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valued contribution. torrential rain in south korea has flooded the capital seoul. at least eight people are dead and several are missing. # were walking in the air... and the author and illustrator raymond briggs — best known for the childrens book the snowman — has died at the age of 88. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. its newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. donald trump has declined to answer questions under oath as part of an investigation into his...

america and chinas taiwan faceoff. tonight, tensions escalate ahead of speaker nancy pelosis possible trip to the self-governed island. adam yamaguchi is there tonight as war games with uh underway. >> the fact were seeing an amphibious assault suggests that the taiwanese think the chinese will take islands in the south china sea and -- >> dickerson: another supply chain log jam in the warning from the nations businessiest port. terror shark encounters. what had swimmers racing to shor...

says his symptoms are mild and hes taking medication. no ordinary telescope — scientists will for the first time be able to just —— detect smashing together of neutron stars. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news. liz truss says the treasury�*s policies have failed to deliver growth for two decades. shes rejected concerns that the tax cuts shes promised would increase inflation. liz truss and her rivalry she sunak are now sitting out there pitches to win over the party mem...

not ones to write home about. 11.3% is the jump in wholesale prices from a year ago and came in lot steamier than economists predicted coming off the -- you know what it feels like when you buy things. consumer prices are up substantially. fastest pace weve seen since 1981 back in reagan years. >> you have to go to art laffer to find that out. white house points out wages are up. here is the deal. wages arent rising at the pace of inflation. you look at a pay cut of 3.6%. >> if you cru...

into chaos and create a showdown where the next president will be decided by a vote in the republican -controlled house of representatives. history suggests that democrats are all -- toward a midterm shacking, as president obama once called it. the party in the white house has few exceptions traditionally lost seats in congress. democrats are expected to perform poorly. theres almost a punchline at this point. yes, president bidens all-time low pole time certainly not helping his party...

law-abiding citizen of wisconsin. >> for the good of america we have to get him out of office. >> new york city mayor eric adams calls governor abbott anti-american. this is the same mayor who initially was supportive of giving all of these illegal people the right to vote. >> what i want to see right now -- >> senator bernie sanders skirts multiple questions about president biden. >> let me me rephrase the question do you want to see him run for re-election. >> right now my concern is...

at former president donald trumps mar-a-lago estate, about two days ago. the new york attorney general is ramping up the civil investigation into the trump family businesses. a lot happening. hello, welcome everyone. mike, great to have you again. >> mike: great to be working with you, im in for john roberts in washington. former president trump taking the fifth amendment when questioned under -- after the deposition of two of his children, comes on the heels of an unprecedented fbi ra...

"get a spine" — the message from britains biggest trade union to the labour party over standing up for working people struggling with the cost of living crisis. and the notting hill carnival is back — returning to the streets of west london for the first time since 2019. hello and welcome to bbc news. the number of people killed in floods in pakistan is now more than 1,000, and theres a warning that millions more are likely to be caught up in the unprecedented disaster. the country...

the woman wanted a bag of potato chips, but there was no money left and her governmentac issued food stampk card to the clerk tried to take back the chips. the became enraged and went and got her boyfriend. now the boyfriend, austin simon, had a long history of violent crime. someone had spent at leastlt three years in prison for assault. his most recent parole expired last may, so simon had no apparent job. he was h wearing a three designr t-shirt and a gold earring and he was extreme...

collapsed on the street with several security guards running toward him on the video. he can be seen bleeding and holding his chest, according to kyodo news. he sustained a bullet wound on the right side of his neck. a chief cabinet secretary says police arrested a male suspect at the scene of the shooting in nara. its not clear yet what might have motivated the shooting done. violence is extremely rare in japan. in 2018, japan only reported nine deaths from firearms. shinzo abe was ja...