Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. Tonight, there are signs that washington is finally moving closer to reaching an agreement on extending the debt ceiling and reopening the government. Senate leaders have been meeting today and they are voicing optimism that they can reach a deal. Even if they can, it still faces a critical test in the house of representatives. Earlier today, president obama warned of the consequences if congress does not act. Not only is it untenable for us to continue the shutdown, this week, if we dont start making some Real Progress both in the house and senate and if republicans are not willing to set aside some of their partisan concerns in order to do what is right for the country, we stand a good chance of defaulting and defaulting would have a potentially devastating effect on our economy. Our north america editor mark mardell is following the story and joins us now. Should we be getting our hopes up . This proba
Held to kwt. Pressure grows to stop the syrian regime. Credible use of weapons by syria. If that gas discharges it would take only one minute to kill tens of thousands of people. I would not put it past assad to use this weapon its the kind of regime hes been leading. Where are they taking you, john . To jail. John mcafee under arrest in guatemala for entering the country illegally. He vanished after his neighbor was found dead. The administration, are they prepared to go over the fiscal cliff. Absolutely. Fiscal cliff negotiations in washington, still up in the air. Most lawmakers have gone home for a long weekend. Ill be here and ill be available at any moment to sit down with the president if he gets serious about solving this problem. The duchess of cambridge has left hospital. There for morning sickness. How are you feeling this morning, kate . As of today, possession of small amounts of marijuana is legal in the state of washington. Now the 55th annual Grammy Awards revealed. The
Held to kwt. Pressure grows to stop the syrian regime. Credible use of weapons by syria. If that gas discharges it would take only one minute to kill tens of thousands of people. I would not put it past assad to use this weapon its the kind of regime hes been leading. Where are they taking you, john . To jail. John mcafee under arrest in guatemala for entering the country illegally. He vanished after his neighbor was found dead. The administration, are they prepared to go over the fiscal cliff. Absolutely. Fiscal cliff negotiations in washington, still up in the air. Most lawmakers have gone home for a long weekend. Ill be here and ill be available at any moment to sit down with the president if he gets serious about solving this problem. The duchess of cambridge has left hospital. There for morning sickness. How are you feeling this morning, kate . As of today, possession of small amounts of marijuana is legal in the state of washington. Now the 55th annual Grammy Awards revealed. The
Unveiled later today. Lets head over to guy johnson. Good morning, guy. To bes budget is going long on politics, short on economics. To be honest, the chancellor is going to conduct a series of tweaks today. It is about setting the agenda for 2015 when this country will go to the polls. It is about the narrative in advance of the general election. , it willare saying really be about the cost of living. It will be about social mobility. It will be about jobs and there will be some economic things were well have a bit of a push when it comes to generating more experts exports for the british economy. This is about filling out the Political Landscape in advance of the election. The labour party will have something to go at here but probably on the economic front, very little because the chancellor will be able to announce that the british economy is basically back to the peak of 2008. The unemployment is definitely coming down and for the first year and quite a few years, we are going to
The investigation so far. The German Government says the ceasefire in ukraine is not sufficient. Other issues such as Border Patrol and a Prisoner Exchange have yet to be addressed. Violence has marked the fragile truce. Has marred the fragile truce. Also coming up for you in the next hour of live from paris, hopes rise for a vaccine tos are showing monkeys injected with an experimental drug were immune to ebola 10 months later. Have the mysteries of the past finally been unraveled . A detective says he can prove the identity of jack the ripper using dna samples from the murder scene from a murder scene. U. S. President says he wont leave the country lead the country back to a war in iraq. Obama says he will be seeking u. S. Lawmakers approval in congress and then will set out the american approach to taking on isis in a speech this wednesday, on the anniversary of the september 11 attacks. Coming up with a plan to defeat the Islamic State organization. President barack obama said sund