largest tribe in the state. and today marks the first stop of the new sunday series, velshi across america. every sunday, i came to you live from a vital battleground state from across the country. i learned much more from being out in the field talking to people and so we re doing it again but for different reasons. the election is over. joe biden is president-elect and now we have to turn our attention away from the circus that will soon leave the nation s capital to the most pressing health emergency in modern history, the covid-19 pandemic. more than 13.3 million americans have been diagnosed with the disease and nearly 267,000 of them have died. more than 2,000 americans are now consistently dying every day from covid-19. while there s promising news about vaccines, while an end to this national nightmare is in sight, we re still many months away from it being safe to return to something that resembles normal. and while we can all look ahead to the seriousness with whi
the world s most wanted cyber crime supects are living freely in russia. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. mps in the uk will today debate proposals to tighten the rules on second jobs for mps, as the row over sleaze continues. borisjohnson has set out plans to ban mps from working as paid consultants, while labour wants a ban on all second jobs. it follows weeks of mounting political pressure after the former tory mp owen paterson was found to have broken lobbying rules as a paid consultant. our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. good morning, prime minister. the prime minister has a tough day of questioning ahead, as he tries to draw a line under the sleaze allegations which have dominated westminster for the last few weeks. yesterday, he announced he would support banning mps from working as paid political consultants, at the exact moment labour was holding a press conference calling for the same. labour is chalking the prime mi
embassy and personnel. i defer to frank mckenzie to talk about the neo planss at that time. general mckenzie. we hold a neo plan, we had a plan to bring out mainly american citizens and people associated with the embassy, planning later began to encompass the larger population, like every other plan centered on americans and their families. when you say the plan grew to include that, what was the timeframe? early spring of this year. so under this administration? yes, yes. and general milley, in your testimony yesterday you testified trump administration plan s had not been developed via robust interagency process, how closely were you consulted on president trump s plans as they were developed? i wasn t consultod 11 of november order that i received. that is why i went over to the white house with acting secretary miller and white house chief of staff patell, i wasn t consulted on. my time has expired. mr. waltz. thank you, mr. chairman, here is where i t
christian graphic designer and against a law protecting members of the lgbtq community. potentially opens the door to more cases including those dealing with same-sex marriage. plus, is there a plot to assassinate under way? ukraine says the kremlin is planning to kill the leader of the wagner mercenary army. it s one reason why yevgeny prigozhin may be in hiding as the aftermath of his mutiny plays out. we are following these major developing stories and many more coming in to cnn news center. two more landmark supreme court rulings dropped today. one addressing the intersection of gay rights, religious liberty, and free speech. the other affecting the bank accounts of millions of americans. that was the 6-3 ruling blocking president biden s student loan forgiveness program. the other also a 6-3 conservative majority. the court limiting lgbtq protections, ruling that a wedding website designer who is christian can refuse to make sites for same-sex couples based on free s
in an extraordinary move, republican legislators who control the house of representatives in the state have voted to expel two democratic members for disorderly conduct after they took part in a protest for stricter gun laws in the chamber last week. justin jones and justin pearson have been ousted but a third democrat seen in the middle of these pictures, gloria johnson narrowly survived the vote which requires a two thirds majority. the three led a protest in the state capitol in the wake of a deadly school shooting in nashville that left six people dead, including three young children. moments ago, i just spoke to one of those expelled lawmakers, justin jones. thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news and first and foremost, where exactly are you? we know there have been massive protests in the house in nashville so what is happening around you? yes, thank you so much for having me on. i m actually here in my office, starting to pack up, because the state legislatu