About the presidency in the us after an attempt on the life of Donald Trump. And Huw Edwards is given a sentence for accessing child abuse. Immigration is high on the agenda in rome. At least 15 people have died as a result of extreme flooding across parts of central and eastern europe. And the epicjapanese tale, shogun, becomes the first foreign Language Tv Series to win the best Drama Award at the emmys. More on some of that in the next few minutes. Now, heres all the latest sport. The head of World Athletics has been named as one of the confirmed candidates to become the next president of the international olympic committee. He is one of seven potential people to be considered to succeed thomas bach. The british middle Distance Champion is up against the likes of one antoniojunior, whose father was the president for 21 years. Elections will take place in March Next year. Two tonights football action. Birmingham City And Wrexham is not normally a match we would be talking about in th
Were imposed after a military coup. Turkeys top diplomat accuses armenia of committing a war crime a massive. As the border frights takes a toll on civilians from both sides and back in the white house donald trump infected sprue coronavirus says hes ready for next weeks president ial debates plus 3 scientists are awarded this years nobel prize for physics for their discoveries about one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. And in sport there is a record breaking run at the french open is over the 1st arab woman to reach the last 16 at Roland Garros was beaten by americans danielle calling. But we begin this new site with the political turmoil in kurdistan the Election Commission has a no holds the early results old sundays faults and the speaker of the parliament has resigned now this comes after a night of violence where the protesters storm. In state buildings they were accusing the governments of rigging the election in its favor and now the protest is also freed former
Sec. Mnuchin i dont think it is a question of you will meet or he will not meet. I think i have been six or seven deals with the speaker. And mitchhumer mcconnell and the president and Kevin Mccarthy are involved in every single decision, so it have a process that is working well and we will continue it. Reporter what are the republican partys for avoiding the Government Shutdown . Sec. Mnuchin the good news is the speaker and i have agreed that neither of us want a Government Shutdown. I have spoken to the presiden to mitch, and kevin about this as well, so we will forward with cr hopefully by the beginning of september. I hope by the end of the week we will have something firmed up. Reporter you are calling it targeted. What specifically makes you use that term . Sec. Mnuchin two different things. The continuing resolution, we are having a separate discussion. On the legislation, i spoke to Speaker Pelosi and she thinks we are far apart. I suggested we sit down. You know Maxine Water
Im delighted to be home. Host all told, how many years of your reporting career or percentage have you spent overseas . Pamela i guess,close to half. First with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. That was close to a decade. Then, off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. Host when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward a foreign reporting . Pamela well, my earliest interest in journalism was more about domestic issues. Poverty, drug addiction, social ills, you might say. I did a lot of work on that in the early years. Then i guess, i dont know, i traveled overseas as a tourist, to unusual places, and i began to think some of these same issues were definitely there and more and the struggles and problems were deeper and broader. And i just wanted to try that. Host what special skills does it take to be a Foreign Affairs journalist, as opposed to someone working domestically . Pamela i mean, there is a numb
News conference this morning, House Speaker nancy pelosi talked about the need for an additional coronavirus aid package. The house returns next week for legislative work. Rep. Pelosi good morning. How are you all . Yesterday, with two months since we passed the heroes act, as some of you are aware who were with us when we observed that. Calling upon the president to activate the defense production act so that we can get the equipment we need. The president has made so many bad executive decisions. We wish he would make a good executive decision and do that. Behavior, i have theluded that he is like man who refuses to ask for directions. All of the answers are giving. Are there. The scientists have the answers. We know that testing, tracing, treating, distancing, masking, sanitation, can stop the spread of this virus. President continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us. So, again, again we have observed that wit