him even as the police arrived. the new details coming in, including how police knew to respond to the pelosi home. and the suspect s twisted stolen election thoughts pushed online. plus, the attack underscores the alarming number of threats to u.s. lawmakers and their families. how much is the current political climate to blame? and 11 days out from election day and the big names hitting the field late in the game that may signal concern about midterm victories. welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. we begin with the national lead. right now, house speaker nancy pelosi is rushing to a san francisco hospital to be with her husband who was viciously assaulted overnight. police say 82-year-old paul pelosi was attacked with a hammer after a man broke into their home. the speaker was not there at the time. her office says that her husband is expected to make a full recovery. cnn reports the intruder shouted where s nancy?! during the attack and tried to
benedict xvi who he says, is very ill. and britain is on course to record its warmest year ever, after a summer of heatwaves, wildfires and drought. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. america has become the latest country to impose mandatory covid tests on chinese tourists, after beijing announced it would reopen its borders next week. it comes as china s covid cases surge. tighter measures have also been imposed by italy, japan, malaysia, taiwan and india. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams reports. from the world s most populous nation, alarming scenes china s hospitals overwhelmed, covid infections soaring. the country s abrupt decision to dismantle much of its strict covid regime apparently yielding worrying results. wards full of desperately ill people. outside this hospital in chengdu, a queue for emergency services. government officials say the situation is under control. that s not what these pictures suggest. at this funeral home,
pope francis asks people to pray for his predecessor, benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. and us politicians are ordered by congress to delete the chinese owned app tiktok from their phones, saying it represents high risk to users. welcome to bbc news. america has become the latest country to impose mandatory covid tests on chinese tourists amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus after beijing announced it would reopen its borders next week. the uk is now also considering something similar, while tighter measures have also been imposed by italy, japan, malaysia, taiwan and india. not all countries are on the same page, however. australia has said it will not change its policy on chinese arrivals. china has announced one further death in the last 2a hours, bringing the official death toll to 5,246, though experts believe the real toll to be far, far higher. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams has this report. from the world s most populous nation, alarming scenes
to scrutiny or facts and runs counter to the truth. pope francis asks people to pray for his predecessor, benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. we start this hour with some breaking news a big fire is blazing at a casino hotel in north west cambodia, on the border with thailand. the authorities in the city of poipet say at least ten people are confirmed dead and another 30 are being treated for injuries. our news reporter azadeh moshiri joins us in the studio. what else do we know about this? what we narine hours at several people have died and at least 30 have been injured. authorities say the flames are under control right now thanks to the efforts of firefighters from both thailand and cambodia, but the police did not give a final last update on the casualties right now. now, when you look at these flames, the word fire seems like it just doesn t cut it because these are massive claims engulfing this entire building. in fact, it is more of a complex, the grand diamond c
it s 6am here in singapore and also in taiwan, where a retired military commander has told the bbc the island would be unable resist the use of force by an increasingly assertive china. it follows a warning by the us secretary of state anthony blinken that beijing is pursuing unification on a much faster timeline than previously thought. our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has been to front line taiwanese island ofjinmen, just a few kilometres off the chinese coast, to assess the growing threat. the island ofjinmen is so close to china, they used to blast anti communist propaganda from these giant speakers to people living on the chinese coast. it all looks peaceful today, a tourist curiosity. but twice in the last 70 years, china has tried to cross these narrow straits. the island is still a fortress covered in tunnels, bunkers and lookouts. so the main island of taiwan is 150 kilometres away across the taiwan strait, but this is the realfront line between taiwan and ma