Of representatives at 5 p. M. Eastern. And you can see that here on cspan2. Now, live to the floor of the u. S. Senate. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, we whisper our prayer boldly before your throne of grace. You have invited us to come to you with all our needs. We thank you for our requests that you have already answered. We have sought and found. We have knocked and walked through open doors. Lord, with your grace and mercy, strengthen our lawmakers for their journey. Prepare them for the ravages of the valley and the chill of the mountain summits. Guide them, great redeemer. They are pilgrims on this earth. They are weak, but you are mighty. Inspire them to keep their eyes on you and not the problems that seem too difficult to solve. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pled
Lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth on the grid, but is still poised to win the world drivers championship. And the dateline london panel ask if a general election can resolve the crisis that is brexit. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. In the past hour, the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has announced he wont stand in next months general election. He says instead he will be campaigning across the country against the prime ministers proposed brexit deal. It comes as the Election Campaign gets into full swing, with labour and the conservatives making big spending pledges. Borisjohnson has confirmed the benefits freeze in place since 2016 will end in april, whilejeremy corbyn is proposing to insulate almost every home in the uk, which labour says will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker is here. We saw the brexit party launch on friday, when nigel farage kept people guessing as to whether he would
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A being blamed mass arrests have taken place as summer says it wont tolerate attempts to d. Stabilise the territory from within our forces reports from gaza. At a cemetery northeast of gaza city to hamas policemen killed in tuesday nights attacks abroad for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says garza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction probably around the corner luck we heard who made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the Security Status is good daily life is berta the horrible. Garzas interior Ministry Says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. By day police were back. On duty with their colleagues who died reinforcements stationed on streets throughout the city a
The u. S. Military have to be focused on dealing with those as well as other unknown emerging threats in the future. Among the stories still ahead what facebook is doing to prevent meddling in next years u. S. President ial election. And we meet refugees and migrants forced to go home because a plan for help in mexico isnt working. Hello theyre mostly characterise much of the middle east however the house means an cloud showing up in a few hours into more southern sections of pakistan is this monsoon rains we could see some a shot thunderstorms as we go through thursday it could of course leave some localized flooding elsewhere its fairly dry still very hot in baghdad again for the next couple of days and by friday we could also see some showers working their way across areas of georgia armenia and eventually pushing on into azerbaijan but fairly pretty nice back here with a high of 24 degrees celsius further to the south the temperatures are high but also weve got a fairly high level