family and my livelihood. i m no coward. but i am a realist. and i choose to protect my identity to protect those i love. herschel walker is a hypocrite. and he is not fit to be a u.s. senator. we don t need people in the u.s. senate who profess one thing and do another. there is another woman now claiming that georgia senate candidate pressured her to have an abortion. we ll take you through the details of this new accusation in just a moment. president biden s canal pain calendar is looking light tw just 12 days left until the mid terms. there is growing anxiety inside the white house about keeping control of congress. and also ahead, the latest from iran, where protests continue 40 days after the death of a young woman detained by the country s so-called morality post. good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, october 27th. i m jonathan lemire. we ll begin today with the new allegation against herschel walker. another woman has come forward accusing th
since the summer, the us calls for a un security council meeting to discuss north korea s continued use of ballistic missiles. the world s disappearing glaciers a new report says a third could have melted to nothing in less than 30 years. and wakanda forever the long awaited sequel to the oscar winning film black panther has had its european premiere in london. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin with dramatic developments in pakistan, where the former prime minister imran khan is recovering in hospital after being shot in the leg. mr khan, who was ousted from power in april, was attacked while leading a week long protest convoy from the east of the country to the capital, islamabad. police have arrested a suspect and released a video in which he appears to confess to the crime. the us, britain, canada and saudi arabia are among several countries which have condemned the assassination attempt. o
prices surge. more bad news on inflation just weeks from election day. folks are still struggling. we can t kid ourselves about that. how long will prices stay high? and will voters trust the president to fix it? white house economic adviser cecil yeah rouse is next. midterm match-ups, as voters start to cast their ballots vgts we ll look at two key contests. arizona governor s race with republican kari lake and democratic katie hobbs. i m proud of the work we did in 2020. as biden makes a swing out west i love being in colorado. we ll talk to that state s democratic senator and his joe o dea. president biden debates how to punish one global power and keep another from deadly escalation. the threats and the u.s. response with national security adviser jake sullivan. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is wondering what the country will look like in 23 days. as we count down to the midterm elections, the president of the united
in pakistan now topping 1,300 as never before seen flooding leaves one-third of the country under water. clarissa ward is live on the ground. four people are dead this morning, three others hurt after a gunman went on a shooting spree in memphis, tennessee. a spree that all but shut down that city. police say the shootings took place across multiple crime scenes. it began around 1:00 yesterday morning and continued through the late evening hours last night. a shelter in place order was issued as police srchearched fo the suspect. police arrested 19-year-old ezekiel kelly after a high-speed chase. the mayor jim strickland called it a senseless murder rampage. i m angry for our citizens who had to shelter in place for their own safety until this suspect was caught. this is no way for us to live. and it is not acceptable. mayor strickland says that the suspect was previously charged with criminal attempted first-degree murder but pled guilty to the lesser charge of aggra