in qatar, a senior football ambassador says homosexuality is damage in the mind and that visitors to the world cup will have to respect the country s laws. the fight for power in the us congress as trump and biden rally the party troops for the mid term elections. ding dong, you re not wrong! and leslie phillips best known for his roles in the carry on films has died at the age of 98. and coming up on the bbc news channel: a losing start for britain in the billiejean king cup, in their opener with kazakhstan. it means they could face an early exit in glasgow. good evening. it s taken just two weeks to prompt the first cabinet resignation of rishi sunak s premiership. a short while ago sir gavin williamson resigned as a senior minister following days of allegations about his conduct. he said he aimed to clear his name of any wrongdoing. downing street was already investigating accusations of bullying and harrassment and sir gavin has also been reported to the parli
convinced voters are more concerned about the economy than democracy and they are confident they will win a majority in the house of representatives, and the senate is too close to call at the moment. evenif too close to call at the moment. even if the republicans only when the house they will still be able to block almost every piece of legislation that president biden proposes and they will also try to impeach him even though they have not decided what they want to impeach him for yet, and we will start getting results tonight but we won t get all of them and it is important to remember that because a lot of postal votes can be counted until the polls have closed and it will be a few days before we know the final results. it was a delay like that in 2020 which led to the claims of electoral fraud because at first the results which came in on the night donald trump was ahead and then when they counted more of the mail in a ballotsjoe biden overtook him and that is where the claims of
about sportswashing. as an england supporting homosexual it is not safe for someone like me to watch the world cup in qatar. because of the human rights abuses of migrant workers and qatar s lgbt population, i personally don t think qatar should ever have been awarded a major sporting competition. more than a million visitors are expected to travel to the world cup. organisers have said everyone is welcome, but khalid salman s contradictory words have raised more questions over the safety of lgbt supporters. jane dougall, bbc news. tens of millions of americans are voting in the midterm elections in which the republicans are hoping to gain a majority in the us congress, which could put a block on president biden s agenda, and quite possibly pave the way for donald trump to run again for the presidency. congress is made up of two houses the house of representatives
and that has complicated the race and that has complicated the race and left the polling too close to court so this is one state, one of the few which could have a real bearing on congress too close to call. will president biden be able to govern effectively or will he be left as a lame duck president for the remainder of his term? one final detail, there is a legal wrangling in the courts in pennsylvania over a small section of mail in ballots which tells you how things are very close but also how politicised the process has become. process has become. sarah is in washington- process has become. sarah is in washington. that process has become. sarah is in washington. that is process has become. sarah is in washington. that is the - process has become. sarah is in washington. that is the scene l process has become. sarah is in | washington. that is the scene in pennsylvania, but what about in washington in terms of the importance? what is at stake in this set of elections? s
in qatar, a senior football ambassador says homosexuality is damage in the mind and that visitors to the world cup will have to respect the country s laws. the fight for power in the us congress as trump and biden rally the party troops for the mid term elections. ding dong, you re not wrong! and leslie phillips best known for his roles in the carry on films has died at the age of 98. and coming up on the bbc news channel: a losing start for britain in the billiejean king cup, in their opener with kazakhstan. it means they could face an early exit in glasgow. good evening. it s taken just two weeks to prompt the first cabinet resignation of rishi sunak s premiership.