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36 years later — the wait is overfor top gun fans — and tom cruise is lauded with the highest honour at the cannes film festival. this is bbc news. its newsday. hello and welcome to newsday, broadcasting live to you today from sydney, australia. in just 2a hours, australians will head to the polls to choose their next government. iconic images, of course, for people here in australia, but around the world as well, this week, australia has been in the global headlines, hasnt it? its...

the bill is passed. the us senate approves - the bill is passed. the us senate approves aid - the bill is passed. the us senate approves aid to i the bill is passed. the us - senate approves aid to ukraine, the largest aid package since russia invaded. the man behind film scores that mesmerized the millions, composer vangelis has died at the age of 79 years old. this is bbc news. its newsday. hello and welcome to newsday — broadcasting live to you today from sydney, australia. a bit ...

national tour to tout the package, and making big promises for the days ahead. >> over the next ten days, we will reach two goals. two giant goals. the first, 100 million shots in peoples arms will have been completed within the next ten days. and 100 million checks in peoples pockets in the next 100 days. shots in arms and money in pockets. thats important. the american rescue plan is already doing what it was designed to do -- make a difference in peoples everyday lives. >> for some ...

Whether or not Speaker Pelosi votes. Its tradition the speaker doesnt often votes but on a day like today i would think she would want to lead from the front. Well see. It seems like unprecedented times. Hagar, felipe, congressman, thank you so much. Well hand off to ari melber. Good morning. Im ari melber reporting live from nbc headquarters with coverage of todays events on msnbc. The breaking news coming out of capitol hill, lawmakers in the house about to take their first ever formal votes o...

Demographic with that, but its sort of in keeping with the spirit of the tour, an important phrase he wants to get across the voters. as he also put it to me, an irish term that means no bs if were alewed to say that much. >> and there are some saying why not just in this age of president trump, why not just put bs on your bus. but what is biden focusing on during this eight-day tour? >> well, weve been spending the last day and a half and were going to be spending the next seven days as this to...

A potential defendant. the rules the house could pass, basically say, we are going to treat the president with a lot of fairness and options, including melissa, the right to send his lawyers down and lodge objections and ask questions in the ensuing process. break that down for us. >> the constitution doesnt provide for the rules of the impeachment inquiry. not a lot of precedence to follow here, just andrew johnston and bill clinton, and so the procedures that the house have outlined in the res...

Heard peter baker pointed out in "the times," quote, in keeping with his reluctance to blame moscow for meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, mr. trump did not mention the sanctions or election interference. and then during todays white house press briefing our own peter alexander asked this simple question of sarah huckabee sanders. >> is putin a friend or a foe of the united states. >> i thinks that so something that russia will have to make that determination and decide whether they wan...

Deal. but her company cleared this gigantic amount of money. even if you take out the money she just stuck in her pocket, her company cleared like $25 million for the inauguration. now, to be clear, there is a general contractor which basically does every inauguration. this one for trump, both of them for obama, both for george w. bush, both for bill clinton. there is one big contracting firm called hargrove that is kind of always in charge of the major preparations for the inaugurations. that c...

Might be taping them, that this is sort of in keeping with something that he liked to do. doug? >> well, its possible, but then hes got to cough up the evidence now. some people are using the word constitutional crisis, at least a crisis in confidence in the presidency. this is a big one. this is a big -- trrp trdonald couple of tweets will cost him, one when he said barack obama wiretapped him, that was proven false and now weve got to see whether this is real or not, but that wasnt just a casu...

And if women feel comfortable wearing a burka, if they feel comfortable wearing a hijab, we should stay out of it and allow them to do it. we shouldnt be going in and saying, we know whats best for you. on the other hand, i really wish that donald trump would actually go to the middle east and speak to women who are on the forefront for fighting for womens human rights in these countries. and they will tell you that they wear the burka. but if you look under the burka, they are well dressed and ...