We take you live to a House Science Committee hearing on extreme weather. Experts testifying on extreme heat and the effects on public health. Also have a network of people who are helping. So in our case in the heat relief network, weve had all sorts of community members step up, including have a Utility Company to pay for rights. So thats a shortterm solution. Longterm solutions are to provide cooling spaces for people along the way. I see im out of time. To handle longterm mitigation and adaptation. Thank you. Thank you so much for your comments and i yield back. Thank you. The chair recognizes mr. Kildee for five minutes. Mr. Kildee thank you, Chairwoman Sherrill, for holding this important hearing. Ive beening tooling back and forth. Toggling back and forth today. If my question is redundant, i apologize for that. In my hometown a Water Crisis emerged. My hometown is flint, michigan. Children were affected by this crisis. Exposed to high levels of lead which we know poses really s
and bringing some cheer to children evacuated from the indonesian volcano, but what are they laughing at? live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 9:00 in the morning in singapore and 7pm in chicago, where a jury has found actorjussie smollett guilty of staging a hate crime against himself. smollett, who is african american and openly gay, was accused of orchestrating a staged homophobic attack against him by fake trump supporters in 2019. it was reportedly to generate publicity after being annoyed by his treatment on the tv show he was starring in at the time. in the past half hour, special prosecutor daniel webb gave a statement to the media, speaking of the importance of taking this case to trial. let s take a listen. a lot of times people say well, it will things under the rug but this police department we spotted by absolutely testifying in his trial that they took it seriously, they believed he was the victim of a crime and they worked so
treatment of its uighur minority. an unofficial tribunal finds that china has carried out genocide and crimes against humanity against its uighur minority. the tribunal is satisfied that they have occurred as a direct result of policies, language and speeches promoted by president xijinping and others. and in our weekly report for the bbc website, we re going to be looking at compulsory vaccination whether vaccine mandates are right or wrong, and whether they work. pressure on prime minister boris johnson on several fronts. first, there s the christmas party in downing street a year ago. or possibly, parties. which would have broken covid guidelines at the time. a government investigation, launched by borisjohnson, is being expanded to include two more events. sorry, three events. its initial scope was the party at downing street on 18th december last year. that s where officials enjoyed nibbles and games. we were told that by one source. the inquiry will now look at anothe
there is widespread suspicion that prigozhin was killed in revenge for leading a failed mutiny injune, it was widely seen as a challenge to the authority of president vladimir putin. no video or stills of the grave have emerged yet. russia s tass state run news agency says it was relatives will to hold a private ceremony. let s talk now to vitaly shevchenko, a la russia epitaph. the tally, no pictures, no video, very private good buy. it pictures, no video, very private good buy- pictures, no video, very private aoodbu. , ., , ., good buy. it can t be more private. earlier today. good buy. it can t be more private. earlier today, the good buy. it can t be more private. earlier today, the media good buy. it can t be more private. | earlier today, the media descended on st petersburg, trying to find out where exactly yevgeny prigozhin was going to be buried. there was tighten security at several cemeteries in st petersburg, and the announcement that she had been burie
turning that assad could avoid strike turning over his chemical weapons and russia turning over his chemical weapons and russia quickly moved on this and -ot and russia quickly moved on this and got assad and russia quickly moved on this and got assad to agree on the deal. to avoid got assad to agree on the deal. to avoid the got assad to agree on the deal. to avoid the attack. and that is what prevented avoid the attack. and that is what prevented the attack. and i think another prevented the attack. and i think another key issue is the political framework of the military action. if it is hot framework of the military action. if it is not framed within clear political it is not framed within clear political strategies and there was no such political strategies and there was no such strategy, they were contradictory signals coming from the us contradictory signals coming from the us and the uk in respect of regime the us and the uk in respect of regime chan