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 cheney.
weapons in public. we can t just stand we can tjust stand by we can t just stand by and watch these people carry illegal firearms in public. ukraine is given official eu candidate status. and the coach who made a dramatic rescue after a swimmer fainted to the bottom of the pool at the world aquatics championships in budapest. ijust went as i just went as fast as i could to grab herand i just went as fast as i could to grab her and pull her up to the surface. once i pulled her up, my goal was only to make her breathe. her breathe. live from our studio in her breathe. live from our studio in singapore. - her breathe. live from our studio in singapore. this | her breathe. live from our| studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. taliban officials in afghanistan say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south east of the country has ended. more than 1,000 people are thought to have been killed in the re
i don t know i don t want to say the election is over. the january 6th committee on how president trump did not quell violence at the capitol. president trump did not fail to act in the 187 minutes in telling the mob to go home. he chose not to act. even as secret service agents scramble to get vice president pence out of danger. if we re moving, we need to move now. and testimony that mr. trump took care to stay on the side of the mob. the president did not want to include any sort of mention of peace in that tweet. i ll talk to committee member luria about where the investigation goes next. also the economy. we re taking our own steps that we believe will be supportive in the short-term to get inflation down. i ll interview janet yellen on inflation, economic pessimism and whether we should expect a recession. joining me are yamiche alcindor, moderator of washington week. jake herman, maria kumar and stephen hayes. welcome to sunday. it s meet the pre
great city. it s got the - great city. it s got the infrastructure. it s not got that weather necessarily! it s got the hotels. it s a fantastic city and it will be very interesting politically because if nicola sturgeon has her way she will have a referendum in october and she has already been tweeting about it so maybe she is a secret fan. ., g ., ., ., , ., secret fan. pauljordan, eurovision specialist. secret fan. pauljordan, eurovision specialist, thank secret fan. pauljordan, eurovision specialist, thank you secret fan. pauljordan, eurovision specialist, thank you so secret fan. pauljordan, eurovision specialist, thank you so much - secret fan. pauljordan, eurovision specialist, thank you so much for. specialist, thank you so much for your insight. it s a fascinating thought, smiles betterfor thought, smiles better for eurovision. thought, smiles betterfor eurovision. now, time for newswatch with samirah ahmed. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samirah ahm