live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 7pm in washington where a potential visit to taiwan by us house speaker nancy pelosi is stirring alarm in presidentjoe biden s administration. they fear the trip may cross red lines for china and that there is no exit path. beijing, which claims sovereignty over the island, has already issued harsh warnings even suggesting a possible military response. against this backdrop, president biden is expected to call president xi on thursday for the first time in months. for more, we can speak now to bonnie glaser, political commentator from the german marshall fund. she joins us from washington. thank you so much for talking to the bbc. give us a sense of what is going on in the corridors of power in washington with this potential visit. ~ ~ . visit. well, i think that there are different visit. well, i think that there are different points - visit. well, i think that there are diffe
also, will the administration talk nancy pelosi out of her trip to taiwan as she riles up china with her travel. huge economic data released almost every day this week, will it point to a recession. and as russian forces strike the main ukrainian port is the grain deal between the two countries already in jeopardy? let s going to sunlen serfaty live for us on capitol hill. the january 6th committee doesn t plan any more hearings until september that doesn t mean they are not going to be busy. reporter: that s absolutely right. almost all the work the committee will be doing over the next month will largely happen behind closed doors. the committee says that a number of significant leads have come in and so they will be using this next month to gather new evidence, to talk to new witnesses potentially even or visit some previous witnesses who have already testified. this committee entering a crucial fact-finding mission over the next month. the house select committee i
committee is about to go public with has been gleaned by more than a thousand interviews and more than 125,000 documents that s according to the washington post. it may very well represent the last and best chance to break the fever of trumpism and the hold that trump and the big lie have on millions of our fellow citizens. the nearly year and a half since the deadly insurrection, the gop has not just memory hold january 6th itself, but in many ways it s come to embrace the insurrection and what it represented. its leaders have gone from blaming trump angrily and privately considering casting him out to the political wilderness once and for all to choosing to politically resurrect him. the party declaring the events of january 6th as legitimate political discourse and many of the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election are now laying the groundwork to overturn the next presidential election if it doesn t go their way. new york times reports this, key figures in
Headquarters in new york. Breaking right now, were waiting for the first News Conference from the brand new Speaker Of The House, mike johnson. He won with a slim majority from the republicans but they were lined up this time around, which we have not seen in the prior three rounds. This happened three weeks after they ousted former speaker, Kevin Mccarthy. This is a beautiful country. Its the beauty of america that allows a firefighters kid like me to come here and serve in this Sacred Chamber where great men and women have served before all of us and strive together to build and preserve what lincoln referred to as the last best hope on earth. Martha well hear from mr. Johnson about what he plans to do as he takes on this very big role in the United States government. Also, on the other front, a very big afternoon as President Biden spoke today, he spoke quite briefly actually, in a News Conference that everybody was waiting all day for about what we now know have been attacks on u.
Tanks positioned with reservists sitting outside of gaza. No word yet on whether the invasion will take place. Good evening. I am john scott and this is the fox report. The waiting game goes on. We have Team Coverage. Greg alcott is live monitoring a front. Alexandria hoff with the latest on how the military military is in the retired army colonel Conrad Reynolds will discuss israels defensive strategy. First, mike tobin live on the ground in southern israel. Mike. Israel defense said this will be the last defense into gaza because when it is over there will be no more hamas. Israeli air force briefing about strikes into the gaza strip. In the pending Ground Invasion. The invasion will happen time, place and manner of israels choosing. Friday, we saw the positive development of the two americans released from their captivity and gaza. The unfortunately large crowd of community of people who have loved ones inside of the gaza strip. The son who is missing and presumed to be a hostage in