defense production act over the price of gas. carley: the president s push for a gas tax holiday getting pushback from the democrats, warning this policy would at best achieve miniscule relief while blowing $10 billion hole in the highway trust fund that would need to be filleded if we want to fix crumbling bridges, advance the modern infrastructure system, and griff jenkins is live in washington can more. good morning. griff: good morning. the president s plan is combination of suspending federal gas tax until september and calling on states to suspend their respective gas tax and now issuing war-footing edick that oil companies lower their prices. watch. president biden: to companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump, this is a time of war, global peril, ukraine, these are not normal times. bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect cost you are paying for the product. do it now, do it today. griff: the president s messaging bla
the final day ofjubilee celebrations will end with a huge pageant near buckingham palace later. iam i am annita mcveigh on the mall as they get ready for that pageant, the people s pageant, on the fourth and final day of celebrations to mark the queen s 70 year reign. street parties are also set to be held across the uk. moscow continues its offensive in eastern ukraine but a series of powerful explosions strike the capital. meanwhile, closer to home the welsh national football team will take on the ukraine side in a world cup qualifier later today and we will take a look at the papers this morning, with the queen and paddington bear playing a major part. hello and welcome to bbc news. welcome to bbc news and the fourth and final day of the platinum jubilee celebrations. today there will be a pageant along the mall in london, featuring a military parade, acrobats, puppets and other tributes to the 70 years of the queen s reign. celebrations will be held across the country
and thank you. for everything. that s very kind. the final day ofjubilee celebrations will end with a huge pageant near buckingham palace later. street parties are also set to be held across the uk in what is being called the big jubilee lunch. explosions shake kyiv in the first russian assault on ukraine s capital for weeks. forever holidays, or so it would seem, as half terms grind air travel down to a halt. welcome to bbc news and the fourth day of the platinum jubilee celebrations. today, there will be a pageant along the mall in london featuring a military parade, acrobats, puppets and other tributes to the 70 years of the queen s reign. celebrations will be held across the country too, with tens of thousands of people holding street parties. last night, a special outdoor concert was held in the grounds of buckingham palace with live performances from diana ross, queen and sir rod stewart. let s join annita mcveigh, who is on the mall outside our royal correspondent dani
last month. the president seems to think it is all positive. president biden: as we move to stable, steady growth because we should expect to see more moderation. we are not likely to see the kind of blockbuster job reports month after month like we had over this past year. but that is a good thing. that is he can t of a healthy economy. kayleigh: the baby formula and that looming possible recession. there s all that. the president of the issue of gun control. president biden: i respect the culture and tradition and the concerns of lawful gun owners. the same time, the second amendment like all other rights, is not absolute. we need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. kayleigh: then the reports the turmoil behind the scenes are raising questions about the president s ability to solve the problems that arose on his watch. on tuesday, nbc news reported biden is unhappy about a pattern on his that has developed inside the west wing. he makes a clear and
can the eu agree on a ban on russian oil? it s not looking hopeful. eu leaders meet again to see what might be done. resistance, notably from hungary, has held up the eu s troubled sixth lot of sanctions. 0ther landlocked countries, such as slovakia and the czech republic, have also asked for more time, due to their dependence on russian oil. bulgaria, already cut off from russian gas by gazprom, has likewise asked for opt outs. but prime minister viktor 0rban s hungarian government, which has compared an oil ban to dropping a nuclear bomb on its economy, is seen as the ultimate obstacle. he wrote to the european council to say he didn t even want to be discussed. joining me now is dr adi imsirovic, senior research fellow, the oxford institute for energy studies. sir, you ve worked in the industry for 30 years. this weekend, the eu chief ursula von der leyen said there was a need to think strategically about how the eu approaches the topic of russian oil. she had previously i