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by rmt union. it has meant trains going out of service and millions of passengers going nowhere. my daughter s doing her gcses. i ve got to get her to and from school, so it s a right pain in the neck. i understand they want a pay rise and things change, i get that, but it s not fair for all the commuters. we are going to primarily focus on the two stories this hour, the rail strike in the uk and the hearing in washington, which is where we are going to begin. we start in washington, where the committee investigating the storming of the capitol onjanuary 6 is holding another public hearing. today s focus is on pressure by former president donald trump and his team for individual us states to overturn the election results. central to this are two battleground states arizona and georgia. joe biden won both by a razor thin margin and president trump has kept pushing false claims of electoral fraud. in opening statements, we heard from the republican vice chair liz ch ....
also tonight. prices are still rising at their fastest rate for a0 years, with the cost of food a prime factor. tomorrow s rail strike will go ahead, after talks between the rmt union and railway employers broke down. and a new tribute to the thousands who arrived from caribbean countries from the 19405 and made a huge contribution to british life. and coming up on the bbc news channel. britain s harriet dart is hitting form a week before wimbledon, reaching the last eight at eastbourne. welcome to the bbc news at ten. a devastating earthquake in afghanistan has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people and left many more injured. the country, 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, and britain says it s ready to provide assistance. the earthquake struck near the south eastern city of khost, in paktika province. afghanistan is parti ....
lives. loaded into the truck. and glastonbury is back after the pandemic. the crowds are heading to the iconic music festival in england, hoping for sunshine. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 6am in singapore, and 2.30am in afghanistan where humanitarian agencies are scrambling to organise emergency shelter and food aid, following an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people. un staff say medical teams and supplies have been despatched to the worst hit province, paktika. hundreds of houses there were destroyed by the magnitude 6.1 event, and hundreds of homeless families are facing a powerful storm and very heavy rain. 0ur 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, entire communities, wiped out in a single dreadful moment in the middle of the night. ev ....
of the international energy agency as europe is told to prepare for russia turning off gas supplies a new statue to the windrush generation is unveiled in london a tribute to the thousands who arrived from caribbean countries in the 1940s. and glastonbury is back after the pandemic the crowds are heading to the iconic music festival in england, hoping for sunshine. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. a devastating earthquake in afghanistan has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, and left many more injured. the quake measured 6.1 in magnitude, damaging thousands of homes in one of the poorest countries in the world. the country, 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. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is in sharana, the capital of paktika province, where casualties ....
that includes 18 more howitzers on top of what the u.s. has sent in. more than 36,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and ammunition for the himars system, approved earlier this month. four of those weapons systems, multiple launch rocket systems that can strike at a far greater range. that s about a third of the billion dollars. the other two-thirds is known as the ukraine security assistance initiative and that will go to purchase through direct contracts with weapons manufacturers more weapons for ukraine. that includes two harpoon coastal defense systems, thousands of night vision goggles, thousands of radios so that won t be as fast, but the u.s. s position is the fight in eastern ukraine is an incremental fight. russia, yes, is making gains, but there is still time to get the critical systems in. how will we find out and when will we see this? the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the training on that advanced himars system for the first group wrapped up ....