paying the price for a perfect smile dentists warn of the dangers and complications of heading abroad for cheaper treatment. and coming up on the bbc news channel. on the eve of the world athletics championships, we speak to britain s new team captain natheneel mitchell blake. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. rishi sunak and penny mordaunt are still in the lead in the race to become the next prime minister after another candidate was eliminated from the contest this afternoon. the attorney general suella braverman finished last in today s vote among conservative mps, and has therefore been knocked out. the former chancellor rishi sunak was still ahead by some margin, securing 101 votes. penny mordaunt is hot on his heels, also making gains on yesterday s vote, with 83 mps backing her today. and the foreign secretary liz truss is still in third place with 64 votes. kemi badenoch and tom tugendhat remain in contention. the next round of voting is on monday. wi
2022, reading scores saw their biggest drop since 1990. math scores plummeted during that period for the first time ever. these are some of the worst declines that the study has seen in its 50-year history. it could take a generation for some scores to rebound reports the wall street journal. the learning loss could weigh on economic output in this country in the years to come. pete hegseth and leo terrell are here. first, to david lee miller that shows us what s in the study. hi, lee. the nation s schools are getting a failing grade based on the test scores of 9-year-old students. let s start with math. the decrease was where s than nine points. so called lower performing students saw scores draw by 12 points. black and hispanics decreased more than white. when it comes to reading, the average test core dropped five points. some problem learners saw a decline by 10. reading scores by white, black and hispanic students were impacted equally by the pandemic. an education p
cracks in american democracy. plus, one year after the fall of kabul, we will speak live with the head of the u.n. delegation there about how the taliban takeover has reshaped life in afghanistan. live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin in ukraine where threats to europe s largest nuclear facility are prompting an outcry from world leaders. 42 countries along with the european union are now calling on russia to immediately withdraw its troops from the nuclear power plant. it comes after days of repeated shelling around the facility raised fears of a nuclear catastrophe. russia and ukraine have blamed each other for the attacks. to the south, ukraine says the underground resistance movement blew up a railway bridge near the russian held city of melitopol. russian troops used the bridge to transport weapons and other equipment from occupied crimea. meanwhile, a u.n. chartered ship carrying 23,000 tons of wheat t
describing how president trump used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars from the american people. these fundraising schemes were also part of the effort to disseminate the false claims of election fraud. without objection i am the senior investigative counsel at the house select committee to investigate the general six attack on the united states capitol. between election day and january six, the trump campaign sent millions up fundraising emails to trump supporters, sometimes as many as 25 a day. the emails claimed, quote, the left wing mob was undermining the election. it urged supporters to step up, to protect the integrity of the election, and encourage them to, quote, fight back. as the select committee has demonstrated, the trump campaign knew that these voter fraud claims were false. yet, they continue to borrow small dollar donors with emails, encouraging them to donate to something called, the official election defense fund. the selectivity discovered
stephanie ruhle, live from the nation s capital, where tomorrow, the january 6th committee has its third public hearing, starting at 1:00 pm eastern. and this time, investigators are expected to focus on then vice president mike pence and the pressure campaign to get him to get joe biden out of the white house. committee aides say new evidence presented tomorrow will show how the efforts of his former boss, donald trump, led to the riot and put pence s life in serious danger. you ll remember the surveillance video of security rushing pence off the senate floor, as rioters chanted, hang mike pence. and abc news has obtained new photos of the former vice president and his family in hiding, after the mob broke into the capital capitol. where we expect to hear from key pence advisors his former counsel greg jacob and retired federal judge michael luttig. their reports of closed door testimony from marc short, pence s one-time chief of staff, will also be included. earlier tonig