i wasn t trying to pull the wool over anyone s eyes, and i regret, and i am sorry, for not saying straight out, yes i am involved. i will be representing the uk at the eurovision song contest! pop star and actor olly alexander is announced as the united kingdom s entry for next year s eurovision song contest. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan. britain and germany are calling for an urgent sustainable ceasefire in gaza. last week both countries abstained on a united nations resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. but in a change of tone which echoes a shift in the us, the foreign ministers of both countries say too many civilians have been killed in israel s war against hamas and the sooner a truce comes the better. france meanwhile has also called for an immediate and durable ceasefire. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has strongly reiterated his opposition to a ceasefire. speaking before a cabinet meeting, he insisted they will fight till the end to
has rejected kevin mccarthy, the speaker of the house, all of the meeting request and would not even pick up the phone and take mccarthy s calls. even blasted a gop bill raising the debt limit. the very thing that will prevent the u.s. from defaulting. but now with a possible default, only 22 days away, joe biden, well, today he finally went with the speaker of the house and the minority leader of the senate. is this a little too little too late? coming up tonight, we will ask louisiana senator john kennedy that question. but first, we start tonight with this. did the cra actively help joe biden get elected president in the fall of 2020? did they put a cinderblock on the scales of the election as is alleged about the fbi? a bombshell new report from the house judiciary committee. is a it is exposing a socking level of election malfeasance among employees. according to foxnews.com. the cia may have a assisted in obtaining signatories for the letter signed by 51 former natio
hunter s business dealings. the house oversight committee issued a subpoena for the fbi document. according to a whistleblower, the document expressed important to a criminal scheme involving money from policy decisions when he was as president. we don t know what other countries were involved. sources say it was not a china. what is also interesting is this document is from june 2020. that means months before president election. the fbi may have known as joe biden s potential involvement in his son s business dealings. so did they bury this story? and we now have several examples of democrats and the media moving the goalpost to protect joe biden. so first, it was laptop was not real. then it was but there s no connection to joe. will be their excuse now? the man following this all, u.s. senator from the state of missouri. how will the doors how will they hide the present and shield him now? there needs to be no hiding. that is why the subpoena is so important. the who
opposite of what transpired on the video. the memphis police chief warns the public ahead of today s release of body cam video in the death of tyre nichols calling her former officer s actions inhumane. we ll have the latest. and also ahead, the latest from ukraine following more deadly russian strikes likely in retaliation after the u.s. and its allies announced they are sending tanks to support ukrainian forces. and that comes as president biden is considering a trip overseas to mark a year of war in eastern europe. good morning, welcome to way too early on this friday, january 27. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the five memphis police officers who were fired after the death of tyre nichols have now been charged with his murder. a tennessee grand jury confirmed indictments against the former officers. all five were members of a specialized police unit patrolling high crime areas in memphis before they were all fired for a their conduct du
a jet, powered by waste fats and plant proteins flies from london and arrives in new york. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. starting with news from india where 41 construction workers who had been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the himalayas for 17 days have been rescued. they were greeted with applause as they emerged from a steel pipe that had been pushed through the rubble. they re said to be in good health but will now be fully assessed at a nearby hospital. the bbc s south asia correspondent samira hussain sent this report. this moment, more than two weeks in the making. 41 trapped workers finally rescued. cheering. an eruption of cheers from workers and onlookers. people sharing sweets and hugs. these are the ambulances with the first workers that have come out from inside the tunnel. 17 days, they have spent inside that tunnel and now they are finally out and in those ambulances. rescuers spent the last sev