announced the latest deal, after having brokered the previous week long truce. there s been international condemnation of attacks on nato peacekeepers in northern kosovo. dozens of troops were wounded when they tried to intervene in clashes between police and ethnic serb protesters. three italian soldiers and seven hungarians were seriously hurt. a chinese rocket has launched into orbit, taking three astronauts to china s space station. one of the crew members, gui haichao, is the first chinese civilian to go into space. the university professor will carry out scientific experiments during a five month stay on the space station. president biden says he believes a deal to increase the limit for us government borrowing has a very good chance of being approved by congress. his administration has warned it will run out of funds unless measures to raise the debt ceiling are passed within the next week. mr biden spoke to journalists
outside the white house. you know i never say i m confident what the congress is going to do. but i feel very good about it, i ve spoken to a number of the members, i ve spoke to mcconnell, i ve spoke to a whole bunch of people. and it feels good, we ll see when the vote starts. there s no reason why it shouldn t get done by the 5th. i m confident that we ll get a vote in both houses and we ll see. the uk government is taking steps to reduce vaping among teenagers in england. ministers have pledged to close a loophole allowing retailers to give free samples to children, even thoughh it s illegal to sell them to under 185. a ban on nicotine free vapes for under 18 s is also being considered. our heath editor, hugh pym reports. a recent laboratory test for bbc news on illegal vapes confiscated at a school showed some had more than twice the safe amount of lead, and nine times the safe amount of nickel. the prime minister said he was shocked by this report, and said he was taking further
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the facts. reporter: the reality tonight, any gun legislation has little chance of passing congress. if you think washington is going to fix this problem, you re wrong. reporter: that vacuum has left states to take action including colorado that s witnessed mass shootings at club q, aurora, and columbine. lawmakers there advancing a bill to expand red flag laws empowering more people to petition a judge to confiscate guns from those who present a danger to themselves or others. in illinois after that july 4th parade shooting, democratic lawmakers approved an assault weapons ban that now faces legal challenges, but in florida leading republicans are pushing to allow gun owners to carry weapons without a permit. andrew pollack s daughter meadow was killed by a teen gunman at florida s stoneman douglas high school. he says weapons bans are not the answer to stopping mass shootings. it s easy to just say that, let s just ban rifles instead of looking into the failures that led up t
not pass that bill. it is amazing. john yoo, as a legal question, it seems to me that it should be a pretty simple solution if you are going by what jason just talking about there. what are your thoughts? i don t think this is a close constitutional question. the constitution gives only to congress the power of the purse. congress appropriated money as loans. they were not giving away gifts, they expected this money to be paid back. the biden administration relied on the 2003 law that allowed soldiers sent over to iraq in afghanistan to justify letting everybody off their payments throughout the country? that shows how weak their case is. the only hiccup is that the supreme court may be skeptical that the state plaintiffs here allowed to bring suits. they re going to overcome it and strike it down. it is hard to argue because