ukraine s first lady in a speech to congress detailing the suffering caused by russia s invasion and causing for more aid to defeat the enemy. translator: you help us and your help is very strong while russia kills, america saves. i appeal to all of you on behalf of those who were killed, on behalf of those people who lost their arms and legs. i am asking for weapons. weapons that would not be used to wage a war on somebody else s land but to protect one s home and the right to wake up alive in that home. the comments follow new revelations from the white house that putin s army is planning to tighten its grip over eastern ukraine by annexing the donbas region and the territories surrounding the crimean peninsula, fortifying their position away from the port city of odesa. at the start of the year, russia told the world it was not planning to invade ukraine. now we are expected to believe that they re not going to plan to annex ukrainian territory. annexation by force w
emergency. the question is what will our leaders do about it? here at home president biden is in somerset, massachusetts today at a former coal-fired power plant that now manufactures parts for offshore wind energy. the white house says the president will announce moves to bolster the offshore wind industry, home assistance for low-income residents. excessive heat records are at stake in dozens the states, straining power grids as people crank up the a.c. to stay cool. but do these moves go far enough? democrats blocked by republicans and joe manchin in the senate have turned to the president, upping the pressure to declare a state of emergency, unlocking the power of executive orders to fight climate change, the without would not say if he will do so. across the atlantic there are big out of control and deadly fires across multiple countries. tens of thousands of people in france have been displaced and many of them are at risk of permanently losing their homes. firefighters
us on that topic and a lot more coming up in just a few moments today. sandra: we begin, america reports with a shake-up across the pond as prime minister boris johnson announces officially that he is resigning amid a string of ethics scandal. and look who came back for more, hello, welcome, everybody. i am sandra smith in new york. happy to have you. i am bill hemmer and for john roberts today, the outgoing prime minister acknowledging defeat after months of defiance with 50 senior lawmakers left office in a revolt against their leader, the final straw for some members of parliament coming after report saying that johnson knew about an investigation of sexual misconduct to a lawmaker that he had promoted. sandra: protesters gathered outside tenth avenue to give the prime minister a noisy send-off as they look for a replacement to lead the conservative party in the country now begins. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live on this from london for
in public with the guy. i know how that feels peer the president was in ohio, but high-profile democrats running for office and the stakes skip the visit due to scheduling conflicts. those dems didn t miss much however with the blabbering about putin and republicans as he tried to spin his failures. previous administration lost more jobs on his watch than any administration since herbert hoover. what is the republican platform for this campaign? no, no, i m being deadly earnest but not flippant. just a fact. we have a long way to go i call it the putin tax increase. putin, because of gasoline. republicans do nothing to obstruct efforts to lower it. greg: [laughter] that is funny. biden is continuing his light into a toxic spew of mediocrity. the liberals don t see it. 79-year-old fossil as a fighter. one summing up this way he is missing the year it is our time to dig in and be absolutely furious because one half measures are not working and real excitability problem.
construction here manufacture and you go back and ask all the people who grew up in this beautiful place what they d rather have. do they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have? i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying, i would rather have a coal plant. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad was a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer. but my dad was in sales. and there was no work, so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home, when you take the trolly in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenues, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town, where the scrantons and other good decent people live there was a you would go buy a wall that my recollection