The governments promised all students who achieved the required a level grades will be offered a place at their First Choice University. A prominent critic of the russian government is in intensive care his supporters say hes been poisoned. A man is found guilty of lacing baby food with shards of metal in a plot to blackmail the Supermarket Chain tesco. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hashem abedi the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has been sentenced to at least 55 years injail, for the murder of 22 people. Abedi refused to attend his two day sentencing hearing and face the families of those who died, who gave emotional statements about the impact of the attack in 2017. Number 10 have issued a statment from boris johnson, the Prime Minister, on the sentencing of hashem abedi. Mrjohnson says, the Manchester Arena attack was a horrifying and cowardly act of violence which targeted children and families. Those who were taken from us will never be forgotten, nor will the sp
And the aflcios Richard Trumka talks about Union Members and campaign 2020. Then priorities usa chairman guy cecil talks about his super pacs role in the election. Washington journal is next. Ccept yours i a nomination for Vice President of the United States of america. That was californias democratic senator, kamala this is the washington journal for august 20. Joe biden will accept his nomination. You can see that starting at 9 00 this evening. For the next hour your comments on the event of the Democratic Convention including senator harriss acceptance speech. Yo if you support joe biden, 202 7488000. If you support President Trump, 202 7488001. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. Cspanwj, and you can post on our facebook page. Our coverage starts at 9 00 tonight for the final night of the Democratic National convention which you will hear from joe biden and senator cory booker and the former mayor of south bend indiana, former president ial candidate,
Little bit better this morning effect today and again likely with that onshore flow. Over the next several days. With it were looking at our temperatures will be temperatures that are in the actually slightly below average 50s, the 60s this morning. For this time of year. You can see the green and mid 60s in San Francisco and yellow dots indicating good to low 70s oakland and upper 70s moderate air quality. But still for parts of the san jose. And mid 80s for concord. Peninsula, dealing with that ill talk more about that labor unhealthy air, you can see those red and even purple dots day weekend forecast coming up. Gianna . Good morning, those brake lights are building into the and that does indicate Altamont Pass were seeing heavy ride already as you work unhealthy to very unhealthy air out of tracy. Over on to 580 make that can to Mountain View from san jose. Connector. Unhealthy air for union city thats our slowest spot this morning. Give yourself a few extra minutes and as far as 6
Between the union and the school board and the School District, it feels like from those those other entities, and i want to say that the purpose of this meeting was to figure out how the city can best support families and the School District and educators. Because i agree with the comments of Susan Sullivan that the caste that the educators have in front of them is so monumental. And it is difficult to roll out distance teaching and learning, which is what you are doing, and also at the same time to simultaneously provide for the needs of families to do what needs to be done in households to make that education work and meaningful. So what i see the role of the city is and i want to take my at off to maria sue and her staff and the mayor who stepped up and are trying to play a useful role in in the in one area of where families need help. And it is the area that is most complicated because how to provide safe child care so that theres an adult, you know, helping the teachers to teach
Detecting new cyberattacks from russia, china and iraq election. The clock ticking away for tiktok. President trump says theyll be no extension for the sale of popular chinese app. Ceos calling on de blasio to crack down on crime. The dax index lower by 46, the uk economy rebounding. Gdp up 6. 6 in the month of july for uk. In uk green across the board. Best performers were in hong kong, japan and china all up 3 quarters of 1 . Now some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump slamming joe bidens record on jobs saying the democratic nominee nearly killed the u. S. Auto industry during Campaign Rally in michigan. Joe biden supported the Transpacific Partnership which would have been death to auto jobs. I withdrew from the tpp, that was so easy. You wouldnt have been making cars, you would have been making cars from foreign lands. Dagen made in america platform in michigan that ensures penalty. Wild fires ravaging the west coast. 16 are still missing. County