more than three million households in england and wales were still waiting for their £150 energy rebate at the beginning of last month. europe is on course for its worst drought in at least 500 years. that s the stark warning from a new eu report. stranded for hours under the english channel. passengers tell of what happened after their eurotunnel service was evacuated. services are now back to normal. a former twitter executive turns whistleblower to testify that the firm misled users and regulators about gaps in its security. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. it has been six months since vladimir putin decided to wage a war on ukraine, on a scale not seen on this continent in half a century. the true cost of this war in human life is difficult to estimate. ukrainians claim around 9,000 soldier lives have been lost. it s estimated russia has lost around 80,000 troops during the invasion either killed, wounded, captured or deserted. meanwh
a i m aishah hasnie. alex alexandria hoff from washington. the chinese foreign ministry has imposed unspecified sanctions on speaker pelosi and her family. while in tokyo yesterday, the speaker says that china s action are part of an effort to isolate taiwan and she said her trip did not change to the statues quo. and calling the exercise in the taiwan straits a grave problem and several missiles landed in japan s exclusion zone. here is antony blinken. since china has launched a dozen ballistic missiles, we ve been hearing from partners and allies across the region who are increasingly concerned about the destabilizing actions. the white house believes that china is using speaker pelosi s visit as a reason to escalate tension. there s no reason for china to escalate the way they have. there s no reason. the policy has not changed. we re in line with the one china policy. the speaker had every right to take that trip. white house officials believe that senior level
look for lessons. from the kansas vote as a republican scramble to soften their messaging ahead of the midterms. and later, a popular female politician is quote, not ripe enough to be president. gas was notorious conservative tv personality said that. the right is taking the war on woman to a whole new level and you better believe it, i have some thoughts on that. all of that and more is coming up, so let s get started. we begin this morning on capitol hill. senate democrats are just hours away from starting the lengthy process of passing a signature package aimed at tackling climate change, expanding health care and capping drug prices. and bc, julia jester is on the hill with the details. julia, it s an understatement to say that this is not a long time in the making. can you walk us through what will happen today? saturday in d.c.? good morning katie, that would be an understatement. lawmakers have been working on this bill for over a year and there are a lot of componen
jobs report any minute now at a bill signing. but let s look at the numbers. joining us is rahel solomon and jeremy diamond. let s look at the gains. the fact that this was more than twice what experts were expecting. and so some experts have said that this was an uncomfortably hot jobs report, at the very least it was surprising. when you look at the report and where the jobs were, line after line, industry after industry, it was growth, growth, growth with some of the largest gainers in industries like leisure, professional services, health care. 57,000 jobs being added for government. and when you look at month over month sort of what we re seeing in the labor market, look, i mean, we are still on an upswing. you would have expected between some of the reports that we ve been hearing that maybe we would start to see some cooling in the labor market, that this number the july number would actually be declining. but that is not what we re seeing which leads me to when you
america reports on this friday. white house getting good news on the jobs market but will a massive spending plan send the economy into another tailspin, making an already bad inflation problem even worse? hello, everyone. i am sandra smith in new york. jon: i am jon scott info john roberts. the labor department says the u.s. added 528,000 jobs last month. the on employment rate also falling slightly to 3.5%. both numbers beating expectations. wages are still largely out of step with the rising inflation. now more than 200 economists, 230 to be exact, warning democrats their social spending bill will make high prices in this country even worse. jon: senior economic advisor jared bernstein joins us. first, congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest on the spending bill. good afternoon. democrats say this bill will help with inflation. more than 200 economists warn congressional leaders that the u.s. is in a dangerous crossroads. they argue the bill incre