school. you ve heard me say it. my wife says, if we don t, if any country out-educates us, they are going to outcompete us. look at what china is doing and the rest of the world. they are investing. they are investing in things that relate to the ability people to go to work and stay at work. women who can t go back to work because they don t have anybody to take care of their children. so to give a tax cut to a working mom to be able to afford day care, is that a bad idea? i think it s a darn good idea. it will get people back to work. there s a lot of things in the legislation talking about it across the country. i think the american people overwhelmingly support it. but the idea that somehow this is somebody else s legislation. it s what i wrote. reporter: $2 trillion reconciliation bill, without be acceptable to you? president biden: as you know, it s not a smart thing to negotiate in public. we are in the process of continuing to talk to all the parties and see what
putting out a statement that is that information from the israelis alleging that it had several staff involved in the october the 7th attacks and the us state department issued another statement talking about what unwra were saying and i2 about what unwra were saying and 12 staff and extremely troubled by the aggravation of further funding to unwra in a significant move and what unwra in a significant move and what unwra have said and they have sacked his 12 workers and full investigations and or people accountable with criminal prosecutions and his allegation standup and putting out such a strong statement and turning the contracts and the fact that the us sorting funding is suggestive of substance to the claim albeit investigation still going on. but unwra is a organisation of 30,000 people and an absolutely critical role in providing health and and welfare services to palestinian refugees pointing gaza but in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem and further out gettin
also coming up, most of the historic world war ii aircraft making up the battle of britain memorial flight have been grounded. one display has already been cancelled. and production was halted on the 6th of march mission impossible film, because its star tom cruise broke his ankle while performing a stunt while filming in london. this is bbc news and these are the top good morning. it s thursday 17th august. i m rebecca jones. welcome to bbc newsroom live. thousands of teenagers across england, wales and northern ireland have received their a level results this morning. in england, the results marked a major reform to the exams introduced by the government, including a move away from coursework and modular exams in 13 subjects and a decision to separate as levels to form stand alone qualifications. there was a fall of 0.2% in the overall pass rate which was down to 97.9%. but there was an increase in the number of students awarded the top grades with 26.3% of entries
Coming up, another christmas without family? what doctor family just said about the incoming holidays. it has some people steaming mad. i am sandra smith and i have been at fox for 14 years. my phone rang one day to come down the street and start at fox business network. it was an opportunity i could not pass up. ten-point loss in the dow industrials. no one knew of financial crisis was coming. 12 hours a day standing outside a bank. in new york, i am sandra smith. i watched men and women walking out of bear stearns carrying cardboard boxes filled with personal items because their bank was going away. it still gives me chills to this