friday. president biden wasting no time bragging about the august jobs report. even as americans still feel the squeeze of inflation. the president s show of optimism about the economy very different tone than he struck last night. i m john roberts in washington, hello again, sandra. sandra: and we have you there, john. good to be here ahead of the long weekend. president biden s speech in primetime, everyone is talking about it, it turned so political at times that critics say it was more like a campaign event. the president attacking supporters of former president trump accusing them of being a threat to the american way of life, and just moments ago, our own peter doocy pressed president biden himself after that speech on his divisive message. we ll play it out here, it s about a minute long. mr. president, do you consider all trump supporters to be a threat to the country? no, everyone, come on. come on, guys. i don t consider any trump supporter to be a threat to t
from five different continents through the magic of our video link, as well as a large audience here in the gallery for a programme that will be broadcast on bbc world service, on radio and television. the climate catastrophe and the sheer weight of traffic on our roads and the horrific rate of accidents that they cause has forced a revolution in the way we think about cars. with me today are three engineers who are at the forefront of that revolution. we have arjo van der ham from the netherlands who is the chief technical officer at a company called lightyear. he has developed the world s first family sized solar powered car. jamie shotton, an expert in al and in autonomous vehicles. he is the chief scientist at a company called wayve and he is here to tell us about autonomous driving vehicles and, last but not least we have linda zhang from the united states. she is the chief engineer for the f150 lightning and has managed somehow to electrify one of america s most iconic
but he s here now and they re trying to figure out a way forward. so a full day of meetings begins now with the leader of iraq and we re hoping to have some details from inside their at some point later on today ashleigh. okay, peter , you see who is traveling with the president on his mideast trip. peter , thank you so much. will be coming back to you once we get more details. but later on this morning, president biden will also speak to the leaders of egypt and the united arab emirates before heading back to washington. i m ashleigh strohmeyer in order to send you back to regular programing already in progressve. ha can you be sure that anothr incident, another murder, tumultuous joe biden won t happen again? god love you. what a silly question.ggi how could i possibly be sure of any of that? the president is under enormous pressure to bring downo the surging gas prices with thed trip with democrats in his own o party getting tired of hiswn inflation spin. think that w
that is double the number before the pandemic. so this is a mock up restaurant. you won t find a customer in here. the boss of this suffolk hotel chain shows me the training centre he started in march to help recruit and retain staff. you have to do something about it yourself because no one is going to give you these people, and if you want them to stay, you have got to give them the skills and the confidence to be with you. labour shortages now, but could that tide be about to turn? at the alex cafe, they are open all week three days only, though, upstairs. but the owner is in no rush, with rising energy costs for him and his customers. i ve done the job for over a0 years and it has never been like this. you know, you have always been able to see a path, however steep that path is, or how difficult. at the moment, it is almost like an abyss. we could be looking at £100,000 per year extra extra on energy. you know, that s £2,000 per week. he is trying to keep it simp
welker and michael crowley and barry mccaffrey. thanks for joining us. molly, let me start with you. we see russians make key advances, especially as they are being more concentrated in the eastern part of ukraine. they are hammering the area of severodonetsk. talk me through what you are hearing when it comes to the battlefield in ukraine. reporter: that s exactly right. they are hammering severodonetsk and all of the villages surrounding it. there s been a pocket, a horseshoe-like area, a-in-law fighting area, but that s where all of the russian aggression for the last week has been concentrated in the donbas. severodonetsk has the biggest city, the most strategic in lieu luhansk. this morning. we heard the front line cut the city in half. as of an hour ago, we heard from the head of the city military that told reuters, 60% of the city is under russian control, the eastern part. 20% under ukrainian control and there s a portion of that city which is no man s land. evacuat