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we'll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we'll look at twitter�*s share price, which has fallen welcome to college green in front of parliament, where the process of selecting a new leader of the conservative party and new prime minister is under way. if i'm occasionally glancing this way and that, sir graham brady, the committee chair, will be speaking in the next few minutes. he will outline the rules of the tory party leadership contest. bear in mind since thursday, effectively that contest...

making news by abandoning decades old policy of strategic ambiguity and saying the united states would fight for taiwan if it is attacked by china. >> you didn't want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? >> yes. >> you are? >> that's the commitment we made. >> the white house immediately walked that back, saying the policy has not changed. in ukraine, a russian soldier sentenced to live in prison by a kyiv judge after pleading guilty in the shooting death of a 62-year-old ukrainian civil...

>> i'm ashleigh banfield. good to have ali here all week. in the battle over the bush-era tax cuts, playing politics with your takehome pay and nothing hort of the presidency is on the line here. if the two parties can't agree on extending those tax cuts by the end of the year, a typical american family making $70,000 a year could get hit with a tax increase of $3,000. that is a lot of pain. right now house republicans are busy crafting a plan to extend those tax cuts for everyone across the board -- rich, poor and everything in between. this is a plan that cannot get through the d...

the former illinois governor is going to have an opportunity to speak before the federal judge announces the sentence. prosecutors want blagojevich to get at least 15 years for his conviction on corruption charges. a 19-year-old man says that jerry sandusky gave him whiskey when he was 12, then sexually abused him. sandusky's latest accuser claims it happened once inside an office inside the penn state football building. the man says he was a member of the second mile. that is sandusky's charity for disadvantaged kids. sarah ganim broke the story. >> there's a lot of new things in ...