You, republicans, yes, they could win the house. A new poll shows voters in Battleground States prefer Republican House candidates to democrats by six percentage points. Now, we are not saying this to gin up fear. We are saying this because it is important for us, and you, the viewer, to understand what a republicanled house would look like. Youre going to have minority leader Kevin Mccarthy, whos at the top of the list, to become the speaker in a gopcontrolled house, laying out his partys first order of business should they win. Any guesses on what that might be . Perhaps a plan to address inflation that theyre complaining about all the time, or maybe a policy to combat rising crime rates . No, neither one of those. Mccarthy plans to repeal funding that was approved by democrats to increase the number of irs employees. Republicans want to use their newfound power to push tens of thousands of americans into unemployment lines. All right on the gop to do list, taking the Debt Ceiling Ho
be controversial. it should be done in one voice. sadly, it has become political. we have to end this. what happened to paul pelosi s despicable, unacceptable. unfortunately, it has become a more dangerous place me have to do everything we can to lower the rhetoric, have a civil conversation but make sure people are safe. we are counting down to midterms, now just nine days away. we are looking at the biggest issues driving people to the polls. a new abc abscess poll shows the economy, inflation, and abortion as the top three concerns, respectively. today the chairs of both republican and democratic campaign committees gave their message to voters. exploding cost of living, a crime wave in our major cities that is the result of this defund the police nonsense. those are the issues that are top of mind for every voter in this country, that is why they are going to show up on november 8th. that is why democrats a republicans are going to win in the midterms. we will pla
ceremonies have been taking place in thailand to mark the start of a four day funeral for victims of a mass killing at a nursery. strike action leaves just 20% of regular rail services running across england, scotland and wales today as workers walk out for the 11th time this year. hello and welcome to bbc news. president putin has suffered an embarrassing setback in the war with ukraine, after a huge explosion on the only bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the bridge partially collapsed, but has now reopened to light traffic. russia annexed crimea in 2014, and after occupying these regions in red, it s managed to establish a corridor up through southern and eastern ukraine. the kerch bridge, connecting russia to the crimean peninsula in the black sea, was an important supply route for sending russian in the black sea, was an important supply route for sending russian troops and artillery into ukraine. the blast there is another humiliation for the kremlin, a
president putin has suffered an embarrassing setback in the war with ukraine, after a huge explosion on the only bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the bridge partially collasped, but has now reopened to light traffic. russia annexed crimea in 2014 and, after occupying these regions of ukraine in red, it s managed to establish a corridor up through southern and eastern ukraine. the kerch bridge connecting russia to the crimean peninsula in the black sea was an important supply route for sending russian troops and artillery into ukraine. the blast there is another humiliation for the kremlin, as our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. it is the bridge the kremlin built, and it was under attack. an explosion at dawn. this was the result. russian officials claim a lorry had been blown up here and that the fire then spread to a fuel train. whatever the cause, you can see the damage. this is the bridge that links russia to annexed crimea, and parts of the r
welcome to bbc news. president putin has suffered an embarrassing setback in the war with ukraine, after a huge explosion on the only bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the bridge partially collasped but has now reopened to light traffic. russia annexed crimea in 2014, and after occupying these regions of ukraine in red it s managed to establish a corridor up through southern and eastern ukraine. the kerch bridge, connecting russia to the crimean peninsula in the black sea, was an important supply route for sending russian troops and artillery into ukraine. the blast there is another humiliation for the kremlin, as our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. it is the bridge the kremlin built, steve rosenberg, reports. and it was under attack. steve rosenberg, reports. an explosion at dawn. steve rosenberg, reports. this was the result. steve rosenberg, reports. russian officials claim a lorry had been blown up here and that the fire then spread to a fuel