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Following the conviction of a former anglican bishop for sex abuse and independent reported heavily critical of the churchs conduct. Inside raqqa, a city engulfed in violence, as so called Islamic State struggles to hold on we have a special report. Gunshot theres still sniper fire going on here. Welcome to Raqqa The Capital of a caliphate, and the siege. And why prince Harry Resents The Decision to make him walk behind his mothers coffin when he was 12 years old. And coming up in Sportsday On B...

Have drones, suicide bombers, this will be a very hard fight. The so called big economy has given rise to new ideas and some dynamic new companies. But our work is properly protected, or flexible contracts now an excuse to avoid Response Ability . And beijing is putting on quite a show. The promise of new trade along the new silk road, bridging the gap between east and west. In less than a decade, china has built twice as much high speed rail as the rest of the world combined. Hello, im in new y...

Snipers from is in streets around here and other than that they have drones, this will be a hard fight. And in os sport, well be looking towards the 2024 Olympic Games. More on our top Story Donald Trumpjunior releasing emails showing he was eager to accept what he was told was damaging information about Hillary Clinton provided by the russian state, during the president ial campaign. It appears to be the first confirmation that a trump associate attended a meeting in the expectation of being ha...

Snipers from is in streets around here and other than that they have drones, this will be a hard fight. And in os sport, well be looking towards the 2024 Olympic Games. More on our top Story Donald Trumpjunior releasing emails showing he was eager to accept what he was told was damaging information about Hillary Clinton provided by the russian state, during the president ial campaign. It appears to be the first confirmation that a trump associate attended a meeting in the expectation of being ha...

Read to me again from the list of my accomplishments. Of course, sir. Nominated neil gorsuch. God, i love that list. What a beautiful long list. Now, that may be why President Trump has been tapping down communications. Also one accomplishment, Supreme Court nomination, the sc is what you see there. Today white house aides announcing new policy moves by trump in the week ahead. They say he will release new quoterinciples for tax cut weesday. Sign a new veterans executive der wednesday and potent...

Class if the tax cut saves the president more than 1 billion . And eight men out the charter plane scandal forces tom price to pack his bags. Are more departures on the way. But we begin in puerto rico, new reaction after President Trump attacked the mayor of san juan and other officials in puerto rico in a series of tweets this morning. In one tweet the president accused the mayor of partisan politics after she criticized the administrations response to hurricane maria. This morning the mayor h...

BBC News Stranded at sea: Rohingya survivors stories Close More than 200 Rohingya refugees are believed to have died or gone missing at sea in 2020 in search of a better life. The UN refugee agency UNHCR says more than a third who made the perilous journeys from refugee camps in Bangladesh to Malaysia and Indonesia were children. Many starved at sea on boats operated by smugglers, before being turned away at their final point of destination due to Covid-19 restrictions. The Rohingya Muslims h...

We are going to becoming increasingly vulnerable to our adversaries in the world. there is no justification for what is going on right now and its going to weaken the presidency, its going to weaken our country. >> former defense secretary and cia director leon panetta on the ongoing government shutdown of the joining me now is peter emmerson. michael singleton and kurt bardelo. gentlemen, lets get into this here. thats a pretty alarming take from panetta on the shutdown. why arent we hearing th...

An oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution. it talks about domestic tranquility and the general welfare of the people. with this shutdown, donald trump has essentially diminished the very meaning of those words. he talked this week about federal workers are green with this shutdown in supporting him. tell that to the single mother whos struggling to take care of her kid or the father whos the breadwinner of his family. you cant tell that to people who live paycheck to paycheck and ...

Alyss jordan along with contributor peter emmerson. ladies first here, the president as you know going to puerto rico in three short days. why is he stirring the pot right before his visit? what narrative does this change? >> alex, im not going to pretend to know or understand how someone could tweet such vial things as people are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis and losing their lives. hospitals arent able to take care of their patients because they dont have electricity. its just yet anot...