hello, this is bbc news. i m luxmy gopal and these are the headlines. writers and politicians condemn an attack on acclaimed author, sir salman rushdie, who s now on a ventilator, after being stabbed on stage in the us state of new york. his agent says the 75 year old can t speak, is likely to lose an eye, has a damaged liver, and the nerves in one arm have been severed in the attack. more extreme heat is expected in the southern half of the uk over the next two days. that, as experts also warn england s drought could last into the next year. travel disruption after thousands of train drivers from nine rail companies go on strike across the uk today. it s the latest walk out in a row over pay and conditions. documents in the us show fbi agents seized papers marked top secret when they searched the florida home of the former president donald trump on monday. the search warrant shows he s being investigated over possible violations of the espionage act. the 82 year old taking
anything, the gas tax holiday could mean for your wallet. los angeles district attorney george gascon with his progressive policies again tonight following the murder of two police officers last week by a man on probation instead of behind bars. fox news, ask him at a tuesday news conference, what he would sit in the mother of one of those. we are going to share his response coming up. another pro-life pregnancy center vandalized in michigan. the latest in a string of incidents since the leak on abortion rights. with the next round of opinions coming just hours from now, what can we expect, the former supreme court clerk jerry sabrina joins us live to discuss. we begin with a new feature of the president s plan to alleviate your pain at the pump, white house correspondent kevin corke taking a closer look at the federal gas tax holiday plan. good evening. good evening, here is the plan, suspend the federal gas tax, that will save you a couple of bucks a tank. we can still pa
first breaking tonight house speaker nancy pelosi says that u.s. will not abound in its commitments to taiwan after meeting with taiwanese leaders of the past day. the beijing rebuttal crock causing a lot of concerns as china prepares for a large-scale show of force in the taiwan strafe to make clear that its claims are nonnegotiable the island it regards as a renegade province. the military drills are expected to be the most provocative action towards taiwan and a quarter century. the white house correspondent peter doocy joins us from the north long, peter. on the ground and in the water near taiwan a lot is changing. here at the white house the president s position towards china head is not changing. tonight he remains in covert isolation as speaker nancy pelosi jets around asia. we condemn them for being one of the most freest societies in the world. that s not how china sees things though. neither is this. this is a choice between democracy and toss to see. the
everything in their power to secure the release of two british men sentenced to death for fighting russian forces. the government is expected to reject proposals to introduce a new salt and sugar tax on process food sold in england. the maximum interest rate on student loans in england is being cut by almost 5%. ministers hope it will provide peace of mind for graduates. a father and son have been killed in a crash at the isle of man tt. five riders have died in this year s event and singerjustin bieber reveals the reason he cancelled his performances this week he s experiencing facial paralysis. good afternoon. royal officials have said that prince charles remains politically neutral , following a report that he has strongly criticised plans to send some asylum seekers to rwanda. an unnamed source told the times newspaper that prince charles has described the policy as appalling and said he was more than disappointed by it. the first flight carrying asylum seekers
there are new record high inflation numbers. check these out. grocery prices, jumping 12%. gas soaring 49%. more than double from when he took office. there are more terrible numbers for the president. this time his poll numbers. remember the ones he says he does not check but he gets weekly polling updates? this is what he sounds. only 33% of americans approve of the job the president is doing in a new quinnipiac poll. that is a type of his record low. the president continues to blame bad media coverage and putin s more as all of these stumbles add up. even democrats are getting fed up with the president s inadequacies in office. one liberal strategist is not holding back, telling the hill this, really simple, be the bleeping president. i understand it is tough. but there are things you can do to control of the public perception and they have not done any of that. and the media is noticing. watch this. record high gas prices. 8.6. a new cycle high usurping. that was th