singing in italian. we start this week in one of europe s most breathtakingly beautiful destinations, venice, in north east italy. this city on water is made up of over 100 islets, interconnected by a labyrinth of picture perfect canals and elegant bridges. life around here has remained the same for hundreds of years and steadfast through that time have been the gondoliers of venice. they see themselves as custodians of the city. today, there are only 400 gondoliers left and they are almost exclusively used by tourists. so it was in the family? with the local population of around 50,000 people dwarfed by 20 million visitors every year, the gondoliers aren t short of a customer or two. and while that is good for business, the numbers swelling the main tourist areas inevitably create a huge problem. increased pollution, including discarded junk clogging up the famous waterways. but now some of the gondoliers who ply their trade in the 276 canals are doing something about it. th
prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
and former rebel gustavo petro. also crazy about cannabis, as thailand legalises marijuana we report on a boom in weed related businesses. zoolander meets zelenskyy hollywood actor ben stiller travels to ukraine, telling the president he is his hero. what you ve done in the way that you ve round the country and for the world, it s really. and for the world, it s really- - - and for the world, it s really. and for the world, it s reall , . ., welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. five general elections inside four years that is where israel is heading as the current prime minister, naftali bennett, is to step down from his post, dissolve parliament and trigger yet another election. in the meantime, the current foreign minister, yair lapid, who was due to share the prime ministerial post with mr bennet, will take temporary charge. mr bennett has been in thejob forjust over a year and has struggled to stabilise his increasingly fragile governin
has retained on much of the republican base. more republicans will be asking themselves if this is the person they want as their nominee in 2024. taken as a whole, it was devastating in the extreme and for the congressional committee tasked with investigating the most devastating attack on the u.s. capitol in centuries, hutchinson s testimony puts their probe at a crossroads with important new questions to answer, especially about the role of white house counsel pat cipollone and what he told the ex-presind top trump officials on january 6th and in the days before and after. vice chair liz cheney reiterating the panel s call for cipollone to testify. white house counsel pat cipollone had significant concerns. it s time for sip loan toe testify on the record. any concerns he has about the institutional interest of his prior offers are outweighed by the need for his testimony. punch bowl news is reporting this, quote, the january 6th select committee is likely to subpoena pat c
and the international atomic energy agency says north korea is expanding facilities at its main nuclear site. those are the latest headlines on bbc news. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. and no prizes for guessing what is on the front of them! with me are natasha clark, political and environment correspondent, and professor anand menon, director of uk in a changing europe, which describes itself as providing independent research on brexit and its impact. so, as promised, let s show you the front of those newspapers before we talk about them in detail. the guardian like every front page has the story of the conservative party voting in favour of boris johnson remaining as prime minister, as he survived a vote of confidence in his leadership. the i paper says mrjohnson won the vote by 211 to 148. that means 58.8% of the tory party support mrjohnson. but the times says the result has left borisjohnson a wounded victor as