paul adams, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news.ir robert durst has been charged in connection with the disappearance of his ex—wife in 1982. kathie mccormack durst�*s body was never found. she was legally declared dead in 2017. a new criminal complaint accuses 78—year—old durst of second—degree murder. last week he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his best friend. the un says its flights to mekelle in ethiopia's tigray region have been suspended after one of its planes had to abandon its landing on the same morning as a military air strike was carried out on the city. the ethiopian government said its planes had been targeting a training centre used by tigrayan rebels. hospital sources said 11 civilians were injured. the us supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge to the abortion law in texas, one of the most restrictive in the country. the challenge by the biden administration comes as mexico, just across the border, moves to decriminalise the practice. it's a major step for the second—largest catholic nation

paul adams, bbc news. to hear a challenge to texas s abortion law that is one of the most restrictive in the country. as access to abortion becomes more limited there ? across the border in mexico, the opposite is happening. last month, mexico s supreme court ruled to decriminalise abortion in the country, a huge step in the second largest catholic nation in the americas. it comes after many years of campaigning by women s rights groups in mexico. but the change is opposed by a powerful conservative lobby. will grant reports from northern mexico. for this single mother of three, feeding and educating her children alone and on a budget is enough of a struggle. so when she became pregnant a fourth time, she opted to abort. abortion was illegal in her home state, so it wasn't an easy decision, but not when she regrets. translation: it wasn't easy, at that time, there was no - legal protection for women, no places of an adequate health standard to attend such cases, and there is really a lot of social stigma.

paul adams, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news...d to be in good spirits, after spending a night in hospital for preliminary investigations. police in the united states are investigating the death of a cinematographer who was injured when actor alec baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of his new film, also seriously injuring the director. 1.1 million people, or one in 60 across the uk, had covid in the past week, according to the latest official data. that's the highest number since the end of january. now it's time for across the uk. a group of muslim women from bradford have been given a taste of army life. they were invited by the 4th armoured brigade in york, also known as the black rats, to see how they operate. it's hoped community activities like this will inspire more muslims, especially women, tojoin the british armed forces. the bbc asian network's shabnam mahmood has more. 0h! excellent. put through their paces, army—style. these women from bradford are trying out some military exercises. among them, selena, who is a data

paul adams, bbc news.s agreed to hear a challenge to the abortion law in texas. one of the most restrictive in the country. the challenge by the baited administration comes as mexico, just across the border, moves to decriminalise the practice. is a major step for the second—largest catholic nation in the americas. the result is many years of campaigning by women's groups but it is not supported by all. for this single mother of three, feeding and educating her children alone and on a budget is enough of a struggle. so when she became pregnant a fourth time, she opted to abort. abortion was illegal in her home state, so it wasn't an easy decision, but not when she regrets. translation: it wasn't easy, at that time, there was no legal protection for women, no places of an adequate health standard to attend such cases, and there is really a lot of social stigma. few know that stigma better than paulina ramirez, a taxi driver whose story once made national headlines. in 1999, age 13, she was raped and left pr

paul adams, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come...tion she'd stayed for tests in hospital on wednesday night. a historic moment that many of his victims have waited forfor decades. the former dictator in the dock older, slimmer. and as he sat down, obedient enough. dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on a plane outside, it lights up a biblicalfamine now in the 20th century. the depressing conclusion, in argentina today it is actually cheaper to paper your walls with money. we've had controversies - in the past with great britain, but as good friends we have always |found a good and lasting solution. | concorde bows out in style after almost three decades in service. an aircraft that has enthralled its many admirers for so long taxis home one last time. this is bbc news. the latest headlines... the hollywood actor alec baldwin says he's heartbroken after he shot and killed a cinematographer with a prop gun on a film set in new mexico. scientists advising the uk government say stricter covid measures should b

paul adams, bbc news.sues on the agenda. now a radical scheme in norfolk is gaining attention, after millions of tonnes of sand were moved to protect two coastal villages and a gas terminal back in 2019. the project seems to have successfully slowed the erosion of the coast nearby. with more, here's our science correspondent rebecca morelle. this might look like fun at the norfolk seaside, but this jetski is doing a vitaljob. equipped with hi—tech kit, it's measuring exactly how much sand lies beneath the waves. in 2019, in a radical experiment, millions of tonnes of sand were shifted to bacton, creating a vast dune stretching for four miles. the hope was it would protect this — the bacton gas terminal, at risk of falling into the sea. when the sand was placed two years ago, it raised the beach to here, seven metres up the cliff, and it gently sloped down to the sea. since then, several big storms have hit, and now you have this, a drop carved out by the waves. but the sand that was down here has moved int

paul adams, bbc news.windsor, wednesday afternoon. a convoy of royal vehicles moving under police escort in the direction of london. was this the convoy taking the queen to hospital? at around the same time, at windsor castle itself, a very small royal standard was said to be flying, its presence giving weight to the palace's claim that the queen was resting at the castle. but that was not the case. in fact, the queen was here, at the private king edward vii hospital in central london. the palace clearly hoped her visit would go unnoticed. it did, until last night when the sun led with the story that she'd spent the night in hospital. the palace was forced to issue this statement. buckingham palace insists that, like any citizen, the queen is entitled to privacy of medical issues. the palace will therefore say nothing about the nature of the investigations ordered by her doctors. i think this is a matter of concern rather than alarm. had this been a procedure or an operation, then they would have put out a

our international affairs correspondent, paul adams -- trying to reach europe and he sent this specialt. [speaking foreign language] >> trapped in the forest in poland on the eu's eastern frontier. a group of syrians exhausted and afraid. we are absolutely shattered, the boy says, we have been working since 4:00 in the morning. how did they get here? two weeks earlier, their journey starts with a tearful farewell in iraq. and, and optimistic selfie at the airport we went to appeal ourselves, the city is full of travel agents catering for would be migrants. the first step, a visa. mourad is not doing anything illegal, but he does not want to be identified. >> if you have passports you will be sent to the -- any senator the belarus tourism companies and they see it as invitations. >> when people come to you, you know they are not going to belarus for a holiday. >> of course. >> you know they're going to europe. >> yes. >> by now the jury's and his friends ha reached the belarusian capital from the airport is jammed with people making the same journey. the group has been told to go to a h

paul adams, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news...eeds to be done — but the work could cost many billions of pounds, and mps are reluctant to sign if off. peter saull has been to see how bad the situation is. for centuries, it has been a proud symbol of our democracy, but parliament seems rather shy these days, hiding behind a web of scaffolding. inside, they have been assessing the extent of the damage. the lords looks as grand as ever. beneath it in the basement, though, there are scenes like this. more than 50 specialists have spent a combined total of more than 4,500 hours investigating the building, during recess periods. more than 2,000 rooms and spaces were examined, with experts recording thousands of issues with stonework, water damage and outdated electrical systems. it�*s an absolutely fascinating building, but there are problems there. there are water leaks, there are issues with the sewage, there are issues with the electrics. the team who run the building on a day—to—day basis, it is a safe building. but you need to do a

paul adams, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... known as the black rats, to see how they operate. it's hoped community activities like this will inspire more muslims, especially women, tojoin the british armed forces. the bbc asian network's shabnam mahmood has more. 0h! excellent. put through their paces, army—style. these women from bradford are trying out some military exercises. among them, selena, who is a data analyst, and iram, a beauty therapist. it is scary. it's something i've not done before, but it is exciting and it's an achievement. when you get up that six foot wall and to the other side, yeah, it does feel good. we've done an assault course and we've been going under trenches, overa rope, climbing walls, i've had a few falls, got soaked, but i'm sure it'll be fine. currently there are around 500 muslims in the army, but only a tiny fraction of that figure are women. it is something the military is hoping to change. it's really, really important to get different people in, _ because we need different people that thin

. >> paul butler, adam schiff is a member of the committee. when i see that message from him today, he is very disciplined on message, when i see benny thompson join joy reid and in every single reply he says merrick garland. he says the attorney general. it seems to me that the public strategy of the committee today, publicly became it's merrick garland time. we need the justice department to enforce this subpoena. >> unlike in the previous administration, this white house and this president have to stay out of this. so this is the kind of decision the attorney general makes on his own. lawrence, merrick garland is probably concerned about the independence of the department. he doesn't want to look like you're bringing political prosecutions against the former administration. but he also has to be concerned about the message it would send if he does not bring a case and lets steve bannon get away with giving congress the finger. nobody likes to be hauled in front of congress of the united states and forced to turn over documents and submit to

fauci faced off with senator rand paul, he was adamant that there was no funding for gain of functionis words so carefully, but, yes, he was wrong. he has, you know, been in government for seven presidents for a reason. he knows how to thread the needle with parsing his words. but he was wrong. the nih put out a statement to that effect, and dr. paul, senator rand paul, was correct. david: the reason this is important, it's not a gotcha sort of question, the reason it's important is we don't want it to happen again. i mean, we know that the chinese are doing all sorts of stuff they shouldn't be doing. bioresearch is only one of them. but we don't want to have any possibility that this happens again. >> well, i appreciate what you're saying, david, because we can't just play the blame game forever. we need to learn lessons to take forward, and that lesson is the school of scientists who advocated for gain of function under certain circumstances, that should be officially abandoned altogether, and they're not doing that right now. there were two schools of thought, and they were advanci

is not go for the full six but as i keep coming back to this, he was adamant that he was going to have a his way or the highway. >> paul i have two more quick comments about the appointees of flag one because he was a course brilliant. and is sort of in his career stood as i think most closely to the judicial restraint model that actually the court packing proposal was about in our policy our country should buy a large be made by our elected representatives and supreme court's job to get out of the way of the government in the financial government and also state government and ample hours in our system. so frankfurter is also is a fascinating character and the other person that i think we also forget is that roosevelt elevated salant to be chief step in the justice printed he was a republican and an appointee in the court in the 1920s and roosevelt did that in the summer of 1941, is a sf a bipartisan nonpolitical move and that is a lost art. that was a great thing the president did. >> but was a neoliberal minority. >> he was not one of the four horsemen. >> naturally opposed the packing plan right. >> in his private h

but as i keep coming back to this, he was adamant that he was going to have it his way or the highway. >> paul, i have two more quick comments about the appointees. i want to flag felix frankfurter because he was, of course, brilliant -- >> my personal favorite. >> -- and sort of in his career stood, i think, most closely to the judicial restraint model that actually the court-packing proposal is about. our policies in our country should, by and large, be made by our elected representatives, and it's the supreme court's job to get out of the way of a government, the national government and also state government had ample powers this our system. and so frankfurter is the kind of through line and also just a charming ask fascinating character. -- and fascinating character. the other person that i think we all forget is that roosevelt elevated harlan stone to be chief justice. he was already a justice, he was a coolidge appointee in the 1920s, and roosevelt did that in the summer of 1941 as a sort of bipartisan, nonpolitical move. and that's a lost art. that was a great thing that the president -

thank you, adam fleming, our chief political - fleming, our chief political correspondent. let�*s speak to paulre in line for a pay rise next with an end get along public—sector pay including many of the people belonging to your union, do you welcome this announcement? the devil will be very much in the detail, we not only have had a year of public sector pay freeze, this came on the back of a decade of public sector pay freezes and pay caps meaning many public—sector workers are worse off than they were in real terms in 2010, so we will need to see the detail and we will need to see the detail and we will need to see the detail and we will need to see the chancellor put his money where his mouth is. the chancellor _ money where his mouth is. the chancellor does _ money where his mouth is. the chancellor does not have an infinite pot of money and one might assume that not everyone will get exactly what they want, but something is better than nothing? if what they want, but something is better than nothing?— better than nothing? if the chancellor _ better than nothing? if the chancellor is _ bet

adams," "cinderella man" and "sideways." he currently stars as chuck rhoades in "billions." please welcome back to the late show, paulerson. we talked over zoom in the covid interviews which had their own charm. >> yes is that creative moments under pressure. >> yes. >> stephen: welcome back. quite invigorating. >> stephen: you've done it all, comedy, tragedy, tv, film, stage. >> sure. >> stephen: when did paul giamatti say i'm going to check that out? >> i remember doing something in high school. i kind of accidentally ended up in a play because a guy i knew thought i was a funny guy, so he said, will you be in this play with me? it was a goofy play where we played 30 different characters. i fell into it. it was accidental and i loved it i d a great time, yeah. >> stephen: so 1995 was the debut of you on broadway, right? >> i think so, yeah. >> stephen: do you remember what the play was? >> "arcadia," i was a time stopper play. >> stephen: really. billy crudup was in it. >> stephen: victor garber. that's right. >> stephen: robert sean leonard. >> and me-- and me. ( laughter ) >> stephen: no way! that's one of my fav

adam pat appears in the single after their discoveries and receptive temperature and touch the nobel committee secretary general called the discovery that crucial to ass survival. or let's now speak to paul reese is across this for us in stock on for this kicks off a week given about announcements. and it does feel rather timely as people around the world actually long to hang each other again. yeah, and they this does here and, and actually this morning there was expectation that the prize would be even more timely, great expectation that it would be awarded to those who develop the m r and a vaccines used in the fight against coven 19. in fact, we had a protest here, it's a nobel form by a group protesting against by on tech, not sharing it's formula with the vaccine produces in developing countries. but that have been happy because the prize did gars. he said to david julius and odd m . potter putin are considered to have made a very, very crucial breakthrough in an area that's key to our survival. her touch and temperature be out a sense, hate cold, and mechanical stimuli as they put it. now, how was this done well, with millions of fragments of dna, many hours, many years in the lab

fauci to be prosecuted perjured hms we thank rand paul saying this thank i go for saying this liz cheney adam sides of the argument lastly i say this looking on my phone, at a "new york times" headline and this "new york times" headline from july says if anybody is lying here senator it is you. fauci said to rand paul, the "new york times" should be aashamed for purchasing there no correction no pushback what is going on in washington? these people are living in a bubble, and the rest of us are watching them destroy our country by lying, and pretending like we are lying. maria: look at how they are smacking the faces of american people new york times, wash post with nonsense over and over again after we know the russia hoax that they had on the front page over and over again, during 2016, 71, 18, 19, no mea culpa they got pull pulitzer prices, how about social media censoring this where is this going will there be accountability for any of this the american people at the end of the day the loser. >> everyone out of washington d.c. are losers i am tired of republicans, democrats everybody else