Our website, cspan. Org, type attacks on federal employees in the search box which youll find at the top of our home page. The u. S. Senate is about to gavel in on this wednesday morning, Senate Lawmakers plan to resume debates on appealing wavers on states to offer low cost Insurance Plans with the Affordable Care act 12 15 eastern toed and lawmakers plan to turn to 2020 federal spending on several departments including agricultural commerce, and housing. Now to live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The u. We offer you today a sacrifice of thanksgiving for we borrow our heartbeats from you. Inspire our lawmakers to love discipline and cherish your word, seeking always to glorify you. May they trust your power and wisdom to supply what is needed to keep our nation strong. Have your way, sovereign god. You are the potter. We are the clay. Mold and make us after your will while we are waiting, yielded, and still. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please
At the end of the month. The home secretary calls on facebook to rethink plans to encrypt messages across its platforms. Walking out former conservative leadership contender rory stewart resigns from the party and plans to stand for mayor of london coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. Encouraging progress for andy murray. He was quite chipper today, he says hes been playing his best tennis yet on the singles comeback trail. Thats despite a quarterfinal defeat in china today. And theres been a big win for south africa over italy at the Rugby World Cup. Thanks olly and helen has all the weather. Wet conditions set to continue. U nfortu nately, yes, unfortunately, yes, thats right, martin, as storm lorenzo is approaching quite rapidly, we look for the next significant rainmaker coming up. I will have the details just before the bottom of the hour. Hello, this is afternoon live, im martine croxall. A damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for
Intimidation and bullying. China has been celebrating 70 years of communist rule but in hong kong more violent demonstrations. The police have been using teargas, pepper spray and live rounds. And biologists have discovered one of the oldest remnants of evolution seen in humans yet. Well have the details. 30 days til brexit is due to happen. We can bring you right up to date. Weve started to get an idea on how the uk thinks it can leave the eu and avoid border checks between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland. This matters because its the biggest single block to a deal on how the uk leaves. Tony connelly from Irelands National broadcaster rte got the scoop on this. He put this on twitter late last night. The Prime Minister has since disputed that the leak is entirely accurate but says he accepts the reality of customs checks. Hes been interviewed by the bbcs laura kuenssberg. If the eu is going to insist on customs checks, as we come out, as it is, then we will have to accept
What we are going to do. Borisjohnson divides. Hes been speaking for the last. Searching for support in the crowd that fast emerged. Do you think we should we get out on 31 october . Crowd cheers. But, just weeks into his time in office, hes been defeated in parliament, thrown out some of his mps. Even his brother quit as a minister in government to spend less time with his family. Its been an honour to be mp for orpington and a minister under three governments, but its time to move on, and ive got to get to work. Not much more work as an mp now. Jojohnson was on a completely different side in the brexit argument, but had resolved to work for his brother in government. Not anymore. Citing concerns over the Prime Ministers approach, he wrote on twitter, in recent weeks ive been torn between family loyalty and the national interest. Its an unresolvable tension. Time for others to take on my roles as mp and minister. Over and out. Youre stuck, arent you . Because parliament wont allow you
Well be live on the us east coast as Hurricane Dorian brings flooding. Meanwhile in the bahamas, the situation is desperate. Record breaking winds and massive storm surges flipped cars and even shipping containers far onto the land. But all around here is an area that is been totally leveled. Thats been totally leveled. And facebook launches a dating service in the us well be live in new york to hear all about it. If youre confused by brexit, if youre struggling to keep up with all the developments, dont worry, were all feeling like that. But dont worry, were going to take you through another mind bending day in british politics and why it matters so much. Before we get into today a reminder that already this week, borisjohnson has lost his parliamentary majority, kicked out 21 mps from his own party some of them giants of the conservative party, lost an mp to the liberal democrats, lost an effort to call an election, been defeated in 4 parliamentary votes thats every one hes faced as