And the celebrated american novelist Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, wayne rooney says he can still make a big contribution, as he signs for championship side derby county. Good evening. Evidence of sexual abuse and racism at Chelsea Football Club from the 1970s through to the 90s is laid bare in two separate independent reviews. 0ne reveals that youth players at the club some as young as ten were sexually assaulted in the 70s by the chief scout, eddie heath and that others at the club turned a blind eye. Its heavily critical of a former chelsea coach, dario gradi, forfailing to report a complaint from a parent of a young player which could have stopped the abuse. A separate review found that black players at the club were racially abused by another coach in the 1980s and 90s. The chelsea board have apologised unreservedly and offered compensation. 0ur sports editor, dan roan, reports from stamford bridge. In the 1970s, he was tasked wit
Announcer coming up on washington journal, the state of the progressive legal movement. The cofounder and executive director demand for justice will join us. Also the president of the national right to work Legal Defense foundation, mark mix, on workforce issues and recent labor unrest. Washington journal starts now. This is a very sad day for america and was also very sad driving through washington, d. C. And seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls with the graffiti. This is not the place i left, it is a sad thing to see it. When you look at what is happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by very very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading bided biden by a lot. If you cannot beat him, you persecute him or prosecute him. We cannot let this happen in america. Host good morning. It is friday, august 4. Former President Trump
A member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking nonenglish] Yevgeny Prigozhin had reason to be angry. He had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. His men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians Armchair Generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking nonenglish] there was a mutiny against Vladimir Putins armed forces. It is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. Vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. He had raised prigozhin and empowered him. Prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. He does not exist without putin. This is a frankensteinlike scenario. Ive been following prigozhins extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the onetime, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. Making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. It is like, we know there is more
There were hours of intense standoff with 00 dropped antiisrael hundreds of antiisrael protesters. Critics have called out President Biden. He has not made an in person statement in more than a week. Peter doocy pressed Karine Jeanpierre about it and whether biden is concerned about how these protests impact his 2024 race. Watch. Is he that worried be about losing the vote with the protesters . The president has taken a lot of policy actions here that he knows that young people care about and a lot of those actions are popular with those young folks whether its giving a little bits of breathing room to student debt relief, the president understands how important it is to deal with that issue, climate change, something that they care about. Maria she did not answer the question. Were waiting for President Biden to Say Something about this. The president you announced hes approving 6 billion in student debt relief, impacting 3 p hundred thousand borrowers who attended art colleges, biden
Stuart where are you now. Is that a hint, a question for President Biden . Where are you . Why nothing on the student protests, 10 00 eastern, lets get to the money, the gains have moderated a little but still have the dow up a hundred points, nasdaq up 86. Look at the dow 30. More winners than losers right there, the year treasury yield is at 4. 63 edging away from 47. The 2year is under 5 . The price of oil below 80, 7883 and bitcoin is floundering around 58,000 a coin. Thats the markets and now this. Throughout the night, weve been watching shocking images from the ucla campus, at 2 am local Time Police Officers stopping to take down the 45 protest encampments. The organizers shifted plywood to build those barricades, strobe lights to blind to the police, tends, bullhorns, food and all the women needed, it was organized by leftist groups. The New York Times interviewed lisa pitkin, 6yearold professional agitator, shes not a student but she was right in the middle of the columbia occ