There are nine water based sports in this summers olympics in paris, some of them in the pool, but many in outdoor water, and there have been calls for action to address Water Pollution particularly in britain, where sports have united to call on the uk government to address pollution in rivers, lakes and coastal waters. They say they want compulsory monitoring of all Sewage Outlets to protect participants. Heres our sports editor, dan roan. Pupils at greenbank primary in rochdale, enjoying their weekly session on the water. The school offers Sailing Courses at a local reservoir and, for the kids, its one of their favourite lessons of the week. How does it feel out on the water . Well, sometimes when its windy it goes really fast, so you get a bit scared. But other than that, its quite fun. Its very cool. Is it a good thing to do . Definitely. Yeah, because its still a sport, so you still get exercise. The Water Quality here at Hollingworth Lake is good but the same cannot be said else
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. The boss at bp is out over the partial story he told about his relationships in work. So what is acceptable in the workplace these days . Welcome back. The impeachment of bill clinton in 1998 for perjury and Obstruction Ofjustice was a truly earth shattering moment. But the decision taken yesterday by House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy to Impeachjoe Biden without even a vote on the floor was nothing of the sort. More the inevitable consequence ofjust how divided americas politics has become. Today, i am directing our House Committee to open a formal Impeachment Inquiry into president joe biden. This logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. Now heres what we know so far. Through our investigations, we have found that President Biden did lie to the american peoplel about his own knowledge of his familys foreign business dealings. Eyewitnesses have te
people are getting frustrated. they re getting hungry as the siege, the three week long siege, continues. our other main story matthew perry one of the stars of the hit tv show friends is found dead at his home in los angeles. hello and welcome. i m maryam moshiri. more now from the gaza strip, where clashes have been reported between hamas fighters and israeli troops. israeli media say the country s forces engaged several hamas gunmen who emerged from a tunnel, killing some of them. hamas armed wing said it had attacked israeli armoured vehicles, killing their occupants. there are thousands of people displaced and living in tents in gaza. our special correspondent fergal keane is injerusalem and he has been speaking to some of those trapped in gaza a warning his piece contains distressing images. in the bombed districts of gaza, it seems as if the world is broken. a trauma shared across generations. my daughter, my daughter, a voice calls out. screaming and shouti
his life to serving. unasailable public service career and front row seat to that irregular policy channel he described between rudy giuliani, president trump and the ukrainians. he talked with the ukrainians and saw firsthand the impact of withholding that military assistance. anita kumar, what don t we know sitting here tonight that perhaps could be answered that we re not expecting along the way in these hearings? one of the testimonies or the transcripts that came out today talked a little bit about this, the foreign aid. that s really the big question my colleagues on the hill who are covering this say that we don t know. we don t really know we know that the aid was held up. but we don t know exactly who called for that. did the president actually make the call? did mick mulvaney? did someone else? who made the call, what day and what exactly were they told? we re piecing together that
slice of this overall story. though jeremy, i hasten to add, we ve watched the republican defense, let s call it, migrate a bit over the past few days. the democratic approach is a two-step approach. first they interview the witness in private, then they make public their transcript as that person is preparing to testify publicly. not much of what will be testified to publicly probably will vary from the detailed closed-door depositions. for that reason i think most of the committee members know what to expect. it will lead off wednesday with ambassador bill taylor, army veteran west point graduate served in vietnam, combat in the 101st airborne division, devoted his life to serving. unasailable public service career and front row seat to that irregular policy channel he described between rudy giuliani, president trump and the