Troubled travel operator thomas cook begins rescue talks with banks and its largest shareholder. And englands netballers start their World Cup Campaign tonight with a match against uganda in liverpool. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The American Military says its trying to put together a coalition to protect commercial shipping in the gulf after the royal navy had to intervene to help a british tanker which was being confronted by iranian vessels. The foreign secretaryjeremy hunt has promised to reverse cuts to the size of the royal navy if he becomes Prime Minister. Rising tensions with iran have led to uk merchant vessels being placed on the highest security alert near the strait of hormuz. On one side are the arab states, including a number of key allies. On the other, iran. Between them, the strait of hormuz at its narrowest point, its only 21 miles across. But in total, a fifth of the worlds oil exports are squeezed through this tiny corridor. So any disruption
The countdown is on. After nearly 70 years open championship golf returns to royal portrush this time tomorrow. And while the some rain input rose, todayit and while the some rain input rose, today it stays dry and fairly warm, here in sydney. See you in 15 minutes. Good morning. Its wednesday, july 17. Our top story comments made by President Trump about four congresswomen have been condemned as racist by the us house of representatives. The president called for the women from minority backgrounds to go back to their countries of origin, despite all being us citizens. Shortly after the vote, a democrat politician called for mr trump to be impeached. Our north america correspondent david willis reports. A row that started in cyberspace became all the more human, not to mention personal on the floor of the Nations Capital after the president was accused of racism. The comments from the white house a disgraceful and disgusting and those comments are racist. Senior republicans have since
Host good morning. Thursday, august 10. Welcome to the washington journal. This morning, we will begin with the abortion debate and how it will impact your vote in the 2024 election. Republicans dial in at 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send a text message and include your first name, city, and state to 202 7488003 or post on facebook. Com cspan or on x cpsanwj. Ohio is a roadmap for 2024 after ohio voted in an off year election in summertime to reject a Ballot Initiative that would have restricted abortion or abortion efforts. Now, democrats nationally are looking at this as a roadmap. The power of reproductive rights in recent elections is prompting democrats to rethink their 2024 strategy. From the Washington Post, they begin with, even in redleaning states, support for abortion rights is proving to be a potent electoral force. In ohio, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made it harder to add abortion rights to the states c
We use it as an integral one, and of course, no, there is one, there is no one solutions that could be used and dramatically improve the quality, this is a system of measures, i want to say that today we have in our line almost all the measures to ensure that the quality of Higher Education in the regions improves, we have, and we are implementing a number of projects, the First Flagship a large project aimed at developing universities, many of which are located in the regions, this is the priority 2030 program, this program is aimed at. Stimulating new projects, implementing new projects in our universities. The second big project, which complementary to the priority 2030 program this is a project for the construction of student campuses, or they are often also called campuses. 17 projects are already being implemented, the vast majority of them, naturally, in our regions, to be precise, 16 of them are being implemented in the regions, in total the president has set a task to build 40
Return to the houses, in the morning of the test a fire broke out, the building was filled with thick smoke, reasons what happened is being clarified. Today , the ministry of emergency situations is checking the Warning System throughout the country. Sirens and loudspeakers have already sounded in kamchatka; they were launched at 10 40 local time in all areas of petropavlovskokamchatsky and other cities. The broadcast of Public Television and radio channels was interrupted. Such signals are turned on when there is a threat to the population in emergency situations. Including tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption. The test took place in primorye from 10 to 11 am, the system will be turned on in other russian regions. The ministry of emergency situations recommends hearing sounds sirens, remain calm and listen to information messages on television or radio. Similar inspections are carried out regularly; the current one has become part of the ministry of emergency situations exercises on