punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they re waiting to see. i love it. will the groundhog see his shadow? fantastic. band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. we have to do the show live from there sometime. oh, my god, i d love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it s good or it s bad. it just doesn t stay with me. maybe because i don t care. i don t know. i don t know. but that would be fun. yeah. gobbler s knob. exactly. that s where we all want to go. we have a lot to get to this morning. i really want to hear that. including president joe biden s meeting at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy. both sides were upbeat about their conversation. it appears we re not any closer to a deal on the debt ceiling, but we will follow the developments there. gave him a box of white house m&ms, and mccarthy le
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un
anthony: the south is not a monolith. there are pockets of weirdness, awesomeness, and then there s charleston. where for some time now important things have been happening with food. a lot of them having to do with this guy. [ laughter ] i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: what are we drinking? beer? we drinking harder stuff? what s going on? sean: i usually go with a budweiser and a jagermeister. anthony: budweiser and a jagermeister? so any notion of going local right out the window. sean: yeah. bartender: two jagers? anthony: uh, yeah, two jagers. yeah. cheers. good to see you again, man. sean: cheers, man. the first one s never good. the first one is never good. but it gets easier after the first one. anthony: so, look, um, this is no
laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase im down and beat him some more. call for backup, and they take 20 minutes, and you watch him and you are too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him. like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s too late. what will happen to his dream. we ll just tell them something else happened, but we are going to throw him in a pit, but i come to memphis today to tell you the same mistake joseph s brothers made, is a mistake you made. you thought you threw joseph in a pit. you thought you threw dr. king s dream in a pit. but every time you throw something in a pit, god takes the pit and raises it up and changes the whole world. e world. let me be clear, we understand that there are concerns about public safety. we understand that there s needs to
in the mid term elections. will sign a law codifying roe in january. together, will sign a law codifying roe injanuary. together, let s remember who we are. we are the united states of america, there is nothing beyond our capacity. fears for the safety of an iranian athlete, who took part in a climbing competition, without a hijab. and, as the bbc celebrates its 100th anniversary, we look ahead at the challenges it faces. hello and welcome to the programe. in taiwan a retired military commander has told the bbc the island would be unable resist the use of force by an increasingly assertive china. it follows a warning by the us secretary of state, anthony blinken that beijing is pursuing unification on a much faster timeline than previously thought. our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has been to front line taiwanese island ofjinmen, just a few kilometres off the chinese coast, to assess the growing threat. assignment is so close to china it used to blast propaganda from