and how bad it s been its truth. with the weather conditions and how bad it s been it sjust meant the facility is completely walled off. and it s a very big safety hazard. for me and just decided it s not the best place to trade. having an elite athlete but i have to work basically full time just to have a chance of being able to sustain livelihood and these walls around me. and to go in and have my fair shot at the games. j have my fair shot at the games. i year round there are still major concerns about the knock on effects of the pandemic. and a possible talent vacuum of those elite that run athletes. let s take a quick look at some other stories making the news today. horse racing is to become the first major sport in britain to introduce saliva testing that will screen jockeys on the day of competing for banned substances, including cocaine. previously, jockeys were tested using blood, urine and hairsampling. ronnie o sullivan has continued his impressive run at the wels
an hour before the president added a single word on the ellipse. you did not hear that fact during the hours and hours of the house managers presentations, did you? when the president spoke, what did he call for? he called for a rally attendees to peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard and to walk down pennsylvania avenue to cheer on members of congress. president trump went on for more than an hour to come in at 111, and why is this important? because of all the events that i m about to describe, they all occurred before president trump two remarks concluded. at12:119 p:m., remarks concluded. at 12:49 p:m., the first barriers at the us capitol grounds were pushed over in the crowd into the restricted area. at 11:05 p:m., acting defence secretary christopher miller received open source reports of demonstrator movements to the us capitol. at 1:09 p:m., us capitol police chief stephen son called the house and senate sergeant at arms telling him he won emergency de
hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington. christian fraser is in london. we re about four hours into day one of the prosecution of donald j trump. day two. it s been an afternoon of text book legal strategy laying argument upon argument, fact upon fact, example upon example. house managers aim to prove without a doubt that the former president should be convicted of inciting an insurrection. but as we ve said before, it s notjust a legal matter. there are politics at play. it s not a traditionaljury of one s peers, but a group of 100 democratically elected senators who will decide the outcome. and while the democrats have clearly come out with a strong presentation, it s only day one. and it s not even over yet. anthony zurcher is in washington. hejoins us now. i was he joins us now. i was struck by how house managers have gone all the way back tojuly of house managers have gone all the way back to july of last year to point out that back then, donald trump was refusing
corruption. eruption. including declaring a state of emergency after a third night of escalating violence and rioting in cities and towns across france. hundreds of police were injured last night and more than 900 people arrested. across france tonight, public transport has been suspended and some major events cancelled as the government tries to stop scenes like this taking place for the fourth night running. the protests began in a paris suburb on tuesday when a police officer shot dead a 17 year old boy of north african descent during a traffic stop in the nanterre. footage of the shooting was posted online. the unrest quickly spread across france, fuelled by accusations of police racism and wider discrimination against minority communities. around 115,000 police officers have now been deployed on the streets. from paris here s our europe editor katya adler. paris, supposed to be the city of love, is exploding again into hateful confrontation. riot police versus angry y