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absurd notion that space lasers financed by the roth child family are the cause of wildfires in california. she has never equated vaccine mandates with adolph hitler. who s he really talking about there? the democrat defending ilhan omar before the partisan vote to remove her from the house foreign affairs committee. and president joe biden meet with the congressional black caucus for a discussion on police reforms. it comes a day after tyre nichols is laid to rest. and china is doing some damage control this morning. beijing says it s looking at whether a surveillance balloon that flew over montana is actually theirs. we ll have the latest and the response from the pentagon coming up next. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 3rd. i m sitting in for jonathan lemire. democratic congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota has removed from the house foreign affairs committee. 218 republicans voted to back the resolution removing omar from the c
chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
legacy but pointed out it was more than just her interviews with those famous people. cnn richard roth looks back on her trail blazing career. barbara walters was one of the most fascinating people of any year in the tv era. i know i ve done important interviews. i know that i have been a part of history. was she ever? are you sorry you didn t burn the tapes? yes, i think so because they were private conversations. we read you are mad. from murderers. why did you kill john lennon. to movie stores. are you a changed man since the illness? did it effect you very much? did you mind being thought of as se sex, sex, sex? have curiosity, follow the curiosity. i m a great believer in homework. before people revealed all on social media, barbara walters was the interviewer to open up the stars. does he hit you? he shakes, he pushes, he swings. i hope they think i m fair and i can be penetrating without being a killer and i am, i hope. and which intervi
125 fans were killed in a stadium stampede. iranian officials warn against unrest as crackdowns continue on street protests over the death of a woman in police s custody. the british prime minister admits the decisions which mark turmoil in financial markets could have been handled better. i stand by the package we announced and i stand by the fact that we announced it quickly because we had to act, but i do accept we should have laid the ground better. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it is newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. with more than half of votes counted in brazil s tightly contested presidential election, the right wing incumbentjair election, the right wing incumbent jair bolsonaro is ahead by a narrow margin. he has 46% of the vote compared with 115% has 46% of the vote compared with 45% for his main rival, the former left wing leader lula da silva. the results have surprised supporters of both candidates is all opinion polls gave lula