This is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where donald trump can celebrate perhaps the biggest victory of his presidency so far. Well, sort of. The house of representatives has passed a Major Overhaul of the nations tax laws. It includes steep cuts for the wealthy. The senate has still to vote that could happen in the next few hours. But a last minute procedural hitch with the bills passage could mean lawmakers having to vote again on wednesday, though its not expected to change the outcome. This was the moment when the bill passed the lower house the first time round on tuesday. The wire and our 227 and the nays are 223. The yays are 227. Today this raises taxes on 86 million middle class families. Hands 83 of the tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 . Well, donald trump has welcomed the house vote on social media. He tweeted his congratulations to what he said were the great republicans who had voted to cut taxes for american
Donald trump the first big legislative win of his presidency. It sets out the biggest changes to the tax system in three decades. Republicans say it will boost growth and revive the economy, democrats argue it benefits americas richest and will inflate the deficit. The president s celebrations may be put off for another day though, because a technicality with the wording of the bill means the lower house of Congress Must vote again tomorrow. Our correspondent david willis is in washington for us. How you see the bill depends on your politics. Descriptions from republicans and democrats could come from different universe is . You are absolutely right. They voted in favour in the house of representatives but because of a procedural glitch, they will have to vote or over again in the morning. We are still waiting on a senate vote but it is unlikely this will change the outcome and every indication that President Trump will sign this controversial measure into law in the next few days and
Donald trump the first big legislative win of his presidency. It sets out the biggest changes to the tax system in three decades. Republicans say it will boost growth and revive the economy, democrats argue it benefits americas richest and will inflate the deficit. The president s celebrations may be put off for another day, though, because a technicality with the wording of the bill means the lower house of Congress Must vote again later on wednesday. The bbcs david willis is in washington. There are still waiting on a senate vote on this bill tonight, but its unlikely all of this will change the outcome and every indication that President Trump will sign this controversial measure into law in the next few days, possibly as early as tomorrow. This bill includes permanent tax cuts for corporations and temporary tax cuts for individual american citizens. Nonetheless, around 80 of the American Population is expected to see some sort of tax cut starting from next year. Democrats, of cours
The course of years or decades, but in a single day. Im rebecca jones, and im here at the magnum photo print room in london in this special series celebrating the 70th anniversary of the agency Magnum Photos. Im going to introduce you to some of the worlds greatest living photographers. Coming up, the british photographer who was in berlin the night the wall came down, the american who captured the shock and terror of 9 11, and the iranian who wasnt afraid to show the violence on both sides of the revolution. But first, lets meet ian berry, who was the only photographer to witness the Sharpeville Massacre in south africa in 1960. A turning point for the anti apartheid movement. News came through that the police had shot a guy in this township, sharpeville. I got there and chatted to the protesters and what have you and they were all friendly enough. In fact it all seemed a bit dull. And id more or less given up, i walked back to the car and the cops opened fire. You can see here that t
Coming up. Three social media giants face a grilling. We sat in this committee, in a public hearing, and raised a clearly vile anti semitic tweet with your organisation, it was discussed, and it is still there. ello, ello, ello, whats all this then . As someone who was Police Minister when we had 21,000 more Police Officers than now, the minister needs to go back to the drawing board. Hear, hear. And the lords talk about. The lords. To put it mildly, my lords, we are not loved. But first, twitter has been strongly criticised for repeatedly failing to remove abusive tweets. The company was appearing before the home affairs committee, alongside facebook and google. The mps they faced were clearly angry and frustrated at what they saw as the failure of social media giants to deal with offensive and inflammatory content. The statistics are quite amazing. Half the worlds population use these sites every day. Its thought that 400 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute and every