Supposed to attend the white house ceremony tomorrow. The president has repeatedly and publicly criticized players for not standing for the anthem. Hes alled them sons of bitches. He aggressively lobbied owners to force players to stand for the anthem. Hes gone so far to say the owners should fire players who protest. Now the president is falsely claiming the eagles players dont want to stand for the anthem. Thats right, falsely claiming they dont want to stand. Ill explain that. Joining me now on the phone is the mayor of philadelphia, jim kenney. The president just tweeted this, the Philadelphia Eagles Football Team was i vieted to the white house. Unfortunately only a small number of players decided to come and we cancel issed the event. Staying in the locker room for the playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling, sorry. Heres the thing. None of the philadelphia players stayed in the locker room. None of them took a knee for the season. So what he
Plus, President Trump disinvites the super bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles who were supposed to attend the white house ceremony tomorrow. The president has repeatedly and publicly criticize not standing for the anthem. Hes called them sons of bitches. He aggressively lobbied owners to force players to stand for the anthem. Hes gone so far to say the owners should fire players who protest. Now the president is fly claiming the eagles players dont want to stand for the anthem. Thats right, falsely claiming they dont want to stand. Ill explain that. Joining me now on the phone is the mayor of philadelphia, jim kenney. The president just tweeted this, the Philadelphia Eagles Football Team was invited to the white house. Unfortunately only a small number of players decided to come and we canceled the event. Staying in the locker room for the playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling, sorry. Heres the thing. None of the philadelphia players stayed in the
Coming up tonight the murder in turkey of a saudi dissident has turned the soul of the crown prince into a political pariah and for some a suspect in a murder case today the prince went public with his royal rendition of reality. That is we know that many are trying to use this painful thing to drive a wedge between saudi arabia and. I would like to send a message they will not be able to do that as long as there is a king called king solomon abdulaziz and a crown prince called Mohammed Bin Salman in saudi arabia business and. Thank you thank you. For we begin the day with a string of melbournes all addressed to the u. S. Is top figures in the Democratic Party along the u. S. Eastern seaboard today police and bomb squads responded to suspicious packages that contained homemade explosives well lets take a look at how this story unfolded the spree of bomb alerts kicked off on monday with a device found at the new york home of billionaire liberal donor george soros late on tuesday a quote
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later. The government will explain how its test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid 19. If there is a flare up in one particular community, and that could be on quite a small scale like a particular workplace or school, then measures can be introduced, local lockdowns may be introduced which hopefully the public will get to tackle regional outbreaks behind, enable us to control of coronavirus in the future. The virus in that locality. The Prime Minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps theres no timeframe yet, later amid continued calls for his top adviser but the government says itll Dominic Cummings to resign. Be part of the test, track and trace system. Some Health Officials are concerned elsewhere riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up about getting the public on board
Her if she was sent back home also coming up. Bracing for braggs it was the day for britains departure from the e. U. Draws ever closer look at how one british family is preparing for the worst. And a night of surprises at the Golden Globes in los angeles a movie about the british rock band queen defying expectations to take the top awards for best drama and best actor and veteran actress one close is also rewarding for a film fee says no one in hollywood wanted to make you take a look at the winners and the losers. Plus sports acting again as a peacemaker a joint korean mens team preparing for the handball World Championships in germany and in denmark we hear from the coach and the players about what it means to compete to be unified dream team. Brian thomas thanks so much for being with us Human Rights Watch says a saudi teen whos fleeing abuse has barricaded herself in a hotel room at a bangkok airport to avoid deportation targets already say rough mohammed oka noone would be sent b