comcast business. powering possibilities. i m gassed with sudan. if you re just joining us, welcome. it s good to see you. thank you for sticking around if you re sticking with us. we re just days away from an emotional farewell in memphis. the funeral for tyre nichols, killed at the hands of police. the unit that deployed the five officers now charged has been disbanded. it s just one of the actions the community is calling for after the release of that horrifying video. i m going to be talking to a police expert this hour. we re following some breaking political news. just days from now, a showdown between kevin mccarthy and president biden on the debt ceiling. we re going to meet this wednesday. the president said he did not want to have discussions. i think it s important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. they can take control of this runaway spending. coming up, i m going to speak to congressman adam schiff. he got kicked off the house intel c
when he kissed his aide, leaked messages published in the daily telegraph newspaper show. in a new interview prince harry describes feeling different to the rest of the royal family and says by sharing his story he hopes it may help others. russian and ukrainian forces are still fighting in the streets of bakhmut which russia has been trying to capture for several months. the deputy mayor of the city has told the bbc that the 4,000 civilians still living there out of an original population of 75,000 have no gas, electricity or water. thousands of russian troops have died trying to take the eastern city. if it falls, it would be the first russian victory of note in more than 6 months. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports from kyiv. munitions explode. this is bakhmut, or at least what s left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. munitions explode. for more than six months, as the bbc has reported, ukrainian forces
in about a year and a half, still high. bill: that would normally mean another rate hike on the horizon, but the fed could be forced to rethink that. dana: the moves are designed to protect the u.s. financial system and make sure customers do not lose their deposit. bill: the president insisting this is not a bailout, some folks beg to differ. well, it is a bailout, we give a lot of support to banks. banks pay a premium for insurance, capped at 250,000. if we change the rules and give them more coverage than anybody else gets, i think that s a bailout. the think you have to understand is that what they re doing now with the bailout, printing money to solve the problem. and there is this inflation problem that started the whole thing and they re trying to fix a banking problem by printing money. that will make the inflation problem worse. dana: we have analysis, let s begin with grady. last week a rate hike was almost a given, now things are more complicated, the
obviously, tensions are already high between the two nations over involvement in ukraine. senior correspondent mike tobin is in kyiv tonight with the latest on this. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. a brazen violation of international law. that s the way the state department describes this contact between a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets that ended with the u.s. drone being ditched in the black sea. the pentagon says for a half hour this morning two russian su-27 fighter jets harassed a u.s. mq 9 reaper drone in international fuel space. dumped fuel on it and pass sod close struck one of the propellers dropping it down into the southwest of crimea. this is the first contact of this sort since the height of the cold war. this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. russian defense ministry denies that the jet impacted the u.s. drone and says the drone was headed in the direction of russia with its transpo
a massive asteroid is expected to pass between the earth and the moon this evening. experts say it will pass by safely and can be seen through binoculars and telescopes you re watching bbc news. now it s time for sportsday. hello, i m olly foster, here s what s coming up on sportsday. the red roses run riot. the champions sink the scots in the six nations. there s a strong start for wales too, they are too good for the irish in cardiff. qualifying campaign with a win. also coming up on sportsday: the wait goes on for a british medal at the world figure sakting championships, as gibson and fear just miss out injapan from the bbc sports centre, this is sportsday. hello. we ll start with rugby union because the women s six nations championship is under way. details of a big win for wales in a moment but the grand slam champions england are playing scotland right now and racking up a huge score at kingston park in newcastle england have hit the ground running. it took them just