Im talking about wisconsin, a battleground currently showing a day had heat will talk to the states Democratic Party chair im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside Politics Cnn and Breaking News we begin with major Breaking News out of The Middle East. A fresh wave of explosions in lebanon. Their Health Ministry is reporting at least nine people have been killed after dozens of Walkie Talkies apparently blew up just a day after hundreds of pages by hezbollah floated, injuring thousands. I want to get straight to beirut and cnns ben wedeman, ben in addition to the nine people so who have been killed so far today, according to the ministry of health, theyre saying more than 300 have been injured in this second day of blasts the across the country. Now, according to lebanese security sources, there were somewhere between 15 and 20 explosions of devices. Its believed Walkie Talkie hes in the southern suburbs of beirut. Thats where hezbollah has a strong presence. One of those
and it s half time for the last round of premier league games manchester city trail aston villa and liverpool equalise against wolves if it stays like that city will be champions. welcome to bbc news. in the last few minutes, a deadline has passed for civil servants who want to object to being named in sue gray s partygate report to respond a move which could delay publication. this morning, the education secretary, nadhim zahawi, defended a meeting which took place last month between ms gray and borisjohnson insisting it would not have influenced the outcome of the inquiry. our political correspondentjonathan blake has the latest. borisjohnson, the prime minister whose political fate could rest on the findings of a report by the senior civil servant sue gray. weeks ago, the two held a meeting who called it, what was discussed depends on who you ask. one cabinet minister says the row does not matter sue gray has complete control over her inquiry, and the prime m
the most senior civil servant in government cabinet secretary simon case had to step back from leading the government inquiry after reports of a christmas party in his office. a deadline for officials expected to be named in the report to challenge its findings has passed. if there are no objections it will be released within days. jonathan blake, bbc news. well, our political correspondent iain watson is in downing street now. what was the significance of the deadline that passed within the last hour? it passed at five o clock and effectively what sue gray, the senior civil servant conducting the inquiry was doing was contacting those she intended to name in her report or criticise and give them in effect a right of reply with a five o clock deadline for them to respond. but the significance is this, if anyone saw what she was saying about them, didn t like it and decided to mount a court challenge, the report would be
well, i would say that i don t have anything against the vikings organization itself. i had eight wonderful years with the vikings. it was great to hear ziggy come up to me and proclaim his support. i had a problem with three individual people within the vikings. i did everything my coaches wanted me to do. no one told me i wasn t doing what i was supposed to do. the only thing that changed is i started speaking out on same sex rights. the coach of the team said to you, please stop doing this, and he quoted another coach who said, something to the effect a smart coach once told me, a player shouldn t talk about politics and religion. did was there at any point where you felt, you know what, maybe i should just stop speaking out? well, that was a decision i made very early on when i first
don t have anything against the vikings organization itself. i had eight wonderful years with the vikings. it was great to hear ziggy come up to me and proclaim his support. i had a problem with three individual people within the vikings. i did everything my coaches wanted me to do. no one told me i wasn t doing what i was supposed to do. the only thing that changed is i started speaking out on same sex rights. the coach of the team said to you, please stop doing this, and he quoted another coach who said, something to the effect a smart coach once told me, a player shouldn t talk about politics and religion. did was there at any point where you felt, you know what, maybe i should just stop speaking out? well, that was a decision i made very early on when i first committed to working with ming men ans for marriage equality.