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tonight with the context, former conservative cabinet secretaryjustine greening and republican lanhee chen, who was policy director for mitt romney s presidential campaign and is now running to be california s state controller. welcome to the programme. the next british prime minister will be either rishi sunak, the former chancellor, or liz truss, the foreign secretary. mps voted for a final time this afternoon, eliminating former defence secretary penny mordaunt. and it sets up a bruising battle, through the summer, as the two remaining candidates pitch a very different version of conservatism to the tory members. the decision will rest with 160,000 party members who will each have a vote. many of them will be attending hustings around the country to hear from the candidates directly and this is the sort of thing they are going to hear. well, i m incredibly humbled to have made it to the next stage in the process and i m grateful to all my colleagues for their support. th ....
the same to declare a climate emergency. here we are. we don t know why the white house stopped short of making this emergency declaration on climate today with of course president biden standing in front of a once-fired coal powered plant being converted into an offshore wind manufacturing facility. there s speculation a tough time to roll out that announcement amid high gas prices and recession fears and since can it be used as a legal basis to drop oil and gas drills. congressional republicans say pain at the pump is the point. i think the administration does want us to suffer. the secretary of transportation said yesterday you don t like the cost of gasoline, buy an electric vehicle. so some announcements did come from the president s remarks plan to propose wind mills in the gulf of mexico and a record of amount of fema funding for infrastructure, neil. jackie, thanks for that. let s go to jeff block right now. he s in philadelphia. witnesses this for himsel ....
of cheer on wall street: amazon shares soar as it racks up sales of $121 billion in the last three months. hello there. we start in the us, with fears of a recession in the world s biggest economy. in the world s biggest economy are rattling people. official figures out on thursday show it shrinking for the second quarter in a row. two quarters of negative growth are what many countries around the world would define as a recession. not so in the us, as we ll show you why in a minute. us gross domestic product declined at an annual rate ofjust under 1% between april and june. that comes after a steeper 1.6% decline in the first three months of the year. but that hasn t hit the labour market yet. us treasury secretary janet yellen said the economy is now at full employment with the unemployment ratejust 3.6%. meanwhile, prices for groceries, petrol and other basics are rising at the fastest pace since 1981. he s what president biden had to say. both chairman powell an ....
inhaling laughing gas from super sized canisters puts users at risk of life changing harm, including paralysis, according to experts. i can t do nothing for myself at the moment. it s not like i can get up and walk out my house. an un crewed test flight to the moon takes off next week. the artemis mission could be the start of a new era of space exploration. and coming up on the bbc news channel, ben stokes reveals how the depth of his mental health struggles led to him taking a break from cricket and that he feared he might not play again. police in merseyside are hunting for a gunman who shot dead a nine year old girl in liverpool, now named as olivia pratt korbel. the girl was shot in the chest in a house in the dovecot area last night and died in hospital. police say it happened after a man being chased by a gunman forced his way into the house. two other people were injured, including olivia s mum who was shot in the hand. police have called the gunman cowardly , ....
energy agency. eight medical staff who treated the football legend, diego maradona, in the days before he died are to stand trial for alleged criminal negligence. and glastonbury is back after the pandemic. the crowds are heading to the music festival in england, hoping for sunshine. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. more than a thousand people have been killed after a major earthquake in eastern afghanistan. many more have been injured as the 6.1 magnitude quake damaged countless homes in one of the poorer regions of one of the poorest countries in the world. afghanistan, which is governed by the militant islamist taliban, is already in the grip of a humanitarian disaster, with millions facing famine. the taliban have asked for international aid. our correspondent secunder kermani is in sharana, the capital of paktika province, where casualties from the earthquake are being cared for. a desperate search for survivors. hundreds of homes, ent ....