right now, house republicans fail to impeach the border boss, fail to deliver an ally in need and they will fail to advance an immigration deal that they themselves demanded. plus an appeals court reveals that donald trump is not immune from prosecution. had what might the supreme court say. and the chair of the republican national committee offers to quit amid tension from trump. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s wednesday, february 7th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in washington, where house republicans were delivered a dramatic and really embarrassing defeat on the house floor last night. they failed in their efforts to impeach homeland security secretary mayorkas over his handling of the southern border. the resolution is not adopted. there was so much uncertainty over who would support the effort and three house republicans ultimately decided to vote with democrats against this. those three congressmen brought th
military sources say there are several casualties and injured, with the syrian observatory for human rights putting the number of dead at four. since the war in gaza broke out in october, israel has escalated its attacks on what it says are iranian backed militia targets. we ll have more on this story as it develops. let s turn to the us where a federal court of appeal has ruled that donald trump does not have presidential immunity and can be prosecuted on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. the former president had argued that his executive immunity meant he should not face charges for criminal acts. but the three judge panel rejected that claim. mr trump is expected to appeal against the ruling. our correspondent gary o donoghue has been following the story from washington. of all the cases donald trump is facing, this is the most serious one. it deals with those accusations that he tried to overturn the 2020 election. now, he argued that he had immunity fr
a semiconductor superpower. our asia business reporter monica miller has more. it is a major setback. prime minister narendra modi has made chip making a top priority for india s economic strategy in pursuit of what they say is a new era of electronics making. it doesn t get much bigger than foxconn, which makes roughly 70% of apple s iphones. india estimates that its semiconductor market could be worth $63 billion by 2026. now, we need to go back a little bit to explain how this partnership happened. that was in september 2020 to the taiwanese firm and the indian mining giant agreed to this deal. and part of it was because foxconn was looking at the situation then, which had strict covid restrictions in china, where a lot of these phones are made. they are also concerned about the geopolitical tensions we ve mentioned many times on this programme between the us and china. so it was looking to partner up, which is with the country which is now the largest in the world. but un
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record set by chatgpt, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. that was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores and 100 countries. mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast but if it feels like lots of people are already on it, well that is partly because it is connect to instagram. meta isn t creating an app from scratch, it is benefiting from its 2 billion instagram followers and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similar web, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior, that s in the days immediately after threads launched. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the microblogging app but others such as mastodon, bluesky and truth social remain small. history shows that creating a social media platform is hard but when it works, it really w