i m richard louis, in for yasmin o sullivan. canceled on christmas eve travelers scrambling after a wave of flight cancellations, backing those in a rush to get home for the holidays. we are live at one of the airport to the hardest. we are following the breaking news out of gaza. five hostages in hamas tunnels have been found. we will go to tel aviv for the latest on that. this whole election interference case should be stopped in its tracks. this comes after the supreme court refused to hear an expedited appeal in this case and awaits a potential appeal of a colorado state supreme court decision kicking trump off the ballot there. i agree with the colorado supreme court. i said, gosh, for quite some time that donald trump has incited the insurrection. there should not be a loophole for inciting insurrection for the presidency. this colorado supreme court made a political decision. in my view, there is no constitutional basis for the decision they rendered. i think it
things of what happen in texas also some of the allegations there, it s going to be interesting in just a few weeks during that trial. indeed. thank you, my friend and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. for the past several months we have watched the far right wing of the republican party hold the u.s. hostage far right republicans in congress demanded major concessions from the biden house or else it would blow up the pretty fragile u.s. economy, they would tank the stock market and push hundreds of thousands of people onto the unemployment so potential catastrophe of their own making. and now there s a deal on the table to stop that catastrophe from actually coming to pass. over the weekend president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy hammered out an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default. and republicans, they got some of what they wanted in this deal. itd claws back unspent covid relief funds. it creates new hurdles for some people
lawyer, rudy giuliani, has been ordered to pay $148 million in damages to two election workers he falsely accused of vote tampering. hello, welcome to the programme. i m lewis vaughanjones. we start with the war in gaza and the reaction in israel to the news that the country s military mistakenly killed three of the hostages who were taken by hamas, during its operations there. yotam higim and samer al talaky seen here left to right were shot by israeli troops in asha jiga, in the north of gaza. a spokesperson said they were misidentified as a threat. on friday night, in tel aviv, hundreds of people gathered to call on the israeli government to do more to secure the release of the remaining hostages. they were captured by hamas, which many countries consider to be a terrorist organisation, during the attack in israel on the 7th of october. aljazeera is one of the few networks still broadcasting out of gaza. now, the qatari television networksays one of its camera operato
last year a shortage of chips led to supply chain disruption around the world meaning delays to everything from cars to washing machines and of course, computers. and now, the dutch government has announced that it will impose new export restrictions on advanced chips being sold to china. the dutch have some of the most significant companies in the field and china is keen to buy them but the us have been putting pressure on european countries to curb exports of sensitive technology to china on national security grounds. our correspondent anna holligan is in the hague. one of europe s smallest nations has found itself in the middle of a battle between the world s two biggest superpowers. and at the heart of it, microchips. they power everything from our mobile phones to military hardware. and the us has been applying political pressure on countries to limit exports. now the netherlands is home to asml until recently a relatively obscure company, but it makes the most advance
are being instructed to shelter in place as western governments try to figure out a means to safely evacuate them. also tonight, scientific censorship in china. crucial genetic sequencing that could have helped with the fight against covid, was deleted, covered up or withdrawn under pressure from party officials. we will speak to the new york times investigators. what about the transition to clean power? nine countries meeting in belgium today have commited to building an entire electricity system in the north seas, based on renewable energy. and we will talk about the global addiction to cheap clothing 10 years on from the rana plaza disaster in bangladesh have we improved conditions for some of the poorest workers in the developing world. but first to sudan, a country fast coming apart at the seams. in khartoum it is now a stark choice between hunger and deprivation indoors and the risk of being killed in the street battles outside. there are tens of thousands of foreign