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change their mind. new whistleblower claims were made public will the investigation into the origins of covid. the cia tried to pay off investigators to change their finding. ron desantis taking a jack at both biden and trump as the stage is set for the second republican primary debated. the presidency is not a job for someone that s 80 years old. we need an energetic president. big day for inflation this morning ahead of the cpi number coming outs for august. brian kemp declares a state of emergency in response to inflation. kemp says will continue to help georgians weather economic headwinds. pete: we begin this hour with a fox news alert. russian president vladimir putin and north korean dictator kim jong un wrapping up a meeting this morning in russia wants far east. ainsley: the north korean leader declaring his full and unconditional support for moscow s war on ukraine, sparking fears in the u.s. that an arms deal might be in the works. pete: as th ....
a deal s been signed to stage the tour s marquee event in riyadh in a long expected move, but one that is not without controversy. amid accusations that saudi arabia violates human rights and restricts women s lives and freedom of speech. tennis legends martina navratilova and chris evert said taking the finals there would be a step backward for women s tennis. the wta chief executive steve simon insists the sport is supporting significant change in the kingdom, although perhaps another clue to the move is found in the prize money, up 5 million pounds on last year, and also more than the men s atp finals in 2023. laura scott is our sports news correspondent, laura it marks another saudi foray into sport. opposition to the move but the wta was set up partly to improve the financial viability of the women s game, and this certainly does this. tennis is nowjoining a growing list of sports turning to saudi arabia for investment and for hosting major events. this is not ....
another weather system coming in from the atlantic. ahead of that we still have some time, notjust northern ireland but in scotland and increasingly the cloud is breaking up increasingly the cloud is breaking up across wales and some western parts of england. not particularly warm by any means. a chilly breeze continuing to bring in those showers across eastern areas of england. where we have a clearer skies following the sunshine, early in the night there is a risk of a prose, temperatures could get close to freezing for a while. but the window of clearer skies will be closing because while that area of damp weather moves await this cloud and rain moves in from the atlantic and briefly there will be some snow over the tops of the scottish mountains and may be in the northern pennines. it should turn back to rain later in the night because milder air is coming in and these other temperatures by the end of the night, above freezing by morning. i which time the rain shoul ....
conservative mps to back him. if he d lost tonight it would have significantly dented his authority. in total, 313 mps voted in favour of the bill and 269 mps voted against it, meaning the government had a majority of 44 votes. no conservatives mps voted against the bill, but 37 did not vote. chris mason is in westminster. a day ofjeopardy and a day of jitters and the government deploying every tool of persuasion and mathematics, so the phone calls and the snatched conversations in the corridors, the more formal meetings, and on the mathematical side making sure everyone who could vote for the government was here in order to vote for the government. to give you an example, the climate minister who was at the climate talks in the middle east, flew all the way back so that he could vote. that is how nervous the government was, despite the result when we finally got it. quite an evening then after quite a day. quite an evening then after quite a da . . , . , ., day. excu ....
the hamas run health ministry in gaza says the death toll since the conflict began is 17,700. from jerusalem, our middle east correspondent, lucy williamson, reports. buried by the war, but still alive, dug from the rubble of their homes in deir al balah after an israeli strike this morning. more than 20 members of the salman family and their neighbours. their faces, like their lives, made unrecognisable. six others were killed, they say. the frantic race to hospitals is gaza s new daily routine. health care in the north has collapsed. here, further south, doctors say the situation is catastrophic. there aren t the resources to treat all the wounded, much less to comfort them. this boy praying quietly to himself. the girl beside him calling for her mother. gunfire in the north of gaza israeli forces say they re targeting palestinian fighters in jabalia camp. one of those inside a un shelter there told the bbc they were encircled and had now been without food or water fo ....