To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nation
Open, wall street looks to close out a recordsetting week. Peacock joins the streaming wars, how comcasts forthcoming platform looks to separate itself from the streaming flock. Joining the four comma club, alphabet more than 1 trillion all together more than 17 of the s p 500. Stocks looking to hit new record highs upbeat news on the economy as Housing Starts rise in december to their highest level since 06 up 16. The and just to put that into perspective we are looking for an increase of 0. 4 amazing, and of course the commentary from tepper and druckenmiller over the past half hour has done a lot. Its fed in the same direction. Well pick apart if weather was a factor in the Housing Starts and the rest but that is when the equity futures took another leg higher when the numbers were reported comes after we got other good housing data its become very hard to decide that the headlines are going to get in the way of a market thats been on this autopilot higher the guys like david tepper
Believed to have died. So near, yet so far have astronomers really discovered a planet in another solar system with the ingredients for life . Announcer live from our studios in london and singapore. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. Its 8am in singapore and 1am in the morning here in london, where mps are demanding the immediate recall of parliament. It follows scotlands highest Civil Court Ruling that the british Prime Minister borisjohnsons advice to suspend parliament misled the queen and was unlawful. The British Government insists its actions are legal and is waiting until its own appeal is heard in the uks supreme court, early next week. All this as ministers published details of their contingency plans in case the uk leaves the European Union without a deal. Well have more on that later, first heres our uk political editor, laura kuenssberg, on the court ruling. Judgment day. In scotlands court of session, a clear verdict on borisjohnson.
Said that the Canadian National mr baxter was detained last year for violating laws in syria they really didnt divulge much details concerning these circumstances of his detention this is not hes not the 1st foreign nationals to be released in the past months a few weeks ago an American National was released about him himself playing a crucial role now hes calling this a humanitarian gesture but many here believe that these are messages messages that the Syrian Government wants to give to the west as it tries to gain legitimacy as it tries to and sanctions at the end of these 2 these 2 foreign nationals who are held and in syrian jails are not among the high profile people who went missing and believed to be held by the Syrian Government so messages possibly from the Syrian Government to the west trying to regain lost legitimacy. Well still ahead on aljazeera a beach in troubled waters we report from the start of these results in todays year where tragedies playing out for migrants. An
Agreement that was reached between the World Food Program and yemens hutu fighters the u. N. Secretary general Spokesman Says that the positive steps are welcome. Peace said. We will resume Food Distribution following the festival for the 850000 people in sana city who have not received food rations from devon a. F. P. For the last 2 months w f p is also beginning to roll out a smart car driven beneficiary Management System that will register 9000000 people in areas of yemen controlled by the sun abased authorities these vital measures provide for the protection and privacy of the people w f p service and the independence of humanitarian operations who things say the younger brother of their leader has been killed the rebels issued a statement announcing the death of ibrahim dean but they dont specify the cause of death or blaming agents of what they say is a u. S. Israeli saudi coalition. Weather update next year i was 0 then the tragedy playing out of todays ian beach paradise thats