Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Us National Government has officially shutdown, year to the day after Donald Trump Took Office as president. Senators failed to agree a stopgap budget and there was bitter dispute between republicans and democrats over immigration and security. This report from washington. With the midnight deadline looming they came up well short of the 60 votes needed. Without a Funding Agreement in place, the government of the largest economy in the world was now only minutes away from shutdown. Youll actually chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not passed. The way things turned today and the way you turned from a bipartisan deal, it is almost as if you were rooting for a shutdown, and how you were rooting for a shutdown, and now we will have one, and the blame should crash entirely on President Trumps shoulders. The white house ina trumps shoulders. The white house
Amy 10 years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, killing 1800 people, forcing over one million to evacuate. As president obama heads to new orleans, we will speak with local activist and attorneys still fighting to rebuild the city. But first, to guatemala. There is an uprising. Today there is a National Strike , a mass demonstration calling for the followed president perez molina. If it develops, you can leave to the fall of the army and oligarchy and the system of hunger. The u. S. Is try to stop that, the oligarchy is, but no one knows if they will succeed. Amy a general strike has been called in guatemala two days after the Supreme Court approved a request by the countrys attorney general to impeach president Otto Perez Molina in a Corruption Scandal. The matter is now in the hands of the guatemalan congress. We will speak with journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy
Amy 10 years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, killing 1800 people, forcing over one million to evacuate. As president obama heads to new orleans, we will speak with local activist and attorneys still fighting to rebuild the city. But first, to guatemala. There is an uprising. Today there is a National Strike , a mass demonstration calling for the followed president perez molina. If it develops, you can leave to the fall of the army and oligarchy and the system of hunger. The u. S. Is try to stop that, the oligarchy is, but no one knows if they will succeed. Amy a general strike has been called in guatemala two days after the Supreme Court approved a request by the countrys attorney general to impeach president Otto Perez Molina in a Corruption Scandal. The matter is now in the hands of the guatemalan congress. We will speak with journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy
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He was also asked about the ethical and moral standards of President Trump. This is just over an hour. 22 years i worked here we have posted a number of elected officials and candidates from both parties. We have always had respectful meetings. That is what we are looking for today. I think maybe the senator refers to it as iowa nice. We welcome you as guest everyone who is from somewhere else. What we expect is that you do not interrupt. Use your inside voice. I know it will be hard to hear, but if we are all quiet we can hear the questions. And be respectful of others. Pretty elementary stuff, be respectful of others. You come here from somewhere, whether you were paid to be here or you are here voluntarily [shouting] [indiscernible] you guys are not professionals. I didnt mean to be it is time to start iowa nice. It is not iowa night. We will go for iowa nice, everyone on board with that . I apologize [indiscernible] [laughter] Chuck Grassley kind of an iowa warm winter. I am proud