by rmt union. it has meant trains going out of service and millions of passengers going nowhere. my daughter s doing her gcses. i ve got to get her to and from school, so it s a right pain in the neck. i understand they want a pay rise and things change, i get that, but it s not fair for all the commuters. we are going to primarily focus on the two stories this hour, the rail strike in the uk and the hearing in washington, which is where we are going to begin. we start in washington, where the committee investigating the storming of the capitol onjanuary 6 is holding another public hearing. today s focus is on pressure by former president donald trump and his team for individual us states to overturn the election results. central to this are two battleground states arizona and georgia. joe biden won both by a razor thin margin and president trump has kept pushing false claims of electoral fraud. in opening statements, we heard from the republican vice chair liz cheney.
across the nation the health care that they need. the states attorney general adjust that this morning. we are building an infrastructure to deal with the influx of individuals who are seeking safe and legal abortions in a state of new york. we have already seen an increase, and we anticipate that we will see more individuals coming from ohio, pennsylvania and other states. this fund will assist individuals with transportation, with childcare and with housing. because here in new york, we respect the woman s right to choose. it is unfortunate that immediately upon the fertilization in some states, that a government is not allowed to respect the rights of women. the governor of massachusetts, a republican, signed an order protecting health care workers in his state who provide abortions with out of state residents. look, let s not look say at the real impact of the opinion of five justicethat is hav millions of americans. there are already four stories out of san antonio,
vote to go on strike. in afghanistan, the taliban say the search for survivors has been called off, just a day after a devastating earthquake which is thought to have killed more than a thousand people. the earthquake struck early on wednesday about 44 kilometres from the city of khost. heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication network have hampered relief efforts in paktika province the worst hit area. our kabul correspondent secunder kirmani is there, and sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in the earthquake as they slept, as well as his two wives. when the roof fell down, what did you do? translation: i ran toward my family, but everything was under the rubble, even my shovel, so i couldn t do anything. i shouted to my cousins, but when we took my family out, they were already dead. it s a three hour drive to the nearest big city from the wor
new york s attorney general summoned donald trump to quiz him about his tax affairs. he pleaded the fifth then repeated the words same answer to every question she put. the former president who could be president again hadn t kept schtum when the fbi had raided his florida home. to discuss the week s events in the studio are. eunice goes, portuguese academic and writer, who teaches comparative government. janet daley, born in the united states, a 60s progressive who by the 1980s was a conservative, now writing a weekly column in the sunday telegraph. thomas kielinger has been a foreign correspondent for german media, including in washington dc during the carter and reagan presidencies. he s written biographies of churchill and of both queens elizabeth. lovely to have you all in the studio with us today. let me start with you eunice, on the question of energy for the how busy of the summer has it been for the government and continental europe and trying to address the e
in the sea where the crabs live. get your mind out of the gutter. his approval rating s at 39% even after the roe vs. wade leak which was designed to breathe life into the unconscious presidency. it was one biden leak that didn t demand a change of pants. but it still didn t work. in fact, thanks to idiots heading to the justices houses like they were invited to a barbecue t quickly it quickly turned into a freak show but with more bearded ladies. underrated, by the way. when you sought protests, you probably when you saw the protests, you probably like their mommies wished they were pro-abortion like their offspring. why not? that s how you support them. you re reminded pro-choice doesn t always mean choosing soap and water. the worst stat of all, this jaw-dropping one from nbc news. 75% of the population thinks this country is going in the wrong direction. that s astounding. you couldn t get more agreement from a room of children if you yelled who wants ice cream and