welcome to news room. erdogan secures the historic third term as turkey s president. we ll take a look at what it means for the country s relations for washington and we will show you the dramatic video of the moment a driver and passenger fired at each other while on board the moving bus. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we begin in washington where there is an urgent push for a tentative deal to avoid a default. president biden and kevin mccarthy have cut the deal though they are facing pushback. the bill has to clear the senate. mr. biden says he is confident it will make it to his desk. the speaker and i made clear from the start that the only way forward was a bipartisan agreement. that agreement now goes to the united states house. and to the senate. i strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement. mccarthy has released the text of the 99 page bill which includes raiseing the debt ceiling two years. increasing spending on defense and veteran is
so let s unpick that. so they make the argument, and have made it repeatedly, that they think the rwanda idea is kind of an expensive waste of time, but at the same time, they do not want to appear to be soft on finding solutions to the whole issue of illegal migration. so that s what they are attempting to do. that s how their actions are motivated, by how they perceive what they re doing might be seen. so that s what s going on here. and it s important to say for labour, because there s a lot of government criticism which is, if you don t support the rwanda plan then you don t have a scheme , to which labour would say, we do have a scheme it s basically going upstream. it s using counterterrorism legislation to go after the people smugglers, it s using the intelligence that we have to go into the czech republic, where these dinghies are being built . go upstream is the labour view. but i also think privately, labour, expecting that they might win the next election and this coul
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right. look, this is the closest the president has come to losing the presidency in two decades in office. it is also the first time in turkish history the election has gone to a runoff election. it is not surprising considering all of the huge issues in this election that were front and center. there is as you pointed out, the issue of inflation. hitting some 85% really reducing people s buying power. and the government s response to it has been pretty bizarre. to lower inflation rates rather than hike them which has been happening in the rest of the western world. there was also the earthquake in february and plenty of government criticism of the initial response to it. inboth parties were debating what to do with them. given all that, it is surprising that erdogan did as well as he did. but the government has a lot of built in powers to begin with.
china, where any direct government criticism can result in harsh penalties. in response to the protests, the chinese foreign ministry said the fight against covid would be successful. over the weekend, protestors gathered in the streets of some of china s biggest cities, including shanghai, beijing and wuhan, with some calling for president xijinping to resign. the demonstrations have been provoked by a deadly fire in the western region of xinjiang last week in which 10 people died some blame strict lockdown rules for delays in the rescue effort. many people are angry at president xi s zero covid approach. millions have been affected by nearly three years of mass testing, quarantines and snap lockdowns. the police have largely allowed the rallies to continue, but in shanghai, officers arrested several people and cordoned off streets on sunday. frank tsai is the founder of china crossroads, a forum which organises public lectures in china,