The secretary responded to questions about transportation grants to kentucky, the home state of her husband, tenant majority leader mitch mcconnell. Thank you all for coming. Welcome to infrastructure week. We have been looking forward to this for a while. Infrastructure was a thing that all pundits after the election when we are in the fractured state after the 2016 election, democrats and republicans, will they be able to work on anything . People said infrastructure. Why . Democrats like spending money and donald trump likes having things build. He sees himself as a builder. So, we were supposed to get something. We have not gotten something yet. Policy proves more complicated in practice than in promise. That is the complexity of this. That is why we assembled the excellent panel we have today. Anybody who follows staff about transportation infrastructure, the way cities work follows nicole. She is a senior fellow at the manhattan then we have nick of the heritage foundation. He is
Ruffled by one of its biggest earthquakes in 2 decades a magnitude 7 point one quake shakes buildings consequence supplies and sparks fires and tremors may be on the way. And as the usa and netherlands prepare to meet in the final of the womens world cup see photographs gianni and son team know says the tournament will get more teams and double the prize money in the future. I mean if you put mackinnon thanks very much for joining us an italian rescue ship with 46 migrants on board has docks in italy despite being banned from doing so just minutes ago the alecs carrying around 50 migrants arrived in lampedusa now the ship is operated by an italian and geo. Mediterranea earlier its crew declined an offer to sail on to malta saying the long journey would have been dangerous for the people on board if you use interior minister. Has tried to close italian ports to the charity ships. Now d. W. Correspondent i mean as soon as steve sent us those pictures hes in lampedusa and joins us now i m
Welcome back to the weekend, folks. Were here, and House Speaker mike johnson is proving he is actually really good at one thing. Kicking that can down the road. Congress now has another week to avoid a partial government shutdown. But none of this is normal, and we cannot say that enough. If congress was actually functioning like it should, this would have been a done deal back in september. So, joining us have to discuss this and all other things happening with the governments Transportation Secretary pete buttigieg. Secretary buttigieg, welcome to the program. You are still in washington, d. C. Your colleagues on capitol hill, most of them, have gone home. Theres a chance that were gonna be here this weekend, figuring out if they can continue to fund the government. They kick the can down the road. They bought themselves about a week. Can you just give us a sense form your Vantage Point of what is at stake with the government operating in this way, with Congressional Republicans con
The hurricane that is coming. Our Homeland Security editor mark white is at a major source of the influx and has a special report from the italian island of lampedusa to the Prime Minister will be making his own speech later in manchester. And our Political Correspondent Catherine Forster will be telling us what to expect. Expect. Yes , its rishi sunaks big yes, its rishi sunaks big moment in manchester this lunchtime with his speech where we do expect him to say that the leg of hs2 from birmingham to manchester has been axed. We expect him also to say that the political system feels broken to many people and that he is the change candidate. And alex burkill will have your latest forecast. Your latest forecast. Whilst there will be a lot of dry weather across southern parts, its a wetter picture further north with some heavy rain for parts of scotland. Ill have more shortly. Have more shortly. Sport the cant get it right in var var paul coyte here to get it right with Everything Else.
Back the project further would be a mistake. Mr sunak is due to speak at around 11 40. As talk to our Political Correspondent nick eardley. Whats the atmosphere like here . We are heading a major speech from the Prime Minister, a speech that will focus on Notjust Policy but also the personality of the politician delivering it. Its but also the personality of the politician delivering it. Politician delivering it. Its a Hue Politician delivering it. Its a huge moment politician delivering it. Its a huge moment for politician delivering it. Its a huge moment for the politician delivering it. Its a huge moment for the prime j politician delivering it. It s. Huge moment for the Prime Minister, because we have been chatting all week on bbc news about whether rishi sunak had got a lift off that he needs to try and make up some of the ground in the polls. I think the answer so far is frankly no stop ive been chatting to tory mps, Texting Tory Activists about their reaction and i think they al