when he fired a gun on set, killing a colleague. more than 1,000 people have already come forward to contact the inquiry into racism in cricket, following azeem rafiq s emotional testimony about his own experiences at yorkshire. good morning. todayis today is going to be fairly cloudy for most of us, also rather breezy. rain in the north and west, some brightness across central and eastern areas, but it s going to be very mild for the time of the year. details coming up. good morning. it s thursday, the 18th of november. our main story. the government is planning to publish a £96 billion plan for the rail network in the midlands and north of england. but there s anger that the section of high speed 2, stretching to leeds, is now expected to be scrapped. and instead of building a brand new line between manchester and leeds, there are reports the existing track will just be upgraded. ministers insist their changes will mean improvements happen up to a decade earlier. dan johns
and what do you think about the likely scrapping of a fast train line between leeds and macnhester which had been promised by the pm? you can contact me @vicderbyshire or email victoria@bbc.co.uk. where is one of china s top tennis starss? she hasn t been heard from since she accused a chinese official of sexually assaulting her. alec baldwin faces a new lawsuit over a fatal shooting on a film set. lawyers are calling the actor reckless. the nhs can now offer people living with hiv the first long acting injectable treatment to keep the virus at bay. and coming up this hour.. we ll speak to fabrice muamba and the person who saved his life about a new campaign to ensure more people know how to help people having a cardiac arrest. good morning. the government is preparing to publish its plans for the rail network, insisting that changes from the original proposals will mean improvements happen faster in the midlands and northern england. borisjohnson has indicated that the leg
between a slogan and a story. right now it s in vogue to say the democrats have a messaging problem. maybe they do, probably do, but that s for candidates and strategists to figure out. that s not the media s problem. the media suffers from a different dilemma, the slogan versus the story. slogans are simple, they are seductive. infrastructure week is a slogan, cheerky one. it became a punch line for years and years. but it s just a slogan. the story about what all of the infrastructure money, what all of the funding will do, the story about rebuilding these roads and bridges and of the expansion of broadband, infrastructure week is just a slogan. we need to know about the story. there s a gop slogan out there as well, the bill is a monstrosity. this is a slogan republicans are using to attack democrats. but the story is the last republican president promised to pass an infrastructure bill and failed, so now they need the democrats to fail too. stories are complex. stories ha
voters who backed biden, raising hopes for a house gop takeover next year. let s climb that hill together. reporter: have republicans found a way to manage the trump factor? gop governor larry hogan joins me in moments. plus, message received. democrats point fingers about their election losses. what lessons should the party learn? we must get back on the ground and impact things that are important to people. reporter: the mayor-elect of new york city, eric adams, is here, as well as virginia s democratic senator, mark warner. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is feeling some whiplash after a bruising election day for democrats, president biden spent the weekend celebrating a significant win, bipartisan passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which passed the house overnight friday with the support of 13 republicans and gives billions of dollars to the nation s bridges and roads as well as broadband, water and energy systems
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