defending his decision to visit saudi arabia as he travels to the middle east next week against criticism and controversy surrounding the trip. the president set to meet with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. now as president he says his visit to the country is critical to u.s. security. that s right. washington post op-ed the president writes it s my job to keep our country strong and secure. we have to counter russia s aggression, put ourselves in the best possible position to outcompete china, and work for greater stability in a consequential region of the world. to do these things we have to engage directly with countries that can impact those outcomes. the president s trip has come under criticism because of saudi arabia s role in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. the saudi crown prince was said to be responsible for ordering khashoggi s murder. let s get some perspective on president biden s trip. a historia
we got one text message. secret service has maintained that they have been fully c comp compliant. netflix is being heralded as good news. we re seeing the end of the era of infinite content. hello and welcome, it is wednesday, july 20th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 3:00 a.m. in the central u.s. a global heatwave is scorching the northern hemisphere with hundreds of millions of people enjoying record breaking temperatures. and while world leaders debate on what do about climate change, the hot spell is harming public health, buckling infrastructure and fueling deadly wildfires. in the u.s. at least several cities have appointed so-called heat officers to help people stay safe. right now more than 100 million americans are under extreme weather alerts. and 265 million are facing it is upwards of 90 degrees farenheit which is 32 in celsius. central plain citys in oklahoma and texas are getting the worst of it, they could see 115 degrees. and in many areas people are doi
in a letter to bannon former president trump writes, i watched how you and others have been treated spending vast amounts of money on legal fees. i will waive executive privilege for you. the committee says today it s open to bannon s testimony as long as it s under oath. bannon s potential testimony would come on the heels of testimony from another major witness. former trump white house counsel pat cipollone, part of his eight-hour closed door interview will be this week. context and nuance is important when it comes to steve bannon. the letter is essentially the equivalent of me telling you that i m waiving my executive privilege for you to talk to our bosses tomorrow in our morning meetings. what does what bannon and trump are doing here actually mean? well, look, if he actually testifies, let s say he actually goes in and does it for real that would be huge. we re so far away from that still. he basically gave bannon the cover so that he, bannon, could go to the commit
the conservative leadership contest, joining a field of eight people, including two former health secretaries, now on bbc news unspun world, with the bbc s world affairs editorjohn simpson. hello, and welcome to new broadcasting house, the bbc s headquarters in central london. welcome, too, to unspun world, where we put the key questions of the moment to the bbc s experts right around the globe. has something gone permanently and disturbingly wrong with politics in the united states, or can it be mended? we live in a time when serious political commentators are talking about the possibility of a second american civil war. the bbc ukrainian reporter who saw pictures of her own home destroyed live on television. what does she think about russia s targeting of civilians in the ukraine war? i don t see any logic of why would somebody wants to bomb those civilian people. and the world famous combat cameraman who s just been released after six months in prison by the taliban in a
the earliest galaxies. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 9am injapan where a private funeral will be held in tokyo later, for the former prime minister shinzo abe, who died after being shot while at a political campaign event. mourners have streamed into a temple in tokyo to pay their respects. these are scenes from a vigil at the zojoji temple. world leaders have also paid tribute. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, said mr abe did more than anyone to elevate the relationship between their two countries. rupert wingfield hayes reports from tokyo. shinzo abe was a fresh faced 52 year old when he shocked everyone by becoming japan s youngest postwar prime minister. it did not go well. and in less than a year, he was gone. five years later, he plotted his return with a new hairstyle and a new slogan. and this time, he stayed, for eight years, longer than any other postwar japanese leader. today, japan is layin