is joining me from jerusalem. what in terms of the focus, what have we seen here for the president s visit? reporter: well, we just saw president biden arriving in bethlehem at the presidential compound where he was greeted by mahmoud abbas. this is the first visit by a u.s. president to meet with the palestinian authority president since president trump visited in 2017. and this comes as the u.s. is really trying to shift its policy towards the palestinians. we have watched the biden administration turn back on the spigot of humanitarian aid to the palestinian people that was cut off by the trump administration. we ve seen since president biden came into office about half a billion dollars of aid. and today we re expecting president biden to announce a total of $316 million of additional aid for palestinians including $100 million for the east jerusalem hospital network that serves palestinians. here is the president earlier this morning at one of those hospitals in east j
the lead slightly. even if they win all 28 toss-up races it is not enough to keep republicans out of the majority in the house. dana: is this a blip or something bigger? democrats are hoping for the latter but republicans aren t buying that. we have had a summer of strength and we re going to buck history by making history. in the last few weeks past historic legislation to lower prescription drug costs, capping seniors out-of-pocket costs, combating climate change. republicans aren t going to win this election because we re laser focused on what the american people actually care about. they want security and safety. democrats are not delivering that. bill: a new nbc poll does not bode well for the party in power. 3/4 of americans say the country is going in the wrong direction. more than half say america s best days are behind it. depressing. election night 11 weeks away from now. dana: reaction from senior correspondent josh. peter doocy is on vacation in delaware.
everyone who consumes its content and also interacts with it as an institution. let s understand first about more about what ofcom wants. let s hear from about more about what ofcom wants. let s hearfrom kevin bakhurst, group director of contact content and media policy. you sounded underwhelmed as to how the bbc explains itself, tell us why. i think we feel the bbc should absolutely strive all the time to explain itself to audiences and viewers and also to be transparent to the audiences who pay their licence fee, and also to the rest of the creative industries around the uk about what it his planning and how it is approaching programming, how it is approaching programming, how it is delivering its mission, ofcom s role is to make sure the bbc delivers what parliament has hit out, which is its public purposes, delivering accurate impartial news, learning content that is creative and distinctive, secondly we have a role which is probably better known, security content stan
plus the crypto crash deepens. could it spell disaster for el salvador s multi million dollar gamble on bitcoin? we start in the us where the federal reserve has announced the biggest rise in borrowing costs in 28 years. the fed raised its key interest rate by three quarters of a percent and signalled more big increases are on the cards. as our correspondent michelle fleury reports, from washington, it s battling to control the worst inflation in four decades. intensifying its five figure inflation which is currently at a a0 year high reserve raised its key interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5 to one and three quarters of a percent, move that will push up borrowing costs for and company. us interest rates haven t been hiked by this much in one go since bill clinton was in the white house in 199a, the size of the mood something federal chair reflected on during his press conference. clearly the 75 basis point is an unusually large one a
days. we are forecasting a0 celsius in paris on saturday, that s very early in the season. it won t be in it won t be as hot in the uk is paris. it s a brief spell of weather because there is a cold front sinking southwards introducing fresh conditions for all over the weekend but also for some, heavy, thundery downpours. in summary, here s the headline. hot and downpours. in summary, here s the headline. hotand humid downpours. in summary, here s the headline. hot and humid across the south with temperatures peaking tomorrow. further north it s cool and cloudy. there will be outbreaks of rain and also sunshine at times. let s take a look at the rest of this afternoon. 0utbreaks let s take a look at the rest of this afternoon. outbreaks of light patchy drizzle for western areas of scotland. perhaps brightness for the east got in. the lion s share of sunshine and england and wales, temperatures into the 20s. there are high pollen levels, hay fever sufferers beware. this eve