Foreign affairs committee, ted yoho and Gregory Meeks. Later we will hear from the director of iranian studies at Stanford University. At Stanford University. [video clip] our Great American forces are prepared for anything. Appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world. Host from yesterday on u. S. Action toward iran. He discussed the killing of the iranian general and announced sanctions and vowed iran would never possess a nuclear weapon. This is the washington journal for january 9. Our first hour dedicated to your trumpts about president the administrations actions. If you support it, 2027488000 is the number to call and tell us why. If you oppose, you can do so at 2027488001. Perhaps you are not sure at this point, 2027488002 is the number to call. You can text us your thoughts at 2027488003. And you can cspanwj post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. A 10 minute speech about yesterday from the white hou
Weeks end, the senate should take matters into its own hands. Well have the latest on that. Scenes of devastation from australia. Deadly wildfires spreading, forcing more evacuations and leaving others trapped. Tonight the government promising to pour 1. 4 billion into Recovery Efforts. We are on the ground there with the latest. Im melissa francis, in for elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit stars right now. Melissa now the latest development on iran. Hillary vaughn is live in d. C. With the details. Hillary. Reporter melissa, in an ongoing war on words on twitter top iranian officials and the president are trading blows. President trump tweeting earlier today, simply this in all caps, iran will never have a nuclear weapon. But a top advisor to iranian president rouhani, that trump is to blame for deteriorating the relations. We have zero problems with the American People. We achieved deals with u. S. Administration. Our sole problem is the trump. In the event of war he will bear ful
Denied any wrongdoing. Thanks to a major gas network failure, heaters and portable cookers have events distributed to Vulnerable People in scotland and schools in the area have been closed. Weve been talking to some of those affected. At the start of winter, thousands with no gas, no heating, no hot water. Have you got anything to cook on . The temperature has risen slightly here, but it is still very cold, and all day, there has been a constant flow of people here picking up heaters for their homes. Has it been a cold night . Yeah, just a tad. Weve all been cooped up in the one bed, trying to stay warm. We had candles lighting up the house, and trying to heat the place withjust the candle flames. There you go yeah. Angeline perry has four children. The youngest is nine months old. Their gas supply was turned off yesterday, and they are using portable heaters to warm one room. So were just using the kettle just now, to boil all our water, and we dont have any gas on the hob either. How
So the focus has to be getting to net zero carbon by 2050, and anything that distracts that that will just make it more and more difficult, but if we have big arguments about policy and ownership structures, all we do is slow everything down, and that is the worst thing we could do right now. Right now we need to be speeding up. Labour plans to nationalise the Big Six Energy suppliers and divide their assets, workforce and customers into m regional agencies. Along with energy, the rail industry, water, the royal mail and bts broadband business would also be nationalised. How much would it cost . Tricky one. Labour Say Parliament would decide how much to pay the current owners, which include Workers Pension funds, but the independent ifs estimate it would add at least £200 billion to government debt, but the government would collect the revenue, apart from broadband, which it eventually wants to give away for free. Arguments about whether the government or the private sector is better
The energy supplier, npower, is to cut to up to a500 jobs in the uk, as part of restructuring plans to make it more profitable. Three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester could be closed. Our economics correspondent, andy verity has more details. Sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. Not any more. A few miles away, near the town of houghton le spring, 2500 Call Centre Workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. Disappointment, but its a shame, theres nothing else we can do. Ill take it one step at a time. Im still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. Its a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. The future does look bleak, to be honest. Youve got tata, youve got british gas. For 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob . Where are they going to go . Its just another nail in the coffin in this a