it s a choice, a choice between two fundamentally different versions of america. in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again, okay? i m not here to compare anyone s atrocities or tragedies their families have dealt with. i m here to continue to expose sins that our world continues to put in darkness. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. well, it is friday, november 4th, 8 a.m. here in london. that s 4 a.m. in new york. and 1 a.m. in california where u.s. president joe biden will be waking up today just four days until the mid-terms. mr. biden spoke at a campaign event near san diego on thursday night. this weekend he ll appear at a pennsylvania rally with his old boss, former president barack obama. across the u.s. candidates are making their final pitches for control of congress and dozens of governorships are on the line in texas where democrat beto o rourke
world. it is thursday, october 13th. i m christine romans. donald trump remains a clear and present danger to democracy. that s the case the january 6th committee plans to make in this afternoon s final hearing before the november mid terms. sources tell cnn we ll hear new testimony and recently uncovered evidence. the political coup and all of the events surrounding the attempt to overthrow joe biden s majority electoral college, the insurrection nair ray violence, the mobilization of the mob, all of it flowed out of the will and determination of one man to seize the presidency and that s donald trump. danielle diaz joins us live from washington. what else can we expect this afternoon? it s really important to emphasize this will be the last time we ll publicly hear in this kind of format from the committee. of course, the last time that they will have some sort of hearing to present to the american people publicly what they found in this investigation of donald trump
of a key supreme court ruling. shanghai residents face more covid 19 restrictions as china tries to crush an outbreak. millions have now been locked in their homes for seven weeks we are restricted on the food we can get over the next few days. no commercial deliveries, no group buys just government approved food deliveries. there s also further restrictions on access to the hospitals. and a passenger with no idea how to fly is given instructions to land a plane in florida, after the pilot fell ill. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. ukrainian forces have been retaking a number of towns and villages, pushing russian infantry and artillery back towards the border. the fighting, which has led to a dramatic fall in russian shelling of kharkiv, has been slow and costly but ukrainian forces, say they now have the upper hand. kharkiv is just a0 kilometres from the russian border, and the russians retreat coul
covid. a prominent epidemiologist in the country now saying it should be called the, quote, coronavirus cold. this as major shift for the chinese government after nearly three years of forcing the public to live under its zero covid approach, stoking fears about the virus, and forcing residents to go to government quarantine facilities. when even just a single case in a city like shanghai with 25 million people could trigger lockdowns. not anymore. outfront, live from beijing, what s going on here? the chinese government now trying to downplay covid. how is the healthcare system, how are the people now coping with this outbreak? reporter: i mean, he cannot overemphasize, pamela, just how jarring of a contrast this is for a country that s been going through these harsh lockdowns and zero covid rules for the past three years. a lot of people were caught off guard by the sudden reopening and feel like they weren t given enough time or resources to get
let s talk about link between the oil prices falling to an 11-month low yesterday and what janis was talking about, the covid lockdowns in china. here s a text i got from a friend who lives outside shanghai. this was today overnight. everyone in my neighborhood just went into lockdown. the building next to ours was taken to government quarantine facilities. taken to government quarantine facilities. the whole building, everybody that lives there. that was a text last night from a friend of mine in shanghai. china uses about 15% of the world s oil, when you think about the economy coming, not to a halt, they re driving around, there s some activity there. there s very little travel to china. when you have the world s second biggest economy and the scenes we re seeing on tv, it s a humanitarian disaster first. but there s a massive economic angle to this. i guess the weird side of it is