Convicted killer . Yes, the short answer. But Law Enforcement officials in pennsylvania are intensifying the search for the escaped prisoner. Authorities say there have been four credible sightings of cavalcante within a twomile perimeter. They believe they are closing in. We will continue to push him hard. I intend to stress him, i want to push him hard, hell make mistakes, hell show himself. Hes already shown himself we believe a few times. Well contain him and catch him. He has very little to lose at this point. The massive manhunt has the Chester County community on edge. Pennsylvania state police asking people returning from a Holiday Weekend to see if anything is out of place. If so, call authorities. The five foot tall, 120 pound man can be seen in the grainy Security Video before 2 00 a. M. Saturday. White tshirt, white sneakers and carrying a backpack. And authorities are getting some help from his mother, broadcasting her voice with pleas to turn himself in. As desperate as h
republicans take a key step today even though they failed so far to find any evidence of wrongdoing by president biden. and now the supreme court will have to rule on the election subversion case. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, december 12, and in just hours president volodymyr zelenskyy will start a series of meetings on capitol hill with senators and members of the house. he will urge them to pass billions in proposed military aid to his country that have been hung up over republican demands for major changes to the biden administration border policy. speaking to national security officials yesterday, zelenskyy said the big winner of a stalemate in washington is russia. if there is anyone inspired by unresolved issues on capitol hill, it is putin. this is a last ditch effort to break the stalemate as republicans and democrats refuse to bunch on border policy. clare sebastian is joining us live from
The nikkei closed up by a half percentage point stocks were mixed in china hang seng down by 2 if you look at whats happening in europe and the early trading, things are mixed there stocks down in london with the ftse down by 0. 6 . Stocks up across the board in the other countries. The dax in germany up by 0. 9 . A gain of a half percentage point in france. Crude prices, wti around 57. 50. We are up another 55. Yeah, market was up 255 yesterday. Think if the market was down 255. Think of what we would do with 160 point observe a down day or 190 as far as the sentiment in this market right now, if the market were to go down we take it in stride when we hit new records. Yeah, the market is going up. Maybe its powell or tax reform. Thats 300 points this morning, if we went down 300, you would be every newspaper, they would have picture traders going stock shot. Stock shot. Is that what they call those . Stock shot. Stock photos. Not about stocks. No. About something that you got on file
And you can be part of the conversation. Do you think the sexual misdemeanours in hollywood last year will lead to change in the workplace in 2018 . Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Hundreds of thousands of migrants are stuck in libya after the number trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to europe has been reduced by police patrols. A European Union policy of encouraging libyan groups to monitor its coastline has reduced migrant travel by 70 since july. However, the un has called Living Conditions for the majority of african migrants inhumane. Over 5,000 mainly nigerians have been repatriated and those returning from libya have told harrowing stories of abuse. In this special report, the bbcs Stephanie Hegarty went to the city of benin in southern nigeria to meet those recently released. Walked the streets to the anti europe. These two man almost made it, but they were arrested in a boat off the coast of libya and sent to prison. They said when they were no
Transcripts are also available as podcasts. If you liked tonights q a, here are others you might enjoy. Author fred kaplan discussing his biography on john quincy adams. Harold holzer on his book on abraham lincoln. And congressional historians don ritchie and ray smock talking about the history of the house and the senate. You can find those programs online. Texas republican chairman joe barton on the issues with privacy and cyber security. You have the basic principle whose information is it . Is it automatically in the Public Domain because i choose to use a mobile . We know that the way base things work they go into the cloud and all of that, or can i use it and still have a personal expectation of privacy . If you take the latter view, that changes the way you regulate and the way you legislate. If you take the position that by active participating and using by act of participating or using the act i am forgoing my right to privacy, that is a different issue. Monday night at 8 00