Those. Of the five polls that have been held since the 26th of july, he leads in only two. She leads in three. I fully expect the momentum she has will carry her through, unless it is a disastrous Vice President ial choice. Shell be in the lead at the end of the democratic convention. Might seen that choice soon. Karl rove on friday preventing Kamala Harriss Momentum will soon give her a solid lead over donald trump in the polls. It appears he is correct, with new polling showing harris is gaining on the former president in battleground states. Meanwhile, the Vice President is expected to name her running mate before Tomorrows Rally in philadelphia. Well have the latest on the veep stakes. As for the former president , he was in atlanta over the weekend just days after harris held a rally in the same place. During his rally, trump complained about the massive crowd that turned out for harris, attacking the states republican Governor And Congratulating russian president vladimir putin o
Head to greece, to help battle wildfires on evia, the country s second largest island. More questions for david cameron, after documents obtained by the bbc suggest he made around £7 million from the failed finance company greensill. Scientists begin trials of an artificial intelligence system that may be able to diagnose dementia in a single day, rather than the many months it often currently takes. London s tower bridge has reopened to traffic overnight after becoming stuck due to a technical problem. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. A woman from the us has filed a civil lawsuit in new york, accusing prince andrew of sexual abuse. In a statement, virginia roberts giuffre claims she was trafficked to the prince by the convicted paedophilejeffrey epstein, when she was 17. The duke of york has consistently denied the allegations. In november 2019, newsnight s emily maitlis spoke to prince andrew about ms giuffre s allegations. Do you remember meeting
Work. So far, congressional republicans have not been unified by many things as strongly as their opposition to president biden s agenda. This morning, ohio republican senator roger portman said no to a democratic proposal in the bipartisan bill. It would have partially paid for the plant through irs reinforcement. One reason it s not part of the proposal is that we had pushback. Another reason is that we found out the democrats had a proposal in the reconciliation package which was not just similar to the one we had but with a lot more irs enforcement. That created quite a problem because in the general agreement, this is the bipartisan negotiation infrastructure package and we will stick with that. Some republicans say that they support the bipartisan infrastructure proposal. But are there enough to pass it? last night, oklahoma city mayor david holt who s republican, seems optimistic. There s something bigger here than just the package itself. There s an opportunity to pass somethin
We ve talked about that old washington joke about infrastructure week. It s going to be infrastructure week. Sometimes it feels like every week is infrastructure week. But this week really might be different. Two major infrastructure bills are working their way through the senate. There s the bipartisan bill which is worth about $579 billion. Then there s a $3. 5 trillion package that democrats hope to pass through reconciliation. This week will be critical. By friday we could know whether congress can pass either/or neither or both. House and senate democrats seem unified if their approach to the twobill strategy. Much of that unity may depend on goodfaith negotiations with republicans on the bipartisan bill. It may not hold if the gop walks away from this framework. So far, congressional republicans have not been unified by many things as strongly as their opposition to president biden s agenda. This morning, rob portman said no to a democratic proposal in the bipartisan bill. It wou
Welcome to the programme. Plenty of sport coming up. We begin in haiti where the wife of the late president, who was assassinated on wednesday, has posted an audio message on twitter describing the moment gunmen stormed their home. She was injured and taken to a hospital in miami. The killing has thrown the country into deep political turmoil with haiti asking both the un and the us to send military support. In a moment, we ll hearfrom haiti s minister for elections. But first, this report from the bbc s rich preston. As haiti s future remains uncertain, some ordinary haitians are looking for a way out of the country, fearful that the situation might deteriorate even further. Haiti is the poorest country in the americas. The first lady says her husband planned to change the constitution to improve the lives of ordinary people. Speaking in creole, she described wednesday s attack. Translation: in the blinki of an eye, the mercenaries entered my home and riddled my husband with bullets,