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of the biggest transfers in football history. good morning from the dorset coast, where conservationists have come up with an innovative idea to protect a tiny yet very precious creature. the spiny sea horse. a dry and bright start this morning, rain and brisk winds in the north and west, and through the day they will travel east leaving brighter skies behind them. all the details in 25 minutes. it s wednesday august the 11th. our top story. there are calls for reforms to the a level system after this year s results saw record numbers of students given top grades. the government is considering a range of options for the future grading of results in england. labour says the coronavirus pandemic has widened the gap between private and state schools. simonjones has this report. oh, my god! a bumper yearfor top grades, with traditional exams replaced by teacher assessment. i ve got three a s. oh, my god! hard work rewarded after the most challenging of years but concerns, too, ....
could land basically anywhere in the red zone, pictured here, it doesn t really narrow it down, it covers a lot of territory and potentially a lot of people. oren liebermann is with me now. and oren, i suppose we re in that zoom as well. tell us who is tracking this thing and it sounds like the pentagon is on top of this as well. of course, u.s. space command and the space force are very much tracking this and they have very much narrowed the window of when this might come down. the latest update which came out just a few moments ago is that it will re-enter the atmosphere at 10:04 tonight, our time, eastern time, and give or take one hour on either side. still a two-hour window but that s a much tighter window than the nine or ten-hour windows we saw earlier today. and even before that. at the speeds this is move, this piece of chinese space junk which weighs 22 ton, that two-hour window is about one and a third orbits and we know where those orbits are so we have a ....
he died of covid complications while battling both parkinson s and multiple myeloma. we will have much more on his life and legacy just ahead. tonight is also the eve of the first major legal showdown for the special house committee investigating the january 6 riot and insurrection. in a little over 20 hours, the committee is scheduled to formally vote on whether to adopt a report recommending criminal contempt charges against trump adviser steve bannon, who has failed to comply with their subpoena. earlier tonight they released that report on bannon s refusal. it outlines what the committee wants from him, and it recommends he be referred to the justice department for prosecution. bannon argues he doesn t have to comply because of donald trump s attempt to assert executive privilege to try to keep his activities and those of his aides and allies from congressional scrutiny. tonight members of the committee flatly rejected that argument. his claim of executive privile ....
mariupol. trey yingst is in kyiv tonight to begin our coverage. good evening, trey. bret, good evening. there are new concerns tonight about the fate of ukrainian soldiers and civilians in the port city of mariupol as people across this country try to get out of harm s way. thousands of ukrainians flee their country each day as the russian invasion continues. many will now be offered refuge by the united states. we have already welcomed tens of thousands of ukrainians to the united states. and today i m announcing a program unite for ukraine. a new program to enable ukrainians seeking refuge to come directly from europe to the united states. president biden announcing a program that will fast track ukrainian asylum claims for those who have a u.s. sponsor. already, more than 10% of the ukrainian population has fled the country according to the united nations. with increased fighting along the eastern front, that number is expected to rise significantly in the comi ....
mr. president, what made you use the word genocide today? yes, i called it genocide because it has become clearer and clearer that putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being ukrainian. howard: president biden framed it exactly right this time, unlike his call to oust putin from power which prompted confusion and criticism. this time, biden said let the lawyers decide if it meets the international definition but, quote, it sure seems that way to me. and i would add, to the world. we often think of genocide being aimed at an reality nick, racial or religious group. but the legal definition also includes killing or harming a national group, and that s what this war is, killing ukrainians because they are ukrainian, because the russian autocrat has decided their country has no right to exist. that s a a fact, and the media establishment should start using the term as well. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead we ll look at elon mus ....