by rmt union. it has meant trains going out of service and millions of passengers going nowhere. my daughter s doing her gcses. i ve got to get her to and from school, so it s a right pain in the neck. i understand they want a pay rise and things change, i get that, but it s not fair for all the commuters. we are going to primarily focus on the two stories this hour, the rail strike in the uk and the hearing in washington, which is where we are going to begin. we start in washington, where the committee investigating the storming of the capitol onjanuary 6 is holding another public hearing. today s focus is on pressure by former president donald trump and his team for individual us states to overturn the election results. central to this are two battleground states arizona and georgia. joe biden won both by a razor thin margin and president trump has kept pushing false claims of electoral fraud. in opening statements, we heard from the republican vice chair liz cheney.
a&e departments in england are causing serious harm to patients, according to a healthcare safety watchdog. landlords are to be prevented from evicting tenants without giving a reason, under government plans to make the private rental market in england fairer. one of the most significant archeological discoveries in british history sheds new light on the realities of the dark ages. a warm welcome to bbc news. downing street is under pressure to publish a letter from boris johnson s former adviser on the ministerial code, lord geidt, who resigned suddenly last night. on the ministerial code, lord geidt, the on the ministerial code, lord geidt, second ethics minister the second ethics adviser the prime minister has lost in two years. apart from a brief statement saying he was stepping down with regret , no explanation was given for the peer s departure. just two days ago, lord geidt told mps it was reasonable to suggest that borisjohnson had breached the ministerial code whe
a breach of the minesterial code. tonight with the context, the spectator s deputy political editor katy balls and the republican strategist doug heye. hello, welcome to the programme. we have lived through an era of record low interest rates. for years, it was cheap to borrow, while the money put away in savings accounts earned us very little in return. but things are changing. today, the us federal reserve set out an increasingly aggressive approach to monetary policy as it confronts the highest inflation in the united states forfour decades. in the last hour, it raised interest rates by 0.75% which is the biggest jump in rates since 1994. and that has implications for all of us. here s the chair of the federal reserve, jerome powell. the current picture it s plain to see. the labour market is extremely tight, and inflation is much too high. against this backdrop, today the federal open market committee raised its interest rate by 0.75% in anticipation of ongoing increases
remarks about the uk government s asylum policy. and pop starjustin bieber cancels a number of shows, after being diagnosed with an illness that s partially paralysed his face. as you can see, this eye is not blinking. i can t smile on this side of my face. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin in ukraine, where officials say their forces urgently need more supplies of ammunition. according to one regional governor, the fighting has become a war of artillery and the russian army is much more powerful. the us and nato are in the process of sending heavy armaments but say they need to be supplied at a pace that ukraine s forces can absorb safely. the battle for control of the key town of severodonetsk is shaping the war with reports of street to street fighting. neither side has scored a knock out blow, and much of the city has been reduced to rubble. nick beake reports from kyiv. the russian onslaught in the donbas region is relentl
in chicago, thirty three were gunned down, five of those died in laguna woods, california, chinese immigrant from las vegas walked into a presbyterian church and shot six elderly taiwanese parishioners. police say he was motivated by some kind of political and ethnic hatred. and of course, most famously of all, on saturday afternoon a teenager in a mock military uniform walked into a grocery store in buffalo and shot more than a dozen strangers with a rifle. no doubt you ve seen accounts of this on the news which you probably haven t seen details w about any of the 10 americans who were murdered in that store in buffalo. you may not even know their names, much less who they were or who they loved. most of them were black. we know that . but beyond the way they look, not a lot has been reported about them because the coverage hasn t beenth about them nor in fact has it really been about the gunman. unhe was an 18 year old called paten gendron.le gendron was mentally illd peyto