hello, i m lukwesa burak. president biden has said a deal with republicans to raise the us government debt ceiling is very close and he s optimistic it will be achieved. the two sides have a little more breathing room after the treasury secretary, janet yellen, extended the deadline slightly, saying the government would not run out of money untiljune 5. they re working on an agreement that would ensure no repeat of the stand off before next year s presidential election. as the clock ticked down to the midnight deadline which hasjust passed mr biden hinted a deal might be not be too far away. with regards to the debt limit, things are looking good. i m very optimistic. i hope we ll have some clearer evidence tonight, before the clock strikes 12:00, that we have a deal. but it s very close and i m optimistic. and our north america correspondent nomia iqbal sent us this update. lawmakers have now been given a little more time to find that much needed solution. many of them h
also tonight. president zelensky takes his appeal for more weapons and fighterjets for ukraine to brussels. and. # ijust don t know what to do with myself. we ll remember burt bacharach the man behind dozens of hit songs who has died. and on bbc london, donations from londoners for earthquake and coming up on the bbc news channel, the idea has been dismissed once already but there are fresh calls for a european super league. welcome to the programme, on a day when the devastation caused by the earthquakes in turkey and syria became ever more clear, as the death toll rose above 20,000. in the region, rescuers continue to work through the rubble, sometimes still finding people alive. tonight, we ll share the stories of those working with survivors, including doctors looking after a tiny baby this little girl who was born in the rubble and whose mother, father and siblings have all been killed. we ll hear from three of our correspondents, one very close to the syrian
it s newsday. it s 6am morning in singapore, and midnight in khartoum where fighting has continued between the sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forces. these are the latest pictures of sunday night from the capital, khartoum. earlier, a three hour temporary humanitarian pause was meant to have allowed civilians to escape, but it s not clear how well it was observed. the world food programme halted its operations in sudan after three of its members were among nearly 70 people reported to have been killed. international efforts to end the fighting we will continue with sue don in the moment, but let s take you to breaking news in alabama. authorities are giving an update following a deadly shooting at a teenage birthday party. from the fbi as well as the office of prosecutorial services in montgomery, they ll be assisting our victim service officers in serving these victims. our thoughts and prayers are with all the families. there are no words to describe the
welcome to world news america, in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we begin here in washington, where the us defense secretary had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian warplane and an american surveillance drone. russia s security council says it will try and retrieve the wreckage of the us drone that crashed into the black sea on tuesday. moscow has told washington to keep well away from its air space, as the two sides blamed each other for the incident, which took place in international air space near territory russia claims to have annexed from ukraine. the us says russian fighterjets intercepted the drone, causing it to crash, but moscow denies this. a senior official in washington says the us is also assessing whether it can retrieve the drone, which is in very deep waters. the us defense secretary said today the episode was part of a pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in in