Relationships and shine the light on the plaque of iraqi christians. Translator we are gathered in this cathedral of our lady of salvation, hallowed by the blood of our brothers and sisters who share the ultimate price to fidelity to the lord and to the church. Always here to start this saturday with you, it is march 6th, im victor blackwell. Good morning, everyone, im amara walker in today for christi paul. Right now, senators are working. Live pictures here, theyre working on President Bidens 1. 9 trillion bill. Its getting closer. The process under way right now known as voterama almost fell apart due to a nearly 12hour delay, the Surprise Road Block with senator joe manchin who faced off with democrats on enhanced unemployment benefits. Senator manchin is back on board on extending through September 6th. Now republicans are running out of options to stall voting, forced to keep going after democrats refused to call it a night. Now that this agreement has been reached, we are going
And the queen stresses the importance of staying in touch with friends and family in a message to mark Commonwealth Dayjust hours before the broadcast of the duke and duchess of sussex interview with Oprah Winfrey. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. We begin with breaking news. In the uk or around the world. At least four extremely powerful explosions have gone off in the city of batuh, in the west african state of Equatorial Guinea, causing huge destruction. An official statement has just been released, saying 15 people have been killed and more than 500 injured. The explosions happened at a military camp, and the official statement says they were due to negligence in areas where dynamite was kept. The government is calling for help from the international community. A little earlier, i heard more detail from the africa editor for the Bbc World Service will ross. Clearly the Emergency Services were completely overwhelmed with at least three hospitals ver
Millions of American Families and businesses trying to get through the pandemic are a big step closer to getting a desperately needed financial boost. The u. S. Senate narrowly passed president bidens massive 1. 9 trillion Coronavirus Relief package on saturday. Some of that money could start appearing in Bank Accounts before the end of the month. Now, it includes 1,400 per person to those who qualify and unemployed americans could get a 300 increase to their jobless benefits through september 6th. This is bidens first major legislative win since his election even as Senate Republicans flatly rejected efforts to make it a bipartisan measure. Now this bill returns to the house of representatives, which has done a great job from the beginning. Were hopeful we will find quick passage so it can be sent to my desk to be signed into law. Cnns jessica dean has more of whats included in the Stimulus Bill and the next steps to getting it passed in the house. Reporter the Senate Passing this mas
Come, but god is good. Yes, he is. And i just want to tell everybody, thank you, thank you for those who marched, those who prayed, most of all, the ones who prayed. Yes, lord. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Now you know him as ahmaud, i know him as quez, he will now rest in peace. Lets get to our martin savidge, he has covered this trial since it began, and since this story began last year, so martin, for months and months, youve talked about this. Tell us the reaction there today. You know, outside of the courthouse here, it was just explosive emotion. It was joy, and it was relief at the same time. People were obviously watching on every device that they had, and then when they began hearing guilty, guilty, guilty, they broke down into tears. You could just see and hear as they just rocketed through this crowd, and people quickly began to understand that the justice they had waited so long for, the justice that they feared might even allude them was finally here, finally at hand, so ju