The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. The full committee is convening, regarding violations of the hatch act under the Trump Administration. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give my Opening Statement. Today, we are holding a hearing on a very troubling report issued by the office of special counsel on june 13th of this year. This report finds that Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, violated the hatch act dozens of times, and it reasonable degree of medical certainty recommends the president fire her immediately for repeated violations. Rarely issues come before the committee that are so clear cut, but this is one of them. This is about right and wrong. This is about the core principle of our precious democracy, that nobody, not one person, in this country is above the law. Contrary to claims from miss conway and President Trump, this is not a conspiracy to silence her or restrict her First Amendm
What a game. U. S. Defeats england by 2score 1 in the womens world cup, launching them to the final. Inside the detention facility at the border. A new report is released, and we speak to one democratic congresswoman who is outraged by what she saw. At indigenous communities in the amazon under threat. Cutting down the forest is in direct conflict with their way of life. Nada for those watchi on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. It was a nailbiter in france that had it all as the womens teams from the u. S. And england battled it out in the world cup semifinals. Our office probably was not the only one on edge, but in the and in the end it was the United States who just came out on top by a score of 21. The bbcs Christian Fraser watched e game from a bar here in washington, d. C. , and i spoke to him after the final whistle. You are probably among the few england fans in the bar. T what was the momke when the United States won . Christn go to the lucky bar, they
We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. Im rico hizon in singapore, the headlines its been sitting in the country for years now the philippines is set to ship tonnes of canadian waste back to canada. Chelsea are Europa League champions for the second time, beating arsenal 4 1 in the final in azerbaijan. Good morning. Its 1 00am in london, 8 00am in singapore, and 2 00am in hungary, where at least seven people have died after a river cruise boat capsized and sank on the danube near the parliament building. The section of the river where the accident happened has been closed off by the authorities as rescue efforts continue. The hungarian state tv says 33 tourists were on board with two crew. Many of the passengers are thought to be from asia, with 16 still missing. The rescue has been made difficult because of the strong currents and heavy rains. From budapest we can now speak to balintjuhasz, whos a radio reporter who lives nearby to th
Across the central swathe of scotland, up into the low 20s further south. We do pull in a little bit of a warm weather front, though, to the far north of the high through wednesday, so some thicker cloud and some more persistent rain for the highlands. That front pushes away through wednesday evening overnight into thursday, but then we start to see this cold weather front coming into play for thursday. Some more meaningful rain for scotland, and particularly for some of the Higher Ground in the north west. We could get the best part of an inch of rain. A breezy story, as well, across the northern half of the uk. More cloud putting south as well but across southern england, up to 26 degrees possible where the High Pressure centre is closer by. Thursday into friday, this cold weather front starts to work its way south. Not much in the way of rainfall in association with it as it does so, perhaps a few scattered showers, but what it will do is move us showers, but what it will do is move
Usa, sending england home. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 7 am in singapore, midnight in london and 7 in the morning in hong kong where people are still grappling with the aftermath of mondays unprecedented Anti Government protests. There are signs that the mood in beijing is hardening. Chinese offcials have condemned the protests as an undisguised challenge to its rule by violent offenders. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports from hong kong. Today, hong kongs parliament is a crime scene, cordoned off with police tape. The question now what will the Hong Kong Government do to those who caused this destruction . These scenes broadcast live on Hong Kong Television have left this city stunned and divided. Tonight, i met with one of the young men who stormed the parliament on monday. He is unrepentant. Translation we should use even more violent means to gain more bargaining power. However small the chance of winning, we are