repeating his false claims about the election and accusing joe biden of destroying the nation. on the house floor, the speaker nancy pelosi holds a moment of silence for those who died. more than 700 people have been arrested in connection with that day so far. this hour we will speak to the attorney general for the district of colombia. hello, good evening. it is january 6th, and a year to the day, that i sat here, in this studio, reporting on the mayhem unfolding on the steps of the us capitol. marking that anniversary president biden has made it clear who he thinks was responsible and why donald trump, the first president in us history to refuse to accept the results of an election and submit to a peaceful transfer of power. some decribe those events as a coup, or an insurrection. but by the time they took place the attempt had already failed. at that moment, on that day, the vice president was in the senate chamber overseeing the certification of the election result, wh
county cricket club, says azeem rafiq should be praised for his bravery and says sorry to him and to his family. families across the atlantic are reunited as the us opens its borders to fully vaccinated travellers, for the first time in over a year and a half. former us president barack obama tells young people they should stay angry about climate change and warns time is running out. and coming up before eight o clock: the successor to the hubble space telescope which aims to picture the very first stars ever to shine in the universe. the prime minister has been accused of running scared from a debate taking place in the house of commons now about the rules that govern mps. it follows a row about the government s efforts to change those rules last week prompted by an investigation into lobbying by the former conservative mp owen paterson. that and the government u turn the following day caused outrage among opposition parties and many tory mps. the labour leader ke
the polish constitution. support for the polish constitution. support for the eu and poland is strong with protesters coming out in warsaw to support the country s membership. at the lodge may be delayed but william shatner still plans to boldly go where he has not gone before. we will hear from the man himself. welcome. lots coming up in this hour of outside source, stories from poland in that standoff there between the government and the eu, we will be live and talking to people in lebanon on the fuel crisis they are, but first of all recorded turn to news from iraq. because in a significant blow to the islamic state militant group, the man in charge of its finances has been captured by iraqi forces. the prime minister described his capture as a complex operation outside the country. this is the man in question, his name is samijasim and he was a former deputy to al by daddy come at the group s leader who was killed by specialforces daddy come at the group s leader who was
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un
and sir paul mccartney makes history as glastonbury s oldest solo headliner, at the age of 80. russian forces are now said to be fully occupying the ukrainian city of severodonetsk, a key location in the war, in the east of the country. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins and ukraine s army has now pulled its troops out. saturday also saw an upsurge in russian missile strikes across ukraine. in his nightly address, president zelensky said the war had entered an emotionally difficult stage and that air defence systems held in storage in allied nations were needed more than ever. shelley phelps has the latest. as severodonetsk falls, civilians have been fleeing the area. ukraine says its retreat is a tactical withdrawal, to fight from higher ground in the neighbouring area of lysycha nsk, which has come under heavy bombardment. elena hasjust arrived from there. translation: it was a horror last week, yesterday - we could not take it anymore. thank you to the