if we can negotiate a deal this week, it can be, but otherwise we ll have to look at what campaigns we are going to put on going forward, and we think that other unions are going tojoin us in this dispute on the railway, and more broadly in society. it wasn t the employers that called the strike action. we wanted rmt. .. we wanted to do reform earlier. they have been discussing it with us, but they have not came forward with meaningful reform. in other news ukraine is on verge of losing control of the key city of severodonetsk, its troops have been pushed back to just one factory there. allegations of corruption and sexual abuse at the united nations whistleblowers call for an independent panel to investigate. one, two, three, four. dance music plays. star dj fatboy slim holds a music workshop to help people with mental health problems. and prince william. the duke of cambridge turns a0 today. hello, good afternoon. deserted stations, empty tracks, and millions of frustra
one, two, three, four. we ll find out how being a dj can help with mental health courtesy of the musician fatboy slim. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 6am in singapore, and 6pm in washington where three republican state officials have been describing the direct pressure they were put under by donald trump and his team to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. they were giving evidence to a congressional committee, describing threats of violence directed at them from trump supporters when they refused to bow to the pressure. we have various groups come by, and they have had video panel trucks with videos of me, proclaiming me to be a paedophile and a pervert, and corrupt politician. and blaring loudspeakers in my neighbourhood, and leaving literature both on my property and arguing and threatening with neighbours, and with myself. one gentleman that had the three bars on his chest, and he had a pist
19 babies and two teachers were murdered on tuesday and yet another mass shooting in america. this time it was at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the latest accounts of law enforcement s response pain to woeful portrait of a potentially deadly inuktitut. in the days since the massacre, we learned that officers waited for 45 minutes just outside the classroom where the shooter was barricaded. this despite active shooting trainer that these officers were trained to engage with the shooter immediately. now they said that it had evolved from an active shooter situation tour barricaded should ve situation, despite the number a number of 9-1-1 calls. it wasn t for 30 more minutes that the team opted themselves to lead the officers waiting in the hall to stop the shooting. now texas department of public safety director col. steven mccraw acknowledged a knowledge finally that it was the quote unquote wrong decision. community leaders are outraged along forsman s response
it s friday the 8th of december. the home office has told mps that the uk has given rwanda a further £100 million as part of the government s plan to relocate some asylum seekers there. the funding is in addition to the £140 million paid to kigali last year. legal challenges have so far prevented any asylum seekers from being sent to rwanda. our political correspondent peter saulljoins us now. we will have more on this story laterfrom our we will have more on this story later from our political correspondent to see exactly how the money has been spent so far, what we have been told so far by the prime minister when it comes to spending on the silent deal with rwanda. let s talk to peter saull in westminster. good morning. that s it, the explanation needed in terms of what we have been told. we thought £140 million had been told. yesterday we had from the prime minister, ain t no money has been spent on this deal, talking about the amendments now being proposed to the
the supreme court finally put its immunity ruling out saying all presidents not just donald trump are entitled to some form of it. what does it mean for special counsel s jack smith s prosecution and does it punt everything until after the election? we ll talk to a former attorney general bill barr in just a moment. first fox team coverage with shannon premier on the fall-out. and what former president donald trump is staying about that decision. welcome, everybody, neil cavuto. very happy to have you on a very busy new days. now the latest. reporter: neil, it is a big decision, a big win today for the trump camp, but it does not mean this case is over, far from it. because now it heads back down to the lower courts and chief justice roberts writing for the majority explains why he said this. the concerns we noted at the outset, the expedition of this case, the lack of factual analysis by the lower courts and the absence of pertinent briefing by the parties thus become more