the status tonight of that small bipartisan receive fort to try to get something done there. reporter: well, david, the house is on track to pass sweeping gun control legislation tonight. it does include raising the age limit to purchase a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21, but the vast majority of republicans in the senate are not onboard with that. so, instead, they are working with democrats on a measure that would be more limited. that includes strengthening background checks, funding to enact red flag laws, for mental health and school security. as of right now, raising the age is not in the discussions. david? rachel, thank you. we turn now to the arrest tonight, the suspect accused of planning to skill supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. the man arrested with a piston, zip ties, and burglary tools. what he told police he was setting out to do. tonight, he s now charged with attempted murder. and here s our chief justice
i was down interviewing trump right before the 2020 election. he ran videos of people watching congress, senators watching him give the state of the union address. and he said, see the hate, see the hate, when people were just listening. what we need to divest or slough address individuals and in the political system, if possible. what is interesting is where the hate toolk them. such a level of criminality that we had never seen, and now we see again through the piston of hate, a level of criminality in trump s white house, perhaps even exceeding nixon s, and then we see this essentially difference as to where the hate
protests have already been held over the ten days since the shooting, but now the release of the video has the potential to spark a wider outcry. the officer, whose name has not yet been released, faces an investigation. well america yet again grapples with the piston my question posed by the shooting of an unarmed black man. john sudworth, bbc news, washington. elon musk is offering to buy the social media platform twitter. the tesla boss says he will pay around £30 billion for the company. earlier this week, twitter offered him a seat on its board, after he bought a 9% stake in the company. twitter is holding a meeting with all its staff this evening to discuss the proposal. it s every author s dream winning a major award and recognition with your very first novel. it s a feat that douglas stuart achieved with shuggie bain, when it won the booker prize in 2020. now he s back with his second book, young mungo, published today. he s been talking to our arts correspondent, rebecca
harvest heat from the world, what we need is something really, really cold. and one way to do that is to take a liquid, like if you example, and one way to do that is to take a liquid, is to take a liquid, like butane for example, and what we are going to do is we are actually going to expand it very fast. so, watch, you ll see the liquid coming out. and as we do that, look at the temperature. so a thermometer, it s gone to 28, and it s getting colder and colder, 8, 40, 41, 42, 43 celsius. so even if it s 5, 10, we ve still got 30 degrees of warmth outside that you can harvest into your gas. so, you ve drawn all this energy and what it s done is, is it now warms your gas back up again. and now comes the secret of the heat pump. what it s going to do is, it s going to compress that gas. let me just illustrate that with this piston. we ve got air inside, and when i press that down, really fast, what s that going to do is is going to heat up the air inside of the cotton wool so mu