and in the streets. we will fight the woke in the halls of congress. we shall fight in the hills. we shall never surrender. we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. so sad. a little historical perspective on wars. there are wars. a little hysterical perspective on this. you know, there was a great profile piece of ron desantis by mark lebovich and it talked about how everything seemed so sort of i don t know i don t know triefd. that it was all just very contrived. when he is going on and on, there will be and he s trying to sound churchillian and he s talking about again, most americans are going, huh? what is this? what? and he just keeps beating it. it s like america is not florida and that one little area in florida, by the way, ron desantis, but he continues to brag about his efforts to fight woke. we ve got a lot to get this this morning. that is seriously so 19 so 2021. it really is. speaking of actual wars, we will have new reporti
this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 8am injapan, where we begin this hour. thousands of people have spent the night in evacuation centres, following a powerful earthquake. four people were killed and dozens injured, with many more thought to be buried under the rubble of buildings. in the past hour, british prime minister rishi sunak said the uk stands ready to support to japan, and is monitoring developments. the epicentre of the 7.6 magnitude quake was noto province in the centre ofjapan, with the tremors felt as far away as the capital tokyo. tens of thousands of people were told to head to higher ground, in the country s first major tsunami warning since 2011. the warning was later downgraded, with waves of less than one metre reported. suranjana tewari is injapan, and sent this report. this footage from inside someone s home captures the moment the powerful earthquake struck. some staff at this news network took cover, while others wanted to cover
reconnaissance plane. during a security summit overseas, defense secretary lloyd austin saying the u.s. will not be bullied. we have late reporting from washington. the race for 2024 heating up. most top republican candidates minus donald trump descend on iowa, mingling with voters, trying to stand out as more gop hopefuls prepare to announce a run. rachel scott in des moines. the president signs the debt ceiling deal two days before the country could have faced its first of a kind default. what it means for the average american, and why the u.s. credit rating could still be downgraded. elizabeth schulze at the white house. the search for answers in two serious building collapses. what witnesses say about the connecticut structure that caved in sending workers 30 feet into the basement. and the newly uncovered 911 call in iowa describing a bulging wall the day before the collapse. a weekend washout for millions. remnants of a tropical system bring torrential rains to florida,
fairgrounds. we ll have speeches and behind us the former vice-president of the united states. mike pence is the only one riding in the event with senator joni ernst. pence is going to announce he s running for president in iowa next week according to sources familiar with the matter. a number of different bikes and got a couple of supporters here talking to us. they re going to be several, several candidates speaking later today at the iowa fairgrounds. you ll have florida governor ron desantis, former u.n. ambassador nikki haley, others like and we ve got all the bikes lined up with senators ernst who will be riding and pence walked up and switched out for a leather vest. they ll move on from here, a day of barbecue and speeches up there. this has been a pretty busy week and several candidates have been here and desantis kicked off his campaign here. former president donald trump was here, held a rally and had that town hall with sean hannity and they ve been going at each
what we are learning tonight. a family s nightmare. a 6-year-old traveling alone to be with his grandmother for the holiday put on the wrong spirit airlines plane arriving in the wrong city. the tense moments for his family and what the airline is now saying this in the middle of a record breaking holiday travel season with millions hitting the roads and taking to the skies. we re following a cross-country storm making its way in the south. millions on alert for potential flooding and the blizzard warning in the northern plains. christmas celebrations canceled in the traditional birthplace of jesus where the fighting in gaza hangs over a time that is usually a time of joy. as relentless combat in the israel-hamas war takes a toll on civilians and both sides of the fighting and the grim death toll. prime minister benjamin netanyahu under pressure inside israel, rick clement from bethlehem. fear that the israeli-hamas conflict will spread as tensions escalate in the red s