select committee. many of us went into the hearings thinking that we knew what happened. a u.s. president wanted to overturn the election, spurred a mob to attack the capitol. forcing the lawmakers there to flee for their lives. but these hearings are showing us so much more than that. for more of what happened that day, and how close we came to losing our democracy. so, how goes? here s how congressman pete aguilar described it. approximately 40 feet, that s all there was. 40 feet between vice president and the mob. 40 feet! 40 feet! of a mob, that according to an informant, in the would have killed vice president mike pence, if they had not gotten hold of him. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pits. i m hearing the pits just caved. is that true? i m hearing on the force that pence caved. if pence caved? we re gonna drag people through the streets. hang mike pence! hang mike pence! bring out pence! the threat to the vice president s life was so intense in the m
translation: ifeel ashamed in front of my family i m so poor, i can t afford to buy good food. my sons are really thin because they re not eating. and spain, southern france, and parts of italy swelter through an extreme heatwave authorities are warning of water shortages. hello and welcome. president biden has announced an extra $1 billion in military support for ukraine, the largest single military aid package since the war began. the us defence secretary said at a nato meeting on wednesday that he will move heaven and earth to ensure ukraine gets the weapons it needs to combat russia s invasion. in the next half hour, nato defence ministers are set to start reconvening in brussels for the final day of their summit. this is the kind of military aid ukraine says it desperately needs. a billion dollar package including longer range rockets and missile systems. the goal, to help target russian troops and location farther away and bolster ukraine s embattled defence forces, i
unilaterally subvert democracy. also this morning, new photos obtained by abc news show vice president pence and his family in hiding on january 6th, after pence was rushed off the senate floor. you ll remember by secret service as rioters broke into the capitol. i think the public probably is not aware of how close a call this was. the rioters came very close to capturing the vice president and i think there is very good evidence that they would have done harm to him, perhaps even killed him. so this was a close call. that was congresswoman zoe lofgren who sits on that select committee, testifying today, very significant testimony, coming from retired federal judge michael luttig, highly respected conservative judge, once one of justice clarence thomas closest advisers, previously clerked for justice scalia, considered by former president george w. bush as a nominee to the high court himself. that s why his words carry such weight, especially on a day like today. in a
as the cost of living rises, the long awaited plan on the future of food in england is being published. but the man behind the review says the government s vision is not detailed enough. is it the big, bold, unified strategy that i think we need? no. is it progress, you know, am i.? do i think we re going in the right direction? yes. personal items belonging to missing britishjournalist dom phillips and his brazilian colleague are discovered by police in a remote area of the amazon rainforest, a week after the pair went missing. and, a warning that lives could be at risk after a bbc panorama investigation finds the uk s biggest chain of gp practices lets less qualified staff see patients without adequate supervision. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk russia has been accused of killing hundreds of civilians in ukraine s second biggest city, kharkiv, through indiscriminate shelling. amnesty international says it has evidence