welcome to the programme. iraq s president has said an early election could resolve the political unrest gripping the country. to those who have taken their eye off iraq, the violence that broke out in baghdad yesterday, might have looked like a sudden eruption of rage. in fact, the sectarian anger has been simmering for years. the country is riddled with corruption, it has not had a functioning government since the october elections and the spiralling cost of living is pushing iraq towards an existential crisis. the spark that ignited these protests yesterday was the sudden announcement by the shia cleric, muqtadr al sadr, that he was withdrawing from political life. sadr has been a major player in iraq since 2003, when his supporters known then as the mehdi army, began attacks on coalition troops. in october, the sadrists won the most seats in parliament but refused to form a coalition with the mostly shi ite iran backed parties. injune, sadr asked all of his mps to resign
america reports on this monday afternoon. democrats scoring big wins over the tax and spend bill. will they pay the price as many republicans are suggesting come the midterm elections? hello, and welcome everyone. sandra smith in new york city. bill: hope you had a great weekend. good weekend, too, at home. john roberts has the day off. let s get to it now. months of negotiations, different versions of build back better. democratic senators manchin and sinema get on board with schumer s passage, kind of was a secret to everybody. sandra: and manchin claiming the $740 billion bill would not raise taxes on the middle class, republicans are making the case otherwise. bill: warning that billions in extra spending will come back to haunt democrats election time in november. sandra: and in the middle of all of it, aishah is live on capitol hill, manchin and sinema are dealing with serious fallout from every direction after this passage. hey, sandra, good to see you. tha
basis for the search warrant. it is highly unlikely that will be unsealed since it lays out the inside information and the sources that federal investigators relied on to get the federal judge to approve the warrant. democrats wan the director of national intelligence haynes to have a review because of the implications of what was found at mar-a-lago. the top democrats from house oversight and house intelligence. and they wrote this in the letter to dni haynes saying a recently unsealed court document and the property recovered at the mar-a-lago club describe numerous classified documents held by former president trump including top secret sensitive compartmented material among the most sensitive and highly protected information in the u.s. government. former president trump s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. the issue demands a full review in addition to the ongoing law enforcement inquiry. congressman adam schiff, maloney, wrote the letter. t
party to the g.o.p. voters are mined every day, it was lower when republicans were in charge. it was easier to get every grocer i needed when republicans were in charge. everybody knows that we are looking at the sun in pittsfield, massachusetts. another shot of pittsfield. what time is it? must be a study of the day before. that s the same son of a new york. the same from last week. we need to stay warm. it s crazy, because sometimes it looks like we should be warm when we look at it in the winter but we are not. the mayor is there. the unemployment rate, 5.1%. a little bit higher than the rest of the country. it s the largest city in massachusetts. pittsfield? it is? probably from wikipedia and you know how accurate that is. [laughter] it s the largest city in massachusetts? are you crazy? bigger than boston? no way. the largest in the county? if you want to go to a big city in berkshire county, just call 1-800-pittsfield. there you go. 43,00
as the bbc s michelle fleury reports from new york. amazon announced 0 a new chat bot for people to use at work. there seems to be a dispute over where the name came from. some say it s 0, after the character from the james bond movies. others say it s 0, a character from the star trek tv shows. either way, this is a big deal. amazon may not have built chatgpt, but it now has its own generative ai helper. which is designed to assist employees with daily tasks, whether it s answering questions about company policy, to coding, to summarizing strategy documents. crucially, though, it will compete with other corporate chat bots, including microsoft s copilot and google s doitai. now, the tech giant also unveiled new ai. chips at its annual developer conference in las vegas, where also taking the stage was the boss of chip maker in nvidia, a sign of the deepening relationship between these two. amazon said that as well as its own ai chips, it would offer customers access to nvidia