Mayor cos will get a vote expected to happen shortly. A top priority remains covid relief. President biden held a meeting with ten republican senators looking for a bipartisan agreement, but theyre pitching a bill one third the size of President Bidens proposal. Ill ask democratic senator chris murphy if a way Forward Together is even possible at this point. What both sides do agree on, though, we need more money for the vaccine rollout. The hiccup to that rollout this morning, the weather. Coming up, how many east coast states are still trying to sidestep the snow and get back on track. Well get to that part of the story in a moment. Lets get to our reporters focused on the action in our nations capital. Shannon pettypiece at the white house, Garrett Haake at his post on capitol hill and jacob sober rof following the implications of this administrations Immigration Policy and miss petedy piece well start with you at 1600, walk us through the Executive Actions President Biden is expect
Investigation is launched. Iran releases an alleged confession of spying by a British Iranian man whos facing the Death Sentence he says the confession was forced. The social media personality andrew tate investigated in relation to organised crime, we investigate his popularity with young people. And the Brit Award Nominations are out with a notable absence of women in the category of artist of the year. And stay with us here on Bbc News Channel for continuing coverage in analysis with our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. Good evening. Ambulance response times in england and waits in accident and Emergency Departments have reached the highest levels on record. The latest figures have exposed the Alarming State of Emergency Care in the National Health service. For some emergencies, including suspected strokes and heart attacks, the average wait was over 90 minutes. The target is 18 minutes. More than a third of patients waited more than four hours to be assessed a
Anc. Welcome. Donald trump has delivered his First National Security Strategy. The document is an outline of the whites main security concerns. It took an America First down. Mrtrump, a number of faces, china and russia featured. Of the white houses main security concerns. We a cce pt we accept that vigorous military and political contest and role playing at around the world. We face rogue regimes that threaten the us and our allies. We face temperature organisations, Transnational Criminal Networks and others that spread violence and evil around the globe. Terrorist organisations. We also face rival paris, russia and china, that seek to. Pakistan was said to be needed to be stronger in the fight against terrorism. We have made clear to pakistan last week decided as i partnership we must see Decisive Action against terrorist groups operating on their territory. We make massive payments every year to pakistan. They have to help. Lets go to bbc correspondent that has been watching this i
U. S. Foreign relations. After him will be professor of ukrainian history and the director of the Ukrainian Research institute at harvard university. We will start with frank. Frank first of all, i want to join others in thinking mel and will. It is an honor to be in this room with most with so many people whose work i respect so much. What i have done is basically extrapolate from the oped i wrote a light of some comments the people made yesterday, other oped, particularly mels question about irrationality. I also have the perspective of George Kennan. Its been easy for americans to feel irritated, angry, exasperated, resentful or disgusted with the russian government to whether that country is being run by lennon, stalin, khrushchev, or putin. The quashing of pole, and the most recent aggressions against georgia and ukraine. Not to mention the berlin in cuban crisis of half a century ago and the egregious interference in our election last year. It is therefore understandable, but als
2393 in the high so far this morning. Our road map begin with a jobs number 222 in the month of june may and april higher as well. Plus President Trump and Vladimir Putin meeting face to face in the next hour. Its an important moment for the administration. Qualcomm suing apple in its escalating battle over patents how that could effect shipments of the iphone but first up the better than expected jump in june payrolls, 187,000 jobs in the private sector that Unemployment Rate tix up to 44 as more people enter the labor force average Hourly Earnings between 2, maybe thats the only complaint some people have why that would not be higher given the number. Theres many opportunities for come plants. I look at that and i say this is one of the reasons why i remain more than i think many people want and i look at this and i say look if you get job growth that still gives the fed reason to do some normalization which can i want because thats good for the banks but i look at the categories, i