Thats it. Thank you very much for coming. Recently, a hearing held on the increase of number of unwanted phone calls and scams aimed at Senior Citizens despite laws allowing people to opt out of receiving marketing calls. We heard from someone who was a victim of one of these phone scams as well as a federal trade Commission Top regulator and a Computer Science and networking specialist. You can watch the hearing at 4 30 p. M. Eastern time and well take your phone calls and questions immediately after. Over on cspan. The cspans city tour visits sites across the country to hear from authors and Civic Leaders every weekend on cspan 2s book tv. And American History tv on cspan 3. And this month with congress on its summer recess, you can find the cities tour on cspan every day at 6 00 eastern. Today, the literary life of lincoln, nebraska, including the letters of novelist, biography of chief standing bear, and a book about the removal of native American Children from their homes. That st
Of southern england, particularly the south east, where some fog patches could develop. For many of us, a cloudy and mild night and start monday. On monday, as another week weather from luton, expect a lot of cloud, a few bright and sunny breaks to the east of high ground. Where the cloud is thick enough, a bit of drizzle. A better day in western scotland in bed with today, some outbreaks of rain in Northern Ireland by the time we get to the evening and temperatures 14 17. The weather becomes more active as we go through this week with stronger winds, some wet weather, especially in North Western parts of the uk but warmer, especially in the south east, by friday. Hello this is bbc news. After her difficult party conference, theresa may says shes resilient and wont hide from a challenge. It comes as Senior Tories have been urging colleagues to stop the infighting and back the Prime Minister. Scotlands deputy first minister, john swinney, has opened the snp conference, saying the party
A British Air Force base at Kabul International airport last week. The casualties we have heard of. Siren. Get down the gp is locked down. Nato now plays a backseat role helping train, advise, and assist Afghan Forces in their battle against the taliban. Suffice to say there is some sort of barrage going on at the moment. But in terms of numbers, we dont have much information. It has been a tough fight since the afghans took over. The government now controls less than two thirds of the country. And that is not the only challenge for afghanistan. It is one of the most corrupt countries on earth. Tens of billions of dollars are reckoned to have been stolen by government officials. The country is also grindingly poor. No wonder the president of afghanistan, ashraf ghani, says hes got the toughest job in the world. President , very, very good to meet you. Very goot to meet you. President ghani, thank you very much indeed for sitting down to do this interview. You are one of the few World L
Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, brangham good evening, im william brangham. Hari sreenivasan is on assignment. A major rainstorm has dumped a foot of water on parts of texas and is now moving east. Houston received nine inches of rain in the past day, causing flooding and numerous roads closures. The Houston Fire Department rescued 28 motorists stranded by high waters. The storm system has poured on Southeast Texas since friday, along with the remnants of hurricane patricia. Authorities say one san antonio man remains missing after being swept away by flood waters while walking his dog. As the storms move east into louisiana, weather forecasters say some areas around new orleans and baton rouge c
Carjacking and highspeed chase ends with gunfire. Anne makovec joins us live from San Franciscos financial district. Reporter it was a wild morning here downtown San Francisco. You can see the stolen vehicle here still behind me at the insection of battery and california. Several streets blocked off at this hour. The height of the drama this morning came at 6 a. M. If it would have happened an hour later things could have ended much worse. A carjacking suspect dead, Good Samaritan injured, windows broken and full investigation under way in San Franciscos busy financial district. It all started in richmond when a woman was carjacked in her driveway for this white escalate. When the womans husband came out to go to her assistance, she is fine, not taken. Reporter but the chase was on starting at about 5 a. M. Officers followed the suv across the Richmond San Rafael bridge into marin county and then the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco. As it hit city streets they lost it. But witnes