republicans former president barack obama was stumping in week, continues hig campaign blitz, this week he will be in nevada. obama spent saturday going after republican candidates herschel walker. and dixon. he is a celebrity who wants to be a politician. and we have seen how that goes. he said i m a celebrity. you got that one wrong i m not a celebrity. i m that warriors for god. opponent, her plan would slash billions of dollars from education to change michigan constitution to allow taxpayer dollars to go to private schools. a new theme of democrats to mock parents in state of michigan, parents who concerned about learning loss. he mocks the idea of parents have to have decision making power. bill: i want to show where you joe biden stands in his general approval rating at 40%. 4 years ago, former president president trump at 43% during midterm, republicans lost 40 seats in the house, back to president obama two terms, lost 13 seats approval rating just a tick hig
trend. we will discuss. plus a lot can change in three days. elon musk sows chaos and spreads dangerous misinformation as he takes over twitter. and a master class on messaging. former president barack obama shows democrats what they need to do in these final days before the midterms. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. we begin tonight with the effort to kill a top california democrat. i m not talking about house speaker nancy pelosi and the brutal attack on her husband with a hammer by a home intruder. i ll come to that in a moment. actually, i m talking about congressman eric swalwell, a really dark case for the justice department that was concluded on friday. a pennsylvania man, that we are choosing not to name in an effort not to glorify his actions, pleaded guilty to making threats to kill the congressman and at least three different swalwell staffers he claimed he had ar-15 rifles and wanted to travel to d. c. to shoot the congressman from california, to kill him.
as the candidates to be the uk s next prime minister prepare to go head to head. welcome to the programme. we start with the extreme heat across europe. it s facing its worst drought in a long time. we ll look at that in a moment. but first the high temperatures are also causing big wildfires. let s go to france. there s a huge wildfire near bordeaux, in the south western region of gironde. this is what it looks like at night. thousands of hectares have been burnt. 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate the area, and several homes are destroyed. it s spreading so fast because it s so dry. this is the scene in the day. you can see a plane dropping chemicals used to slow the fire down. more than a thousand fire fighters are there trying to control it. let s hear from one of them. translation: for l the moment, the fire is progressing in every direction. if i may say, the wind is not steady for the moment. it will rise in the course of the day. we are told that the wind will
at a vigil, three days after his assassination. and monty norman, the composer of one of the best known pieces of music ever, the james bond theme, dies at the age of 94 it s six in the morning in singapore and eleven pm in london where it s been announced that the uk will get a new leader of the conservative party and therefore a new prime minister on the 5th of september. it will take that long to choose boris johnson s successor due to the way the party organises the contest. anyone who wants the job will have to first secure the backing of 20 of theirfellow members of parliament and then make their way through a series of votes. we begin our coverage with this report from our political editor chris mason. thank you all very much, thank you. from borisjohnson s resignation, to the emerging cacophony of voices trying to replace him. visions and videos, talks of their past and our future, promises and persuasion, and lots of it. is raising taxes during a cost of livi
the title of his speech was unpacking the new order. i think what he was basically talking about was the united states leading western efforts to try to impose technology sales to china to make china less capable with things like chip making and green technologies and i have to say that many people in that room, business delegates, would probably agree with him. the old order, if you want to call it that, the idea of countries making stuff that is the quickest and efficient countries, making it and then selling it so people who need it, i think that worked for many businesses. the problem is that western governments were not that happy about that because if you have a dominant partner, that does pose a threat to you if you are a western country and that is why you see chip technology restrictions in the us and the retaliation, the rare earths potential ban or at least restriction of what china has to the rest of the world. this is fundamentally what the tension is at this con