targeted by deliberate attacks. and the new warning by the fda on how much salt you are eating what you need to know. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening the white house tonight responding to the growing supply chain disruption that has left cargo ships waiting at sea to unload and consumers and small retailers burdened with shortages and delivery delays for all kinds of products president biden today hailing a deal with the massive port of los angeles to begin operating 24/7 the second west coast port to go around the clock it is part of a major push to relieve supply shortages which helped push prices up 5.4% in september over last year president biden also leaning on major shippers to move to their own round the clock operations as the holidays approach miguel almaguer is in los angeles now with the latest. reporter: tonight the l.a. traffic jam creating shipping gridlock across the nation, facing a crush of cargo backed up for miles and for mo
toy retailers and other businesses are warning that delays at uk ports will result in shortages this christmas. a lack of care staff in the community is causing major problems for hospitals, with elderly patients unable to be discharged. and a safe return to earth for william shatner, alias captain kirk the oldest person ever to visit space. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. chelsea are away to juventus as they look to pick up their first win in this season s women s champions league. good evening. the european union has tried to break the deadlock on the long running brexit dispute involving northern ireland. it says the new plan would halve the customs paperwork needed. this dispute is all about the northern ireland protocol, which was agreed and signed by the uk and the eu, and came into force at the start of this year. among other things, the protocol requires extra checks and paperwork on products like food and drink imported from britain. because nor
politics in the uk at the moment, do you still have confidence in the prime minister, is he the right person to lead the uk? i have absolute confidence in the prime minister. he s doing a fantasticjob. he has led on. ..delivering on brexit, helping britain recoverfrom covid, we were the first country to fully develop the vaccine and get it rolled out and now he s doing a brilliantjob of supporting ukraine in the appalling war against russia. and the conservatives have just lost two important by elections. should he be considering his position? his role? incumbent governments do tend to lose by elections. that s not a predictor of the future. what we are making sure is that we are getting the economy going, we re helping the economy grow so people have more opportunities, morejobs in the future and that is what will help us secure the next election. and the migrants deal, which has been signed between the uk and the rwandan government has come under a lot of scrutiny, even her
to have fallen into russian hands since mariupol. a third day of strike action disrupt services on the uk s rail network. rmt general secretary mick lynch says further industrial action hasn t been ruled out. borisjohnson has insisted that questions over his leadership have been settled and that he will lead the conservative party into the next general election. his comments follow the tories defeat in two by elections this week. speaking to the bbc from rwanda, where he s attending a commonwealth meeting, he said people were heartily sick of questions about his conduct and that a psychological transformation of his character would not happen. this report from alex forsyth in the rwandan capital kigali, contains some flash photography. diplomacy has been at the forefront of this commonwealth summit, but for the prime minister this morning, issues closer to home were dominant. evening, sir. last night, he attended an official dinner with his wife, carriejohnson, mingling with
norway cancels this year s oslo pride parade, after a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub, which police are treating as an act of islamist terrorism . and sir paul mccartney the star of glastonbury on stage in front of a massive crowd. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled out forces after ferocious russian attacks. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins. here s the mayor of severodonetsk announcing that the city had fallen into russian hands. the city has been fully occupied by the russian federation. as far as i know, they re trying to impose their rules and appoint some sort of commandant two is in charge. our ukraine correspondent joe inwood has the latest from the capital kyiv it isa it is a significant moment, maybe not as surprising when given