Flock police in hong kong fire several rounds of tear gas at activists trying to enforce a general strike by disrupting transport networks. Police say 22 people are risking their lives by refusing to leave homes which will be deluged if a failing dam in derbyshire collapses. England cricket fans anticipate a nerve racking day as their batsmen looked to save the first ashes test at edgbaston. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. 20 hospitals in england stand to benefit from a pledge by the Prime Minister to pay for repairs and upgrades. Boris johnson has promised £850 million to help with upgrades to outdated facilities and to pay for new equipment. The money has been earmarked for 20 hospitals, including a new women and Childrens Hospital in cornwall, four new wards in norwich and a new critical and intensive care block in luton. The funding pledge comes during a week of Health Policy announcements by the government and is part of the pms £1. 8 billion one off cash boost for n
Committees in congress that are responsible for oversight of the Intelligence Community, that is the House Select Committee on intelligence chaired by congressman adam schiff of california and the senates select committee on intelligence, which has been held by senator richard burr from north carolina, that senator marco rubio has assumed those responsibilities as of recently. Those two committees will no longer be receiving inperson briefings from the office of the director of National Intelligence on the issue of Election Security. Instead, they will be provided with written updates, i am told. Now, obviously, this is going to come as alarming news for a lot of people who care about Election Security. Democrats and republicans. But right now the story is breaking so we have not gotten any official ontherecord responses. We should note that republicans and democrats on those committees prefer inperson briefings so that they can ask questions, challenge assumptions, conduct their overs
defend the nazi salute to a jewish attorney general. that s where they are right now. good evening, joy. good evening, professor. but this also is defending the violence that many are taking against school board members across america. maybe i m a little sensitive to this. my working class dad ran for and was the president of a school board. it s one of the hardest jobs in america. but we now see republicans believing that people not only have a right to go to the school board, but they have a right to go there and incite and threaten violence against people making decisions about our kids education. and ted cruz is cool with it. he just doesn t want the police to get in the way, professional miller idris, welcome back to the show, i should say. when you have norm core supposedly republicans like glenn youngkin, who is running in virginia, people like head cruz who used to be i m a fiscal conservative. that used to be his thing. i m a constitutional conservative. but they re now norma