And wildfires threaten parts of greece as strong Winds Fan the flames through the Countryside North of athens. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Police officers who tried to prevent Donald Trumps supporters from storming the us Capitol Building Injanuary have been giving dramatic evidence at the start of an inquiry into what happened. The panel will look at the reasons for the riot, which happened as lawmakers gathered to certify President Biden s election victory. But the inquiry s already been undermined by partisan divisions with many republicans refusing to take part. Our correspondent Barbara Plett Usher reports from washington. Do you swear to affirm that the testimony you are about to give. Police officers who defended the capitoljust months ago formed a steady Blue Line as they prepared to testify. It was a sharp contrast to the Chaos Injanuary when they were overrun by a mob of trump supporters trying to overturn the results of an election that hed
Could become mandatory for more people. Public sector, private sector, not just New York, all over the country. This is the shape of things to come. Weve got to get people vaccinated. Weve got to be more aggressive. California wildfires forcing new evacuations overnight as crews work around the clock to contain them. We took a little drive to the road right around this corner, and you could see the flames. That was the first time we saw the actual red, hot flames. And that was pretty spooky. We thought, okay, well thats getting really close. The fires out west, even creating some extreme fire phenomena. All right, good morning everybody. It is sunday, july 25th. Im lindsey reiser. And im candace gibson. Were live right here at Msnbc Headquarters in New York. At this great being here at the office at the hq, because we get to see all the monitors of everything that is taking place thousands of miles away, in tokyo. All the rams do you want to see the flame, today . Yes. [laughs] do you
And wildfires threaten parts of greece, as strong Winds Fan the flames through the Countryside North of athens. Hello, and welcome to the programme. On to the olympics now, and day five action is well underway In Tokyo with medals events in the pool and on the water. We can go live now to our Sports Presenter, Sarah Mulkerrins, whos In Tokyo, and sarah, Ariarne Titmus picking up a second Gold Medal and an olympic record . Absolutely, it has been a brilliant 0lympic absolutely, it has been a brilliant Olympic Games so far for the australian. Nicole call her the terminator, such as her Dominance And Ferocity in the pool Dominance And Ferocity in the pool. A couple of days ago she won gold in the 400 Metres Freestyle in that Epic Dual that she had been with The American star Katie Ledecky, and today it was even more of a dominant win for her. She had a slow start but came through to finish and a stunning time, a really interesting race that Katie Ledecky had actually finished fifth, that
Learning of the attack trying to contain it. The pipeline carrying more than 100 million gallons of gas and other fuel from houston to New York Harbor daily. Almost half of the east coast supply. Well have more in a few minutes. All right. 5 00 a. M. At the top of the hour. Another night of clashes in East Jerusalem between Israeli Police and Palestinian Protesters and new overnight israeli officials temporarily stopped jews from attending a holy site. What is happening there . Reporter Hundreds Of Palestinians have been injured in the past few hours during clashes with Israeli Police. Its the Third Straight day of violence in jerusalems holy site where tensions are absolutely boiling here. Weve seen multiple video clips of Stun Grenades being fired into the mosque as well as Palestinians Throwing Rocks at police outside. Officials were concerned of what today would bring after several days of tension. Thats partly because today is also what is known as jerusalem day. Thats what you se
rates have gone up again, for the 14th time in a row. the bank of england has put up its main rate from 5% to 5.25%. that will mean higher mortgages for some people, but it s also good news for savers. the bank of england is using interest rate rises to fight inflation, which has slowed recently, but which is still nearly 8%. our economics correspondent andy verity reports the father of two, peter, keeping up the payments for his family s mortgages looking like anything but child s play. they bought their home under the government s help to buy scheme, but since then interest rates have risen 1a times. when his fixed rate deal expires early next year, the payments willjump. somehow we are supposed to spend less and find an extra £750 per month to pay for that. for many families it is a terrifying situation, but if you have a young family like ourselves, who have been swayed into the housing market by government who has advertised help to buy as an affordable scheme, right, w