capitol hill where if you didn t happen to already be watching the news this morning, you missed a huge surprise that caused a huge spectacle. at 10:04 a.m., the house oversight committee gavelled in to debate ahead of a vote to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress for refusing to comply with a gop subpoena for closed door testimony. at 10:09, hunter biden escorted by secret service and flanked by his lawyers just showed up to the committee room offering himself up for public testimony. but instead of taking him up on that offer, republicans got angry and democrats got exasperated. yes, i m looking at you, hunter biden, as i m speaking to you. you are not above the law at all. i believe that hunter biden should be held completely in contempt. i think he should be hauled off to jail right now. let s vote. let s take a vote. who wants to hear from hunter right now today? anyone? come on. who wants to hear from hunter? no one. mr. biden doesn t make the rules, we make
a faster downturn than other countries and interest rates could rise again. there are growing concerns about a growing shortage of family doctors in england, as a new study predicts a quarter of posts could be vacant by 2030. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk will provide an extra billion pounds of military aid to ukraine, almost doubling the amount of support provided to fight the russian invasion. it s after president zelensky urged nato leaders to give more help to the country, saying the war effort was costing more than £4 billion pounds every month. the uk is second only to the us in terms of military aid for ukraine. the government says the new cash will go towards sophisticated air defence systems, electronic warfare equipment, drones, and thousands of pieces of kit to transform ukraine s defences. the uk will have provided £3.8 billion in support since the start of the invasion. that includes 1.3 billion of already commit
the absence of security. the administration is expecting a fundamental alteration of the ground operation, heavy on it. a much more brigade, not division size, but brigade intelligence driven, focused operations that would allow the corridors to exist in central and southern gaza. that has to happen, and it s not a hope, i think, on the part of the president. it s an expectation. that by late january or early february, more aid and assistance will be in. for what happens next, secretary blinken was talking to mahmoud abbas today in the west bank, the palestinian authority leader. the united states says it wants the palestinian authority to govern gaza. israel has not been in favor of that. the palestinian authority hasn t been strong in recent years certainly.
us. are you disappointed with the number of troops that will be committed to your country, because you, estonia and lithuania were calling for divisions, 30 or 40,000 troops before the summit. there will be far fewer troops that will be committed from the outcome of the summit. ., , ,., ., committed from the outcome of the summit. ., , ., .., summit. you disappointed. that could be very quickly summit. you disappointed. that could be very quickly reinforce summit. you disappointed. that could be very quickly reinforce to summit. you disappointed. that could be very quickly reinforce to the - be very quickly reinforce to the division size. what we have got is two things. us commitment to increase the project. that is very important. canadair is going to increase its presence. of course it tapes time. we need some neighbours. we think this is a very good summit in terms of the understanding where