details in the programme. it s saturday the fifth of november. our main story: passengers are being warned to expect significant disruption on the railways today, despite strike action being called off. tens of thousands of rail workers had been due to walk out in the long running dispute over pay and working conditions. strikes planned for monday and wednesday have also been cancelled, as negotiations between the rmt union and train operators are stepped up. our business correspondent, marc ashdown reports. today s strike action may have been called off but widespread disruption will continue. network rail welcomed the decision but says services which had been cancelled can t be reinstated at such late notice. a reduced strike timetable means just 20% of services will run across england, scotland and wales. those which do will start much later and finished by the early evening. thousands of members of the rmt union of 1a real companies and network rail are involved in the lo
defend taiwan with u.s. troops if china invades. setting off another episode of confusion over american policy and prompting a condemnation from beijing. there were also comments about inflation and his own political future. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. this was president biden s first sitdown interview with a u.s. reporter in more than seven months. and in it we learned white house officials have been holding out on us because it s unclear when or if they planned to tell us the pandemic is a thing of the past. which way are we going? this way. pete: president biden back in the u.s. after the queen s funeral and the country has changed a lot since he left. the pandemic is over. it wasn t just four days ago. we are dealing with at global challenge of a once that generation pandemic. and it isn t for administration officials who claim they have legal grounds to canc
penn biden center in washington. appointed by the attorney general is also investigating the matter. lucas tomlinson live in the white house with the very latest. good after arthel sunday morning futures newly appointed house speaker kevin mccarthy says the republicans will go after these documents but they will be starting their own investigations as well to just mention. now we are finding time in again garage door open and closes with a push of a button. how many years has this vice president been in office for more than 40 years had these documents? how long they ve been out of their question they apply special counsel but how many do they apply to that in president trump as well? adam schiff the former of the committee damage assessment when they raided former president mar lagos state to see if there is any breach of national security, can t rule out doing the same thing with arthel with biden. i don t think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more th
a low profile after his defeat in brazil s presidential election. police in india arrest nine people in connection with the collapse of a bridge in gujarat, in which at least 144 people died. an important date in the us political calendar approaches we ll assess the current political mood. with a week until the us elections, i m in the hometown of presidentjoe biden in pennsylvania. it s 8am in singapore, and 2am in ukraine, where the government there says power and water supplies across the country have been badly hit after russia launched a wave of missile attacks across the country. in the capital kyiv, the mayor says 4 out of 5 people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine, from the frontline battlefields of the donbas to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated,
watching in the united states, and around the world, i m anna coren. this hour on cnn newsroom, we are seeing millions of people across america casting their vote in the midterms and election day is more than two weeks away. coming up, why so many are voting early this year. and former british prime minister boris johnson could be vying for his old job. ahead, why the tories may support the boris or bust campaign. we re live from london. and later the symptoms of the viral respiratory illness known as rsv that parents need to be aware of and what to do if their child has it. in just over two weeks u.s. voters will head to the polls and determine which party will control the house and senate. with so much at stake politicians have been hitting the campaign trail with urgency trying to clinch dozens of seats up for grabs. 218 seats are needed to control the house. right now it looks like republicans have a slight lead with 212 likely wins. in the senate three seats are