f the debt limit isn t raised or suspended. that s a new really serious warning from the treasury secretary janet yellen. we did learn house speaker kevin mccarthy agreed to go to the white house and meet with the president next week. hollywood writers now on strike. it s the first time they have done so in 15 years. production will be delayed on some of your favorite television shows. for more you on that. also, at least six people are dead after a huge pileup on i-55 on central illinois. more than 70 vehicles crashed due to low visibility from a dust storm. also new this morning, the surgeon general has a plan to tackle america s epidemic of loneliness and isolation. his six-pillar approach to build our social connections. that s ahead. and serena williams, great news, pregnant with baby number two. the tennis superstar made the reveal during last night s met gala. cnn this morning starts right now. so i m so excited about the serena williams news. i know.
powerful. at the same time, the layers who have been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker. that s the iron law of the universe. true things prevail. the new york times reports the redacted text messages were even worse than ones revealed in the court filings and there was one message that was particularly offensive which added to the concern at the top of the company. that s from the times reporting this morning. we don t know what the message was. but just yesterday the wall street journal reported carlson called a senior fox news executive the c word, the same word he used to describe sidney powell who was a regular guest on fox news. here is how one of carlson s former producers who is now suing fox news described the culture of that show behind the scenes. woman were objectified. it was a game. it was a sport. female politicians who came on the show were mocked. there were debates about who they d rather sleep with. c word all the time. joini
coming out of the ground. could we show it? let me show this to people. watch this. just see that chemical pop out of the creek. this is disgusting. that s what the senator is saying. also this morning we are seeing new surveillance video that shows sparks flying from the train less than an hour before it crashed. this is important because it could give investigators key clues about what happened, what led this. this is in alliance, ohio. the train on the right hand of your screen 57 minutes before it crashed. the train keeps going down the tracks. by 8:12 p.m. it s in salem. you can see the sparks from an apparent wheel bearing overheating. and another surveillance camera here, same time, same town, the train keeps going for 20 miles after that headed for east palestine. that is where it derailed at 8:55 p.m. a full 43 minutes after we first saw though sparks? salem. jason carroll is live on the ground in east palestine. jason, this is going to be a cause for concern. i
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. president biden has arrived in belfast for a four day trip to mark the 25th anniversary of the historic good friday agreement. the landmark deal largely brought to an end the 30 year conflict in northern ireland known as the troubles. president biden says he looks forward to reiterating america s commitment to preserving the peace. my colleague emma vardy has more. air force i arrives at belfast international and northern ireland s first presidential visit in ten years is under way. time for a short hello with rishi sunak on the tarmac before the president was whisked away for the night. a ring of steel is in place in belfast city centre in what is one of the biggest security operations here of recent years. we ve been planning for this for a number of weeks. we ve prepared for all the various contingencies. our style and tone that we ll be delivering around this policing o
confirms it carried out tuesday s deadly bombing. we speak to the un s special rapporteur on human rights. welcome back to bbc news. more on all of those headline stories in a moment or two, but let s round up the sport needs and head to the bbc sport centre. well, more european football tonight? the runaway siri a leaders, napoli, going to ac milan. frank lampard will need a heroic performance from his chelsea side, who go on to take on holders, real madrid. chelsea s season has been one to forget so far, 3 wins in their last 13 games, 17 points off the top 4 in the premier league with lampard back at stamford bridge as caretaker manager. former chelsea striker chris sutton believes all the focus is on carlo ancelotti s side ahead of this one. everyone is looking at real madrid, the mentality monsters, they always find a way to get out of the hind stop we saw last season some incredible comebacks when they were down and out on the last legs, and they found a way. chelsea hav