answer. so let s get started. a debt deal, but not a done deal. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy strike a lead by compromise to avoid a catastrophic u.s. debt default. but there is still a lot of work to be done before wednesdays house vote. we are live on capitol hill with the latest. plus, impeached, in a history making vote, the gop-controlled texas house impeach s embattled republican state attorney general in election denier, ken paxton. we have his response to being only the third sitting official in texas history to be impeached. and later, a family affair. we wrap up aapi heritage month with the inspiring family whose military service spans generations. all of this and more is coming up. and a good sunday morning to you all. i am katie phang. we start today s show with the breaking news. president biden, house speaker kevin mccarthy, and their negotiators have reached a tentative agreement late last night. to raise the debt ceiling to dodge a debt defa
governor and tomorrow in the contest for senate in pennsylvania. nearly 7.3 million people have already cast their ballots in 39 states according to one analysis. right now, president biden is making his pitch to voters. he s hoping to shift the momentum away from republicans. a new analysis of the political landscape in these final weeks shows republicans are making late gains as they try to win back control of the house. white house correspondent jeremy diamond is with us now. give us details on what the president is saying. reporter: president biden is delivering right now what he termed a closing argument here as we are just about two weeks from election day. the president, though, isn t in the battleground states where you might expect him to be delivering that kind of closing argument. he s at democratic party headquarters where he said his goal is to try to energize the organizers who are calling into those battleground states, the staff at the democratic party who
time in three years. and, coming up at 8.30pm we meet the members of one of ukraine s top rock bands, who ve become army medics in kharkiv, helping the military to fight invading russian forces. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the devastation caused in pakistan by extensive flooding has been called a crisis of unimaginable proportions by its climate change minister. she says that a third of the country is now underwater. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. international help has begun to arrive but water is still surging down the indus river and will flood low lying sindh even more over the next few days. the province has received eight times its average rainfall for august. the bbc has been filming across the country, including our correspondent pumza filhani who has sent this report from sukkur, a city in sindh. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern
Schedule, first in portugal, beginning of august. at the end of august, he s flying all the way to mongolia. so he wanted to get this operation out of the way so that perhaps by then, he will be able to go on these trips. now, the doctors had said that it will take about three months to fully heal from the operation. but clearly, this is a man who s in a hurry to do things and go places. so he does want to go ahead with those plans for travel. the doctors say that he not running a fever. that he s recovering well. but that he s going to be here in the hospital for another week, under observation. in the doctors decide he can be released. and start to resume his normal duties. although we understand he s already reading the newspaper and trying to keep up to date on things. but he s going to be bed ridden, at least, for the next week.
When do you think the indictment is going to come up for the mar-a-lago documents case from special counsel? i can give you a really obvious answer which is, it depends. if the special counsel wants to do this, i think he probably does it before the georgia indictments come in, and that case. we know that with the district attorney is looking at the first few weeks of august to bring attention maybe against trump, maybe against others. there is now a window of time between then and the start of august, where would make sense for federal prosecutors to go first. maybe the january six cases not ready, maybe the documents case was ready, but i think we ll see a charge nina station in the weeks ahead. you have to hear, are i january, as special counsel before fulton county, which i know is the end of july, beginning of august. hugo lowe, thank you for being here. next, they say everything is bigger in texas, including a