Mccarthy So News Today

and american football star damar hamlin remains in a critical condition, after suffering a cardiac arrest during a primetime nfl game. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — its newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. the first day of the new us congress has been full of drama. after the swearing in of new members, the house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle. for the first time in 100 years, the house failed to elect a speaker in the first ballo...

Voting against him. he had 20. so that tells you the strength of feeling there is against him among the hard right element of his party, those who feel that he is essentially part of the establishment and unable to deliver the role of the speaker as they would want it. they have been trying to force him to offer them certain concessions, whether or not that be on the rules package, so that it is easier for them to force him out if they wanted to, orfor him to put them in key positions on congres...