SOME GOOD NEWS from our
@ABC
colleague in Nigeria, James Bwala: The Nigerian Army today rescued 461 people in Borno state who were held captive by Boko Haram terrorists. The rescued include 100 men, 154 women and 207 children.
My q to President Erdogan: The Nato charter sets out a commitment to safeguard freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Turkey was the world’s worst jailer of journalists. More than 1600 human rights lawyers jailed. You suppress opposition to your rule. Does Turkey belong in Nato?
ABC News sought comment from Ivanka Trump through her attorney, but has not received a reply. Both Steele’s attorney and a representative for Steele’s firm, Orbis Business Intelligence have not given us a comment.
“What was Erdogan doing when ISIS was beheading our children? What does Erdogan want from us now? Where are our rights?”
Do not look away. Listen to her words. (The translation is slightly off - her daughter is sick, not dead)
Europe has not seen this since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite alleged torture and beatings by state security, the tsunami of people does not stop. This is on Putin’s doorstep. Reporting on the latest in Belarus up next on
@ABCWorldNews
on
@ABC
@GunterFehlinger
Your plugs are tiddly little things that lack the structural robustness and design superiority of our plugs. We will never surrender 🇬🇧
Would like to point out the train was packed, no one said or did anything, everyone saw, the only person who helped me - and actually ran after the man and caught him for a short while before he escaped again - was a young black guy called Tyesdale. Hero, thank you friend.
Elon Musk just sabotaged one of the biggest markets for Twitter. Jakarta used to be Twitter's
#1
city worldwide, is still in the top 3 (yes, really) and the city alone contributes to more than 2% of all global posts.
Elon Musk’s radical rebranding of Twitter as “X” led to the site being blocked in Indonesia on Tuesday under the country’s strict laws restricting pornography and gambling.
AstraZeneca is responsible for 97% of vaccine doses to developing countries through COVAX, supplying more than 100 countries, not for profit.
It now has to deal with a court case brought by the EU, whose leaders repeatedly sowed doubt on the vaccine's efficacy earlier this year
NEW: Asked repeatedly if he would cooperate with House Intelligence Committee, Rudy Giuliani tells
@ThisWeekABC
, "I wouldn't cooperate with Adam Schiff," but then says he would "consider" it were chair Adam Schiff removed.
Curiouser and curiouser... 25 minutes before JFK was shot, a Cambridge News reporter in England received an anonymous call advising him to ring the US embassy for "some big news"
#JFKFiles
So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!
Live outside the Ecuador Embassy in Knightsbridge where
@JulianAssange
has lived since June 2012. It’s understood that the Ecuadorians are preparing to hand him over to British authorities, unclear when.
@ABC
What journalists are obsessed with today: Trump described a letter that he had not yet read (he was briefed on its contents)
What journalists should have been obsessed with today: America's closest allies said Trump's tariffs are illegal and vowed to retaliate against the US.
Britons having a collective meltdown over how this was reported today - but a few people from the Middle East in my timeline are noting how extraordinary it is for a citizen to freely and safely berate a world leader to his face: “Try this with Khomenei!”
Begum left UK for ISIS 6 months after Jim Foley's beheading and wall-to-wall coverage of ISIS. I worked on that coverage. I was also monitoring + communicating with ISIS Brits and their recruitment campaigns. The girls knew exactly what they signed up for.
My favourite picture of the Queen and Prince Philip, at Windsor Castle when a swarm of bees stole the show at her Company Grenadier Guards ceremonial review - she can’t contain a giggle as she walks past him
The wildfires burning in Siberia right now are bigger than all the world’s other fires COMBINED — multiple times bigger than the historic wildfires devastating California, Canada, Greece and Turkey put together. By
@Reevellp
@tanyastukalova
Absolute scenes on Sky News as Dominic Grieves tells
@AdamBoultonSKY
that if Boris Johnson 'continues to behave in this ludicrous fashion', then the Queen will simply 'dismiss' him
#alloutpolitics
According to ancient legend there are two ways to instantly be granted British citizenship. One, is to pull out the might sword of Excalibur from its stony anvil - which makes you King. The other, is to skewer a terrorist with the tusk of a unicorn dolphin known as a "narwhal".
The guy with the whale tusk is a Polish chef named Luckasz.
Worth noting this for the next time someone says, ‘we’ve let too many Eastern Europeans into this country’.