paul smith, thank you very much indeed. ukrainian prosecutors this monday requested $35 million in bail for the former leader, who returned to the country earlier in the day, in spite of facing arrest on treason charges. the conservative president from 2014 to 2019 was placed under investigation for high treason and left ukraine in december. one of the country's richest men, he touched down on pf to help ukraine fend off a possible russian invasion. reporter: thousands of supporters gathered to greet ukraine's former president following his return on monday. petro is back home, despite facing charges of high treason. prosecutors are demanding he pay bail or spend two months in detention. he is accused of helping russian back to separatists who controlled parts of eastern ukraine sell almost 15 million euros worth of kiev in 2014 and 2015. at the time, the coal mines caused a severe energy crisis. authorities in ukraine accused the former president of working with a pro-kremlin lawmaker who was also facing charges of treason

smith. the agency said they made the decision based on information gathered while investigating the double murder of maggie and paulear-old young man found dead in the middle of the road, his case never solved. >> he was openly gay in this very small town which could not have been easy. >> i was so proud of him. you know, because his favorite saying is, i am who i am. and god made me, and god don't make mistakes. >> the highway patrol just didn't buy it, that this was a hit and run. >> he had no abrasions. no torn clothes. shoes were still on his feet. cell phone still in his pocket. >> steven smith's twin sister, stephanie, tells police right after the coroner called to tell them steven died, randy murdaugh called, offering his services as an attorney. >> why would they be worried about my son's death? >> the most persistent rumor told to police alleged that paul's older brother, buster murdaugh, was involved. >> steven smith was a classmate of buster murdaugh. >> but we don't know if those people, given these statements, had direct knowledge of this case or if they were repeating rumors. >> so the police are chec

smith. the agency said they made the decision based on information gathered while investigating the double murder of maggie and paul says how he died has long been in question. >> around 4:00 a.m. on july 8th, 2015, a man named ronny capers called 911 and said that he saw a man in the road in hampton county, south carolina. >> hampton county 911. where's your emergency? >> i see somebody laying out. >> he sees a kid in the road, but he doesn't stop. >> and is it in the road or on the side of the road? >> he in the road. somebody's gonna hit him. it's dark. >> okay. we'll get an officer headed out that way. >> steven has a 7-inch gash on the right side of his forehead, and his head is caved in. it looks like from force of some kind. >> toxicology reports don't indicate that he was under the influence of anything. >> his car was a couple miles away, and it was out of gas. and the cap was hanging out. >> there's no tire marks. there's no pieces of car, no debris. just a 19-year-old kid, dead in the middle of the road. >> stephen smith was 19 years old. he was a twin. he had a sister stephanie. he lived with his mother

and coming up, we return to 1970s california in paul thomas anderson's liquorice pizza, and we'll be finding out what anna smith other major releases this week in the film review at 5.45. our top story this hour, sidney poitier, the first black man to win the oscar for best actor, has died aged 94. born in the bahamas, he won the academy award in 1964 for his role in lillies of the field. he was given an honory knighthood by the by the queen in 1974, and in 2016 he was awarded the bafta fellowship for his outstanding contribution to film. lizo mzimba looks back at his life. # in the heat of the night...# sidney poitier�*s virgil tibbs, a man of authority... i'm a police officer. ..intelligence and a steely determination, never to back down. the kind of qualities that defined sidney poitier on screen and off. he made his cinema debut playing a doctor, a man of status, something almost unheard of for black performers then. with roles like an escaped convict in the defiant ones, and a struggling husband in a raisin in the sun, he tackled prejudice head on. maybe i will get down on my black knees. all right, mr gre

everybody remembers jimmy stewart and mister smith goes to washington or ted cruz reading about green eggs and ham or rand paul. doing crazy things. so that the environment of the senate has changed dramatically. it's become much more like animal house or some crazy thing watch on c-span. it's not become the greatest deliberative body. if you go to that place where you change the filibuster rules, you are moving that much closer to the precipice where it could be chaotic when it's most of the upper house, the place like the house of lords. we're missing that kind of opponent here. and that's going to be a not only voting rights, but also for build back better and the biden agenda. >> so bottom line here, it seems like biden and the democrats can't even get 50 democrats in the senate to support, you know, the social spending and climate change bill, which is currently stalled and, you know, the voting rights legislation. so do you think when you get down to it in your gut that this will all be for naught? and this is just president biden wanting to in his mind and in may be a lot of democrats minds be on the ri

smith has been having a whale of a time if you'll let pardon upon the after matching the events of $36.00 whole record on friday to sit with 17 under paul, he's 3 strikes ahead of daniel berger was number one, john, rom, and time for some impressive pictures from the freestyle ski world cup of venting canada. what i'm favorites mccalla kings re picked up his 2nd mobile victory of the season, the 9 time wild cup overland mobiles jump in top to the side of the your for emily piece, it will have more later. lovely, thank you very much, jim. all right, stay with us more news in just a month. i a mineral central to the quest for clean energy. a key ingredient for the production of electric car batteries, cobalt extracting. it is dangerous, but profitable with global demand set to skyrocket. people empower, investigates, claims that industrial mines, extracting the precious material, needed for cleaner energy, are in fact, poisoning the environment with dire health consequences for those living in their shadow. the cost of coal, both people empower on. i'm just, you know, for me to send a marina families to pain is unbearable for their relati