definitely had an impact on degrading and disrupting the activities of some of these groups. clearly they have decided to keep conducting those attacks. and now it s had lethal consequences for american troops. we will weigh a set of options. the president will respond appropriately. the attacks need to stop. what is the legal basis? the constitution, commander in chief, the self-defense of our troops. the president has authority that take the action he needs to protect our troops and facilities overseas under article 2. the president faces a great deal of political pressure here at home with the republicans, for example, calling for direct strikes on iran. does the president feel that pressure, and how much does that pressure weigh on his decision making? the pressure the president is feeling, if you want to call it that, is to make sure that we can continue to protect and defend our national security interests in the region. first and foremost, his mind is solidly,
And, you know, i could really hear the vulnerability in her voice because my mum really feared death. Hello. Was it an announcement to which there was less than meets the eye . A ban on petrol and diesel cars to come into effect in 2040. It was designed as an answer to what you do about air quality, polluted by diesel fumes. As fumes are Killing Thousands of people a year now, 2040 is probably not the answer. Some think it is actually a distraction from the immediate problem. But there were other measures, too, and well discuss those shortly. And there is a sense that regardless of what government says, we may be in the latter days of oil driven cars. Assuming we can work out where we get all the electricity to Power Electric cars from. Our Technology Editor David Grossman has been looking at the prospects for Motor Transport and the air we breathe. This is what is done for Electric Cars up to now, the convenience of pumping 400 miles of range into a car in minutes at any one of 8500 S
Theres blame on both sides. And i have no doubt about it and you dont have no doubt about it and you dont have any doubt about it either. Rising pressure on care homes the number of places in england for people with substantial needs will need to rise by a third in ten years, a study warns. Also the royal navys new flagship arrives home. The 65,000 tonne hms Queen Elizabeth the navys biggest ever warship sails into her new berth in portsmouth. Britain truly has the best sailors, marines and officers in the world andi marines and officers in the world and i believe you deserve the very best equipment. That is what we have with hms Queen Elizabeth. And the name is great, daniel craig. The actor confirms he will return as james bond for a fifth and final time. Good morning. Its wednesday 16th august. Im rebecca jones. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The government has said it does not want border posts between Northern Ireland and the republic after brexit. A document, published later today
comey and yates and rod rosenstein. put a fraud on the court 4 times using phoney clinton bought and paid for russian lies. the sources i spoke to today said what they learned showed that what the fbi did and the doj was so unacceptable and inexcusable. one of the things that bruce ohr discussed was that he had not informed his superiors at the doj that he was providing this back door channel for christopher steele. another interesting point i thought. sean: he told fbi officials. that s right. sean: his boss james comey signed off on the first fisa warrant? that s correct. and he discussed this with
to basically tie the president s hands. so this is one thing that i have talked to lawmakers about over the past week, kind of this atmosphere of chaos in the white house, not knowing what policy decisions he s going to be making announcements on and how they are supposed to play into all that because, keep in mind, these members of congress are running for re-election in november and every decision like this makes an impact on how they re going to run those re-election races. let s molly, let s switch gears for a moment and talk about the russia probe. there s obviously been some news that there was an effort to establish the back door channel involving people close to president trump and the russian president. house intelligence committee republicans, they ve kind of been pushing to wrap up their investigation. but with these revelations, is that going to dampen their efforts? well, you see, that s the question is the republicans are trying to wind this down. democrats want to