kevin mccarthy does not have 218 votes. kevin mccarthy. and you have 20. i i asked you a very specific question. if by friday you don t have 30 i will not, sean. i will not withdraw. i mean, it s really uncomfortable when mom my and daddy are fighting. they are fighting. the u.s. house is completely frozen right now with a rebellion under way by far right republicans. good morning, everyone. don lemon with poppy harlow. there you see kaitlan has moved back to washington. we had her in new york for a little bit now she s in d.c. didn t last long. was it us? are you holding up there? kevin mccarthy no closer to becoming speaker of the house even as of this morning, congress is still without a leader. so what is mccarthy s new strategy to end the chaos? that s a question this morning. he voted for mccarthy six times. straight ahead, kaitlan is going to speak with ryan zinke. we have new details this morning on a royal feud between prince harry and prince
in the uae, some of the worst flaring is hidden away from the public on rigs out at sea. across the gulf from iran and iraq to kuwait we will reveal how the health of millions is being put at risk by the toxic flares. coughing samira is one of the 20 million people walking as part of the annual shia pilgrimage of arba in, which starts in basra, southern iraq. this part of the 700km route is highly polluted, as it crosses through areas just metres from gas flares, including the town where samira lives. in 2022, our bbc arabic investigation exposed how oil giants toxic air pollution puts children living next to the flares at risk of cancer. now we re investigating how this almost entirely avoidable pollution spreads across the region, and how it impacts people s health hundreds of kilometres away. volunteer nurses on the arba in route say that many pilgrims are reporting health issues. the biggest source of flaring here is from a giant oil field called rumaila, managed b
about desperate people trapped in lockdowns and quarantine camps these restrictions trying to stop covid. now chinese people are enjoying freedom and not threatened by these things but everybody you talk to and their families, they all have covid. one acquaintance describing walking down the street in shanghai and she could see everybody coughing on the street recovering from this. the consequences of being felt beyond mainland china. here in hong kong my daughter got sick you can t find throat lozanges, fever medicine likety le like tylenol it s being bought up and shipped to people in mainland china. a second round of stinging defeats for kevin mccarthy yesterday. the question is day three bringing more of that for kevin mccarthy as he s vying to be house speaker.
this is mosul, where iraqi troops are fighting house to house, push them out. listen to these word. they are the raw notes from our senior international correspondent, arwa damon. she was right in the middle. these are her word. a massive flash of orange, a s massive explosion when we were stopped. my ears are ringing. everybody coughing from the dust and the dirt kicked up. out the back window, i saw family running with kid. it was a suicide car bomber, they said. i can t stop thinking about that family and all of the others. let s go live to arwa damon. those were her words. she is now safe, just about 55 miles away from all this happened. arwa, you and your photographer, 24 hours, you are stuck in the middle of this. i read the entirety of your notes. it s remarkable. talk to me about living through it. you have covered so many war