Enough for the olympics. And coming up on bbc news. Just one day to go into the open championship gets underway at royal troon as the world s best golfers gather for the year s last major. until the open championship. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The king has outlined the government s plans for the year ahead. During the state opening of parliament. during the state opening of parliament. ,. , ,. During the state opening of parliament. ,. ,. ,. , , parliament. Draft laws include plans to nationalise the railways and build more houses. Our deputy political editor vicki young is in westminster. Vicki, did this feel very different? i guess the pomp and ceremony will always be the same, it has been the same for centuries, hasn t it? of course it is a different feel after so long since has been a labour government. They have had a long time to think about what they want to do in power, coming up for their proposals. Interestingly, in the foreword to the king s spe
A new manager after gareth southgate called it a day. The fa s search won t be limited to english candidates with plenty of big names potentially on their radar. And whilst it will be at pleasant summers day for many, cloud and rain gather to the north and west over the next few days and it is heat and humidity to the south and east. By friday, somewhere could hit 30 degrees. I will have the details. It s wednesday the 17th ofjuly. Our main story. King charles will officially open parliament today with a speech outlining what the new government plans to do in the coming year. It will contain details of draft bills on issues including illegal migration, nationalisation of the railways, and a move to end smoking. 0ur political correspondent helen catt has the story. Fanfare. This was the king arriving for last year s king s speech. Then, it was a conservative government which wrote the words he read out. This time it will be labour s programme for the coming year. Sir keir starmer sa
General milley has a lot of explaining to do and ought to stop honking like a goose and try to make our country more secure. Bill: if tomorrow general milley decides joe biden is senile or a future present is not in his right mind. It s a military coup. There needs to be a full congressional inquiry. It is vital that general milley needs to resign. Bill: we begin with peter doocy but first to the pentagon and jennifer griffin. General milley plans to address these accusations under testimony. The characterizations of the phone calls with the chinese in the book are not accurate and were taken out of context. I spoke with a former seen trump defense official told me the phone call to the chinese was done at the request of the then defense secretary. It was designed to lower the temperature and prevent the u. S. And china from stumbling into a conflict. The phone call was made at the request of the civilian leadership of the military. General milley was asked to followup. At no time did
This morning, in this room, to answer questions about why and why now? we re going to take you live there as we go one on one with the state attorney general who tried to build her own case against nassar. We re live out west and kornacki at the big board on what happens next now that gavin newsom held on to his seat. And new this morning, what we just learned the justice department did to try and block that controversial abortion law in texas. We re taking you live to the pentagon with new fallout from the latest trump book, revealing what joint chiefs chair mark milley said to china, why some republicans are demanding milley step down. We start with the hearing that is happening now behind me at the capitol building on the senate side. Good morning to both of you. Thank you for being with us. And, ann, let me go to you, here are the four gymnasts we expect to hear from today. Simone biles, everybody knows her. Mckayla maroney, aly raisman and abbie nichols as well. You see them on th
With us. Coming today is not easy and i recognize that you each had the option of respectfully declining the invitation to be here. But you didn t. And i hope that you understand that your presence here is not just so important to the members of this committee, to the senate as a body, but also speaks volumes for the countless victims of abuse that are out there listening or watching or will listen. Or will watch. I appreciate the conversation about mental health prompted by the questions from senator booker. My wife is a very active mental health advocate and so she has trained me well to be cognizant of those issues and ask important and timely questions as well. And ms. Biles, i hope you might have heard about some of our amplification of your courage from the most recent olympics to take care of yourself first. That took a lot. I ll just offer a few comments. I think most of the questions that i would raise have been raised by my colleagues. But i want to make it clear that while n