triumph in the final on sunday. i am ina triumph in the final on sunday. i am in a misty leeds looking at how the team s performances are inspiring the next generation. the fourth day of strikes in just over five weeks as 40,000 network rail workers walked out at midnight. i will look at why things have not moved forward and what it might mean for you. i foryou. iam on for you. i am on the motorway. i think you already have a million calls about an accident. the chilling 999 call after a lorry piles into stationary traffic. we hear about the lives affected one year after the crash. good morning, we start with some sunshine in places. the cloud will build, producing showers. 0verthe next days, it will turn warmer. all the details throughout the programme. it s wednesday, the 27th ofjuly. whoa! england are through to the final of the women s european championship after thrashing sweden in last night s semi final. we were cautious yesterday saying it was a real challenge. i was
something, tucker, i have never seen before or heard of, an electronic sniffing dog and they took all of the electronics from my house. new fallout this morning from revelation that is six republican lawmakers sought preemptive pardons from former president trump before and after the attack on the capitol. that is according to emails and testimony revealed by the january 6th committee. was representative gaetz requesting a pardon? i believe so. a pardon that he was discussing, requesting, was as broad as you could describe. mr. biggs did, mr. jordan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gohmert asked for one as well. mr. perry asked for a pardon, too. did marjory taylor green contact you? no, she didn t contact me about t i heard that she had asked white house office counsel for a pardon. so what were the roles of the pardon seekers in january 6? let s bring in tom foreman to walk us through that. tom? if you look at all sifolks
airport. another work in the dallas-ft. worth airport. cops say they were members of two puerto rico-based drug trafficking operations. that bust after airport officials installed a new system for checking cargo that makes it possible to track more drugs on the island. we re expecting a press conversation this hour. we ll take you there as soon as it happens. all right. day two of jury selection and it s moving quickly. the judge has made it very clear he wants opening statements in the jerry sandusky child rape trial to start next monday. then comes all the witnesses. dozens for each side. but that s not all. the lawyer for the man known as victim four is confirming that sandusky wrote his client letterings and they ll likely be read in court. now, abc news says they were love letters. victim four s lawyer won t confirm that. we do know this accuser is 28 years old and expected to be the first prosecution witness. sara ganim won a pulitzer prize for her coverage of the san
affect the u.s. economic recovery with higher prices. more compensations cost for costa cruises. the costa allegra ship are offered full reimbursement. first off though, greece has made a lot of sacrifices to try and secure its second big bailout from the eu and the imf. unfortunately though, it seems as though it still hasn t made enough. eurozone members holding a meeting in brussels decided to withhold more than half of the $175 billion that athens so badly needs to stay afloat. that s the portion due to go straight into the government bank. while greece struggles, another aspect has been sealed. the finance ministers have approved the funds required to safeguard a $274 billion debt swap for greece s private creditors. they have lost more than 70% of their value on their bonds in real terms. early this week what we saw with standard and poors becoming the first of the big credit rating agencies to define in as a default. with them tasked with deciding whether default i
information, what has emerged is two americans have been shot dead on the afghan interior ministry compound. apparently according to afghan police source on a secure part in that compound where western forces have some of their training personnel. the taliban have leaped forward to claim responsibility, saying that the gunman was work for him. naming him as abdul rackman and saying he was acting in revenge because of the burning of the koran that happened about a week ago on the american air base. just east here of kabul. that of course which i.c.e. have not confirmed. they say the gunman is not a westernerer an he s at large, escaped from the skeechbt crime. this may suggest he is perhaps an afghan and we have heard from across the atlantic a statement from the u.s. department of defense that the afghan defense minister has pledged to cooperate in this investigation and apologize for the instant, that may perhaps afghan security personnel were involved in it, but really this