world. ahead on cnn newsroom, crisis averted. biden set to sign off on a deal to raise the federal borrowing limit. heartbreak in india. search efforts now underway after one of the deadliest train crashes in the country s history. plus, new video shows the moments before an iowa apartment building came crashing down. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. the debt limit crisis in washington is over for now, and perhaps no one is more relieved than u.s. president joe biden. in his words, crisis averted. the stakes were enormous, the threat of failure hung over the country for weeks as the white house and republican leaders seemed locked in stalemate. but the hard work finally paid off late thursday when the u.s. senate voted to suspend the debt ceiling and avoid catastrophic default. in his first oval office address on friday night, the president summed up his view of the make or break moment in u.s. history. passing this budget agreement was critical. the stakes
this is bbc news. the headlines: the evacuations continue as the country holds a fragile three day ceasefire 300 british nationals are flown out of sudan and some have arrived in the uk in the last hour. in russia, the jailed opposition activist, alexei navalny, is now charged with terrorism offenses. and the singer, ed sheeran, is in court in new york to defend himself against charges he plagiarised marvin gaye. will have sport and just a moment or two, but i want to break a really important line linked to sudan because the home secretary so ella bradman has been talking in the last little while and said, the government has no plans to introduce death to a lab rather men, says the government have no plans to introduce suella braverman said the government will look at safe routes for refugees from two down, the government says we have no plans to do that. our focus first and for most right now, and bearing in mind this is a fast moving and complex situation, is to suppor
hello and welcome to the programme. i m victoria valentine. we start with some breaking news from ukraine. local media is reporting loud explosions in kyiv and the surrounding region. no reports as of yet on any specific targets or damage, but there were earlier reports of explosions in cities from central ukraine to the mykolaiv region. air raid alerts sounded throughout the country. the uk ambassador to ukraine, dame melinda simmons, has tweeted: and these pictures on social media, shared by our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse, apparently show an apartment building ablaze in the town of uman, which is in central ukraine. the bbc has not yet independently verified the pictures, but they are being widely shared. both sides in the conflict in sudan have agreed to extend their ceasefire for another three days. the ceasefire had only been partly effective with heavy fighting taking place in parts of the capital, khartoum. almost two weeks of clashes between the two factio
this is the scene in one of those cities in central ukraine after a building was apparently hit by a missile. and this is the same scene we can show you, it is daytime now obviously, rescue workers are desperately looking for survivors who may be trapped in the rubble. president zelensky has been speaking and has described scenes like this is another night of russian terror across ukraine. let s take a look at the scope and scale of the attacks last night. most of the fighting in recent months has been confined to the east of the country, centred mainly on the dom region. but that changed in the early hours of the morning, the capital kyiv was attacked, the first time it s been a target for more than 50 days. looking further south, in the city of uman, an apartment building collapsed, at least six people were killed. others are feared missing beneath the rubble. and heading further east to the city of dnipro and another deadly attack. the local mayor said a mother and her thr
hello and welcome. the government of ukraine has accused russia of waging a war on civilians, after at least 21 people were killed including children by missile strikes near the black sea port of odesa. more than 30 others were injured in the attacks which severely damaged a block of flats and a recreation cente in the resort of sir heev ka. from kyiv, our correspondent joe inwood sent this report it has become a grimly familiar sight. they work through the night to find anyone left alive. by dawn, the scale of the tragedy was obvious. a ukrainian apartment block left a burned out shell by russian missiles. in normal times, serhiivka is a popular holiday destination just to the west of odesa, but these are not normal times. translation: we heard strikes. we live close by. together with the emergency workers, we helped those who survived. adnd those who unfortunately died, we helped carry them away. for hours the search continued, more in hope than expectation. one by one