the current political mood. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraine s energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country including the capital kyiv where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine from the front line battlefields of the donbas, to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated to try to stop the ukrainian offensive. his report contains some deeply distressing details. for ukrainians, this is a fight for national survival. the hardest test any nation can face. it upends every life. it has ended the lives of thousands. this is bakhmut, under heavy shelling. at the moment, the centre of the artillery wa
midterms, with nearly 200 election denying republicans running for key positions across the nation. today we will see new surveillance footage from the trump rally on the ellipse and secret service documents proving how forcefully the former president tried to join the rioters at the capitol on the 6th. the committee will show new evidence he planned to declare victory even before the election was held and new testimony from top trump cabinet members that they tried to stop him afterwards from overturning the results. today s overriding theme, beyond donald trump, congress and the voters have to work to preserve democracy as we know it. keep in mind, this is the first time in nearly three months we will see the committee in action. you know the political reality. the house of representatives could be in republican control come january. while members have repeatedly said they don t see this as part partisan, there s still a political context here. ahead of a potential 2024 p
critical midterm contests for senator and government. plus, donald trump wants to stretch the midterm shape too. that makes many people nervous. the latest trump rally features a woman who praised the january 6th rioters including an alleged nazi sympathizer. and labor day climate extremes. today, 50 million americans are under heat advisories, 80 million under a flood watch. another brutal reminder of climate consequences. first, breaking news just in about the federal case against donald trump, the federal judge granting the former president s request for a third party to review the material the fbi took under search warrant from his mar-a-lago home. let s get straight to evan paris. what do we know? donald trump got a big, big break from this judge eileen can who says the department of justice has to stop using these documents that were retreezed from mar-a-lago last month. what she s saying is there s an intelligence community review that can continue but for the ju
fiji, a country of more than 300 islands strung together in the pacific ocean. this is the economic and technology hub of the south pacific, and has one of the region s but in recent years, this island paradise, along with other countries in the pacific, have been battered by cyclones and extreme weather patterns, even as rising threaten to leave entire villages under water. and then came the pandemic. as borders closed and countries went into lockdown, fiji sought lucrative sea food and while its tourism sector all to map the way forward, pacific island leaders met face to face for the first time in almost three years in the capital of fiji tackled a regional approach to climate change, post pandemic economic recovery and as china expands its influence in the region, leaders will have to decide who will future of the welcome to surrounded by sea, it is no surprise that i have been talking to some fishing communities to find out the issues they are facing. 0n the journey to
piece of legislation, the vote 51-50 for the inflation reduction act and a sweeping 700 plus diamond bill on health care, prescription drugs and climate with all 50 republicans voting against and vice president kamala harris breaking the tie. if the house passed the bill later this week as expected, democrats would have passed a landmark piece of legislation as described by the washington post as quote one of the most consequential pieces of economic policy in u.s. history and it comes at the string of legislative victories for joe biden as the times put it, capped off an extraordinarily productive run for a congress better known for its paralysis and it included passage and the first bipartisan gun safety legislation in a generation and a huge microchip reduction to bolster american competitiveness with china and a major veterans health care measure. a series of successes was all of the more sweet for democrats because it came with the political benefit of republicans maki