soon, president biden will welcome south korea s president to the white house ahead of a critical meeting. biden and president yoon suk-yeol set to roll out a new plan to boost u.s. and south korean cooperation amid north korea s escalating threats. our correspondents are covering this meeting from washington to korea. cnn s arlette saenz is joining us from the white house. cnn s jeff zeleny is in washington, d.c. for us and paula hancocks is live from seoul, south korea. let us start with arlette. can you tell us what is happening at this hour? we heard the band playing the last time we spoke to you not too long ago. what s going on there now? sarah, any minute now we are expecting south korean president yoon arriving at the white house setting off the pomp and circumstance that president biden is holding for him, but it also comes as the two leaders are set to announce a significant agreement when it comes to efforts to try to deter north korea s nuclear capabilit
severe gale and a pretty blustery winter northern ireland. as well as that, aside from the wind, all these showers to come. lengthy spells of rain for some, hail showers to come. lengthy spells of rainforsome, hailand showers to come. lengthy spells of rain for some, hail and thunder as well. really unsettled and i have mentioned snow so it is going to be chilly tomorrow, temperatures between seven and ten for most of us. more showers taking us into thursday. perhaps not quite as voracious as wednesday. but we have got more rain waiting in the wings to come in on friday but slightly less chilly thursday with a bit more brightness between the showers but some nasty weather. thanks, helen. that s it. more analysis of the day s top stories is over on newsnight news where you are. have a very good night. as england s junior doctors strike for 96 continuous hours, hospital bosses worry about what overnight cover there will be tonight. and with the government and bma union both ad
hello and welcome. luiz inacio lula da silva, has been sworn in as brazil s new president, 20 years after first becoming the country s leader. almost five years ago he was sent to jail for corruption, on charges that have since been annulled. he ll now lead a deeply divided country. at his inauguration in the capital brasilia he told the crowds he d rebuild brazilfrom what he called the terrible ruins he had inherited from jair bolsonaro. our south america correspondent, katy watson now reports. a return to powerfor the man barack obama once called the most popular politician in the world. security was tight amid threats of violence by supporters of his far right predecessor, jair bolsonaro. mr bolsanoro didn t even hand over the presidential sash, instead abandoning his final official duty and flying to florida. lula is the same man but he inherits a very different country to the one he left before. in his speech, he promised unity and reconstruction, starting in the
potentially swindle more than $5 billion, almost $6 billion in taxpayer money. marc thiessen and ari fleischer in moments. first to david spunt who is investigating this. good afternoon, david. good afternoon. this came as an urgent alert from the pandemic response account ability committee better known as praac, this is a watch damage made up of government officials and government organizations. march will be three years since the government went into a lock down. many businesses survived but in not the same as from before. praac uncovered 69,000 questionable social security numbers that received 5.4 billion and that s just from studying more than 33 million applicants. there were many more. in many cases, the name did not match the correct name and birthday or the number was bogus, not even from the government. still the money went out in many cases. last spring i sat down with michael horowitz, chair of the pandemic response accountability committee and inspector general
if climate change is not prioritised, we are all doomed, that is the dire warning from the head of the un. a sharp rise in the number of people crossing the channel in small boats more than 38,000 have arrived in the uk this year. and millions of children used to watch this every dayjust before the six o clock news. as the bbc turns 100, we look back at children s tv over the decades. and on bbc london. day one for prime minister rishi sunak coming on the bbc news channel, liverpool and tottenham in testing delicate touching distance of the knockout stages. good evening. rishi sunak has appeared before mps in parliament on his first full day as prime minister and announced yet more unravelling of liz truss s plans for growth. the ban on fracking in england is back in place after it was briefly lifted by the former prime minister. the government s economic statement due to be delivered on monday has now been pushed back by almost three weeks to november 17th. and the decis