after the floods the struggle to reach millions of people affected by the rising waters in bangladesh and northeast india. and after meeting president zelensky on a brief trip to ukraine, the hollywood actor ben stiller praises the spirit of the ukrainian people. these does people like you and i who have been caught and ate circumstance totally beyond their control. and nobody wants to flee their home. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. three us republican state officials have been describing the direct pressure they were put under by donald trump and his team to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. in an at times emotional testimony to the congressional committee, they described threats of violence directed at them from trump supporters when they refused to bow to the pressure. we have various groups come by, and they have had video panel trucks with videos of me, proclaiming me to be a paedoph
The Parliament Building. Im robin adams with your sport and world cup semifinals comes at a price. Neymar is ruled out of the rest of the tournament with a fractured vertebrae. Now, ukraines president is claiming victory over prorussian separatist. Rebel forces are moving out of the former stronghold the slovyansk, and the Ukranian Army has been ordered to raise the flag over the city. Scott heidler joins me from outside donetsk. Can you confirm for us, scott, is the ukranian flag now flying over the buildings that were held by antiGovernment Forces in slovyansk . We cant confirm that that flag is flying. What we can confirm, we have seen a separatist tanks and armoured personnel carriers coming down the road that im standing on. In the direction of donetsk, the secondlargest city, a strategically important city heading in that direction, or if they are around in between the two points that the separatists held for weeks on end. That is left to be determined. The president ordered that
Bashar alassad rij eem says it was not formed that i. S. I. L. Targets would be hit. We have a report on kurdish fighters repelling attacks, and the refugee situation. For the first time the United States has carried out air strikes in syria. They targeted fighters begonging to the Islamic State of iraq and levant, saudi arabia, u. A. E. , jordan and bahrain were involved. Qatar is said to be providing support. Pentagon forces say u. S. Fighter jets started to hit targets on monday. Most of the areas targeted are targeted near the iraqi border. Fighters, checkpoints and weapon depots are under fire. It has been in i. S. I. L. Hands, it was the capital until mosul fell in june. Washington informed the u. N. Envoy of the attack against the i. S. I. L. Targets in rafah. This statement was released john kirby went on to say . Lets go to our correspondent imran khan, joining us live from the iraqi capital baghdad now. Imran, how will the u. S. Air strikes in syria be received by the Iraqi G
Storms in decades. Typhoon neoguri is bearing down on okinawa. The warnings are in effect for the main island of okinawa and me yak coa island in the south. Local authorities issued an evacuation advisory for 480,000 residents throughout the prefecture. Officials at the Okinawa Power Company say 22,000 households were without try trystity on tuesday morning. Airline companies have cancelled all flights to and from the islands. The typhoon has also forced Public Schools to close. Lets get the details from mai shoji at the weather desk. It is pack gusts of 252 Kilometers Per Hour and is still large and very strong status. The second strongest level. It will be veering towards kyushu making land fall over western japan by thursday morning. Is it going to be packing gusts of 252 in okinawa and miyako today. Tomorrow the gusts will be weakening. No matter how the intensity is and even if this decreases and winding down with the winds and all, its the rainfall and the heavy waves and life th
Divide in america. The collusion delusion is over. What is the russian reaction . Ill talk to one of moscows top Foreign Policy minds. And the legacy of mueller. Do we now have new norms for president ial power . Will the next president not have to release tax returns, be able to fire people investigating the white house, and more . Well have a debate. But first, heres my take. President trump faces a crucial test of his Foreign Policy and his resolve over venezuela. His administration has made absolutely clear that the u. S. No longer considers Nicolas Maduro to be president. A far stronger declaration than the red line barack obama drew around syrias assad. So far, trumps pressure has not worked. Maduro has dug in and the Venezuelan Military has not abandoned their support for him. Venezuela is a complicated, divided country and maduro is the heir to hugo chavez, does have support in foreign rural areas, but far more significant in the regime in caracas is russias open and substantia