we ll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we ll look at twitter s share price, which has fallen welcome to college green in front of parliament, where the process of selecting a new leader of the conservative party and new prime minister is under way. if i m occasionally glancing this way and that, sir graham brady, the committee chair, will be speaking in the next few minutes. he will outline the rules of the tory party leadership contest. bear in mind since thursday, effectively that contest began. we still don t know precisely how that will work. what we do know is what the stages of the contest will be. first, each candidate will need to find a number of conservative mps to back them. in previous contests, it was eight. this time, it could be as high as 20. then the 358 conservative mps will vote for their favourite candidates in a series of elimination rounds. let s speak to our poli
chilling conspiracy to remain in power. an intentional scheme that played out in seven different way, one that culminates in an attempted coup. all americans should keep in mind this fact. on the morning of january 6, president trump s intention was to remain president of the united states despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power. over multiple months donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. it is a bold claim she is making. the question now is whether the panel has the evidence to prove a direct line from the white house to the carnage and chaos we saw on january 6. what we do know is that some of those closest to trump knew that the election was not stolen. those were lies. the committee played deposition testimony from trump staff and even members of his own family including his da
The border from egypt into gaza this morning, human Rights Groups say it is insufficient to address the basic needs of more than even as trucks cross the Border Town Of Rafah came under heavy explosions. [sound of artillery] also new today, as israel prepares its Ground Offensive on gaza, arab leaders gathered in cairo for a peace summit. Jordans King Abdullah denounced the International Community for its science on israel siege. Israeli leadership must realize that there is no military solution. To its security concerns. That it cannot continue to sideline the 5 million palestinians living under its occupation. Denied of their legitimate rights, and palestinian lives and no less valuable than israeli lives. Two american hostages, mother and daughter, judith tai raanan, and they are from after being released by hamas. Israel pressing ahead with preparations for a Ground Offensive, even though its military now says 210 hostages are still being held in gaza. It is part of a report from o
Capabilities. And The Americans perhaps the birds, we dont know. Thejordanians and said that they shot some down across their airspace. Between them all day stopped pretty much all of them. There was one Ballistic Missile hit, in Air Force Base South of israel. The israelis, half past six this morning i watch a Zoom Briefing where their main spokesman did for that they were pointedly saying we have video of f 35 is landing at that base was locked up bases operational. So the message from that site is, yes, they try to hit us and we rebuff them. As ever in the middle east its a bit more complicated than that. We the middle east its a bit more complicated than that. We had you on sunda s complicated than that. We had you on Sundays Newscast complicated than that. We had you on Sundays Newscast recently complicated than that. We had you on Sundays Newscast recently and complicated than that. We had you on Sundays Newscast recently and the. Sundays newscast recently and the hi i Sundays Ne
Next hour. We, the air this hour. U. S. Officials say their intelligence over the last half hour, hundreds of iranian drones headed in the direction of israel, Cruise Missiles as well as Ballistic Missiles. We are waiting to see if in fact those drones make their way through the a multiple layers of anticipated intercepts that are going to take place over the next several hours. As i mentioned, we are coming on the air with the breaking coverage of irans retaliatory strikes against israel. This comes after the Israeli Military confirmed more than 100 Drone Strikes were launched by iran today, marking the first time iran has launched a direct Military Attack on israet. Obviously, risking a regional conflict that could draw the United States and its military forces into direct confrontation with iran and its proxies across the region. A senior by an Administration Official is warning iran could launch dozens ofansss Cruise Missiles, not just adding that the u. S. And israel have been clo