for a musical extravaganza. welcome to the programme. we start in the us, where a landmark bill which includes billions of dollars to fight climate change, has been approved by the us senate. we ll look more at that bill in a moment. first, let s go to kentucky, because presidentjoe biden is there. he s set to meet families hit by the flooding a week ago that killed at least 37 people. we re expecting to hear from him shortly. we will bring you more on that as and when we get it. now let s look at that landmark climate bill and what it means. it s the largest investment in climate action in america s history $369 billion. the aim is to cut carbon emissions by forty percent by the end of the decade. senate democrats celebrated the bill. the boldest climate package in us history. the senate has now passed the most significant bill to fight the climate crisis ever. and it s going to make a difference to my grandkids. republicans, though, have criticised it. mitch mcconnell i
excuse me, i was a pretty good bmxer in my time. still can t ride an actual bike that well, but as long as i was steering with a keyboard i was a totally rad rider. official terminology, there, i m sure. definitely. 0k. look, gaming became really important to a whole generation in the 1980s, and although we re now no longer kids, many of us are still playing, which is why games can afford to be big budget blockbusters, and last year the uk games market was worth more than £7 billion. another result of the amount of time that video gaming has been around is the way it s permeated into other areas of our lives. yes, and equally it s started to draw on and draw in other parts of our culture and that includes music. music: firestarter by the prodigy the first time i realised that games decided to take their music scores seriously was when i played wipeout 2097 and realised that the accompanying soundtrack was not random plinky plock, it was firestarter by the prodigy. and in
the us senate passes joe biden s climate plan, channeling billions of dollars towards ambitious clean energy goals. the world will be a better place for my grandchildren because of what we did today, and that makes me feel very, very good. very, very good. and more than 80,000 tourists are stranded in a chinese resort after a coronavirus outbreak sparks a lockdown. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it sneezed at. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 2:30am in the morning in afghanistan from where we have a special report showing how pregnant women, new mothers and their babies are being affected by acute shortages and a lack of basic services. it comes nearly one year on from the taliban takeover and with much foreign funding suspended. 0ur report was filmed in badakhshan province in the north east of afghanistan by cameraman sanjay ganguly producer imogen anderson and correspondent yogita limaye. some viewers may find this report distressing.
the magic wall. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, trump s lawyers talking. cnn confirming that the fbi interviewed two of trump s former lawyers. the former white house counsel pat cipollone and deputy patrick philbin. they are the two most senior trump officials to be interviewed in the criminal investigation of trump s handling of classified information. this is a significant development. obviously cipollone and philbin know a lot. they were trump s point men for dealing with the national archives. investigators, of course, asked questions about how 15 boxes of teeshls ended up at mar-a-lago even after, even after they said they returned everything. team trump did. according to the new york times philbin had been working to return all the documents since the national archives realized any of them were missing. it was trump, though, who resisted. several advisers telling the times that trump would say, quote, it s not theirs, it s min
. reporter: take us back to one year ago. o donnell: back to school. as kids in one of the country s largest school districts returned to the classroom today, there s a nationwide teacher shortage. cbs manuel bojorquez reports on how some schools are filling the void. we have over 150 vacancies, even today. but we are working to cover every class. o donnell: and a big-league dream comes true. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening and good to see you. tonight as we come on the air, the justice department is asking a judge not to release the affidavit that contains key details about why the f.b.i. searched former president trump s florida mansion last week. the d.o.j. says releasing that document would be detrimental to the integrity of the investigation. this comes as members of congress from both parties today ae demanding more details and are asking the director of national in