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of staff at the department of homeland security and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. its starting to feel a bit like groundhog day on capitol hill. thats because the house is trying again for a third day to elect a speaker of the house. weve now had eight votes. and in all eight, the republican kevin mccarthy has failed to receive enough votes. he hasnt even been able to swing the needle in his favour at all. this is the scene live in the ...

the economy with its new plan to cut tax and increase borrowing. dont forget, dont forgive. the only way to stop this is with a labour government. applause and nasa has deliberately flown a space—craft into an asteroid — to push it off course — in the first test of a planetary defence system. voting has ended in widely discredited referendums organised by russia in four occupied regions in ukraine. as expected, russia is claiming that an overwhelming majority of residents are in ...

hello and welcome to bbc news. google has announced its taking steps to remove data from its servers that could be used to prosecute people for visits to abortion clinics in the united states. it comes after the us supreme courts decision to remove a womans constitutional right to an abortion. several states have already acted to outlaw the procedure, or severely restrict access to it. geoffrey fowler is a tech columnist with the washington post, and says tech companies need to do more...

climate change. the family of archie battersbee lose their latest legal attempt to move him from hospital to a hospice to die, but supporters say they will fight on. we inherited a bunch of formulas from the labour party that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas, then they... rishi sunak�*s words to an audience in tunbridge wells. hes defended his remarks, saying its notjust cities which are in need. the first hosepipe ban of the summer comes into force in much of hampshi...

the nhs in england is increasingly reliant on doctors and nurses recruited from outside the uk and eu, analysis by the bbc has found. hello. if you havejustjoined us, a warm welcome to bbc news. china is halting cooperation with the us in several key areas, including climate change, military talks and efforts to combat international crime. the new measures follow a trip to taiwan by senior democrat nancy pelosi. china views the visit as a challenge to its claims of sovereignty over the...

hello and welcome to audiences here in the uk and around the world. the palestinian group islamichhad says its fired over a hundred rockets at israel. images we are about to show you rockets being intercepted by israels iron dome air defence system. we will show you in a moment. there they are. it comes only hours after an israeli air strike in the gaza strip, which killed a commander of the islamichhad group. the palestinian health ministry says at least ten people were killed, includ...

Israeli army has asked residents of seven different areas across the gaza strip to leave their homes and move to the city centres or take refuge in shelters in preparation for Launching Attacks against hamas targets. Witnesses told the bbc dozens of families have started leaving their homes and they were sheltering in unschools. Un were sheltering in unschools. Un schools. This all comes as israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on saturday that israel is, quote, at war, and is promi...

With explosions heard on the streets of ashkelon. Sderot, which is near gaza, is thought to have been infiltrated by militants. Fear and confusion continues to grip the region. 0ur middle east correspondent Yolande Knell filed this report, and a warning that you may find some of it upsetting. Rockets at dawn. The opening salvo in a Surprise Attack on israel by the Palestinian Militant Group hamas. Meanwhile, armed men cut through gazas perimeter fence. This was israels nightmare scenario. Hundre...

secretary—general used a rarely invoked article of the un charity, article 99, to bring to the attention the security counsel, threats to international peace and security, and he urged the consulate to call for a cease—fire because he said there was a risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian system. that he anticipated a complete breakdown of public order. he laid out in stark terms the desperate situation in gaza. that there was no protection of civilians there, that they we...

general used a rarely invoked article of the un charter. article 99 to bring to the attention of the security council threats to international peace and security. he urged the council to call for a ceasefire because he said there was a risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian system and anticipated a complete breakdown of public order. he laid out in stark terms the desperate situation in gaza, that there was no protection of civilians there, running out of food, risk and starvat...