land is more important than the principles that we re all sworn to protect. and i well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections. and tonight, harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now, the real work begins. she put country over party. and, joe, she paid for it politically. yeah. she did. but, my gosh,ful anybody s watched this show more than a couple days heard me say that in politics, sometimes, when you win, you lose. and sometimes when you lose you win. i think here is the beginning of something much larger than being one of 435 members of the house, one of 535 members of congress. the language was remarkable. talking about in the spring of 1864, the union, after the union suffered more than 17,000 casualties in the battle of the
we begin with more on twitter and the latest security concerns. as you ve been hearing, the company s former head of security alleges the social media giant has hidden negligent security practices, misled federal regulators about its safety, and failed to properly estimate the number of bots on its platform. twitter has denied the allegations saying they contain many inaccuracies and inconsistencies, but the revelations could have huge consequences for twitter, including possible fines and the potential unravelling of elon musk s bid to buy the company. joseph menn, from the washington post, was one of the reporters who broke the story. he explained what motivated peiter zatco to file this whistleblower complaint. peiter zatco is an unusual person, one of the most famous actors in america and has pioneered and co ordinated disclosure where security researchers find flaws in programmes and work with the vendors to establish fixes for the problems before going public. he led cy
and h totally get that. but in another blow to the prime minister, the conservative party chairman resigned straight after the by election results saying someone must take responsibilty. the labour leader sir keir starmer says the tories are imploding . with the prime minister out of the country in rwanda, we ll be asking if this is a moment of political peril for borisjohnson. also this lunchtime: ukrainain troops ordered to retreat from the key eastern city of severodonetsk. figures just out show another big rise in the number of covid infections in the uk 1.7 million people had the virus last week. and welcome back to worthy farm after three years, it s the long awaited return of glastonbury. coming up on the bbc news channel can emma raducanu repeat her us open championship exploits at wimbledon? she ll face belgian alison van uytvanck in the first round. hello, good afternoon. borisjohnson says he will keep going as prime minister, despite the double blow of l
hi, peter . actually , good morning. and you hit the nail on the head there. the big focus of today s meetings is going to be on iran right now. the big concern for leaders in the gulf that the president is going to be meeting with separately and then together today is iran s nuclear program. what exactly are they going to do? they re the top two foes in the region for iran. are saudi arabia, where we are today with the president and israel where we were for the last couple of days with the president and things are apparently of great enough concern now that israel and saudi arabia have this first in a lifetime dialog going on . they are the first line kind of relations came yesterday when saudi arabia announced that they are finally going to start allowing flights to take off in israel to land here in saudi arabia and israel is not a part of today s meetings, but it is a great concern in the region what exactly iran is going to do. president biden said he prefers diplomacy,
but milder underneath that cloud. showery outbreaks of rain starting to approach western scotland and western wales. by the time we get to the end of the night and our weather front starts to move further eastwards as we head throughout sunday. so some rain arriving for central southern scotland, also towards cornwall as we head towards the end of the day, it s very windy tomorrow. gusts of wind towards irish sea coast of around a0 to 50 miles an hour. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. borisjohnson says policy is more important than personality as he faces renewed calls to quit from conservative backbenchers after the party lost two by elections. police in norway say they re treating a shooting at a gay nightclub as an act of extreme islamist terrorism. abortion clinics start to close in the us after a supreme court ruling removed american women s constitutional right to abortion. more calls from the taliban for international support to deal with the aftermath of the ea