of pakistan s devastating floods. de facto authorities in four russian occupied or partially occupied regions of ukraine have announced plans to hold referendums on joining russia this week as ukraine continues to recapture territory in the north east. proxy administrations in luhansk, donetsk, kherson and zaporizhzhia all say that voting will start this friday. this is what the russian appointed head of the region had to say. translation: i will personally a - eal to translation: i will personally appeal to the translation: i will personally appeal to the president. - translation: i will personally appeal to the president. with l translation: i will personally appeal to the president. with ai appeal to the president. with a request for legal approval of the referendum result as soon as possible and i am sure this procedure will not take much time. it has come from very different areas. french president president macron says the referendum will have no legal consequence,
of staff at the department of homeland security and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. it s starting to feel a bit like groundhog day on capitol hill. that s because the house is trying again for a third day to elect a speaker of the house. we ve now had eight votes. and in all eight, the republican kevin mccarthy has failed to receive enough votes. he hasn t even been able to swing the needle in his favour at all. this is the scene live in the house now where a ninth vote is under way. it already appears that he has lost to this vote as well. at least seven republicans have voted for other options. in the last vote, 20 republicans voted for an alternative candidates to mr mccarthy mainly for byron donalds, and there was also a shock vote for donald trump. remember, the speaker of the house doesn t need to be a member of congress. that vote for the former president came from matt gaetz, one of the ring leaders of those refusing t
actually do his job. force the laws that are already on the books. some incredible gas lighting. questioning the job of biden s press secretary some of the president s most embarrassing moments. i m not going to get into analysis. that s her job just like a defense attorney. bouncing ball to third. picked by bringman, the astros have a world series no hitter. brian: highly rated world series. they were averaging about 10 million people which is unbelievable because more and more baseball has been almost a regional support. phillies look so strong and unbeatable in game 3 did not get a heat hit in game four yeah i told you they were good pitchers, houston has tied it up two games apiece. the music means one thing. steve: i wake up with this music in my they had. brian: what could it mean? steve: fifive days to electis day. ainsley: every morning until election day we are visiting key states across our country it hear what you, the voters, think before we
so moving. and william shatner, this guy, he s just people are just commenting, i m getting so many texts and seeing it on twitter, so many people talking about what an incredible guy he is. i m scoring points right now, the fact that you pulled out shatner s note lucy in the sky with diamonds, that s 100 points right there. you just came back from the today show, talking about the list with hoda. that was very moving too pop. oh, my gosh. a lot of tears. hoda s on the list and savannah nominated her and we have two women over 50 hosting the today show. talk about that never happen 20 or 30 years ago, how thing have changed. the second annual forbes 50 over 50 list has chemical engineers, actresses, singers, dancers, civil rights activists in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and, yes, 90s. these women are phenomenal and there are so many of them. there really are. it s an incredible list. jonathan lemire, the red sox have something in common with people on that li