you re watching the context on bbc news. five months since the war began, the first ship carrying grain has left ukraine under the watchful eye of the russians patrolling the black sea. the ship is bound for lebanon. we will get the thoughts tonight from odesa, where further ships are being loaded. germany turns back to coal as the gas shortages threaten a winter of blackouts and economic misery. but why are they not returning to nuclear? another weekend of extreme weather in the us as california s biggest wildfire this year continues to burn out of control. tonight with the context, nathalie tocci, former eu foreign policy advisor. and hagar chemali, former us government advisor, host of the political satire series oh my world. a warm welcome to the programme. rarely has a ship set sail from ukraine with so much hope, and so much anticipation, riding on it. the sierre leone registered razoni left the port of odesa at 09:30 this morning and into the black sea, bound for t
fetterman pounced responding via twitter in pennsylvania it s called a veggie tray. a minor story on a slow august day, you wonder? hardly. $500,000 from the flap. enough to buy him plenty more television ads showcasing his gym shorts and at thes and hoodies. the projects of a persona that republicans equate to that of a professional wrestler. coverage of crude tate gate to dwell on whether oz is really living in pennsylvania. fetterman as included snooki of jersey shore fame and little steven from the e street band tying dr. oz to the garden state of new jersey. this week, the social media mud slinging escalated after a daily beast report that oz owns ten houses, not the two he had previously claimed. fetterman tweeted this, i have never spoke on the a p.a. resident who doesn t know how many house that is a have, let alone be off by eight. now, oz struck back saying he bought them with his own money. a diss of fetterman long relied on financial assistance from his family. yo
cnn suggests otherwise. cnn s sam kiley joins us from zaporizhzhya, ukraine. sam, both sides waging a war of words over this, accusing the other of launching a false flag. what do the satellite photos tell us? reporter: they show us that since the last set of images on july 1th were taken, there s been no significant strikes, evidence of strikes. that is, sort of the mark of an explosive impact on the ground. indeed, they show very little activity in terms of damage done to the area around the nuclear power station. so that kind of undermines the russian claim there has been these counterattacks coming from the ukrainians. at the same time recently, in fact today, i ve spoken to a number of people who ses skaepd to the town next to the nuclear power system. they say whilst they re aware of russian missile systems being fired close to to the location, they say the internet is shut down, mobil phones shut down. about half an hour later there s incoming small mortars, other we
that historically thinking would mean democrats is should lose the house in november. there have been only three exception since the 1930s. 1934 after fdr passed the new deal, 1998 after republicans overdid the lewinsky scandal and 2002 in the aftermath of 9/11, which makes this moment so, so, so interesting because we could be in for another exception to that rule, at least partially. while holding the house is still going to be tough for the democrats, the senate suddenly looks a lot better and it is not just democratic spin. here was republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday. i think there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than the senate. senate races are just different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. quote, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. he did not mention names but our friend at punch bowl news say it is an implied dig at former president donald trump who played a key role i
developments i think just about everybody thought a fairly sizable republican wave was building for november. that may still turn out to be true. we have had curveballs. the horrible mass shootings that have taken place. even with the very modest gun safety bill that passed congress and the president biden signed before july 4, it is clear people are still outraged, puzzled, frustrated this problem continues when no other country on earth has this kind of situation, certainly no industrial democracy. and the overturning of roe v. wade and the supreme court in the dobbs decision. this will be an earthquake. it will have an effect, not on every race, i do not think it will affect races in the deeply red states, but the purple states, absolutely it is having an impact. certainly in states that are normally democratic. these things may work to the democrats benefit. i hate bringing politics into mass shootings. they should simply be denounced and we ought to mourn the victims. i