australia started the day needing 174 runs to chase down a target of 281. england have got two wickets, stuart broad taking the wicket of scott boland before moeen ali removed danger man travis head forjust 16. usman khawaja remains for australia, though, he s past 50. the target is now less than a hundred for australia. that is the latest score for you at the moment. a story that s developing in the last few hours. french police are searching the headquarters of the organisers of the paris 2024 olympic games. officials say the raids are part of two corruption investigations. the bbc understands the probes are in connection with the awarding of contracts for building projects linked to the summer games. a spokesperson for the paris organising committee told the bbc the body is co operating fully with the investigators . steve clarke believes there is more to come from his scotland side as they target a best ever start to a qualification campaign when they play georgia on t
and hot on the heels of antony blinken s visit to china. beijing will seek to improve its ties with europe. however, europe has also started to pull away from china to ensure it is not too reliant on their exports. still, there are strong economic ties between germany and china for the last seven years germany has been china s biggest trading partner in europe. so, what is at stake? i m joined by gregor sebastian economics analyst at the mercator institute for china studies based out of berlin. 0ne welcome to the programme. first of all, for the two leaders what do they want to achieve in the next few days? good morning. i mean, the first thing isjust that good morning. i mean, the first thing is just that the meeting is taking place, right? we have a radically different relationship between the two leaders now than we had in devious years. under angela merkel s meant the cabinets on the chinese and german sides had really constant and close relations and this is the firs
Former President Donald Trump, courtesy of florida 24 news. Youre watching cspan three. It is a day history will remember as the 45th president of the United States faces a 37 count federal indictment on i am dewalt her. Saying this is special coverage of the arraignment of Donald John Trump. That arraignment now about an hour away especially will have a producer inside the courthouse bringing you history as that history is made. President trump arriving at that federal courthouse just moments ago. We have Team Coverage taking us through this important day. National Political Correspondent alex miller is outside the federal courthouse. Deputy political director joe st. Georges just above it. Our political director, Andrew Rafferty, with us in atlanta. National security correspondent Sasha Ingraham is in d. C. White house correspondent haley bullies in bedminster new jersey were from President Trump will appear tonight. Got a full house here, ready to talk about. Days lets begin with ou
Was confirmation of neal g goresuch to trump and then another big issue tax reform and this will be and he bama care too was a major agenda item that they tried to push forward throughout the year and sucked up a lot of legislative calendar time for that and of course, a lot of foreign crises, afghan, libya, a lot of administration they he have had to grapple with. And how do you narrow this down to five things. When you put this together what are you looking at . Sure i was looking for what wish ited donald trump from other president s especially republican president s and first thing i started with was inauguration over crowd size. Right at the beginning. Sets the tone for what the presidency is like. And after that i looked at firing of fbi director james comey. And the way in which that suggested there may be some sort of executive over reach and that really disrupted some of his relationships with republicans on capitol hill started to get a little nervous. So after that i come to
A good thursday morning to you all. We begin with president elect donald trump announcing more cabinet nominees as he prepares for his second rally of the week later today. And joining trump on stage tonight in iowa will be that states governor, terry branstad. His choice for ambassador to china. Now, trump also tapped retired fourstar general john kelly to join the ranks as Homeland Security chief. But hes getting immediate pushback for choosing scott pruitt, a Climate Change denier he is known by some. Janai norman has the latest from washington. Janai, good morning. Reporter good morning. So, donald trump added a third general to his new administration, as you said, retired general john kelly tapped for secretary of Homeland Security. But its the president elects pick for head of the epa that has democrats up in arms. The man dubbed by Time Magazine president of the divided states of america continues to split the country. A new bloomberg poll shows Donald Trumps favorability rating