to compete. weekend drama over which house member could be next. at no time in the history of a select committee of america as to what had speaker pelosi done ever happened before. the idea that she s going to pick and choose? you re not going to get an outcome. more violence in d.c. this week after a shooting on one of the city s busiest strips, and as crime steadily rises across the country, tension is growing over how to curb the violence. it s happened where people can t sit down or walk down the street with their kids, that s when people start to speak up about the issue. i ve been talking to residents along the way, and people are mad as hell right now, and i don t blame them. i am too. and extreme weather taking over the country. historic fires, heatwaves a md floods. more storms and heat set to come this weekend. is the worst yet to come? all righting good morning, everybody. it s saturday, july 24th. the olympics are here? the olympics are here. it s li
federalization of juneteenth before that. and now, national celebration of black freermd. but there lies at least part of my point. infrastructure. it will pass because white americans, including republicans, agree on the need. and they are proportion addly affected by bad roads, and substandard airports. and it s also easy to make peace with another paid holiday. but as we saw last week with the for the people act and for months now the police reform legislation in george floyd s honor, senate republicans remain adverse to helping black americans overcome threats that disproportionately affect them, like bad cops, and suppressed votes. of course, on voting rights, it makes sense from the gop s standpoint, why empower that will and already have defeated you? but on curbing police lethality, there is really no excuse not to proceed. unless, of course, all lives truly don t matter. and so we start with congresswoman karen bass, democrat, of california, who is coauthor of the
i felt anxious all the time, worrying about stuff for no reason, so ijust got up one morning and was like, right, get in the cold water. do my breathing. and, like, laterthat day, it s like my mind just cleared. mr james newman. cheering and applause in 2020, singerjames newman was meant to represent the uk on the world stage at the eurovision song contest. life, but the event was it was meant to be the biggest moment of his life, but the event was cancelled because of coronavirus. now then. fast forward a year, and he s got another chance, eurovision 2021 is on, but so is the pressure. the pressure is a very big moment, going to be anxiety to the max, innit? james isn t the only one getting ready for the eurovision spotlight. # baby, you re hurting. # are you all right? nearly a0 acts will compete in the dutch city of rotterdam. # to all the wrong places. we will meet some like james who re getting a second chance to compete. i am so happy and so excited. i can t wait. let s
compete tonight after a pandemic enforced break. the bbc s former director general, lord hall, has resigned as chairman of the national gallery following criticism over panorama s interview with princess diana in 1995. tony hall was the corporation s head of news at the time when reporter martin bashir used deception to secure the interview. lord hall led an internal investigation into initial complaints, a year after the interview was broadcast but it was branded woefully ineffective this week by an independent inquiry. here s our home editor, mark easton. former bbc director general tony hall has not yet appeared publicly to answer questions about his role in the bashir scandal, specifically about what the dyson report called his woefully inadequate investigation into martin bashir s conduct in 1986. today, however, we learn that lord hall has stepped down from his chairman role in the national gallery. in a statement he said. tony hall was director of bbc news and curr