disaster. cnn s frederik pleitgen is joining me live from ramstein air base. what do we know about the new aid package? reporter: the secretary of defense made those remarks just a couple minutes ago here and you re right, it certainly comes at a really decisive time as the war is dragging on in ukraine. on the one hand the fighting around the zaporizhzhia power plant, but then also you have the ukrainians making gains in south of the country and also in the northeast of the country as well. the secretary of defense says the u.s. wants to make absolutely clear that they remain strong in their commitments to ukraine and are going to give the ukrainians what they need to succeed. he was saying that the package from the presidential drawdown is $675 million and he listed some of the main items on that new drawdown. here is what he said. the latest package includes more gimmlecs, howitzers, artillery munitions, missiles, humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems, small a
you want to know the truth. the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him. the fbi and the justice department have become vicious monsters controlled by radical left scoundrels, lawyers and media who tell him what to do. cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is live for us this pittsburgh. i want to ask you about one moment over the weekend about the former president s rally and it was very unusual. cynthia hughes who runs a support group for january 6th participants spoke, she was given this platform to speak at trump s rally and was telling the story of her nephew who is a january 6th rioter and a nazi sympathizer who once said that hitler should have finished the job, which, you know, makes it kind of tough for trump and his supporters to really push back on this semi-fascist moniker that biden is giving. boy, it sure does. i mean, of all the defendants from january 6th the former president could have invited to speak at his rally for all
sitting to the north east of the uk, fairly brisk winds around the western flank and especially in northern scotland, we maintained the risk of gales. a band of showery rain sinking south across scotland and northern england, that could be accompanied by thunder and lightning, some showers elsewhere, generally large amounts of cloud but some sunny spells. remaining windy, though is that the average speeds, the gusts will be stronger in the far north but the wind is coming from the north or north west, feeling cooler particularly in northern scotland, 1a or 15 degrees, 25 in parts of eastern england. as we go deeper into the wee, low pressure swings away and high pressure swings away and high pressure builds from the south west meaning trike weather. there are places in the south east that could do with rain, not an awful lot in the forecast and after a relatively cool started a week, temperatures set to climb again as we move into thursday and friday. this is bbc news. the h
affect f-35 fighter jets already in service. it is job one for the uk s new prime minister liz truss set to unveil her plan for tackling britain s energy crisis. spending billions to help with soaring energy costs. an announcement expected in the next hour or so. let s bring in clare sebastian from london. what do we know about her plan we know that it is likely to be very big. the number that is being reported by the financial times is $172 billion worth of spending. that is more than any single covid scheme. horn almost double what germany has already said that it will spend to mitigate its own energy crisis, that will include support we think for households and businesses, it could include a plan to freeze household energy bills set to double in the uk by january. that would be extremely helpful thing for households, about a third of them according to research looking at falling into fuel poverty this winter.
essentially being the last day the unofficial last day of summer, though everyone at the barbecue i was at yesterday believed it was the last day of summer. how does labor day make you feel inside as a human being? happy, looking forward to fall leading the bpack at 61%. sad because it means the end of summer at 24%. football baby leads, kids back in school. harry enten, we will let you go get ahead of that one. thank you very much. this is lovely. happy looking forward to the fall. we re looking forward to the fall with you. thank you. so sweet. moments ago the united kingdom learned the name of its new prime minister. liz truss set to replace boris johnson. who is she? what does this mean for the uk?