running, we ve had better than 2,000 flights either delayed or outright cancelled. the trend will not be the traveling friend. mark meredith on the latest in washington. mark? hi, neil. good afternoon to you. both airlines and passengers are bracing for turbulent days, a record number of travelers, this could create a perfect storm and major delays. they re pushing back that this is somehow their fault and blaming staffing shortages. major u.s. carriers says the industry is doing everything possible to create a positive customer experience since it s in the airlines interest to keep customers happy to return for future business. bernie sanders does not buy it. he says airlines won t act until money is involved. now sanders is calling on the department of transportation to do a couple things. requiring airlines to refund people for delays quickly and wants a $15,000 time per passenger on domestic flights delayed two hours or more as long as weather is not to blamed and airli
that s the focus of tonight s the angle. cutting losses. the goal we send is unobtainable or that the cost of achieving it is too high. instinctively we feel like ending something prematurely may be as a sign of weakness and then quitting is for losers. but especially in politics, the opposites often true. joe biden s president, there are sadly many areas where america needs to cut their losses. we need to cut our losses in ukraine. if you hadn t noticed, the ukrainians aren t winning. our own nation is hurting and we ve allocated more than $53 billion and counting and humanitarian military aid to help them beat back the russians. but now? here s a headline. putin may win in ukraine. but the real war is just starting. russia rather than ukraine is winning the war too. despite that, biden think spending all that money and time is worth it. defending freedom and democracy was not going to go without cost for the american people who are going to have to pay a price as well i
Call with the israeli prime minister. A delegation from hamas is travelling to cairo for further peace talks as pressure to reach a cease fire grows. The negotiators, along with qatari and egyptian mediators, will look at the latest ceasefire proposals. And its also been announced that us secretary of state, Antony Blinken will visit jordan and israel after a stop at the World Economic forum summit in riyadh. As we just mentioned, the Israeli Defense force chief spokesperson, Daniel Hagari has said aid going into gaza has increased in recent weeks. Lets listen to what he said. Over the last few weeks, the amount of humanitarian aid going into gaza has significantly increased. In the coming days, the amount of aid going into gaza will continue to scale up even more. Food, water, medicalsupplies, shelter equipment, and other aid. More aid is going into gaza than ever before. ~. ,. ,. , before. We have ust heard that neaative before. We have ust heard that negative state before. We have j
this is panakto close to athens where the fires rage on. and this wildfire is in the swiss alps it s been burning in the haute valais area near the italian border since monday evening. our climate editorjustin rowlatt is in the spanish coastal city of alicante, where temperatures are forecast to hit the high 30s. one of the difficulties of this job is obviously we want to show how hot it is and we are and the balcony of our hotel, standing in the blazing sun and we are doing exactly what we are telling everybody else in the world not to do, but exposing ourselves to this incredible heat. to be fair here in alicante on the coast we have got a sea breeze and it is about 30 celsius, that is a
do stay with us, we will be talking more about the ending of the ukraine brain deal, russia now staying at is suspending its participation in the deal, more on that coming up, stay with us. hello. the weather pattern here in the uk fairly familiar this week, but let s first head into southern europe where the ongoing heatwave intensifies further this week. temperatures today above a6 degrees in inland parts of spain, widely high 30s, low a0s. that heat transfers into eastern spain, southern france, italy and sardinia, where we could see highs around a6 or a7. the reason? the jet stream still remains stubbornly centred across parts of north west europe, dragging in high pressure and winds from the south across the mediterranean. but for the uk, low pressure close by, winds off the atlantic and even though those are lighter than we saw through the weekend, they bring some fairly cool conditions and at times further rain this week. the area of low pressure which brought the stormy weather