this is the middle of the loire river, but you can see how barren it s become. locals say that the water has never been so low at this time of year. and the iconic japanese fashion designer issey miyake has died at the age of 8a. his innovative collections earned him global acclaim for breaking the boundaries between east and west. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the us, where senior republicans have condemned the fbi s unprecedented search of donald trump s florida home on monday as an abuse of power. the former vice president mike pence called for the us attorney general to give a full public account of why it happened, saying it caused him deep concern. the former president, who was not at mar a lago at the time, said a number of agents had occupied the compound and broken into his safe. the white house says president biden learned about the search from media reports. our north america corre
river in france. the four metre whale is now in a lock more than 100 kilometres up river. rescuers will try and lift the whale onto a refrigerated truck that will take it back to the sea. murder, torture and sexual violence with women and children targeted. that s what a new report from the un says is happening in myanmar since the army seized power in a coup last year. un investigators say they ve gathered growing evidence of crimes against humanity there, and are calling the abuses a systematic attack against a civilian population. )in february last year, the country s military seized power, ousted the civilian government and arrested facto leader, aung san suu kyi. defacto leader, aung san suu kyi. a state of emergency was declared. six months later, thejunta tightened its grip as min aung
one, the pure matter of succession. obviously, mitch mcconnell will turn 80 in february. it is widely assumed he will not be in that spot more than the next couple of years. who is going to take over for mcconnell? mainstream conservatives like john thune, do they still want to serve in the congress with president trump as defacto leader of the gop. john, if he does not run again and retires at the age of 60, on the precipice of potentially being a leader, that s an extraordinary choice and would say a lot about the quality of life of serving in congress. and serving in congress with president trump constantly in the shadows. if you just look at recent history, you can go back to 2018. there s now a long roster of mainstream conservatives who have retired rather than faced trump-backed primary. bob corker and jeff flake in 2018 through a longer list
biden s agenda. the roughly $2 trillion social safety net and climate bill. what he calls build back better. but on the other side of thanksgiving, another huge challenge lies ahead for democrats. convincing moderate senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema to sign on to the legislation. as biden confronts rising inflation and falling poll numbers and while democrats fight over the scope of their policies, republicans in washington are facing a reckoning over conduct. this week only two republicans voted to censure arizona congressman paul gosar for posting an edited video depicting him attempting to kill democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. not only did his republican colleagues essentially condone the behavior the party s defacto leader former president donald trump endorsed his re-election. joining me now is republican governor chris sununu who announced this month he plans to run for re-election there in new hampshire and stay as far from where i am in washington as
something else was going down on capitol hill. house republicans, some of them, trying to ramp up these public pushes to encourage people who have not been vaccinated to get the shot. check out what was going on in the last hour. members of republican leadership, gop doctors caucus showing up to talk shots, why people should get them. they also talked about why they want a more aggressive investigation into the origins of covid. the latest on the blame game and a shifting attitude for some conservative leaders. this vaccine does, in fact, protect against symptomatic delta variant. the question is, why are democrats stonewalling our efforts to uncover the origin of the covid virus? why is she trying to do the work of the chinese communist party in covering this up? so you heard some of the what they re trying to say is a blame game there, she, directly aimed at nancy pelosi. those are some of the named official leaders of the republican party. the defacto leader, donald