Within the next few minutes, the former conservative Home Secretary, James Cleverly, will try to win over his fellow conservative mps as he launches campaign to become leader of the party. Mr cleverly is one of the front runners to replace Rishi Sunak following the Conservatives Defeat atjuly s election. He is among six candidates vying for the job, and those candidates will be whittled down to four by the time of the conservative conference at The End of the month. After that, mps will carry out further rounds of voting to select two final candidates for the conservative members to choose between, with the result announced on 2nd november. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, vicki young, who joins us from westminster. Hello. Any hint as to what we are likely to hear from James Cleverly. I think he will talk about some specific policies. We can really say this Leadership Election has been rumbling along in the background over the summer. We have had a bit from all of the candida
it is sunday, july 9th. i am ali velshi. the field of republican presidential candidates is growing. a date has when lockdown for the first republican primaries and caucuses. yesterday, the republican party of iowa announced that it will hold its first in the nation caucus on january 15th of 2024. momentum will pick up next month when the party holds its first primary debate in milwaukee, august 23rd. there is going to be a problem for the country to receive most or some of the candidates together. at least one dozen republicans should be competing in 2024 but only five of them declared candidates have met the requirements to qualify for the first debate. ron desantis, nikki haley, revak wamah swami, tim scott, and donald trump, the undisputed front runner in the race right now. it s difficult to overstate how unusual this race is turning out to be. the republican party has been impeached twice already. he s running for that position again. he is leading the pack. he has been
other residents left to run for cover. translator: we were on the eighth floor with my 4-year-old son. we first ran to the corridor, and then down the fire staircase to get outside. reporter: as you can see, this building sustained some pretty substantial damage, and the drone attack went on for several hours last night, with the drones hovering over the city center and ukrainian air defenses frantically trying to take them down. ukraine s military says it shot down 29 of the 31 uavs the russians sent. kyiv s mayor vitali klitschko comforting his citizens, and telling me western air defense systems kept many people here safe. if we didn t have our defense, modern defense from our partners we have much worse situation in our hometown. more destroy the buildings and it will be more civilians killed. reporter: but russia has already threatened massive retaliation after the drone attack on moscow, leaving people in kyiv and elsewhere bracing for what could be worse to com
security spokesperson john kirby about the latest u.s. efforts to aid ukraine and the president s upcoming travel to europe. and we ll bring in reire thed four-star general jack keane for analysis on ukraine and china s threats now that the u.s. has shot down one of its surveillance devices. then, former u.n. ambassador nikki haley throws her hat in the ring. i am running for president of the united states of america! [cheers and applause] han san nikki haley joins us for her first sunday show appearance as a candidate. we ll get her on the record about her case to voters and the criticism she s taking just a few days into her campaign. plus our town needs help. our governor abandoned us. shannon: residents blast the federal, state and local response after a ox thetic train derailment toxic train derailment in eastern ohio. the governor and the biden administration now in clean-up mode. we ve gone into hundreds and hundreds of people s houses to test that air. it s