We take you live to the u. S. Senate where to date lawmakers who will be on a defense programs and policy bill. You are watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will ohm the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and mercy, in these divisive and polarized times, remind us that words have consequences. Help us to remember that we are accountable to you for every idle and careless word we speak. Lord, teach our senators to be obedient to your commands, doing your will as your presence fills them with joy. Today, surround our lawmakers with the shield of your favor, as they labor to deep our nation to keep our nation strong. May they be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Manifest your power through their labors so that this nation will be exalted by righteousness. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of alle
Lu kewarm at best. A deadly outbreak of dengue fever in the philippines claims a thousand lives we report from the worst affected area. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 7 am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7 pm in washington, wher the row over the democrats impeachment inquiry for donald trump has reached a new level. In effect, the president has doubled down, by calling openly notjust for ukraine to investigate the democratic president ial candidate, joe biden, but for china to do so as well. The democrats are describing it as repugnant, and a fundamental breach of the oath of office. But mr trump sees it differently. Take a listen. China should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened to ukraine so i would say that president Volodymyr Zelensky, if it were me, i would recommend they start an investigation into the bidens because nobody has any do
On cspan2. Okay. We went right to okay. Well, i think thats the tone for what we want to talk about today. So welcome, everyone, with that to our first readiness subcommittee hearing of 2024. Hopefully, he will be able to join us. We have a new member joining the subcommittee this year, representative gooden of the 5th district of texas. I look forward to working with him and hopefully when our other subcommittee members free up from their obligations, we can get everybody over here, but i look forward to working with all of you as we go forward through this next year. Unfortunately as you can see from the photos todays topics is not a new issue, infrastructure across the department and the services continues to age and the deteriorating conditions at military facilities, obviously, have brought us as you well know. The neglect, the disrepair, the underfunding of our military facilities doesnt just harm our operational readiness capability, it does have significant impacts on everythin
On cspan2. Okay. We went right to okay. Well, i think thats the tone for what we want to talk about today. So welcome, everyone, with that to our first readiness subcommittee hearing of 2024. Hopefully, he will be able to join us. We have a new member joining the subcommittee this year, representative gooden of the 5th district of texas. I look forward to working with him and hopefully when our other subcommittee members free up from their obligations, we can get everybody over here, but i look forward to working with all of you as we go forward through this next year. Unfortunately as you can see from the photos todays topics is not a new issue, infrastructure across the department and the services continues to age and the deteriorating conditions at military facilities, obviously, have brought us as you well know. The neglect, the disrepair, the underfunding of our military facilities doesnt just harm our operational readiness capability, it does have significant impacts on everythin
Which is under way newcastle can move back into the european places, if they can get a result at chelsea at stamford bridge. Its the home side thats 1 0 up in the first half. Nicholas jackson with the goal. Chelsea are winless in two league games. A blow for Manchester City Goalkeeper Ederson is set to miss up to four weeks, after suffering a Muscle Injury in the Premier League draw with liverpool yesterday. Ederson was hurt after kicking reds striker darwin nunez conceding the penalty where liverpool scored their equaliser, in the 1 1 draw at anfield. He had treatment at the time, but was later replaced by stefan ortega. City have told the brazilian fa he wont be fit for International Duty later this month. It was a good weekend for arsenal, their win over brentford saw them move to the top of the Premier League and they stayed there, after liverpool and Manchester Citys draw at anfield. The gunners attention now turns to the Champions League where they have to beat porto tomorrow nig