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countries, two americans among them. a far right rebuke in the worlds fourth biggest democracy. brazils bolsonaro beaten in his re-election runoff. what could be a big blow to diversity at colleges. today the u.s. supreme court considers ending affirmative action. ♪ welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, im christine romans. the death toll is now at least 154 in south koreas crowd surge. making it one of the countrys worst ever disasters. this morning...

lay out the cases for us. >> reporter: arguments in the two cases are teed up for this morning. the supreme court will once again re-examine affirmative action but this time with the solidly conservative court it is quite likely that the justices could ban affirmative action once they release their opinion sometime next year. this is all happening as the groups fighting to end the consideration of race in admissions they have been quite outspoken. >> diversity as important as it is, ca...

this, my sweet, is a letter from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. happy christmas, ange. that was dirty den handing angie watts divorce papers after shed lied to him about having six months left to live. 30 million people tuned in to watch that episode of eastenders, more than half the population. today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million per episode, much of it through iplayer. so do soaps matter any more? whats their place in the cul...

hello and welcome to bbc news. well start in somalia, where security forces say theyre searching a hotel in the capital mogadishu for explosives after ending a 30—hour siege by islamist militants. but there has been no independent confirmation. al shabaab militants stormed the hayat hotel on friday. the group said some of its fighters managed to escape. emily brown reports. gunfire. the crackle of gunshots penetrating the mogadishu air. the crumbling hayat hotel in the somali capital...

is looking for a new home. hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk the daughter of one of president putins close allies, aleksandr dugina, has been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya dugina died after her car exploded near moscow. theres been no comment from the authorities. its thought that her father — whos often called "putins brain" — could have been the intended target of the attack. the pair were reportedly set to t...

now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello, and welcome to the programme where british journalists debate the weeks news with the correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline: london. living with double—digit inflation is an unwelcome, if familiar, experience in many countries. turkey, argentina, zimbabwe and iran started 2022 under that yoke. for the british, it had been a distant memory, but not any more. in the united states, presidentjoe bid...

hundreds of thousands of students received their exam results on thursday, allowing them to sort out their university places. but some btec students are still waiting to see how they did in vocational courses. exam board pearson wont reveal how many are affected but says its a small percentage. the association of colleges isnt impressed. pearson wont tell us the numbers, but i know in some colleges there are several hundred students who havent got their results from pearson. in any nor...

in an unassuming garage in the netherlands, theres an electric car with a secret. no, its not its ultra—light, ultra—strong carbon—fibre frame, although that is important to the story, and its not the aerodynamic design that makes it look like a future car from the 19505, although that is important too. no. look closer at that shiny finish, and youll see that its not paint. the entire thing is covered in solar panels — solar panels on the bonnet, solar panels on the roof, solar...

new york. thank you for being with us. felony charges and federal charges could come for the man suspected of attacking house speaker nancy pelosis husband paul. 40-year-old -- 42-year-olds david depape is accused of breaking into the pelosi home very early friday morning, and sources say he had zip ties, ducts tape, and i hammer when he allegedly entered the bedroom where paul pelosi was sleeping and assaulted him. lets go to the san francisco police chief bill scott for an update. fi...

hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. the daughter of one of president putins close allies, aleksandr dugin, has been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya dugina died after her car exploded near moscow. theres been no comment from the authorities there. its thought that her father — whos often called "putins brain" — could have been the intended target of the attack. the pair were reportedly set to travel back from an event in the same car....