convicted of 34 felony counts in his new york hush money case, eight republican senators vowed to oppose all biden nominees and all democratic legislation as retribution. today six republican senators led by trump vice presidential short lister jd vance put oppose all nominees into writing. anyone who endorsed trump s guilt, anyone who supported organizations that celebrated the indictment of donald trump, and anyone who supported manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg orn supported law fare or censorship in other ways, which is just vague enough to include basically anyone president biden s nominated. now, these republican senators say their blockade will last until election day, and in practical terms that means the u.s. government will not be able to appoint representatives to thingsep like the u.n. general assembly or the world health organization or even to the not particularly seeming places like the international civil aviation organization and the public buildings
start to develop down through eastern scotland, eastern england, fewer showers out to the west, here is where we are likely to see the best of the sunshine, just like today. top temperatures around 17, which is still below par for this point injune. as we move into wednesday, the driest day of the week, and we are killing off the showers with a ridge of high pressure building from the west. temperatures again peaking at around 13-17 but temperatures again peaking at around 13 17 but a temperatures again peaking at around 13-17 but a bit temperatures again peaking at around 13 17 but a bit like the football results, look away now if you don t want to see what is coming thursday, it turns increasingly wet once again and yes, we close out the week with more showers and longer spells of rain i m afraid. you will have to do better than that, louise! and that s bbc news at ten. newsnight is just getting under way on bbc two with kirsty wark. on bbc one, it s time tojoin our colleag
In south africa is loosening. He will relinquish leadership of the anc at the end of year. And whether he will complete his term as south africas president is uncertain, as allegations of cronyism and corruption pile up around his government. My guest to day it is thuli madonsela, south africas Public Protector until late last year. She exposed a web of worrying connections between the state and big business interests. But are her concerns about to be buried . Thuli madonsela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for being here stephen. It is such a honour. Well, i think we have to begin with that explosive report that you wrote and published before leaving the office of Public Protector at the end of last year. It was all about your concerns about State Capture. The idea was that certain big business interest, perhaps individuals, had undue influence on the government. You wanted a fully fledged Judicial Commission of inquiry to be set up within 30 days of your reports publication. Seven mo
In south africa is loosening. He will relinquish leadership of the anc at the end of year. And whether he will complete his term as south africas president is uncertain, as allegations of cronyism and corruption pile up around his government. My guest to day it is thuli madonsela, south africas Public Protector until late last year. She exposed a web of worrying connections between the state and big business interests. But are her concerns about to be buried . Thuli madonsela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for being here stephen. It is such a honour. Well, i think we have to begin with that explosive report that you wrote and published before leaving the office of Public Protector at the end of last year. It was all about your concerns about State Capture. The idea was that certain big business interest, perhaps individuals, had undue influence on the government. You wanted a fully fledged Judicial Commission of inquiry to be set up within 30 days of your reports publication. Seven mo
We are alsojoin, i hope. I still have with me from christie and] newton small, the democratic response . This is such a tough speech together. They almost always bomb it. It was so hokey. It is really the Existential Crisis for democrats. Do they go for the white Middle Class Union base they have lost which is clearly what they did here or do they support minorities who did not show up in and after this to support hillary clinton. It is like an identity crisis. Clearly in the response they went for the middle class White Union Vote but the diner was super auckland. Laughter all could. was surprised to hear from bob casey that this was not an economic speech the democrats would like, 1 trillion spent in infrastructure is kind of what president obama had suggested. We talked about his very ambitious infrastructure plan, he talked about health play, clean water, clean air president obama articulated the same things. This guy is saying things i actually believe in, some will be saying. Eve