live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 7pm in washington where a potential visit to taiwan by us house speaker nancy pelosi is stirring alarm in presidentjoe biden s administration. they fear the trip may cross red lines for china and that there is no exit path. beijing, which claims sovereignty over the island, has already issued harsh warnings even suggesting a possible military response. against this backdrop, president biden is expected to call president xi on thursday for the first time in months. for more, we can speak now to bonnie glaser, political commentator from the german marshall fund. she joins us from washington. thank you so much for talking to the bbc. give us a sense of what is going on in the corridors of power in washington with this potential visit. ~ ~ . visit. well, i think that there are different visit. well, i think that there are different points - visit. well, i think that there are diffe
legally carry firearms in public. counting is underway in two key uk by elections for the conservative party, in the first test of voters opinions since the partygate scandal. we will have live updates ahead on the programme but for now, a quick check of more news making headlines. ukraine moves a step closer tojoining the european union as it s given official candidate status. and how a heroic coach made a dramatic rescue after a swimmer fainted to the bottom of the pool at the world aquatics championships in budapest. asi as i swam as fast as i could to grab her and pull as i swam as fast as i could to grab herand pull up as i swam as fast as i could to grab her and pull up to the surface, and once i pull her up, so i wasjust, my goal was only to make her breathe. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. taliban officials in afghanistan say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south
your vote, you can act. you can have the final word. this is not over. we went off the air at 10:00 a.m. on friday, and ten minutes later, this. this is an nbc news special report. . we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in decades. the monumental ruling by the supreme court finally handed down more than a month after that unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggesting the nation s highest court was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 roe v. wade case. the nation s highest court ruling 6-3 to uphold the mississippi abortion ban being challenged. chief justice john roberts supported that, but stopped short of overturning roe. that vote was 5-4, ending the constitutional protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. the results follow decades after opponents of abortion made possible by three appointees to the high court by former presidential donald trump. the ruling reversed planned parenthoo
hour. the announcement comes after five hearings this month that were chock full of really juicy, previously unknown details and lots and lots of brand new evidence on the lengths that trump and trump officials and trump advisors and trump allies went to try and secure a second trump term illegally. the committee s chairman, bennie thompson had said more hearings were set for next month as the committee absorbs a mountain of new information from documents from the trump white house and tips from the public as well as new witnesses coming forward. politico reported this about the work of the committee in recent day, quote, the select panel has maintained its investigative work even as it ramped up its pace of hearings. documentary filmmaker alex holder who had extensive access to the trump family met with investigators last thursday morning after getting subpoenaed for his select panel for his recordings and his testimony. the panel also sent a letter to virginia tom a thomas,
congress woman jackie walorski and two of her staffers, emma thompson and zach. all killed wednesday in a head-on collision in their indiana district. plus, the family of gabby potato, who was killed last year while on a cross-country road trip with her fiance, now working to reach other domestic violence victims. fox news sits down with her mom about with the foundation at her daughter s name is doing to try to help. we begin tonight with the president in isolation but certainly not immune to the latest controversies swirling around his administration. white house corresponding kevin corke is tracking the latest development tonight. good evening. good evening. as you can well imagine, the president is trying to stay busy despite covid buried today in fact he signed an executive order directing the department of health and human services to consider working with states to use medicaid waivers to pay for expenses for women who cross state lines to receive abortions. that exe