breaking news on capitol hill, congressional leaders come to an agreement they hope will buy them more time to avert a government shutdown. the problem is, speaker johnson will have to convince right-wing republicans to go along. and rising tensions before the second time in two days, the u.s. launches missile strikes against iran-backed militia militia. ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee, joins me live to discuss america s growing role in the middle east crisis. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. good evening. thank you for joining us in our brand-new timeslot. we really begin with the iowa caucuses, which are just two days away. and they could be the coldest caucuses ever recorded in the state. right now, temperatures are hovering around zero, with wind chills even lower. today, the clear front runner, donald trump, urged his supporters to brave the cold and show up to caucus, telling them he would be in iowa, possibly as soon as to
the former president and the state s attorney general inside the courtroom state s attorney g the courtroo and also ahead the latest from capitol hill a pressure campaign. we begin here where the united states and its allies launched military strikes against the iranian backed houthis in yemen. officials say they struck over 60 targets at 16 locations last night using more than 100 precision guided munitions. those targets include command and control nodes as well as production facilities, munitions depots, and air defense radar systems. the houthi s militant group claimed at least five people were killed. now, this action was done in response to the more than two dozen attacks that the houthis have been launching at commercial ships in the red sea since november. earlier this week the group launched its largest attack yet directly targeting american ships. a statement president joe biden explained the houthis have ignored warnings to stop the attacks. writing, they ha, quo
we start with a troubling landmark for the climate as 2023 smashes the record, for the world s hottest year ever recorded. european scientists say, that 2023 left the records tumbling like dominoes . the average global temperature in the past 12 months was 14.98 degrees. that beats the previous hottest year set in 2016 by 0.17 degrees. the announcement was made by the eu s climate change service. and the met office in the uk believes this record could be short lived, as their forecasts suggest 2024 could be even hotter. earlier, i spoke to our climate editor, justin rowlatt, who told me that record was broken by some margin. yeah, it is interesting, isn t it? the margin, as you say, was 0.17 celsius. you might say, well, that doesn t sound very much to me, but remember, this is a global average, an average across the entire globe day and night across the entire year, and normally scientists say they expect it to be broken by a tiny fraction of a degree, 0.01, 0.02, not
gaza, especially civilians and children, is too high. he says gazans must be allowed to return to their homes wall street supporting us support for israel. he and benjamin and yahoo discussed efforts to release all remaining hostages and get you humanitarian aid into gaza. this all comes as the hamas run health ministry says 126 people have been killed in gaza in the last 24 have been killed in gaza in the last 2a hours. it says 57 deaths were reported in one central gaza hospital alone. the situation in israel s northern order with lebanon remains volatile, with locations on either side targeted by the idf and hezbollah. this is what antony blinken told the press conference afterward. figs blinken told the press conference afterward. a , ., , blinken told the press conference afterward. a , . , afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a lower afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a lower intensity - afterward. as israel s
this is bbc news, the headlines. a major development in the uk s biggest miscarriage ofjustice rishi sunak announces a new law to compensate and clear the names of hundreds of postmasters wrongly accused of theft. opposition activist alexei navalny is seen for the first time since disappearing from a central russian prison last month. and 80 years after d day, we speak to the woman who helped map the beaches for the normandy landings. those are stories coming up in a moment or two. let s head to the bbc sports centre. anne marie is there for us. hello from the bbc sport centre. we start with snooker and, mark allen is taking on two time champion john higgins for a place in the quarterfinals of the masters at alexandra palace. and it s higgins who took a lead into the mid session break. the score currently 3 1 with both looking for a place in the quarter finals, with the fifth frame just under way. mark selby faces robert milkins in the final last 16 match later. football