we ll have the latest. good morning. the heat continues to build over the next few days. today it is looking dry, with strong sunshine, and it will feel very warm, especially in the south. i will have all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s sunday, iothjuly. our main story: eight candidates are now officially running in the conservative leadership contest, following a series of announcements from senior figures within the party. the former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt, are the latest to come forward and the foreign secretary, liz truss, is expected to declare in the coming days. our political correspondent, jonathan blake reports. the two newest entrance into the race are the first to set out detailed plans, and both focus on economic policy. entrants. jeremy hunt, who lost a borisjohnson in the final two last time around, promises to council rise in corporation tax, and reduce it further. to cancel. he would also cut business rates
very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right before their eyes. hello and welcome to the programme. she knew it would antagonise beijing, but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, from paying a high level visit to taiwan. she s just met the taiwanese president after addressing parliament and made it clear that the us would not abandon the island. china views taiwan as its own and the foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador in beijing to protest against pelosi s high profile trip. mark lobel has the latest. side by side with the taiwanese president america s third most powerful politician and actor provocation or a necessary show of support? nancy pelosi delayed high profile visit was never without risk, the anger of chinese has led to the us ambassador being summoned, nancy pelosi was handed an award for her strong ties to taiwan. ., , . , taiwan. today i am my delegati
Hello and welcome. Donald trumps personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is reported to be in hospital after contracting covid 19. He is understood to be receiving treatment in the Georgetown University medical facility in washington. The us president announced the news in a tweet. Heres our washington correspondent lebo diseko. Hes one of Donald Trumps closest allies. Now, Rudy Giuliani is the latest in the president s inner circle to be diagnosed with the coronavirus. Hes been spearheading mr trumps efforts to overturn the results of novembers election. This was him on wednesday at an election hearing in michigan, asking a witness to remove her mask. Would you be comfortable taking your mask off so that people could hear you more clearly . But for all the bad news about coronavirus, on sunday, some hope two vaccines to be reviewed in the next two weeks for emergency use. And they could be given out within days afterwards. What weve said is within 2a hours of fda green lighting with authorisa
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. President trump has threatened not to sign the covid relief bill that passed congress on monday night at a very torturous process. He urged congress to amend the 900 billion stimulus bill to increase payments to 2000 per american citizen. He called the bill a disgrace. But second lesson. I am asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low 600 to 2000 or 4000 for a couple. Im also asking congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation. And to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a covid relief package and maybe that administration will be me, and we will get it done. Thank you very much. President trump of course and a video message posted to twitter. We are getting a little bit more on that later from our north america correspondent peter bowes. Gatherings are more than five people are going to be banned in south Koreas