Republicans is just getting started. Those efforts now echoing through the halls of capitol hill. Here s texas state representative, one of the state democrats in washington. I hope that we can show senator manchin, senator sinema and the rest of their democratic colleagues in washington how to fight, how to stand on principle, how to make a sacrifice, how to risk their careers in order to do the right thing by the united states and by the voters in this country. Fighting words, and the stakes are high. Right now, 17 states have enacted legislation clamping down on voting rights. Texas is on track to become the 18th. Meanwhile, in georgia, republicancontrolled commission now has the power to remove local election officials and has already done so. In florida elections officials who failed to continuously supervise drop boxes can be fined $25,000. Arkansas has empowered a state board to, quote, take over and conduct elections in any county the gopcontrolled legislature deems necessary.
firefighters are continuing to search for survivors with at least 4 people confirmed to have died and up to 15 still reported missing, after a fire engulfed a high rise apartment complex in the spanish city of valencia. flames were finally put out early this morning. there are fears that the highly flammable cladding on the building s facade may have helped the fire spread as in the 2017 tragedy, at london s grenfell tower. guy hedgecoe reports from madrid. with the blaze now under control, firefighters are appraising the state of the building and searching for those who are unaccounted for. with temperatures inside still extremely high, the task is not easy. the spanish government said 14 people were still missing. some are thought to be foreign nationals, making it harder to trace them. gala kotova, who is ukrainian and lives in the building, was home with her nine year old son when the fire started. i was on the terrace and i noticed the smoke and it was getting more
to the mother of alexei navalny, the opposition figure who died in prison last week. a spokesperson for the navalny team it says his mother has been given three hours to agree to quote, a secret funeral without members of the public in attendance, otherwise he will be buried inside the prison compound. let s go straight to the newsroom and get more from a russia editor from bbc monitoring, vitaly shevchenko. tell us more, because we were hearing only yesterday from alexei navalny s mother about getting access to the body. a new ultimatum now. getting access to the body. a new ultimatum now. yes, it comes from the spokeswoman ultimatum now. yes, it comes from the spokeswoman for ultimatum now. yes, it comes from the spokeswoman for alexei - ultimatum now. yes, it comes from i the spokeswoman for alexei navalny s family, from kia yarmysh, who said an investigator had been in touch with alexei navalny s mother ludmila saying that within three hours, she had to be agree to h
hello, welcome along. joe root was at the heart of england s fight back on the first day of their fourth test against india in ranchi. it was his tenth test century against india, that is a record. england struggled initially, they were 112 5. butjoe root was the anchor. his century was the slowest century scored in the so called bazball era. a solid start for england as they look to draw level in the series. let s get more on the first day s play from the bbc s chief cricket writer, stephan shemilt. it stephan shemilt. was a determination to master ti conditions it was a determination to master the conditions and recognise the situation england found themselves in in terms of the score but also the difficulty they were facing in terms of the pitch and the indian bowling. england have had some breathtaking centuries from ollie pope and ben duckett in the series but for a to play and make for a display of technical mastery, nothing will improve on what we saw from gyrate to
quarterly earnings. two major names in the us tech sector. we ll hear from its chief executive. hello and welcome to asia business report. we begin with netflix because the streaming giant s shares have dropped more than 8% after the bell. mike proulx is forrester s research director and he noted of new customers. six millino new ads is an incredible number and it is in large part due to the crackdown on password sharing. so the launch of the programme is absolutely a success and why they re going to lunch it in additional countries of. can you tell us about looking forward? because there is a massive strike that is going on in i know these numbers don t reject this, but what do you project if they don t have any production in the pipeline? netflix, and the same cannot be said for its competition, because of the fact that the company has such a large international footprint. this will provide an element of air cover to keep it fresh with new programmes, new shows, new movies