pelosi says this shouldn t impact the panel s ability to get the work done. we have a bipartisan quorum. we can proceed. reporter: now on the other side of the capitol the senate is set to vote soon on whether to begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. a vote is expected to fail because republicans want to see the final text first, and later this hour we re going to talk about all of this with connecticut senator richard blumenthal hand massachusetts congresswoman katherine clark. as president biden heads to ohio to make another push for his build back better agenda, the white house announced that ukraine s president will visit the white house for a meeting on august 30th. meantime, a new study suggests the one-shot johnson & johnson vaccine may be less effective against the delta variant of the coronavirus and that people who got the shot may need a booster. and we are hearing from the nation s highest ranking military officer about what a new book has to s
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sierra leone s vice president says the state will provide economic assistance to the families of a hundred people killed on friday when a fuel tanker exploded in the capital, freetown. the city s hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of people injured. umaru fofana reports from freetown. the blast happened in eastern freetown after a truck rammed into a petrol tanker. people rushed to collect the leaking fuel, causing a heavy trafficjam, according to eyewitness accounts. there was a vast explosion, leaving fireballs spreading through the crowds. vehicles in the traffic jam were set alight. hospitals in freetown are overwhelmed with injured people, many in critical condition. most of the dead have been taken to the central mortuary. we started transporting bodies from 11 until four o clock. the last set of bodies, i had to convey them with some soldiers to the morgue, for us to get a total headcount. just outside here are anxious relatives who have been asked to come a
the former conservative prime minister sirjohn major has strongly criticised the government, saying its attempt this week to overturn the suspension of a tory mp who d been judged to have broken lobbying rules was both shameful and wrong. he said the government s actions were unworthy of this or any government, and fitted a pattern of behaviour that he believed, was unconservative. here s our political correspondent, chris mason. very few are granted the privilege of living here, and so the verdict of those that have on the man who now does, matter. particularly when they are in the same party. and even more so when a former tory prime minister brands the current tory prime minister s government as perhaps politically corrupt. it seems to me, as a lifelong conservative, that much of what they are doing is very un conservative in its behaviour. there are many strands to this that go way beyond the standards committee imbroglio of the last few days. there is a general whiff