live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in washington in the united states where it s a crucial night for the committee investigating the january sixth capitol riot, when supporters of former president donald trump stormed congress, while lawmakers met to certinyoe biden s election victory last year. this will be the committee s eighth hearing, and maybe the final televised hearing before the report is published in the autumn. let s hearfrom two insiders who were in the trump white house onjanuary 6th. matthew pottinger, the deputy national security adviser. he s one of the few senior officials to have been there, throughout the trump administration. as countless others left, he stayed. until the afternoon of jan 6. at 2:24, the president sent this tweet attacking mike pence at the very moment his supporters were in the capitol search for the vice president. at tha
whether the parkland school gunman, who killed 17 people, should get the death penalty. after being closed by the kremlin in the early days of war, russia s last remaining independent tv channel makes a defiant return to the airwaves. and could you soon be allowed to get wed in your back garden? a change in the law is set to give couples more say over wedding venues and ceremonies in england and wales. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. europe is facing another day of brutal heat and the reality of a fast changing climate. in france, several towns and cities recorded their highest ever temperatures on monday. the uk experienced its warmest ever night last night and is expected to register a0 degree plus temperatures for the first time later today. the met office here has an extreme weather warning in place for large parts of the country. and wildfires are having a devastating impact across the continent, with spain and portugal being parti
that there may be tax cuts, possibly, in the way, and one of my guests said that could give a sugar rush to some mps and voters and it might be a popular policy although whether that would keep a lid on rising inflation is debatable. let s focus on the action at westminster. we have had prime minister s questions in the last couple of hours and in one hour the prime minister will be facing a committee of senior mps, the liaison committee, so he hasn t returned here, he is staying in the houses of parliament before that committee meeting. borisjohnson says he is keeping on with the job despite a wave of government resignations which have continued today. we have seen a growing number of ministers resigning today with many expressing unhappiness at the prime minister s style of leadership and concerns that the work of the government is being overshadowed by questions about the prime minister s integrity. we can have a closer look at what has been happening. so far today we have
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