the bbc chairman richard chuck is accused of making significant errors ofjudgment by mps for not declaring his involvement in helping boris johnson secure a loan. richard sharp. dozens of people in new zealand left without power as part of the country endure the start of a severe storm with warnings of more disruption to come. and at the brit awards in london, as predicted, harry styles is one of the big winners with four awards including the much coveted album of the year. hello and welcome to bbc news. turkish officials have issued more than in connection with the poor construction of buildings that collapsed in monday s earthquakes. the number of people confirmed to have died in turkey and syria has risen to more than 28 thousand. the world health organization says that almost 26 million people have been affected by the earthquakes that struck turkey and syria. let s bring you some live pictures now from kahramanmaras, turkey. a city of about 100,000 people located betw
Henry, what is the normal trump doctrine of Foreign Policy . I dont think any of us knows if there is any coherent policy going on, it cannot be expressed in 140 characters. That is how this man governs. He will say in a News Conference that russia us relations are atan conference that russia us relations are at an all time low, then tweets that there will be everlasting peace. He told Us Health Care would be replaced by something great. We cannot divine anything from the policy of the last week or so. I think his own Attention Span is actually fairly limited. He flip flops, although he would call ita flip flops, although he would call it a reversal. He is also going to be tied in times of improving relations with russia by the domestic political scene in the us. We have people in our legislature in congress and senate who are on both sides of the aisle, quite implacably opposed to russia, orfeel this is a destabilising force. There are also his own woes of being investigated, people i
the weekend, president bashar al assad of syria has said that there will be permission given to go across the border into north western syria, which hasn t been the case very often, because sarah being in civil warfor very often, because sarah being in civil war for the last 12 years photo syria. and in the rebel held areas they are struggling to get that help in. british mps have accused bbc chairman richard sharp of significant errors ofjudgement for failing to declare his involvement in arranging a loan worth up to a million dollars to the then prime minister borisjohnson. mr sharp was applying for the bbc role at the time. he maintains he did nothing wrong. 0ur media editor katie razzle reports. this is the latest development in the story of four men and their involvement or otherwise in a loan of up to £800,000. borisjohnson, the then prime minister, was said to need the money. a businessman and johnson relative, sam blyth, wanted to help financially. his friend richard shar
best supreme court justices i think in history, judge gorsuch and a new saw him take decisive action in syria. supporters are going to have time to look at his presidency, but it s important that he has people who are coming to washington here focused on helping the people and the democrats have one message right now, it s obstruct and no. they re making a political calculation and they re there to govern. martha: everyone s going to be watching on close sides of the aisle. so here now, bill bennett, host of bill bennett podcast inform educational secretary and fox news contributor. good evening. good evening martha. martha: listening to all of this, trump is on the ballot so to speak in kansas. how do you think that the theory that got president trump elected is holding up in the country 80 something days in here? it s hard to know. you can t really draw a generalization from specifics and kansas as he wisely pointed out has its own dynamic. there have been books written
comes to these things. secretary of state rex tillerson, this is landing moments ago are a couple of hours ago in moscow earlier today. for sure, this will be a fairly tense standoff there. russians got a decision to make basically to side with assad and with tehran or to get on board with the united states. tonight, a great lineup to react to these explosive comments by the resident. former speaker of the house of newt gingrich and campaign manager, to them in a moment that we begin in moscow. special correspondent who is with rex tillerson in russia. good evening martha. secretary tiller s and is in moscow. tomorrow morning, he meets with russian foreign minister. the challenge for secretary tillotson, find a way to ensure of the applicable future of syria excludes president bashar al-assad. his approach? convince russia to help. russia has really aligned itself with the assad regime,