and the eurovision host contest the shortlist is announced for the cities who may stage the famous celebration of song. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the agent for the internationally acclaimed british author, salman rushdie, says the novelist has sustained serious injuries to an eye and his liver, during a knife attack in new york state. he was stabbed repeatedly by an assailant who pounced on him as he took the stage at an arts centre in new york. police named the attacker as hadi matar, a 24 year old man from newjersey. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports. there was confusion and panic. the attack happened in full view of the audience. sir salman was left injured, lying on stage, and eyewitnesses in deep shock. there was nothing audible from the attacker. we just saw him move on stage very quickly and, repeatedly and with vicious determination, stabbed salman rushdie. people were rising up out of their seats, gasping, cr
scotland and that is about it. temperatures, high 20s across scotland and northern ireland and we could be up to 35 or maybe 36 degrees, the warmest spots across the midlands and southern england. sunday, another warm and sunny day, especially for england and wales but you will notice showers developing for scotland and northern ireland into northern england and maybe wales, and if you catch when they could be heavy and thundery but they will be pretty isolated at this point. another hot day likely across central, southern and eastern parts of the country. things will be cooling down as we had three next week, low pressure takes over and we will start to see hit and mist thundery showers. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at six on friday 12th august. you can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one now as it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where y
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good to be with you. i m ayman mohyeldin in new york. thursday s hearings of the january six committee was basically the mike pence show, revolve around the pressure campaign by donald trump s allies to get the vice president to use his constitutional, ceremonial role, on january the 6th, to change joe biden s electoral votes, or set them aside for donald trump. the panel may know about painting pence as a man of courage, who stood up against trump s plan. we are fortunate for mr. pence s courage on january 6th. our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe. that courage put him in tremendous danger. when mike pence made it clear that he wouldn t give into donald trump s scheme, donald trump turned a mob on him. thanks in part to mike pence, our democracy was stood on trump s scheme and the balance of january 6th. all right. the committee wasn t alone. in fact, an article in the atlantic last week hailed pence as a national hero for turning back the threat t
Vossoughian live for you here from msnbc headquarters. We are going to begin with some Breaking News. As night falls in the middle east, here is what is new this hour. We just heard from the idf, big, Breaking News. A statement releaseby them that idea forces,backed by an extensive logistical effort and by completing the Reserve Mobilization of Hundreds Of Thousands of servicemen, are preparing to implement a wide range of offensive operative plans which include, among other things, and integrated and coordinated attack from the air, sea, and land. We are going to get a live report from israel in a moment on what this all means. Also some other headlines are happening this hour, as well. Three hours past if you outlined for the evacuation of Northern Gaza. The israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, telling his soldiers, quote, the next age is coming. And new report from nbc news saying u. S. Officials privately low on israel to show restraint. And the u. N. Saying humanitarian cri