let s hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin to two hundred and eighteen? we won twe won know until probay sometime tomorrow, maybe monday. if anything, it would justle ofo probably be a couple of votes short, but certainly progress. itht a is realt th tonight at ts hour, no doubt the american people are being patient, butop that patience is wearingle thin the vote totals remain as of now unchanged. three straightotals re days. we have two hundred republicans supporting mccarthy 20 supportin g somebody else. and the past twenty four hours,
revelations. it has been like this from the start. as horrible as what happened, it could have been worse. the reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do. they showed amazing courage running toward gunfire for the singular purpose of trying to save lives. that turned to out to be false. he later said he was misled. so did this. when the shooting began we had uvalde police officers arrive on scene along with the independent officers immediately breach. law enforcement was there. they did engage immediately. again, not true, as the body and security cameras clearly show, nobody immediately breached the classroom, nobody immediately engaged the shooter. the shooter was in the school for 77 minutes before the school was funinally breached and he w killed. not one of them did what officers around the country are routinely trained to do in these situations and have been trained for years in these situations to do. another misstatement re
by running toward gunfire for the singular purpose of trying to save lives. i was the texas governor, turned out to be falsely said that he was misled. so did this. the shooting began, we had uvalde police officers arrived on scene along with the consolidated independent school officers. immediately breached. long forsman was there. they did engage immediately. again, not true. as the body and security cameras clearly show that nobody immediately breached the classroom. nobody engaged the shooter. was there for 77 minutes before he was killed. and during that time dozens of please coming and going. hundreds outside of the school and not one of them are routinely and had been trained for years. in these situations to. do another misleading statement repeatedly made by texas officials was that the shooter was somehow barricaded inside of the classroom. he was not and in fact the classroom door might not have even been locked. but according to reports from the texas stat
the prime minister and scotland s first minister meet for the first time in inverness. one of the things they discussed was a law passed in scotland last month to make it easier to change gender. what i m concerned about is the impact of the bill across the united kingdom, and as is entirely standard, the uk government would take advice on that. millions more people in england will be prescribed cholesterol lowering drugs to cut their risk of heart attacks and strokes. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the latest gdp figures show the uk economy unexpectedly grew in november, helped by a boost from the world cup. the uk s gross domestic product rose by 0.1%. gdp is a key measure of all the activity of companies, governments and individuals in an economy. it also helps government decide how much it can spend on public services and how much it needs to raise in taxes. the services sector was the biggest driver of growth in november as people went out to watch world cup games
who s died at the age of 5a. royal mail customers still can t send letters and parcels overseas after a cyber attack on the company, with criminals believed to be demanding a ransom. and wales are in the men s hockey world cup for the first time and england are their first opponents. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the problems keep piling up for chelsea manager graham potter, with new loan signing joao felix facing suspension following defeat for the blues at fulham. good afternoon. welcome to the bbc news that one. in the last half hour manchester city footballer benjamin mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. jurors were unable to reach a verdict on one count of rape and one of sexual assault. it follows a six month trial at chester crown court. our north of england correspondent danny savage is there. explain what has happened? this trial started explain what has happened? this trial started back explain what