some of the transfers to that robinson walker company happened during 2015 and 2016, time when joe biden was very much vice president of the united states. john: you just saw the breaking news right here as the head of the house oversight committee, james comer, details the money trail linking the biden family with china. and comer says he has some bad news for the white house. this is just the beginning. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, see if we can top the last hour news content. sandra: here we go on this friday afternoon. chairman comer joining us after we learned the name of the third biden family member who received a cut of a wire money transferred to a business associate. white house dismissing the findings as a disgusting attack and hunter biden is counter suing the delaware computer shop owner who held on to his laptop and shared its contents with the new york post. but chairman comer tells us
And nine fire trucks, had been called to the incident. Thousands of Roman Catholics have begun paying their respects to the Pope Emeritus Benedict xvi, whose body is lying in state at the vatican. Youre watching bbc news. Now, whats killing our rivers . You see herons and dragonflies. You see lots of little fish in the shallow parts, and then, sometimes, youll see a Salmonjumping Out of the water. You start to realise how many people dont have stuff like this, particularly in lockdown, when we were very grateful to have it. These School Friends have made the most of a record breaking summer, like thousands of others. But theres something wrong with our rivers. What a sad sight to see. Its absolutely devastating, what were finding up here today. Look at the water, look at this. Just look at it. This is algae. Its taking over our rivers and waterways. And when human and animal waste gets into a river, not only is it bad for our health, it is also full of nutrients like phosphate which ac
hello, welcome to the programme. we have got another action packed programme for you tonight. coming up, the white house says they have still had no consular access to anerican journalist evan gershkovich, who is being held by the russians on spying charges. we will speak tonight from the former soviet dissident natan sharansky, who was held in the same moscow prison in the 1970s. we will also hearfrom mark urban on his continiung investigation into russia s 331 parachute regiment, and the losses that unit has sustained in ukraine. but we start tonight with the clean up within britain s biggest police force. the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, who was appointed in september, believes there are hundreds of corrupt officers serving in the force who should not be in the job. and so concerned is he at the scale of the problem, that around 90 of his officers from serious and organised crime have been tasked with investigating their own. this morning, sir mark set out the plans
people growing older and better medicine keeping people alive longer, the french people say no to the plans. highest constitutional court is expecting to give a ruling next week as to whether or not the law is constitutional or whether parts of it have to be reined in. the protestors hoping to put enough pressure on the french president already survived loss of his majority in the parliament and two votes of nonconfidence to back down, scrap the plan and then everything will stay as it is right now. we ll see if that happens. something happened, not sure if american would come. right now the war between russia and, you know, ukraine, probably they would support financially but not physically, not maybe just sending missiles, that kind of thing, not really helping us. is it worrying to you about a possible invasion? sort of, but not too much. sort of, yeah. john: some residents of taiwan reacting to the threat from china as we wait to hear from the white house about
perhaps the midlands heading through the afternoon. and there is confirmation of a cold at the link, three degrees in aberdeen, nine or ten in the south but there will be places in the blue colours that struggle to get above freezing. through tomorrow night we will see wintry showers particularly in shetland, snow could really accumulate and it will be when the. on wednesday, we start to change things, this rain comes in from the west, may be some snow briefly on the leading edge but notice to produce starting to climb again. let s take a look at that fight between the cold air and the milder air. heading to the end of the week, it is the mile there that is set to win out, a bit of uncertainty, some of the cold air could cling on in the far north of scotland but for most of us, for the end of the week, temperatures will be climbing up to around 1a or 15 degrees. but no snow in the forecast for the end of the week, it will be rain falling instead. . , , ~ instead. that is