Cornish, Ron Brownstein, kate bedingfield, geoff duncan. Thank you. And thanks to all of you for joining joining us im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now homes burned in almost every direction. Thats the word from texas as multiple wildfires are burning right now and breaking just moments ago, we just got word that pope francis was taken to the hospital. Were getting new information in on the condition of the 87 yearold pontiff, hunter biden about to take questions face to face with a republican lawmakers trying to impeach his father. Im kate bolduan with john berman. Sara is out today. This is Cnn News Central we are following this Breaking News. People in texas are being forced to flee communities, burn to the ground. There are multiple wildfires burning in the Texas Panhandle right now that is terrifying. If you come upon that, of course, overnight, the fire called the Smokehouse Creek fire became the fifth largest fire in texas state history, scorching over 300,000 acres
Change. Clearly it is a popular policy by the public and heading up to the next election it would be a strange decision for the government to row back on anything with public support. Can the government have it both ways, say yes to granting licences for oil and gasp projects but at the same time it commitments to net zero . New licences for the north sea is not a change in Government Policy, we were expecting to see more. The oil and industrys estimates show production will continue to decline in the north sea no matter what the Government Policy is it simply because there is not as much gas and oil as 50 years ago when we started extracting. What is left in the north sea is mostly oil. This is mostly exported, so there is little benefit to our bills from more extraction and in a cost of living crisis bills are a strong priority for the public. It is a strange decision to approve more when it wont help with our bills because they cant move the dial on internationally set prices and it
But as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to Nuclear Power stations. Almost unnoticed by the outside world, President Biden has been pushing ahead with wide ranging plans to replace chinese goods with American Made ones. The bbc s economics editor, faisal islam, has been investigating the extent of this new America First policy. I was astounded by the scale and the speed of the transformation in terms of the deployment of public, government, Taxpayer Subsidy into Strategic Industries, particularly green industries. Theres so much money going in that its transforming the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. We used to talk about the rust belt. They are now talking about a battery belt. It sounds rather sort of roosevelt years, doesnt it . Yes, and theres some conscious echoes of that. Indeed, where i was in kent
this hour, mike johnson about to take the floor to slam the senate s bipartisan border compromise in his first speech after a 15-hour meeting of republicans ending in a vote to push forward and try to impeach homeland security secretary mayorkas. nato s secretary-general on the urgent need for the u.s. to support ukraine. the cia director warns cutting off aid would be a mistake of historic proportions. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the ceos of the most widely used social media platforms are on capitol hill today. they are being criticized for not doing enough to protect children online from both sexual and other harmful content, including pro-hamas content on tiktok. executives from tiktok, meta, x, snapchat and discord are defending some of the steps they have taken, telling thediciary committed to keeping kids safe. the technology is growing faster than congress has been able to react. right now, the platforms are left to police themselves and
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