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Coming up in one hour, pittsburgh postgazette julian rao on pennsylvania as a battleground state. More on pennsylvania with susquehanna universitys Nicholas Clark. Host good morning. Well begin this morning with testimony on capitol hill yesterday we from yesterday from the ceos of google, facebook, and twitter. They were asked to talk about their social media influence. We want to know from you this morning, do you think these companies have too much power . Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats,...

Wework. Biggest bets, a drop in ad sales and what that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger in a courtroom on monday. States and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. But the latest, jennifer read, who was in the courtroom. Takeaway what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read to the pretrial memoranda , lets go straight to the witnesses. The ju...

The tv industry suffers its steepest drop in ad sales since 2009. What that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger took shape in a courtroom on monday. The combination of 13 states and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. With the latest, jennifer was in the courtroom. Day one, what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read enough in the pretrial m...

The households that fall within that 70130 range. And of those, 60 roughly have indicated they are interested in below market rate condominium purchase. Some of those that had indicated they werent interested stated that they were their Household Income was too high to qualify for the program. So the selfreported information we had previously may have been lower than their actual Household Income. So they may fall outside of the range to be eligible. But of the 22 households that have indicated ...

Old british schoolgirl, who disappeared while on holiday with her family in malaysia, have made a new appeal for information to help find her. A 200 strong search team thats like a drink that is continuing to scour dense forest also feels like dinner. Yeah, i like this near the resort, where nora qua rin, better than the arak. Who has learning difficulties, and its the night life thats was staying. From malaysia, really putting beirut back on the map. Howard johnson reports. The music hall is on...

South west, parts. The warmest of the conditions in the south east. Mid teens further north. That sets us mid teens further north. That sets us upfora mid teens further north. That sets us up for a fairly cool week for august in the week ahead. Some dry weather but particularly wet and windy for wednesday. Hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines the Prime Minister has pledged £2. 5 billion to create 10,000 new prison places and has said that all Police Forces in england and wales ...

And quite heavily all day and even as we go through the last part of the evening and overnight that rain is very slow to ease off. We have already had a months worth of rain in the last two or three days so clearly that is giving concern for further flooding. Elsewhere, a quieter night. A cooler night, and that is a trend for the week ahead. Temperatures will be a little bit below average. It does at long last look as if it will be drierfor central and southern scotland through the day ahead. So...

Now on bbc news the travel show. This week on the travel show, im in lebanon, finding out why beirut is hoping to regain its reputation as the entertainment capital of the middle east. We have amazing people who are doing work that is internationally recognised. Also coming up, ill be discovering how an ordinary man became the king of his own castle. Did he build it himself . Himself, stone by stone. It took him 73 years. Plus, lucy hits the british countryside to check out the latest hiking gad...

A 28 year old churchwarden has been found guilty of murder, a 28 year old churchwarden has been after tricking his victim, into changing his will for his benefit. Ben field manipulated Peter Farquhar who was 69, duping him into a relationship and then lacing his food with drugs and neat alcohol. However field was found not guilty, of the attempted murder of a retired headmistress who was 83, and whom field also admitted, hed tricked into a relationship. Tom symonds has the story. A respected for...

Ease, best chance of sunshine there, thunderstorms developing, the breeze picking up across scotland, Northern Ireland, feeling cooler, but brighter weather developing later, parts of central and southern scotla nd parts of central and southern scotland where we see wetter spots with again the risk of flooding. Hello this is bbc news. National grid says it will learn lessons after nearly1 Million People across england and wales lost power on friday. Incredibly rare event, near simultaneous loss ...