The Football World pays tribute to the former england manger Graham Taylor whos died suddenly aged 72. And we speak to the writer of la la land the man whos brought the art of the musical back to hollywood. And coming up in the sport on bbc news west hams star player Dimitri Payet wants to leave and is refusing to play for the club this weekend. But the manager says he wont be sold. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. A former mi6 officer has gone into hiding after being named as the source of the latest allegations against President Elect donald trump. Christopher steele produced a dossier last year which included the allegations that mr trump had been caught in compromising financial and sexual activities. The allegations are unproven and americas cia, which has acknowledged the existence of the dossier, says it has made no judgement about its credibility. Heres our security correspondent Gordon Corera on the british connection. The murky world of intelligence gathering
Mr. Spicer during his long career in public service, judge gorsuch has enjoyed bipartisan approval to the u. S. Court of appeals for the 10th circuit. 12 current Democratic Senators and senator schumer and senator feinstein, senator lay high were in office when he was first confirmed without opposition in 2006. Eight democrats like senators already supporting a full hearing and vote for judge gorsuch. E is a widely respected jurist to have his nomination decided upon. Now that he has been named, i hope you will let me talk about how he is qualified to succeed justice scalia. He is impeccable. And he holds education in the highest regard. He graduated from columbia, graduated from harvard law chool and attended oxford. Like justice scalia, the cornerstone of his philosophy is fidelity to the texan judges should not base their decisions sole on the law he believes i screwed that one, his decisions should be based solely on the law and not on personal feelings. He will be a reliable and e
Demeaning process, very demeaning on the other side and look as bad as possible. It could be very demeaning but im sure the press would be dignified in this case but that is the word. I really think hes a dignified man and i would like to see him go through a dignified process. I think he deserves that and hopefully it will go quickly. And we folks in the room give yourself, a quick name and a little introduction and wayne, i would say they know you, perhaps they know you better than they know me. I doubt that. Wayne laperriere, National Rifle association. Ceo and president of concerned women for america. Im sharmane yost, with american values. Thank you, mr. President for this nomination. Thank you very much. Im juanita dougan, National Independent Women Business association. Thank you. With the u. S. Chamber about commerce, mr. President. Congratulations on a fantastic nomination. Thank you very much. Er norquist, americans for tax reform. Thank you for the election. Youre doing a go
Thank you very much for your patience and waiting for us to get done with the vote. Mr. Child, lets hear your testimony. Thank you. Chair woman hartzler, Ranking Member speier, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss capability gaps in the Afghan National Security Forces. As the Deputy Inspector general for overseas Contingency Operations i manage the dod oversight for Operation Freedom Sentinel in afghanistan. As the chair of the interagency southwest asia joint Planning Group i helped coordinate oversight over the several Inspector Generals in afghanistan. I serve a similar role for Operation Inherent resolve. The iraqsyria counter isil mission. I describe my role in more detail in my written state. Regarding Afghanistan Security forces my observations are based on oversight and recent published reports. We view this as two fold. Balancing the requirements to provide near term fighting capability against a longer term need to build the afgh
Patience and waiting for us to get done with the vote. Mr. Child, lets hear your testimony. Thank you. Chair woman hartzler, Ranking Member speier, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss capability gaps in the Afghan National Security Forces. As the Deputy Inspector general for overseas Contingency Operations i manage the dod oversight for Operation Freedom Sentinel in afghanistan. As the chair of the interagency southwest asia joint Planning Group i helped coordinate oversight over the several Inspector Generals in afghanistan. I serve a similar role for Operation Inherent resolve. The iraqsyria counter isil mission. I describe my role in more detail in my written state. Regarding Afghanistan Security forces my observations are based on oversight and recent published reports. We view this as two fold. Balancing the requirements to provide near term fighting capability against a longer term need to build the afghans capacity to sustain their