Towards her desk. Beto o rourke tweeted this show of support. Unlike the filibuster in the u. S. Senate, the filibuster rules in the texas senate requires senatoring a have a al alvarado not able to eat, drink, use the restroom. We re with you. Ultimately the senator s longshot effort ended with this plea my friends, voter suppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. As we have drawn this sdougs an end it is my sincere hope that simple acts by everyday texans from the senate floor to the ballot box can help to shed the light on all important issues. What do we want our democracy to look like? do we want our state to be more or less inclusive instead of making it easier to vote? this bill makes it easier to intimidate. Instead of making it harder to cheat, it makes it harder to vote. Republicans true to their brazen commitment to rolling back access to the polls and totally impervious to the fact there was no fraud, ignored alvarado s plea and passed the restrictive bill th
Few hours, he has been freed. Pennsylvania s supreme court today quashed his sexual assault conviction on the grounds that evidence given by five witnesses during his retrial should never have been admitted. Cosby, now 83, was one of the most high profile convictions of the early metoo movement. He was found guilty of drugging and molesting the ex basketball player andrea constand in 200a. The supreme court was told that cosby s lawyers had secured a deal with the former district attorney in philadelphia that he would not be tried a second time because there was not enough evidence to present. Let s talk to vinoo varghese. He s a former prosecutor and white collar federal criminal defence attorney and joins us now from new york. Cani can i get your initial thoughts on the news we have been hearing the last couple of hours? i the news we have been hearing the last couple of hours? last couple of hours? i have been coverin: last couple of hours? i have been covering this last couple o
Up. Something screen to me, something is wrong. Could this murder had been deliberately. She was murdered. I loved sarah. I would never have hurt her. Sarah crying because i felt so bad for her. There is just no chance that he had anything to do with. It three trials, three juries. We are scared that the truth may not come out. Sometimes the shades are drawn early in a marriage. Even for a young couple so in love like newlyweds sarah and ryan. Everything in life was still fresh. Even at home on your average monday night. After his workday as a sports writer, ryan said he plop down on the sofa on an august night to chill with the bengals preseason opener against green bay. Sara, he says, went upstairs to draw a bat in the bathroom. She liked her calling baths. The young dental hygienists had been tormented with more of her headaches that afternoon. The young couple in the suburban state in that the home that evening had been married for just under four months. 114 days to be exact. They
wales and northern ireland today s the deadline for millions of people to take part in a once in a decade census. homes washed away in australia as heavy rain and flash floods batter the east coast, thousands of people are ordered to evacuate. more than a thousand people are allowed to ignore lockdown and social distancing restrictions at a music festival in the netherlands, despite the rest of the country being under lockdown. and at 2.30pm bbc parliament looks back at the week in westminster. the government has warned the european union that any attempt to block the export of doses of coronavirus vaccine to the uk would be counterproductive . defence secretary ben wallace told the bbc there s a risk of reputational damage to the eu if it stops vaccine manufactured there from leaving. frustration is widespread in continental countries that they re not receiving the doses they need. here s our political correspondent, jonathan blake. jab afterjab, the uk s population is