Trump backs Hegseth as he faces impeachment push

President Trump has said the resumption of US strikes against Iran is "quite unlikely and unnecessary". He expressed support for his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, after a Republican Congressman, Thomas Massie, introduced articles of impeachment against him for waging war in Iran and elsewhere without Congressional approval. Also: President Trump says the FBI is investigating claims that Jensen Huang, the boss of the US tech giant Nvidia, had an affair with a suspected Chinese agent. He said he'd spoken to Mr Huang - who'd told him he had no idea that the woman was a spy. France has accused Iran of being behind cyberattacks last month that heated up supermarket fridges and freezers, spoiling millions of dollars' worth of food. The former British comedian and actor, Russell Brand is beginning a prison sentence of ten-and-a-half years for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others between 2004 and 2009. We have a special report from the Libyan city of Derna, which has been rebuilt after Storm Daniel triggered the worst flood disaster in the world this century. Astronomers say the Earth has another temporary moon that's fallen into our planet's gravitational pull. And the author M John Harrison is awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for his dystopian novel, The End of Everything.

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Photo: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth speaking at the Pentagon in March.
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