good evening. just two days to go until the first nationwide electoral contest, and the 2022 midterms will decide who controls the senate and what the biden administration will look like. the former president teasing a 2024 run is not, and the democracy is at stake this tuesday. they and former president trump all on the trail the last several days. he was in florida late today, and that s a story in itself we ll talk about tonight. president biden tonight in new york. if y all show up and vote, democracy is sustained. this is not a joke. this is not hyperbole, for the second time. not a joke. it matters and it s in your hands. look, you are one of the reasons why, as i said, i have never been more optimistic about the future of this country. this, too, is a story. democratic presidents spending the final days in a blue state, and nationally take a look. out of the 435 seats in play, all republicans need this week is a net gain of five seats to take control of the house f
capitol hill. you are right there in washington where this is going down. good evening to you. the stakes were incredibly high for the first hearing. what did the select committee accomplish tonight? reporter: what the committee hoped to do was essentially create a road map for a thesis that they have that donald trump is principally responsible for a plot to subvert the will of the voters and stand in the way of the peaceful transfer of power. they didn t give us all the information, but they set the stage for what is going to be a seven-part argument toward that end. the way they introduced this argument was by hearing from some of the people closest to the former president, including his own daughter. take a listen. this is the president s daughter commenting on bill barr s statement that the department found in fraud sufficient to overturn the election. how did that affect your perspective about the election when attorney general barr made that statement? it affec
From gaza, stranded after the war, are getting help. And well have a Special Report from our security correspondent, explaining, step by step, how hamas planned and carried out their deadly attack. Also on the programme. As the government vows to clamp down on vapes being marketed to children, we speak to a 12 year old who suffered a collapsed lung and spent days in a coma after becoming addicted to vapes. And two weeks after this famous tree was felled, its been removed from sycamore gap in northumberland where it had stood for 300 years. Coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. We will be live in seville, where scotland can become the first team to qualify for next years european championship. They need just point against spain. Good evening. We are live in jerusalem where israel says it will not allowed basic resources or humanitarian aid into gaza until hamas releases the dozens of hostages it abducted last weekend. The group is designated as a Terror Organisation by m