my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. those of us who loved him and will take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. as he said many times in many parts of this nation to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why, i dream things that never were and say why not. that was senator ted kennedy at the funeral of his brother bobby. second funeral he would have to mark and today is june 6th. david ignatius, two monumental things happened on this day, of course, the assassination and the death the assassination and the death of bobby kennedy on june 6th, 1968, a day that really marked in many ways a low point, the chaos of the 1960s and i must say also a
advancing on the battlefield. we ll have all the latest developments. day two of prince harry in court. he says he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the uk prime minister is in washington dc. we ll ask how he s being received and what he s trying to get out of his trip. and the croccodile who got herself pregnant. on her own. we ll find out how. we re going to look at ukraine s military advances in a minute. first the damage by the attack on the dam. look at this. this is the scene in the city of kherson. not streets but rooftops. many people spending night on rooftop waiting for rescue. 29 towns and villages tens of thousands of people at risk. remember the size of the area impacted. dnipro river, kherson. these are satellite pictures. you could see just two days apart, you can see the difference of the flood water. our correspondentjames water. our correspondent james waterhouse is wat
half trillion dollars of debt. that would leave workers not getting paid and the economy could spiral into chaos. earlier, our correspondent gave us this update. us this update. lots of lawmakers us this update. lots of lawmakers are - us this update. lots of| lawmakers are walking us this update. lots of- lawmakers are walking around the capital are walking round giving their viewpoints, expressing their disappointment at the bill but, look, there s at the bill but, look, there s a lot of confidence. president biden is confident it will pass. a man named tom mellor who is the width of the republican party. they need 18 votes, 218 is what they need and he says they are very confident that republicans will pass it through the house and he said those who are making the noise haven t fully read the noise haven t fully read the bill and hisses when they do they will get on board. are we seeing any defectors quiz mac there is house caucus, the ultraconservative members of the r
tonight. good evening, peter. mike, on this memorial day, president biden is expressing confidence that there won t be a debt default while also trying to express condolences to the families of fallen american service members. god bless all those who gave their lives so our nation might live. present arms. peter: hours after solemn wreath laying at arlington national cemetery. i never say i m confident with what the congress are going to do. i feel very good about it. headlines of the deal suspending the debt limit until 2025 and limiting federal spending. what this will do is it increases defense and increases veterans. if you take nondefense with veterans out it, goes bloat level of 2022. congressman chip roy doesn t like the deal and roy sits on the rules committee where the bill goes next. he tweets a reminder that during speaker negotiations to build the collision that it was explicit both that nothing would pass rules committee without at least 7 g.o.p.
very impressive and says russia s operations over the winter largely failed. the us general petraeus commanded forces in iraq and afghanistan. he spoke to our diplomatic correspondent james landale. i believe we will see the results of true combined arms effect, so tanks protected by infantry against anti tank guided missiles, artillery keeping heads down, engineers reducing the obstacles, breaching the fortifications that the russians have established, air defence keeping the russians off the ukrainians, electronic warfare jamming the russians already inadequate command and control, all orchestrated by very good ukrainian command and control, and using drones over the russians to attack them in depth with the precision munitions that the us and uk and others have provided. and this is going to break, i think, the front lines. where they will do this attack, i m not going to speculate, although the ukrainians have said that their objective is to sever the ground lines of com