some of the more than 2.6 million households without heat or power have been forced into community warming centers where available. other haves been sickened or killed by carbon monoxide from makeshift heating arrangements. one houston-area furniture store owner opened two locations for people to stay in and did the same after hurricane harvey but even remarkable individual acts of kindness can only go so far. the problems right now are statewide, affect millions, and instead of taking responsibility, it seems some top state officials are doing anything but. ed lavandera is in dallas tonight. what s the latest? reporter: well, anderson, right now the bottom line is the question that everyone wants the answer to is exactly when is the power going to be fully restored across this state? and sadly tonight, we don t have a firm timeline on when exactly that is happening. the state officials with the power grid system say that they are essentially at the mercy, at the power plan
and vice president harris are stressing that vaccinating teachers should be a priority. let s go to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. kaitlan, president biden sounds confident that his relief plan is popular with the american public, even as members of congress are still grappling with the details. reporter: yeah, wolf, this evening president biden was meeting with labor leaders in the oval office and the way he is now framing the stimulus bill, which he is hoping will be on his desk for his signature as soon as next month, is that it would be politically damaging if republicans vote against it. talking about the polling and what the numbers he s looking at are showing, that s a message that his aides started using a few days ago and now president biden is employing it from the oval office. but wolf, it also comes as there are new questions facing the white house over where they stand on schools reopening and whether or not teachers need to be vaccinated
an agreement to reverse deforestation by 2030 is announced in glasgow, with leaders describing it as the biggest step forward in a generation. the us supreme court hears arguments in the controversial texas abortion case, with at least one legal challenge likely to be allowed to move forward. and how australian scientists have managed to produce crawling frogs that are able to adapt to climate change. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. president biden has told the united nations climate summit in glasgow that the fight against global warming offers extraordinary economic opportunities. he said creating technologies to reduce carbon emissions would create millions ofjobs worldwide. mr biden apologised for the actions of his predecessor, donald trump, who pulled the united states out of the paris climate accords. meanwhile, india s prime minister, narendra modi, has told the conference that his country aims to
through the night to find dozens of people feared trapped in the rubble of a collapsed apartment block. the us supreme court hears arguments in the controversial texas abortion case, with at least one legal challenge likely to be allowed to move forward. in one of the first substantial deals to be announced at the climate summit in glasgow, world leaders have agreed to end deforestation by 2030. around 100 countries are signing up to the pledge among them brazil, canada, russia and indonesia which is the largest exporter of palm oil, which has led to a dramatic removal of forestry in the country. the commitment will cover 85% of the world s forests. the full details are due to be announced by borisjohnson on tuesday. charles mcneill is the senior advisor on forest and climate at the un environment programme, who is in glasgow. he gave me his reaction to the announcement. it is electrifying. so exciting. i arrived here at 2am in glasgow and got the news, just as you said, 10
azovstal steel plant is supposed to begin today but there s already a snag. officials reporting that russian troops are blocking part of the complex. this is a site that has become something of a last line of defense for ukraine in that city. officials say that it was hit by 50 air strikes here in the last 24 hours and the situation is critical. in just a few moments we will hear from a ukrainian army commander who is inside of that plant and we re told that there are hundreds of people there, including dozens of children. the youngest of whom is just 4 months old. also breaking overnight, more signs of ukrainian counter strikes in areas controlled by russia or inside russia itself. a fuel depot attacked and set on fire in part of the donetsk region controlled by russian-backed forces. ukraine is not commenting on that. and the russians also claim a checkpoint in a village in kursk was hit by mortar fire. kursk is in russia near the border with ukraine. new images into