temperature heat has caused travel disruption here. also on the programme tonight: higher than expected pay rises for many public sector workers across the uk, but they won t keep up with inflation. and from four to three, as kemi baydenoch is knocked out of the race to become our next prime minister. and coming up on the bbc news channel: ben stokes is out cheaply in his final odi as england are beaten by south africa in durham. good evening. it has been a day of record breaking tempertaures breaking tempertu res across the united kingdom more than a0 degrees celsisus for the first time. the uk s top temperature today was in coningsby in lincolnshire, where it hit 40.3 degrees according to the provisionalfigures. but more than 30 weather stations across england beat the previous record of 38.7 degrees set injuly 2019. and scotland had its hottest day ever. 34.8c was recorded in charterhall in the borders. 0ur climate editorjustin rowlatt is in cambridge where the uk s pr
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with congressman of the armed Services Committee and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by with full coverage. First, lets go straight to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Given the dismissive rhetoric about russias election attacks what is behind the latest white house display . Reporter the wh
dana: thank you so much. we ll have more on this ahead with ohio congressman mike turner the ranking republican on the house intelligence committee. that s coming right up. president biden: russia attacks the united states or allies through cyberattacks against our companies or critical infrastructure we re prepared to respond. bill: president biden and white house yesterday afternoon warning of a strong response if russia launches cyberattacks against the u.s. or allies. fox news has learned that the possible attacks may target critical infrastructure including electrical grids or water system. the threat of a russian invasion looks over ukraine. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor standing by. first aishah hosni begins our report on the hill. this is a story everyone at home should be paying very close attention to and lawmakers on the hill
mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight with the breaking news and what led to today s compromise. the houseboat was one oh 5-3 oh two. now it goes to a signature with much left democrats divided. this is not the one we had hoped for but it was one that we will be voting on today. under intense pressure, nancy pelosi surrendered a writing in order to get resources to the children fastest, we will reluctantly pass the senate bill. policy to keep for many republicans. south carolina senator lindsey graham met with her this afternoon warning, today s aid bill won t fix the bigger problem. if you don t fix what they come here illegally then you will be spending $4 billion every six months. she also dealt with the divided caucus. liberals who said they didn t want to give president trump a dime.
we are following multiple breaking stories including officials in the briefing room earlier this afternoon warning about russia s continued attempts to weaken and divide the united states ahead of the upcoming mid term elections. our political and legal experts are here to discuss. what do you make of the show of force at the white house? it was most noticeable by who wasn t there which is the president of the united states who doesn t seem to believe this is a problem at all. the senate republicans, too, just voted down $250 million for security for the election. so there does seem to be a very substantial divide within the republican party about whether this is a problem at all. certainly, those of us who care about the integrity of our elections were encouraged by the show of force, but there is something about it that rings pretty hollow when the president