new details on the company that the governor hired to transport unsuspecting migrants across the country, and its links to other top republicans. plus, how pleading the fifth and his fraud case could doom the disgraced ex president. the astonishing scenes of protests in iran. all in, starting right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. republicans unveiled their agenda, if you can call it that, if they retake the house this november. before we get to that, the most revealing preview on what it comes to look like, came earlier this week. that is what the overwhelming majority of the house republican conference voted against a law, that would clarify the language of the electoral count act. that is a somewhat obscure piece of legislation for the 19th century, governing how presidents are elected, and how members of congress can object to electors. this would just fix part of it to, explicitly, state what was obvious. that a sitting president, and his supporters i
be sent back to myanmar. and a helping hand for graduates. president biden cancels $10,000 of student debt for millions of americans. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in ukraine, where the country s president, volodymyr zelensky, says a russian missile strike on a rail station has killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more. mr zelensky had previously warned that russia might do something cruel to disrupt ukraine s independence day which coincidentally fell on the same day as the six month anniversary of the invasion. this is the current state of play in the country with russia controlling ukrainian territory in the south and east. the southern front, around the occupied city of kherson, is where ukraine says it is planning a counter offensive. from there, our correspondent quentin sommerville sent this report. once more into the line of fire an
that s why you re seeing this kind of anger spilling into the streets. obviously, there have been uprisings before, there had been protests. the green movement, which i noted before. sometimes, those protest movements have been channeled into more reformist parties, reformist candidates, although those have found themselves delisted for election by hard-liners in the supreme council. where do you see this going right now? is it sort of a normal blowing off of steam, an airing of grievances, or is there something deeper here in terms of the stability of the regime? there is nothing normal about this. there is nothing normal about people coming out into the streets and [inaudible] their demands. it s truly amazing to see what is happening there. where this goes really depends on the extent of force the government uses to repress them. in 2019, when there were massive protests across the country, hundreds were killed,
but his supporters say the clock started ticking only when the constitution came in or when he won an election three years ago. 0ur south east asia correspondent jonathan head reports from bangkok. when he seized power in a coup, general prayuth chan o cha told the thai people it was a short term measure to restore stability. eight years later, and he s still in office. many thais say that s long enough. and so does the constitution, which general prayuth had draughted after his coup. the reason general prayuth is still here is that conservative thais, who feared the rising popularity of reformist parties, decided he was still their best bet at the last election three years ago. and while he didn t actually campaign, preferring only to appear on screen, his constitution gave his side enough advantages to ensure