state showdown. we begin with the fox news alert and we are awaiting the white house briefing next hour where karine jean-pierre will be pressed for the president s massive $6.8 trillion tax and spend budget plan. a lot to unpack in america reports in the next two hours. i m john roberts in washington and, s sandra, weather correspondent made it to washington. i m sandra smith, glad to be with you, john. this massive new tax and spend plan as inflation remains stubbornly high and as a brand new jobs report is just released by the labor department. it did show payrolls rising by 311,000 last month. that was higher than expected and as the wall street journal references what they see as evidence of resilient economic economy. the unemployment rate meanwhile ticked up to 3.6%, that s from the record low in january. but there s still a big question on what s coming down the pike as more rate hikes could be on the horizon. so with that in mind, let s get right to it wi
kevin corke s life with more on the search for answers. good evening. my search for answers indeed evening to you. before heading out for another delaware become the president did finally take some questions from the press after refusing t do so a day earlier in the day, following a meeting with ireland s prime minister. despite assuring. despite assurances yesterday from the press secretary, karin jean-pierre, that the press corporate have a chance to ask questions every time a head of state would pay a visit to washington. as you can see once again that didn t happen today. the president has been slow, delayed, and hasn t had a plan for victory party didn t listen to his military enough gas from the stand and there s consequences for decades to american. pressure mounting on the presence of armed to forcefully respond to moscow after russian pilots downed a $32 million us drone of the black sea all this is the international criminal court has issued an arrest warr
following evidence that it s now entering the human food chain. hello and welcome to the programme. meta is to reinstate the facebook and instagram accounts of former us president donald trump. he was suspended two years ago over posts praising people who stormed congress in an attempt to overturn his election defeat. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has more details. the attack on congress when supporters of donald trump tried to stop the certification ofjoe biden s election of joe biden s election victory. ofjoe biden s election victory. while it was going on the then president positively on facebook and instagram expressing his support for the riders and in another post repeated false claims about fraudulent voting during the 2020 election. initially was banned from the platforms indefinitely. facebook later said it would have decision after two years. if i said it would have decision after two years. said it would have decision after two years. if i run and
thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with the search for answers after the u.s. shot down what is described as an unidentified high altitude object. u.s. fighter jets taking it down after the coast of alaska friday. pentagon officials say they acted swiftly after the object about the size of a small car crossed into frozen territorial waters. it s the second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have shot an object out of the sky following that chinese spy balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina last saturday. katie bow little lis is with us. what are we learning about this second object? reporter: this object is still quite a bit of a mystery. what we know is that on thursday the military observed this unknown object in us air space just off the coast of alaska. they sent up military aircraft to get a look at this thing. pilots weren t able to tell a whole lot. they could see it was flying at about 40,000 fe