fighters in afghanistan. hello and welcome to bbc news. the republican kevin mccarthy says he s confident he ll win enough support today to be elected speaker of the us house of representatives. so far, he s failed 13 times, leading to deadlock in the chamber. it comes on the second anniversary of the january the 6th attack on the us capitol building. the latest session has been adjourned for several hours, but mccarthy is just a handful of votes short of victory. with the latest, here s gary 0 donoghue. commemorating the heroes of january the 6th two years ago for their courage in the face of overwhelming odds. it was the moment american democracy teetered on the brink, as protesters, supporters of donald trump, stormed the capitol, bent on preventing the ratification ofjoe biden s victory. you know, for those who lost someone on that day, they re proud as the devil that their kin are being honoured but, boy, is it hard. up on capitol hill, democrat members of the house mark
he s giving a wrong impression when he makes those sorts of comments. that s not the way the british army sees things. also on the programme. gridlock outside hospitals with a record number of ambulances having to wait more than half an hour to hand over patients. a report on britain s growing space industry. and the former chelsea and juventus player gianluca vialli has died and stay with us here on bbc news for continuing coverage and analysis from our team and correspondence in the uk and around the world. good evening. there are yet more sensational claims and accusations from prince harry after his memoir, due out next week, was published early by mistake in spain. they include the way he found out his mother had died, his childhood resentment about being the younger brother, the extent of his drug taking, and more recently, how he found out the queen had died from the bbc website rather than from his family. meanwhile there s been criticism and unease about his claim to
Well, you can argue about who started it, but there has been a decided deterioration in the governments relationship with the eu in the last few days. The Prime Minister thinks there are people in brussels not from all the other Member States but brussels itself whove been stirring things up, and in the process, interfering in our election. If that was the case, the effect has probably been to help her. But for the europeans, the point is simply that they have now agreed their shared negotiating position that was over the weekend and if it appears tough well, thats not their doing, thats brexit. You might say this is alljust the dynamics of nationalism one side asserts itself, then so does the other. But has it poisoned the atmosphere for the real negotiation about to hit us . Well hear eu and uk perspectives, but first heres nick watt. Dont know why theres no sun up in the sky, stormy weather. The outlook for theresa may in this election has so far been pretty benign but an ill wind l