predawn attack. the target, an apartment building hundreds of miles from the front lines. and abortion rights advocates score victories in the unlikeliest of places, attempts to impose new bans fall short in a pair of red states. are they one-offs or warning signs for the republican party? we start with federal prosecutors poring over hours of new testimony from vice president mike pence. one of the few people with firsthand knowledge about former president trump s efforts to block certification of the 2020 election. pence s testimony came less than a day after a judge rejected trump s last ditch effort to block it. i want to bring in nbc s ryan reilly who s been covering all of the developments for us. also nbc s vaughn hillyard with the former president and his supporters in manchester, new hampshire, brendan buck who served as an aide to republican house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and an msnbc political analyst, and carol lamb is a federal former rather for
submerged in floodwaters, in the south korean capital, seoul. france is in the grip of its worst drought on record with crops at risk as the water runs out. this is the middle of the loire river but you can see how barren it has become. locals say the water has never been so low at this time of the year. he was known as the king of pleats iconicjapanese fashion designer, issey miyake, has died at the age of 8a. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the us where senior republicans have condemned the fbi s unprecedented search of donald trump s florida home on monday as an abuse of power. the former vice president mike pence called for the us attorney general to give a full public account of why it happened, saying it caused him deep concern. the former president, who was not at mar a lago at the time, said a number of agents had occupied the compound and broken into his safe. the white house says
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one of the greatest ever tennis players, serena williams, has said, she s planning to bring down the curtain on her illustrious career. the 23 time grand slam champion, said she didn t like the word retirement, but would be evolving away from tennis after the us open. now on bbc news, the travel show. in the past few decades, the skyline of doha, qatar s capital city, has changed beyond recognition. the discovery of oil in the 1930s, and then natural gas in the early 1970s, marked a seismic change in the fortunes of qatar. and at a turbocharged pace, qatar s hopes, dreams and buildings have risen high above the desert sands. since this small, but mighty gulf nation won the right to host the fifa world cup back in 2010, it has spent billions on state of the art stadia and infrastructure. and with the first match set to kick off this november, all eyes will be on qatar as it makes history, becoming the first ever middle eastern country to host the world cup. and i am here to me
the king of pleats. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. senior republicans in the us have condemned the fbi s unprecedented search of donald trump s florida home on monday as an abuse of power. the former vice president mike pence called for the us attorney general to give a full public account of why it happened, saying it caused him deep concern. the former president, who was not at mar a lago at the time, said a number of agents had occupied the compound and broken into his safe. the white house says president biden learned about the search from media reports. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports from washington. cars beeping their horns. save america! the trump bandwagon is fuelled by conspiracy, and news of the search brought supporters to his florida resort even more convinced of their theories of stolen elections and deep state plots. you feel like you might be in venezuela or china, or russia. we feel the fbi s doing a polit