hour of newsday after her acquittal on tax evasion charges, philippine journalist and nobel peace prize winner maria ressa tells me about what she calls the weaponisation of the law against her. and you know, it went down to these three things facts, truth, and justice. that is who won today. and another day gets under way at the australian open but defending champion rafael nadal heads home, after his dramatic second round exit. welcome to newsday. we begin with breaking news. new zealand s prime minister jacinda ardern has announced she s to leave her post, saying she no longer had enough in the tank to do thejob. she said that a general election will be held in october, and confirmed she will also stand down as an mp at that moment, although she will finish as prime minister no later than february 7th. she said. i am not leaving because i believe we cannot win the next election, but because i believe we can and will , she told a labour caucus meeting in napier. her
their trust in liz? voting has just closed in the campaign to be the next tory party leader and prime minister. as more cost of living payments start going out to households, we find out about another scheme to help struggling families. and andy murray is on court right now at the us open, one of four british men through to the third round. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel, in their first match since being crowned european champions, england are in austria as they look to qualify for next year s women s world cup. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. there are fears of food shortages in pakistan after the devastating floods there washed away nearly half the country s crops. so far around 1,200 people are known to have been killed, but today, unicef said many more children could die from the rapid spread of diseases like cholera and malaria. about a third of pakistan with the worst affected areas are here in red is essentially underwater, according to
Edit. Im liz macdonald. Get right at it with the congressman that filed new impeachment articles from President Biden is congressman cory mills. Good to see you again. Thank you for joining us. Hey saying this is a abuse of power and effectively hamstringing israel and taking out hamas. The question is what is a crime of misdemeanor. What hes saying is this, hes saying that President Biden did call it an abuse of power in 2020 and withholding aid when congress appropriated is a violation of the constitution. What biden said the other night contravenes what he said in 2019. Watch this. The idea that we would cut off military aid to an ally, our only true, true ally in the nation is uncomprehensible. Why would anyone do that . Civilians killed in gaza from the bombs and other ways that they go after population centers. Let me be clear if they go into rafah, they havent yet, if they go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah. Liz cory m
Liz going for them and going for a great show. Welcome to the evening edit. Im Elizabeth Macdonald. House oversight chairman james comer. Congressman, okay, this story, its good to have you on and see you again. President biden blocking weapons shipment to israel and Associated Press report the president wanted to delay letting voters know about this till after biden gave a speech on Holocaust Remembrance Day and this is all about politics for biden is have you heard of any president doing anything like this with the u. S. Ally. Hamas is Holding Americans hostage. Joe biden doing everything with respect to israel is now political. Hes basing the whole israel policy and trying to please a few voters in detroit, michigan, to carry that by the swing state and all the history we have with israel and the israel is the closest ally and hamas still has five american hostages and the pact that congress appropriated in a bipartisan manner the weaponry that he has withheld and everything joe bid
And we have ruined new sand former President Trump moving into biden biden economics in this new disturbing, jail report, thousands of u. S. Troops, live in squalid dirty conditions, right here in the u. S. And we have more of those images and more democrat governors, joining border officials, limning bidens more than 400 executive actions for collapsing the border and democratic senator menendezs defiant after u. S. Bribery charges of illegal pros though, are already taking part his new defense and part of congresswoman, locascio cortez, baffles everybody and claims that she brought a tesla car nonUnion Electric car because the pandemic and on Elizabeth Mcdonald is an mcdonald and the evening edit, starts right now. Liz welcome to the show must get right at it and we are just two days away from the foxbusiness republican debate, and this field is expected to sharply narrow quickly, Grady Trimble is live at the scene of the regular very and simi valley california, with more grady. Hey