Across the globe. Well bring you insights into what voters and World Leaders are hoping to hearfrom the us president this evening. The speech marks a crucial moment in his presidency. This will be his third State Of The Union as president and last planned National Address before voters head to the polls this november. Withjust under eight months until election day, the us is preparing for a 2020 Rematch Betweenjoe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Its a match up that 48 say they feel negative about and 42 call depressing. Will President Biden be able to reassure voters hes best able to tackle the countrys issues and that the State Of The Union is still strong . We will hear all about but a little later. Well bejoined tonight by our experts, reporters, white house veterans and lawmakers attending the speech on capitol hill. First, lets go to our reporter Helena Humphrey live on capitol hill. This is one of the busiest nights on the hill. Of all of the knights of the year, what is
are met. with more, here s our middle east correspondent, lucy williamson. explosions. in gaza, this is the new normal. drone strikes in the border town of rafah, emptying the local market. 17 year old joe, filming on his phone, still clutching his bag of shopping and calling on god for protection. america has blocked un calls for a ceasefire. israel says it needs to keep fighting to keep up the pressure on hamas. if you want a ceasefire, that, from israel s perspective, can only happen with the release of hostages. as you know, hamas continues to hold over 100 hostages. there s a chance, because they want that ceasefire, they need that ceasefire, they will agree to the hostages but to be frank, had we agreed to the un secretary general s proposal over a month ago for this unilateral ceasefire, we would never have got the 110 hostages out that we did in november. israel s army said this week it had killed tens of hamas fighters in an ambush near gaza city. and that it s prepa
in an extraordinary move, republican legislators who control the house of representatives in the state have voted to expel two democratic members for disorderly conduct after they took part in a protest for stricter gun laws in the chamber last week. justin jones and justin pearson have been ousted but a third democrat seen in the middle of these pictures, gloria johnson narrowly survived the vote which requires a two thirds majority. the three led a protest in the state capitol in the wake of a deadly school shooting in nashville that left six people dead, including three young children. moments ago, i just spoke to one of those expelled lawmakers, justin jones. thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news and first and foremost, where exactly are you? we know there have been massive protests in the house in nashville so what is happening around you? yes, thank you so much for having me on. i m actually here in my office, starting to pack up, because the state legislatu
from police in those moments. this was presented without the fuller context as if this video of how chancely actually got into the capitol building did not exist. it was not aired. in court documents, of course, they said officers tried repeatedly to get the man to leave the capitol and he ultimately pleaded guilty to felony charges related to his activities on january 6th. now, fox claimed the small snippets proved that democrats and those on the january 6th committee have been lying to the american people what have been happening that day and very little about the attack was violent fox claims. here is how republicans who were actually in the capitol on that day described what happened inside the capitol during the insurrection. again, these are republicans. this is insane. i mean, i have not seen anything like this since i deployed to iraq in 2007 and 2008. i mean, this is america and this is what is happening. mad dam speaker, today the people s house was attacked, wh
people in berlin have voted against making the german capital climate neutral by 2030, after a referendum. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, our world. facial recognition, fighting crime. across america, police are increasingly using facial recognition technology to fight crime. speaks spanish. can you open the door? we want law enforcement to have more tools at our disposal, not less. images can be fed into a database to search for matches and track people down. but critics argue the use of this technology is opaque and could be inaccurate. if law enforcement knows how accurate that is, how come they are fighting so hard to keep that information from us when we ask for it? why won t they share it? i m james clayton, and i m investigating whether the police should be using this controversial tech. the technology itself is harmful. it is too dangerous, and that is just a massive threat to civil liberties in this nation. march 2017. an