More wildfires whip through Northern California one is burning close to wealthy neighbourhoods in los angeles. Challenging our ideas about time and space a new super telescope may give us more clues about dark energy. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 9am in singapore and 1 00 here in london, where borisjohnson is trying to break the brexit deadlock by holding a snap election. The british Prime Minister had pledged that the uk would leave the eu on october 31 do or die. But he doesnt have enough votes to get his brexit deal through parliament. On monday, mrjohnson failed in his latest attempt to get mps to agree to a new election, so hell try again on tuesday. Our political editor, laura kuenssnberg, has the story of another turbulent day, which began with britain being granted its official brexit extension. Throw your hands up if you like. Very short and efficient and constructive meeting, and i am happy that the decision has been t
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, all power and authority belong to you. You even rule the raging of the sea. Guide our lawmakers, as they strive to serve your purposes for their lives in this generation. May they acknowledge you as the source of their strength, finding their security in the wisdom and love of your unfolding providence. Make our senators a shining example of trustworthy and responsible stewardship. Use them to strengthen the moral fiber of our nation and world. Lord, give them a renewed sense of reverence and wonder that you have chosen them to serve and country. We pray in your gracious name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and j
Governor advocating on behalf of the people. Were sitting in the first studio of frank lloyd wright. Wright was actually born in Richland Center in wisconsin which is not too far from here. And he was, his family took him first to massachusetts for a time, and then they returned to madison. And he grew up in madison, spent his teenage years there and attended some of, very briefly, a few years, at the university of wisconsin before he decided to take off and find his fortune in chicago. Decided he should come out to this part of the country which is where her family was, the lloyd jones, welsh pioneers, and spent his summers here. So he spent his teenage summers in this valley and on these hills, and thats where he got two things. He got his love of nature and his understanding of nature, and he also got his understanding of the topography of these hills. Watch all of our events from madison saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv and sunday afternoon at two on American History tv o
Of ways that it can have an impact, both on the hiring and employee side, as well as on the owner side. On the hiring side, setting standards for hiring contracts with vendors can set a high bar for companies that are receiving the Public Airways to live up to those sorts of standards on the structure that can impact the ownership side. Perverting competition. He surely set off structures that allow for small women and minor minor owned businesses to create compete in the auctions. You may not have all the ideas but we are interested in finding out what other ideas can be brought forward and celebrate the chamber recently reinstating the Advisory Committee on diversity and digital empowerment. Those are the sorts of things we love to see at the fcc where stakeholders can come together and come up with other tactics to promote diversity. Thank you chairman, my time is up. , we hear from senator blackburn. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to thank our witnesses for being here to talk about
Examine ways to improve safety conditions for youth would that that workon farms around americ. Today we are meeting to examine workplace detections for child farmworkers. Todays hearing represents the third in the series for spotlight workers that are all too often overlooked, neglected and exploited. The hearings have been invented to lift workers up and champion their causes. Each day hundreds of thousands many of whom come from low income migrant families risk their health and wellbeing while working on farms across the country. Child farmworkers should be able to rely on the basic workplace protections that are standard. Unfortunately, the nations labor law has left the child workers behind. While the fair standard laborers fact provides protections in the workforce, children working in the Agricultural Industry are either excluded from many of these protections were provided Legal Protections for example unlike other industries, child farmworkers can be assigned hazardous jobs fr