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Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where donald trump can celebrate perhaps the biggest victory of his presidency so far. Well, sort of. The house of representatives has passed a Major Overhaul of the nations tax laws. It includes steep cuts for the wealthy. The senate is expected to vote shortly. A last minute glitch could mean lawmakers having to vote again though its not expected to change the outcome. Republicans are celebrating. 227 and the no, 203, it is adopted. It is laid upon the table today we raise taxes on 86 million middle class families. 86 million middle class families. 86 million middle class families. 86 million middle class families. 83 of the tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 . Well donald trump has welcomed the house vote on social media. He tweeted his congratulations to what he said were the great republicans who had voted to cut taxes for americans. I asked our correspondent in washington, david willis, to run through what the president s
This is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where donald trump can celebrate perhaps the biggest victory of his presidency so far. Well, sort of. The house of representatives has passed a Major Overhaul of the nations tax laws. It includes steep cuts for the wealthy. The senate has still to vote that could happen in the next few hours. But a last minute procedural hitch with the bills passage could mean lawmakers having to vote again on wednesday, though its not expected to change the outcome. This was the moment when the bill passed the lower house the first time round on tuesday. The wire and our 227 and the nays are 223. The yays are 227. Today this raises taxes on 86 million middle class families. Hands 83 of the tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 . Well, donald trump has welcomed the house vote on social media. He tweeted his congratulations to what he said were the great republicans who had voted to cut taxes for american
Thousand revenger. Meanwhile journalists in myanmar staged a sit in protest against the governments decision to charge to reuters journalists covering a range of crisis theyre accused of acquiring information illegally to share with foreign media trial stratfor reports. The two journalists were arrested on december the twelfth. Theyve been covering the crisis in Rakhine State where hundreds of thousands of revenge of muslims have fled a crackdown on the Myanmar Military thirty one year old while alone and sure still twenty seven are accused of being given classified documents by two policemen prosecutors have charged them under the countrys official secrets act which carries a maximum sentence of fourteen years in jail no im not a little over many out and this is unacceptable and i want to tell you that they are charging us like this to stop us finding their actions are wrong and unfair. Is facing heavy International Criticism over its treatment of the ranger the latest crackdown was s