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stories you re going to remember for the rest of your life. this is the mugshot the world will never forget. mr. trump has been criminally and not four times. i have 91 felony counts. i did everything, they interlock me. kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in speaker after running on a historic 15th ballot. it s becoming increasingly clear with the speaker of the house already works for. chaos on capitol hill tonight. brought on by the house vote to remove kevin mccarthy. the speaker. congress has a new house speaker tonight. ending threat works off uncertainty. president biden makes an historic top secret trip to ukraine. one year later, kyiv stands. and ukraine stands. democracy stands. america stands with you. president biden and israel. less than a day on the ground but no doubt of the u.s. government commitment backing israel and its four against hamas. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we re closing in on that and all of 2023. so ....
welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we start with the us secretary of state, antony blinken, who is headed to the middle east to visit israel, the west bank, and seven countries over the next week. the us state department says during mr blinken s trip, he will seek immediate increase in aid to gaza as the strip continues to deal with a humaniatarian crisis. the trip comes as the uk foreign secretary, david cameron, warns israel must allow more aid into gaza in order to avoid starvation and large outbreaks of disease. and there are reports of dozens more deaths from air strikes in southern gaza, as israel continues its military operation there. and in lebanon, people gathered for the funeral of deputy hamas leader saleh al arouri. he was killed earlier this week in an explosion. hezbollah a powerful iranian backed group in lebanon has blamed that attack on what it says was flagrant israeli aggression . israel has not commente ....
tomorrow and then we are into the weekend, low pressure loosening its grip and here comes high pressure, very good news if you are hoping for some drier weather. not necessarily completely dry on saturday, some showers here and there, and fog patches towards the west which could be slow to clear so i m not promising a completely sunny sky, but we should see some spells of sunshine and temperatures continuing to drop. sunday is likely to be cold steel especially if you get stuck under mist and fog for any length of time, as the winds pick up in the south on monday it will feel cold are still here but it looks mostly dry. a bit of respite from all the rain. thanks. that s it. newsnight is just getting underway over on bbc two, with victoria. but here on bbc one, it s time to join our colleagues for the news where ever you are. have a very good night. sir keir starmer pitched hope to voters today but rishi sunak grabbed the headlines with his working assumption that the el ....
to ferry people across the channel, it is about getting after the money of these people smugglers and it is about working hard both on the uk border and across europe. that is what driven this 36% reduction. at the same time, is that you re seeing an 80% increase. we are a positive outlier because of the actions that we have taken. so this is not about the weather, this is about the work the home office officials have been doing both domestically and with their counterparts across europe. opposition labour party says ministers are manipulating the figures. here s the shadow home secretary yvette cooper. rishi sunak s claim to have cured the asylum backlog isjust totally false. in fact, the figures are nearly 100,000 cases and they haven t even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting. our political correspondent nick eardley has been working with the bbc verify team and looking at the claims. the big claim from the government today is that it s got rid o ....
and that the republican front-runner is heading into the new year with section 3 of the 14th amendment nipping at his heels. first it was colorado, now it s maine saying that trump is disqualified from being on the ballot. and let s not forget that more than a dozen other states with the 14th amendment have cases pending. 14th amendment cases. now the new ruling from the maine secretary of state is as fiery as it is somber. quote, i nclude as did the colorado supremeou that the record establishes that mr. trump over the course of several months and culminating on january 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the capitol to prevent certificati o the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power. i likeise conclude mr. trump was aware of the likely hood for ce and at least initially supported its useiven he both encouraged it with incendiary rhetoric and took no timely action to stop it. the weight of the evide ....