tonight at ten. questions about twitter s future direction as the world s richest man finally seals the deal. the billionaire elon musk has made a career out of grandiose business ventures. how will he shape his new acquisition? elon likes these profound challenges of humanity, like going to space, or, like, completely changing the carbon emissions systems and transportation and energy, and now he s trying to fix the problems in social media. donald trump says that twitter is now in safe hands, but a new committee will decide whether he will be allowed back onto twitter. we ll be asking whether mr musk s belief in absolute free speech might lead to fewer restrictions on misinformation and abuse. also on the programme. after months of political deadlock at stormont, a snap election is called in northern ireland but no date is given. you have shown absolutely no remorse, and it appears that you are in complete denial. a murder sentence is televised for the first time in england
it appears you are in complete denial. a murder sentence is televised for the first time in england and wales jemma mitchell is given life for the killing and decapitation of her friend. the british government will call a snap election in northern ireland after politicians in the devolved government failed to restore power sharing at stormont. #.great balls of fire!# and the music industry pays tribute tojerry lee lewis one of rock and roll s all time greats, who s died aged eighty seven. hello and welcome. there s been a new wave of deadly clashes in iran. activitsts say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city of zahedan. it follows a similar crackdown in the same city nearly a month ago, during protests over the death of mahsa amini. robin brant reports. six weeks in and these protests show no sign of abating. the opposite in fact. this is the scene of violent confrontation again. and the tactics continue to be unbe
dangerous rhetoric. we re talking, of course, about the elevation of some of the fringiest of the fringe members of the republican caucus, the seats on important congressional committees. when we say it is happening on today of all days, that s because today would have been the late congressman elijah cummings 72nd birthday. he passed away in 2019, the son of sharecroppers, he would go on to become a force of nature in congress, and ultimately the chairman of the powerful house oversight committee. when we re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy in tact? did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? there are efforts to stop people from voting. that s not right! this is not russia! this is the united states of america! and i will fight until the death to make sure every citizen, whether they re green party, whether they re freedom party, whether they re democrat, whether they re republican, whoever
what more do we know about the attack? reporter: we re still learning more about the stunning attack. she was not there at time but her husband, paul pelosi, who was 82 years old was at the time. and what wae re learning is an assail aent broke into the couple s home and attacked paul pelosi with a hammer. the speaker s office put out a statement of what they believe has happened. they said early this morning an assailant broke into the pelosi resident in san francisco and violently assaulted mr. pelosi. the assailant is in custody and the motivation is under investigation. mr. pelosi was taken to the hospital where he is receiving excellent medical care and the speaker was not in san francisco at the time. we have learned that the speaker was in d.c. at the time. she s been traveling across the country raising money, appearing in campaign stops as we head into the critical midterm elections. sometimes paul pelosi travels with her and oftentimes he does not. he has his own