Checks two of his tweets. Why his attack on mailin voting led to the showdown. And countdown to history. Today spacex is set to become the first private company to launch humans into space. We have the only broadcast interview with spacex founder elon musk before liftoff. Big day for mr. Musk and the country. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. What we witnessed was statesponsored execution. Were waiting to see if it will be statesanctioned execution. Reporter the death of a black man in minneapolis sparks outrage. All four officers involved were fired. What i saw was wrong at every level. Being black in america should not be a death sentence. 10 to 20 or more deaths if we didnt act the way we did. Reporter President Trump is defending his response to the coronavirus as the death toll nears the 100,000 mark. At least 35,000, 50,000 were avoidable for lack of attention and ego. Reporter a manhunt continues for a senior accused in two murders. Reporter police are se
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The first of the victims of fridays terror attack in Central London has been named as jack merritt, a cambridge graduate who was helping coordinate a conference on prisoner rehabilitation near London Bridge. He was one of two People Killed by 28 year old usman khan, a former prisoner whod been convicted of terrorism offences, and released from prison on licence last year. Khan, whod been invited to the conference, was shot dead by police after members of the public tackled him. Heres our Home Affairs Correspondent daniel sandford. 25 years old and with the sense of adventure, jack merritt had a masters from cambridge university. His father said today he was a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. Yesterday, he was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack by a former prisoner at a conference that hed helped organise. His killer was taken on by people from the same conference, including otherformer prisoners and by a passing policeman in c
Gareth thomas reveals that a journalist told his parents about his hiv status before they disgusted. I will never, ever his hiv status before they disgusted. Iwill never, ever have the moment to be able to sit down with my parents and tell them and explained to them that i am living with hiv. Never have that conversation. Good evening. We begin this hour with an exclusive report into the threat of abuse, exploitation and despair facing some of our most vulnerable teenagers. Many of these children are either in care or have recently left care, but are still supposed to be supervised in what is known as semi independent living. The bbc has discovered a catalogue of alleged safeguarding failures which have left teenagers in essex and london open to trafficking and sexual abuse. This report from our special correspondent ed thomas and producer noel titheridge has content that some of you may find upsetting. Inside, the unregulated homes feeling to protect our most Vulnerable Children. It w
A very forceful press conference designed right out of the gate to lay the blame at irans feet now much of the evidence displayed in there was a large volume of it might be arguably circumstantial thats certainly what iranian leaders are likely to say but the fact is that the sheer volume of information presented will be hard for anyone to ignore be irans enemies or their allies anyone trying to get to the bottom of what happened will find it difficult to ignore the sheer volume of information even though as you said when given the opportunity a saudi spokesman refused to point the finger squarely at iran now what irans government has been saying since the 1st bits of allegations came from the United States that iran was behind the attack on these saudi aramco facilities last week iran has said that that simply isnt the case they completely denied any responsibility and in the last 24 hours both irans foreign minister zarif and irans president Hassan Rouhani have said that the reason t
And iran after washington accused her out of a talking to saudi Oil Facilities. Now the u. S. Justice department is being accused of playing a major role in reportedly withholding the whistleblowers complaint against President Trump according to u. S. Media that complaint relates to a phone call between trump and a foreign leader the head of the u. S. House Intelligence Committee says officials are blocked from passing it on to congress the president has called the reports news. The whole point of the whistle blower statute is not only to encourage those to report problems abuses violations it was but also to have a Legal Mechanism to do so and not to disclose classified information because theres no other remedy. That the whole purpose is being frustrated here because the director of National Intelligence has made the unprecedented decision not to share the complaint with Congress Trump has denied the accusations heres what hes tweeted another fake news story out there it never ends v