and congressional republicans met again on capitol hill. the two sides have untiljune 1st, just over a weeks time, to come to an agreement on raising the govenrment s borrowing limit, or risk the us not being able to pay its bills. some analysts have warned a default could lead to huge job losses here in the us, a plunge on the stock markets, and even a global recession. in fact, stocks on wall street finished sharply lower at the close of trading on tuesday. despite this, optimism among leaders remains. white house press secretary karinejean pierre says a deal both sides can be pleased with is possible. negotiations are very hard, very difficult, both sides have to understand they won t get everything they want. we are trying to get a budget that is reasonable and bipartisan. that democrats and republicans in the house and senate will be able to vote on and agree on. this is the process, that s why we are moving in this way, to make sure it is bipartisan, but also reasonabl
have a windfall tax on the oil and gas companies. the taliban are celebrating the first anniversary of their return to power in afghanistan but not everybody is cheering, especially women and girls. here as flash floods hit cornwall, the text alerts that will give you a direct warning about severe weather and other life threatening events. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the uk has become the first country to approve what its manufacturers are calling a next generation covid vaccine. the uk s medicines regulator has approved a new version of moderna s coronavirus vaccine the first to target both the omicron variant as well as the original strain of the virus. ministers say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign. our medical editor fergus walsh is here with more details. this is the start of a new era of covid vaccines. until now, they ve all been designed against the original form of the virus which emerged in wuhan in china at the end 2019. t
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that israel is in the state of War Readiness after what is being called the worst attack in the country in 50 years. Overnight, the Palestinian Group hamas which controls gaza launched an all out assault by land, air, and see. Israel responded with airstrikes on at least 21 targets we not know of in gaza. The Israeli Military says hamas infiltrated the southern Israeli Border by both land and sea while gaza based fighters fired more than 2200 rockets into israel. Israeli Officials Say at least 40 israelis have been killed and hundreds more have been injured. Additionally, the Militant Group Palestinian Islamic jihad claims to have captured Israeli Soldiers. Were waiting for confirmation on that, and we will get that from raf sanchez, who is on the ground just north of the Gaza Border In Israel right now. According to media reports, hamas fired a second barrage of attacks towards israel in just the last hour. Al jazeera is reporting that at
Manchester united prioritise the Europa League for the rest of the season as they look to qualify for the champions league. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Buckingham palace has announced that the duke of edinburgh will stop carrying out public engagements this autumn. Prince philip, who will be 96 next month, made the decision himself with the full support of the queen. The palace says the queen will continue to carry out a full programme of official engagements. The duke of edinburgh is the longest serving consort in british history. The Prime Minister said she offered him the countrys deepest gratitude and good wishes. Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. Arriving at st jamess palace a short time ago, side by side, as we are accustomed to seeing them, the queen and the duke of edinburgh. But this, come the autumn, will be the exception. The duke has decided, finally, just a few weeks short of his 96th birthday, that it is time for him to step back fr
But people are in. Welcome to bbc news. The white house wanted its message to be about changing us policy toward cuba. But then a tweet from President Trump caused the news agenda to change. Earlier on friday he said that sparked this response from senator Dianne Feinstein who sits on the intelligence committee. She went on to call it a blatant violation of the president s oath of office. For more on mr trumps comments and the resulting firestorm, heres our North America editorjon sopel. The ball has been set rolling, largely because of mr trumps own actions in the way he has communicated on some of these things. We all know there was an investigation going on into the trump campaigns links with russia. Then donald trump fired the fbi Directorjames Comey and the white house and the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney general gave a set of reasons for why james comey had been fired for top donald trump them directly contradicts those reasons, saying it was because of the rush of th