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narrator: pediatric surgeon. volunteer. topiary artist. a raymond james financial advisor tailors advice to help you live your life. life well planned. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. announcer: and now, "bbc news". christian: hello, 'm christian fraser, and this is "the context." >> it is an amazing image and will go down in history as one of the most famous images in the welcome and i was fascinated that donald trump emailed that image to his followers immediately after it was taken. >> what has taken place is a

travesty of justice. we did nothing wrong, i did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it. i've never had such support. >> the mugshot might be particularly effective at driving home his campaign message can that he is a victim of the washington astonishment political martyr, -- victim of the washington establishment, a political martyr, and he will never surrender. christian: the mugshot that will forever be associated with the 45th president of the united states, but already donald trump has begun the campaign to own and exploit this image. on 19 defendants have submitted to the prison authorities. these are some of them ahead of today's new deadline. we will ask where the case in georgia goes next, and how quickly it will come to trial thousand also tonight, energy prices in the u.k. are coming down ahead of the winter surge, but will we feel any benefit in our pockets?

and the president of the spanish fa device calls to resign over his behavior at the women's world cup. in response, members of the senior men's team are boycotting the national side. good evening. donaldtrump is the only u.s. president to have ever opposed for a mugshot, an image that becomes instantly iconic. in short order he posted it on x, the site formerly known as twitter can with the words "election interference, never surrender," which is richly ironic given that he has now surrendered to the authorities and four different jurisdictions. mr. trump: what has taken place is a travesty of justice. we did nothing wrong, i did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it. i've never had such support. christian: mr. trump and his advisors with have given plenty of thought to this image and what it represents. it is brooding, it is defiant, it is on compromising,

everything we have come to associate with the 45th president. and since it became public, many of his supporters have begun photo shopping themselves into maga mugshots like georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. by lunchtime today, on 19 of the defendants in the trial have been processed, and the narrative will be written in court. with a suggestion that the trial might not be that far away, one of the codefendants, kenneth chesbro, requested it be brought forward to october 23, 59 days away. the district attorney has called his bluff. she says she is ready and she will seek to prosecute on 19 defendants from that day. we can speak to an attorney, the visiting executive at the tuck school of business. thank you for being with us this evening. i was listening to jane jordan,

a former georgia senator who testified to the grand journe jury, and she said she felt like she had been living through a period of national gas lighting, and this is the beginning of accountability. i guess there are many people who feel like that. >> it is interesting that there are, as we expected, two very polarized responses. the first american president to have a criminal mugshot. one group is saying he is a criminal and it is about time he was treated like a criminal, he has a mugshot that shows he is a criminal, and no one is above the law. there is another group that is saying that he is a victim of political persecution, and as mentioned, he is using his mugshot on social media, and he is claiming election interference, which some commentators are saying it is a bit ironic he has been criminally indicted for election interference. he is raising money, as he has done with his previous three

indictments, and he is selling trump-branded merchandise. one can buy a trump t-shirt for $36. he has raised millions of dollars with these appeals following the indictments including the latest one. christian: as you suggest, the campaign are really reacting to the hand they have been dealt, and we know what that he will be -- as you say, he needs your help, he is fighting for you. but it is working when you look at the polls. every one of these indictments has led to another increase in his lead over the other 8 candidates. >> and that raises an interesting question, why is that if the facts as presented are accurate and court after court after court has shown that the facts that he and his teams have presented are incorrect. why do people still follow him? there was a very interesting article recently asking that question, and the answer

that they came up with wathat donald trump is more trusted by people than their family members and religious leaders for many are calling this basically a different kind of religious cult and that they are following him even though the facts indicate that he has in fact committed crimes. christian: even those who were on stage in milwaukee on tuesday night. i want to talk about what comes next, because already we are -- let's talk about monday, first of all. mark meadows, who is the chief of staff, he is trying to get this switched from state court to federal court. he plays a big part of this because not only was he connecting people between the white house and georgia, but he was in cobb county when they were checking the signatures. he has a big role to play. how likely is it that he would get this switched to federal court, given that he was a former federal employee? christine: it's interesting, there are conditions to have a

case removed from state court to federal in this instance of the criteria he needs to me is that in fact activities he was doing -- as you mentioned, traveling to georgia, being on the call, organizing the call and being on the call with president trump when secretary state brad raffensperger was asked to find votes. the question will be were those behaviors and actions taken as part of his rol as a chief of staff. i think that many legal people believe at that will be a very hard bar to climb over, in that election interference, as has been claimed, is not part necessarily of a chief of staff's roles. christian: you are arguing they would see it as him inserting himself into the process as part of the campaign. with a also perhaps to say you are not a federal employee now, and that is the point, you are

being tried as an ordinary citizen in a state court? christine: that's correct, but the actions that he took at the time were when he was chief of staff to then-president trump. even though he is not a federal employee now, when he did these actions come he was a federal employee, and he would be held to that standard. christian: significant, of course, because were he to win on monday, you would expect donald trump and those in the administration to follow suit. the other thing i wanted to ask you before i let you go is this appeal that kenneth chesebro made yesterday to have the date of the trial set for october 23, which is completely entered to the strategy of donald tmp. -- antithesis to the strategy of donald trump. he wants to delay and delay and delay. it seems to me that fani willis has called his bluff. what was the strategy come and issue ready to go to try 19 people on the same day and in the same trial? christine: well, to give this

context, attorney chesebro, who was in the employ of donald trump, is alleged to have orchestrated the scheme for fake electors in georgia. , yes it is scheduled for october 23, and fani willis said she wanted to try all 19 defendants on the day. the court set for this purpose they are looking for a speedy trial for him alone. between now and october 23, it will be a lot of legal maneuvering. there will be an arraignment, there will be discovery, there will be pretrial motions, and we can expect other defendants to try to submit motions to sever their cases separate from attorney chesbro, including president trump, who fani willis has scheduled for march 2024 trial. but he is trying to have his trial not take place until after the 2024 election. christian: yeah, going to be really interesting with their there is a splitetween the

group and whether any of the group might give evidence against donald trump. all that still to play for. interesting to watch. lovely to talk to you, thank you for coming on. christine: pleasure, thank you. christian: the director of the british museum says he is stepping down after admitting he failed to respond comprehensive the two warnings about thefts from the museum in 2021. hartwig fischer previously said there was no evidence to substantiate claims of theft. estimates suggest more than 1500 objects are missing, stolen, or damaged. in the past i with the deputy director johnathan williams has agreed to voluntarily step back from hisormal duties until the independent review into the thefts has concluded. david soto reports. david: the british museum, one of the greatest repositories of the world's treasures, and someone has been stealing them. it is understood more than 1500 objects have disappeared.

and two years ago, a danish antiquities dealer told the museum's directors he had seen some of the treasures on sale on ebay. and it's that warning that has led to the director of the museum, hartwig fischer, announcing he will be leaving the museum rather sooner then he had been planning. in a statement, he said it is evident that the british museum did not respond as comprehensively as it should have in response to the warnings in 2021, and to the problem that has now fully emerged. the responsibility for that failure must ultimately rest with the director. i spoke to the man who first raised this warnings. >> the essence of this is that they failed to take your warning seriously when he made them. >> they refused to listen, they refused to further engage with me. they had no questions to ask of me. they never wanted to include me in their internal so-called thorough investigation -- and is

a quote. it is unbelievable what happened. david: the museum now needs a new director and some answers. a police investigation is underway. one person has been interviewed, but exactly what's been stolen and how it all happened are questions at i've yet to be answered. -- have yet to be answered. christian: around the world and across the u.k., youre watching bbc news. quick look at some of the other stories making headlines in the u.k. the head of nhs england has written two health leaders calling for a meeting next week to consider regular and a managers in the wake of revelations since the we see that the trial -- since the lucy letby trial. she says it is the right time to look at the benefits of regulation. a drunk driver who hit a charity cyclist and hit his body in a shallow grave has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. he was speeding when he hit the

63-year-old and left him to die on the a 82 in 2017. he and his twin brother later had the body. -- hid the body. his remains were not found for three years. rail workers across england are due to walk out on saturday. some 20,000 rmt union members at 14 rail companies are striking as part of a long-running dispute over pay. the weekend will see thousands traveling to events such as notting hill carnival and the lead festival -- leeds festivals. you are watching bbc news. we got a new figure today for what households in england, scotland, and wales will be charged per unit of gas and electricity from october. the energy price cap for the final three months of the year. the regulator says it will come down to 1923 pounds a year for the typical household, around $2400. it is a drop of 151 pounds on

the current price cap, 2074 pounds, or around $2600. by comparison the average household in the united states pays around $2300 a year. the chief executive of the energy regulator explained why the price cap is coming down. >> what we do as a regulator is we look at the costs that the energy companies needed to spend to get the energy their customers need, and we make sure through our formulae that is reasonably reflected in the prices they pay. the price cap is a maximum companies can charge to make sure they are not charging unfair prices over and above that. what we are announcing today is 150-pound drop. that applies to most households, and for everyone that will be welcome really. we all need to recognize that although that cap has come down, this is still much higher than prices pre-2021 when the gas

crisis hit that is silly because we have a much tighter -- simply because we have a much tighter international market and the price of gas and electricity are higher than they used to be, and that is what thought did in our bills. christian: we can speak to an expert on energy use at the price comparison service. thank you very much for being with us. can you explain this figure four us in relation to last year's figure? >> yes, so this is actually the third consecutive time the price cap has dropped. this time last year it was much, much higher, slated to reach 3800, going up to 4200 pounds. at that point, the government introduced its energy price guarantee, which was effectively a second price-cap mechanism subsidized by then, capped the average bill for the typical-use household.

that was then replaced by the price cap again when the previous chrprice cap announcement was made at the beginning of the summer, and we are where we are with this 150-pound drop. christian: ok, but the energy market is still pretty tight. a goodxample of that is the strike we were expecting among gas workers in australia who were working on an lng plant in australia. the price goes up and comes back down pretty quickly when the strike is averted. can you be confident that prices will continue to come down? >> i think if you look at the last refused -- the last few periods, there has been a consistent lowering of prices, and that is reflected in a global settlement of energy prices. there will be spikes from time to time based on, as you say, the lng plants strike potential.

but i think pledges is really brought it -- i think what this says really brought into sharp relief is that of jim and the government need to be looking at the price cap itself. it has become clear that it is not fit for purpose anymore. it was brought in to protect households from high energy prices, and it is not doing that job anymore. christian: you think a social tariff would be a better way to go? >> a social tariff is one idea. it seems to be gaining traction. there are lots of regulatory barriers that could be looked at. for instance, ofgem is battling acquisition-only tariffs, which means basically supplies can only offer deals to existing customers if they are for to new ones. now that means the supplies have no incentive to offer the bes pricing possible because from a

business point of view, why would you offer your existing coming is a cheaper deal than the one they are on? the price cap generally could do with a rework, and that is what we would like to see, ofgem and the government not passing the buck, but trying to future-pro of the u.k. energy industry. christian: just briefly, there is one other element of the bill, the standing charge, which doesn't change new matter how much you use gas and electricity, however many units you use, the standing charge remains the same. it is built into your bill. could it be that way? there are lots of people who conserve serve gas and electricity in the last few months. some of them might be on a prepaid meter, and they are still seeing costs going up. >> the standing charge is a really difficult one. i think you have to think of them as a sort of line rental for broadband. we pay that fee for the infrastructure of the network.

this is the kind of thing -- it's a justified cost. whether those prices should be going up is another matter. but unfortunately, there is something that customers are going to have to live with, unfortunately. christian: ok, we will have to leave it there. thank you very much indeed. the reason our energy bills have been much higher is partly because we have been deprived of russian oil and gas. in the months that followed the full-scale invasion of ukraine, the g-7 plus australia band direct imports from russia. but there is evidence that companies are evading the sanctions by importing oil through third countries. figures compiled by global witness suggest 6.2 million barrels of jet fuel were imported into the u.k. in the first six months of this year from three refineries made with 2.30 3 million barrels of russian crude. one in 8 british flanks work field by the diesel coming from

these refineries. one in 20 with crude from directly from russia. the first six months of these year the oil raised $132 million, of which $52 million went directly to russia in text revenues. -- taxed revenues. some of the biggest oil committees, bp and shell, are buying this jet fuel. in a statement to bbc they say they are in full compliance with the laws and government guidance. and yet the government says importers are required to prove that the oil is not of russian origin. i'm joined by a reader in russian political economy in the king institute. thank you for being with us. it's a giant loophole, isn't it? >> there is. the report you referred to actually is based on highly meticulous efforts to put a number upon how much cash i

gains from -- how much pressure gains from a particular loophole. the rort refers to only one particular case and one particular type of legal, namely russia sells oil to indian refineries and they refine it and sell it all over the world, and the uk's one of thelients. if one would go beyond that and expand and talk about other types of transactions that involve other refineries and also countries' importers -- the eu and the u.s. -- the size of that loophole, the price tag gets bigger. and one can go further and include all other types of violations of existing sanctions, circumventions although sanctions, and the price tag gets bigger and bigger. it is in no way l -- it is in a way lack of enforcement of the sanctions and problems in their design. christian: this clearly -- there

is clearly a division between the big companies like bp and shell who say we are doing everything to stop this and the government to say you have to ensure that what is the refined in india is not in russia. what do you do, slap penalties on them? adnan: the current enforcement mechanisms are clearly week. the reporting requirements about whether there is a violation of sanctions also very weak. these are areas that could be tightened. also, whenever there are sanctions, one could expect that the target state will try to find every possible way around them, and that is why sanctions constantly need to be very continuously readjusted based on the exisng realities. in this case, this does indicate that the existing sanctions in the u.k. but also in the broader context of g-7 countries need to readjust in order to make them more effective. christian: and not just in the areas of oil refinery.

thank you very much indeed for coming on. do appreciate it. british police are investigating the deaths of 88 people in the u.k. who bought a poisonous substance from man and candidate was accused of helping people to take their own lives. kenneth law is due to appear in court after being arrested inmate near toronto, accused of assisting suicide and selling products to people in 40 countries around the world. the uk's national crime agency has launched an investigation. angus crawford reports. warning, some of this you may find distressing. angus: right and kind, tom was just 22 when he ended his life using a chemical he bought from a website in canada. his father, david, distraught and angry, said, should never have access to it. >> i have been able to discuss with many other families the impact on them and their own lives. of course also focused on us

trying to get some justice for the deaths of our sons or daughters. but also try and ensure that other families aren't impacted by similar. angus: this is the man tom bought it from, kenneth law, arrested in canada and charged with two counts of aiding suicide. >> we are aware that packages were shipped over 40 countries. we are aware of 1200 packages. angus: the national crime agency says 272 people in the u.k. bought from the canadian. 88 of them later died. although it is not possible to say the chemical was the cause of death in every case, the nca has launched a criminal investigation. but how did they know about kenneth law and the chemical? here is the answer, a pro-suicide website.

we've been investigating this world for two years for t -- for two years. users encourages suicide, swap tips on methods, and suggested sellers like law. accessible to anyone with a couple of clicks. we found one supplier who offered us a package of chemicals and pills. he even sent us a picture, told us he often shipped to the u.k. new sellers appear all the time. >> i know how much the people are struggling. angus: another death too soon. holly's brother michael, one more of kenneth law's customers. >> right now i'm a bit of a mess because this is all i seem to be talking about, but i'm not going to stop. just can't -- i can't live in a world knowing this stuff exists

without trying to stop it. angus: michael and tom, two of the many who look for help online and instead found poison. angucrawford, bbc news. christian: we are going to head to a short break. on the other set of that can we will talk about the row in spanish football, which seemed to worsen today, and we will talk about a new covid strain which is narrat: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪

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