with us. coming today is not easy and i recognize that you each had the option of respectfully declining the invitation to be here. but you didn t. and i hope that you understand that your presence here is not just so important to the members of this committee, to the senate as a body, but also speaks volumes for the countless victims of abuse that are out there listening or watching or will listen. or will watch. i appreciate the conversation about mental health prompted by the questions from senator booker. my wife is a very active mental health advocate and so she has trained me well to be cognizant of those issues and ask important and timely questions as well. and ms. biles, i hope you might have heard about some of our amplification of your courage from the most recent olympics to take care of yourself first. that took a lot. i ll just offer a few comments. i think most of the questions that i would raise have been raised by my colleagues. but i want to make it clear th
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dissidents. and an unruly passenger dusk tap duck taped to his seat. what the airline is saying about the decision. covid cases have surpassed 200 million as the delta variant continues to strain health care systems. the number has jumped dramatically since late april when there were 150 million cases. global covid deaths have also topped 4.2 million. meanwhile the cdc projects covid hospitalizations and deaths in the u.s. will go up over the next four weeks. dr. tom frieden says the u.s. will likely see a surge of infections in the coming weeks and it won t be limited to areas with low vaccination rates. and a former u.s. official has this warning for the unvaccinated my god, we have more cases, more hospitalizations now than we had when i was in office last july. only reason that we don t have 1500 deaths is we ve done a good job with the elderly. but we re at a pace to lose 75,000 additional americans by thanksgiving. that is a horrific thought and one that we cannot a
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s 6am in the morning in singapore and 1am in the morning in lebanon, where a day of remembrance for the victims of the huge explosion in beirut s port a year ago has descended into violence. the deaths of more than 200 people were commemorated at a multi faith event in the shadow of the ruins where the blast happened. relatives of those who died observed a silence, and each of the victim s names was read out. but a little later, near the parliament building in the centre of beirut, angry crowds gathered to voice their frustration at what they see as a lack of accountability for the disaster and failures in government. security forces fired tear gas, and several fires were started. by nightfall, the situation had worsened. more tear gas was used, and police equipped with riot gear were trying to disperse the crowds. more than 50 peo
in the 400 metre hurdles. hello and welcome to the programme. thousands of people in lebanon have attended a memorial service in the ruins of the port of beirut to mark the first anniversary of a huge explosion that devastated much of city. the blast was one of the biggest non nuclear explosions in history. it killed more than 200 people. outside the lebanese parliament, the security forces fired tear gas at stone throwing protesters. along with the grief, there s real anger that a year on nobody has been held to account for the explosion. rights campaigners allege that the most senior officials in lebanon were aware of the danger posed by the huge quantity of ammonium nitrate fertiliser stored in the port that caused the explosion. the blast plunged lebanon into a deeper crisis, but the country had already been facing serious problems for years due to the dire economy and political instability. carine torbey reports. one year after the explosion, all the debris is swept to a