it s been a busy afternoon in downing street dominic raab is back as justice secretary and deputy prime minister james cleverely stays as foreign secretary ben wallace remains defence secretary and michael gove looks set to return to government. grant shapps a big supporter of rishi sunak. grant shapps a big supporter of rishi sunak. stay with us in downing street for all the appointments so far. welcome to downing street where the new prime minister, rishi sunak has started to assemble his new cabinet with a number of appointments into the top jobs in government. let s into the top jobs in government. run you through v so let s run you through what we know so far. let s run you through what we know so far. jeremy hunt who took as chancellor after kwasi kwarteng was sacked following the fallout of the mini budget remains in post at the treasury. dominic raab is back in government a key supporter of rishi sunak. he is back asjustice secretary and reappointed depu
the world s fifth oldest zoo bristol zoo gardens is set to close its gates to the public for the final time, with the animals on the move to a new location. in tennis, for the first time in the open era, there are four british men in the third round of the us open. more on our sports bulletin at half past. hello and welcome to bbc news. after more than seven weeks of campaigning, the race to become leader of the conservative party and the new prime minister has entered its final hours. voting for party members to choose between rishi sunak and liz truss is due to close at five o clock this evening. the race started back on 7thjuly, when borisjohnson announced his resignation. byjuly 12th, the eight potential candidates for the top job were confirmed. conservative mps took part in five rounds of voting, to whittle the field down to the final two liz truss and rishi sunak. they then set off campaigning across the country, and taking part in tv debates and live hustings. t
of duty in 2020. his widow sounds off on the nationwide crime surge on america reports coming up. we begin america reports with an exclusive report on a new warning of a potential invasion of taiwan. i am john roberts in washington. great to see you. i am anita. will china flex its military muscle? conducting the largest 5 fire drills in the taiwan strait. it comes after house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to the island. beijing moving from words of warning to military action in the aftermath. surrounding taiwan and launching missiles into nearby waters. and a fox news exclusive. china sees a window of opportunity to invade taiwan before the next u.s. presidential election in 2024. texas senator john cornyn will join us on that. first fox news teams coverage. following christopher wray s hearing on the hill. peter, what do china watchers think taiwan is thinking here? a take over of taiwan before the 2024 presidential election. this person says we have always bee
Join with your facebook comments, tweets and texts. Live sunday, november 5, at noon eastern on book tv on cspan2. Up next, House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks to reporters at his weekly news conference. He discusses his conference and mike johnson becoming the new speaker of the house, the mass shooting in maine, and next months deadline to fund the government. This is about 30 minutes. Rep. Jeffries morning, everyone. Were thankful that the house of representatives is back open and hopefully, we can move beyond the maga republican chaos, dysfunction, and extremism that has been visited upon the American People for the entirety of this congress. Before i say anything further, let me just communicate on behalf of House Democrats. How heartbroken we are by the tragic events in maine, the killing and slaughter once again of innocent americans, families, broken individuals, injured, fighting for their lives. And we stand with the people of maine and will do so in every way possib
Rep. Jeffries morning, everyone. Were thankful that the house of representatives is back open and hopefully, we can move beyond the maga republican chaos, dysfunction, and extremism that has been visited upon the American People for the entirety of this congress. Before i say anything further, let me just communicate on behalf of House Democrats. How heartbroken we are by the tragic events in maine, the killing and slaughter once again of innocent americans, families, broken individuals, injured, fighting for their lives. And we stand with the people of maine and will do so in every way possible moving forward. President biden continues to show tremendous leadership. And he has requested that congress act now on a National Security supplemental funding request for israel, ukraine, other parts of the free world, along with humanitarian assistance to Palestinian Civilians and others who may be in harms way. The house needs to prepare itself to act immediately. As soon as Bipartisan Legis