now on bbc news.. dateline london with shaun ley hello and welcome to the programme which brings together the foreign correspondence for audience back home from the dateline london. it has been a convention busting week, this one. the queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen, two countries strictly neutral for 80 years repairing to take sides for, in northern ireland a party in favour of reuniting ireland top the poll for the first time in the century since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and work in the studio are brian o connell, a portuguesejournalist and university lecturer, newly created british citizen, and jeffrey coffman who has been a royal correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. could have you back with us. let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland. finland s president said on friday he is going to ring president putin and tell him that the situation has changed. how a big a
Failed to convince enough members of his party to back a stop gap measure that would fund federal agencies for another month, while Congress Worked on long term spending plans. This means at midnight eastern time on sunday, the Us Government will run out of money to fund itself unless congress can agree a last minute deal. The republicans, who hold a slim majority in the house of representatives, are in a deadlock, with members on the right of the party demanding wide ranging Spending Cuts. One of that groups main objections has been the white houses request for an additional 24 billion in aid to ukraine. Mr mccarthy urged the senate to drop that measure from its resolution. I think if we had a clean one without ukraine on it, we could probably be able to move that through. I think if the senate puts ukraine on there and focuses ukraine over america, i think that could cause real problems. Earlier, megan scully is Bloomberg Congress editor joined me with her reporting on capitol hill.
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as a buzzer or asjeff calls it, a natty little gadget but for something so small, its impact is huge. if i turn it off. ..and then, i turn it back on again. jeff is one of the first people to use the cuei, which is now being trialled at addenbrooke s hospital in cambridge where, staff admit, patients have been surprised by the results. i this it was a surprise to me as well, which is why we re trying it in in patients because it has such a quick effect and, actually, a lot of the drugs that people need to treat that condition have a lot of side effects. over 13,000 people are on the waiting list for the cue1, sojeff is one of the lucky ones. operating a scooter would have been unthinkable without one. training a new puppy now a walk in the park. you re live with bbc news. the biden administration has announced its opening new processing centres outside the us to screen migrants seeking asylum at