ballot and why are democrats again helping another trump-backed candidate there? but, first, breaking tonight, president biden is trying to have it both ways when it comes to gasoline be prices. the president blaming russia when costs skyrocketed. now, he is claiming credit for some modest drops. but the president is still putting foreign oil ahead of domestic as he tries to ease the crisis and at the same time is considering a climate emergency executive order. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. gas prices haven t just crushing americans waltz but polling. a cnbc poll giving president biden economic approval rating below the worst mark his predecessors obama and trump ever got just 30%. now the white house sees a silver lining if they can strike a nuclear deal with iran. the white house is framing a return to the iran nuclear deal as a way to bolster global oil supply. deputy secret
and the islamichhad group after three days of violence and more than a0 palestinian deaths. the bill as amended is passed. cheering and applause. political wrangling and a marathon debate president biden s climate bill has been approved in the us senate. how dozens of english councils have cut back on holiday food vouchers for children on free school meals. commentator: it s gold for scotland. and in birmingham, laura muir becomes the 1,500 metres commonwealth champion. good evening. we re beginning tonight s programme with a special report from afghanistan, showing how pregnant women, new mothers and their babies are being affected by acute shortages and a lack of basic services nearly one year on from the taliban takeover and with much foreign funding suspended. to give birth in remote parts of the country means difficult journeys on makeshift roads, sometimes being turned away from hospital, sharing beds on wards, and little medicine. pregnant women are suffering from a
the us senate passes joe biden s climate plan, channeling billions of dollars towards ambitious clean energy goals. the world will be a better place for my grandchildren because of what we did today, and that makes me feel very, very good. very, very good. and more than 80,000 tourists are stranded in a chinese resort after a coronavirus outbreak sparks a lockdown. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it sneezed at. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 2:30am in the morning in afghanistan from where we have a special report showing how pregnant women, new mothers and their babies are being affected by acute shortages and a lack of basic services. it comes nearly one year on from the taliban takeover and with much foreign funding suspended. 0ur report was filmed in badakhshan province in the north east of afghanistan by cameraman sanjay ganguly producer imogen anderson and correspondent yogita limaye. some viewers may find this report distressing.
this week we ll have a series of reports looking at life in afghanistan also on the programme. china says it will carry out new military exercises near south korea until the middle of august as taiwan accuses china of practising for an invasion of the island. and the icelandic volcano spewing out lava and molten rock that s become a hit with tourists. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. there were tears ofjoy amongst democrats in the us senate as a landmark bill to tackle climate change was passed. after more than a year of intense wrangling, the sweeping reforms are being seen as a major victory for president biden. republicans had tried to derail the legislation worth 430 billion dollars claiming it would undermine economic growth. it also contains measures to reduce the price of health care and introduce new taxes for business. senate majority leader, chuck schumer, shared hisjoy that the bill has pa
tuesday. and borisjohnson has defended himself ahead of a no confidence vote that he called himself. five candidates will become four. europe is in the grip of wildfires. and a heat wave. they are burning in italy, france, spain, croatia and greece and also in morocco. and north africa. in france the authorities are warning of a heat apocalypse, we know many towns and cities have recorded their highest ever temperatures. 42 degrees in the city of nantes. beating the previous high set more than 70 years ago. that previous record dates back to 1949. this is the scene overnight. on the french atlantic coast. you can see the scale of the fires that are burning through some of the forest. this is drone footage from earlier. again showing us the scale of what is happening. and this is a satellite image that shows the region. you can see smoke is clearly visible from space. we know thousands of firefighters are now battling these fires and more than 14,000 hectares of forest has alr