Guatemalan president. Her trip billed by the administration as an opportunity to deepen the u. S. Partnership with latin america and grow the stem of flow of migrants from the central american countries. Harris is facing what really is the first major diplomatic mission of her vice presidency. It is a core issue to the surge at the southern border. Let s begin this hour with our white house correspondent who is traveling with her. He is in guatemala city. First foreign trip, you saw the pomp and circumstance she was welcomed with. But this is a key issue that administration s prior to this have not been able to successfully tackle despite a lot of money being poured into the issue. Yeah. That s exactly right. The vice president is here looking for new solutions, looking to build out this strategy that she has been trying to lay the groundwork for in the weeks before coming here. You know, in talking with the vice president s top officials, they say that they feel like the vice presiden
senate tradition. more on this on america reports. sandra: to another alert, increasing covid cases, lack of testing and the highest inflation in four decades is sending president biden s poll numbers into a tailspin. hello, welcome, everyone. sandra smith. thursday. john: we like to call it friday eve around here, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you again. a brand-new poll showing only 33% of americans approve of the job that biden is doing, and a whopping 53% disapprove of the president s performance so far. sandra: all of this as the poll tracking website, 538.com, shows joe biden underwater on covid the first time since he was elected president. trying to get a handle on the testing debacle, as americans wait on the 500 million free a the home tests. administration promised would go out. now biden says even more tests are on the way. today i m directing my team to procure additional 500 million more tests to distribute for free. that make
next week and to freight rail, uncreasing that look, we have the bottlenecks across the country. we re doing so much with this legislation. it s going to make it easier for companies to get goods to market more quickly and reduce supply chains, bottlenecks and now and for decades to come. you know, according to an economist this will ease inflationary pressures, ease inflationary pressures by lowering costs for working families. it will create jobs replacing lead water pipes so every american, every child can drink clean water, improving their health. how long have we been talking about that? it s a gigantic issue. jobs making high-speed internet affordable and available everywhere in america. you ve heard me say this before and i apologize for repeating myself, but no parent should be sitting in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant so their child can do homework except to go off of what s going on with the internet connection from the fast food restaurant. this is goi
an outlook for sunday. really very warm indeed and some welcome rain across western parts of the uk. yes, that alert is in force and quite a prolonged spell of warm weather. nothing exceptional in the temperature itself but many of us will absolutely love this kind of weather. some of us will really not enjoy it but i personally quite like it. thank you. and that s bbc news at ten. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on the bbc news website. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues for the news where you are. but from the ten team, it s goodnight. remember that post brexit trade deal we were promised with america? well, today, rishi sunak and joe biden instead unveiled the washington declaration to push the envelope in their economic partnership. with the prime minister in washington, we found out how new technology and fighting climate change might define the next chapter in relations with the us. when the united states and th
hyperbole, his measure and thoughtful. his committee has a hearing with china s threat to the united states, we should take notice from covid-19 to spy balloons to partnering with russia to threatening taiwan there is no shortage of work for a committee formed to investigate china. every week brings a new challenge from china engaging with saudi arabia and france in secret chinese police stations in the united states to china trying to broker some peace agreement between russia and ukraine. what exactly is china up to and what should the u.s. do about it. trey: joining is now the chairman of the select committee congressman mike gallagher from the great state of wisconsin, welcome, president biden has been all over the map in terms of his description of china and quite frankly some of what he said is not reconcilable, the gist of it he says china is not a threat, what do you say. china is our form of national security threat in the near-term and long-term end in the near-te