alert and new warning from beijing, and major escalation of rhetoric out of china. suggesting if house speaker pelosi flies to taiwan with a fighter jet escort, the chinese military could shoot her plane down. happy friday, i m john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. sandra: developing story. that is brand-new, i m sandra smith in new york. that stark warning just came from beijing, it happened moments ago. china state media saying a fighter jet escort for pelosi would constitute a invasion, but still no word whether pelosi will be visiting taiwan. yesterday chinese president xi warned president biden not to play with fire, meanwhile russia publicly standing with china on this matter. john: fox team coverage to kick off the hour. the rising red threat. begin with jacqui heinrich, live on the north lawn. jacqui, new information about how the chinese might respond to pelosi s visit? sure do, john, concerning suggestion from state media that the chinese could shoot down
rights. on his republican opponent focused on inflation and crime. in florida former republican governor turned democratic congressman charlie crist will challenge republican governor and potential presidential candidate ron desantis for the governor s mansion. chris will be here to talk about his uphill battle. the senate candidate in florida is congresswoman and former orlando police chief val demings winning the nomination to challenge marco rubio. and in new york s bitter feud between two powerful democrats for one manhattan seat because of redistricting, jerry nadler defeated caroline maloney. also on the political front, president biden is back from vacation today and will be announcing an extension on student loan forgiveness, a decision unlikely to please partisans on both sides. and a somber independence day in ukraine as the country also marks six months today since russia invaded with boris johnson showing up in kyiv and president so lent skit addressing the u.n. $
the house gets a chance to send the bill to the president s desk, first time congress passed a piece of legislation since 1993. carley: leaders have spoken up strongly calling it an effort to chip away at law-abiding citizen second amendment rights. griff jenkins has the latest developments from washington. good morning. griff: good morning, that vote remarkable, democrats needed 10 republicans and they got 15 on an issue, the gop long resisted, guns. chuck schumer praising the bipartisan effort. the gun safety bill can be described with three adjectives, bipartisan, common sense, life-saving. griff: gop included minority leader mcconnell after negotiations were led by senator john cornyn. i knew this effort was about the art of the possible, looking at areas where we could agree and setting aside areas where we could not. griff: not everyone does agree, senator ted cruz blasting in a statement saying approach of democrats is to take away democrats from law-abiding
tactics. so-called eco-warriors armed with typically went after priceless works of art this weekend in italy. i say leave them there. other protesters blocked rush-hour traffic. the i-95 beltway in maryland, we showed it to you when it happened. other climate activists deflated tires on suvs in cities all across the nation. in recent months, far left activists have also scaled buildings, lit themselves on fire, and threaten to disrupt a congressional baseball game. now former vice president al gore seems to take things to a more extreme level, making this stunning comparison between climate deniers, as he calls them, and botched police responders in eve all day s school shooting. let s watch. climate deniers are in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in uvalde, texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred. they heard the screams, they heard the gunshots, and nobody stepped forward. confronted wi
Away from the embassy, to the centre south of tel aviv. To the centre, south of tel aviv. And earlier in the week, as you were saying, there are activists within the Eritrean Community they mostly reside in the south of tel aviv who had warned against hosting this. They say that the authorities didnt heed their warnings. Certainly, the israeli authorities the police, the hospitals as well seem to have been really caught by surprise with what happened here. There were attempts to break through police barricades. The Israeli Police then ended up using all of these different riot control methods, as they describe them, to try to push people back but you could see as well from some of the videos that have been shared on social media that there were actually also street fights going on and notjust with the police, but also involving Asylum Seekers who are against the eritrean regime and those who are in favour of it, and that has been something that weve seen in the past not on this scale i