Quorum call a senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from north carolina. Mr. Burr i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call and to initiate the presiding officer without objection. Mr. Burr and to initiate consideration of the 12 00 vote. Unanimous consent to start the 12 00 vote. Mr. Burr madam president , i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . Seeing none, the yeas are 68. The nays are 21. And the nomination is confirmed. A senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from texas. Order in the chamber, please. The senate will be in order. The senate will be in order. Please take your conversations out of the chamber. The senator from texas. Mr. Cornyn madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the lydon nomination, calend
That we are leading towards in all these discussions. Scotlands world cup game with japan will go ahead kick off is in 45 minutes a win and a bonus point is the minimum they need if theyre to make it through to the quarterfinals. And coming up the new cardinals appointed by pope francis and the military action in syria are two of the topics of dicussion on dateline london. Thats in half an hour here on bbc news. Good morning. The family of harry dunn, the nineteen year old killed in a crash involving an American Woman, are flying to the united states, to raise their concerns about the case with politicians there. Anne sacoolas, the wife of a Us Intelligence officer, left the uk after the collision in august. Shes now said she wants to meet the teenagers parents. Earlier, i spoke to mark stephens, the lawyer representing harry dunns family, who explained what they are hoping to achieve by going to washington. One of the things they are hoping to achieve is that, by fleeing britishjustic
There could be a muted start. Turkey battles the kurds in syria, washington ready to hit turkey with sanctions if it oversteps the line. Shery we are seeing u. S. Futures higher at the moment after major indices on the u. S. Markets closed higher by more than 1 on friday. There was a lot of trade optimism, but suffice it to say stocks pared back early gains late in the afternoon session. There was no real signed document between the u. S. And china. We saw the s p 500 jumped the most in a month. We had Semiconductors Index gaining the most in five weeks. The nasdaq closing at the twoest level in about weeks. We saw a lot of movement when it came to treasury markets. We saw yield gaining ground and the risk on move affecting other Asset Classes like the japanese yen and gold. Lets see how we are shaping up. Off for then is long weekend. Asian stocks closed. The first weekly we are setting up for a higher open in the region. The offshore yuan trading around 7. 09. Goldmans expecting a mo
Hello im Barbara Sarah this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. Unity not separation tens of thousands of people rally in barcelona they say they dont want catalonia the split from spain. Turkey flexes its military might along the border with syria as part of an operation to rid the province of Al Qaeda Linked fighters a painful healing process we need a teenager wrongly just the scaped me im are with his life. And im far its all the case for anyone including poland are the latest team to qualify for next years world cup in russia. Lets begin the program with some breaking news the u. S. Suspended all non immigrant Visa Services at its diplomatic facilities in turkey now that means that turks will not be given visas to visit the u. S. Unless theyre actually planning to move there well for more we can speak to tom ackerman who is in our Washington Bureau so tom this just literally broke what in the past five ten minutes or so what else do we know. Well
Needed to change in order for relations to improve. The other important thing that was raised was the possibility of saudi getting involved still further in the syrian conflict because, of course, saudi jets have now massed in the air base and the saudi authorities have indicated their willingness to take part in any kind of ground operation, but there the foreign minister said that when the Coalition Led by the United States would make a decision with regard to ground operations, then saudi arabia would be willing to take part. He said that was a decision yet to be made. Thats the basic lines coming out of that News Conference between the Saudi Foreign minister and the swiss foreign minister. Minister. And turkey has been shelling syria for a second day. These are the latest pictures we have from outside the town where kurdish fighters pushed out rebels from a former military air base, ankara wants fighters from the armed group to withdraw from areas near the border with turkey. The U