headquarters in new york. i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. the senate is working. it is infrastructure weekend on capitol hill. we heard from kirsten sinema and rob portman. had he gave short speeches on the senate floor. they ve been among those leading the negotiations on this bill. now, we still don t have the final text, but the plan is to file that bill as a substitute amendment tonight. the current bill is just over 2700 pages long, so far. the senate will then move to the amendment process and we re told this should be completed in a matter of days. but the bipartisan bill is only half the story. majority leader chuck schumer promised once that legislation has passed, he ll immediately move to the budget reconciliation instructions. those blueprints would let the senate begin working on a $3.5 trillion social, health and environmental bill. sometimes we ve called it the human infrastructure bill. now, using reconciliation to pass that one would allow
the streets of sydney as australia ramps up its covid lockdown. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s six in the morning here in singapore, and 2.30 in the morning across afghanistan, where taliban militants are threatening to seize control of the main city in helmand province. the militants are now on the verge of overrunning the city of lashkar gar in the south, and there s fierce fighting in kandahar and herat in the west. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, reports from the capital kabul. lashkar gah, helmand, the peace roundabout now overrun by taliban. they say this square is theirs. gunfire the centre of a city once patrolled for years by british troops. afghan special forces, trained by britain and other nato armies, are rushing in. this video s from the afghan ministry of defence. explosion the battle intensifies on the ground and on social media. 35 ye
greater manchester, on thursday. a night time curfew has come into force across almost all of afghanistan in an attempt to stop taliban infiltration into urban areas. the government said no one is allowed to move around between ten at night and four in the morning. army explosives experts have safely detonated a second world war bomb which was found during the construction of a new housing estate in east yorkshire. part of the m62 had to be shut near goole for a controlled explosion to be carried out. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political commentatorjo phillips, and nigel nelson, who s the political editor at the sunday mirror and sunday poeple. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the observer has been hearing from bosses within the uk food industry who say government measures to prevent staff from isolating have been so badly mishandled, they ve made the crisis worse. the sunday people focuses on
said they ll begin proceed ural votes. and jeff bezos picked an 18-year-old to go on the test flight after a winning bidder pulled out due to a scheduling conflict. the question is will that person get a $28 million refund? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is really wondering how on earth no pun intended you double book something for the day you re supposed to go to space. i mean, what? i m kasie hunt on this friday, july 16th. we made it. we ll start with the news. vaccinate rates plateau. now the nation s largest county, los angeles, is turning back the pandemic clock, issuing a new indoor mask mandate. nbc correspondent miguel almaguer has the latest. reporter: los angeles, the nation s largest county, taking a step back, requiring masks indoors, even effective for the vaccinated. breaking with cdc guidance, it s a clear signal concern is growing over the highly contagious delta variant. meantime for some o