slow start, putting it bluntly, quote, welcome to the seinfeld congress. it is a show about nothing. the vote on congresswoman omar is one of the political squabbles unfolding while the nation ticks a day closer to defaulting on its debts. house speaker kevin mccarthy met with president biden yesterday, but there doesn t appear to have been any progress on the debt limit. the president did strike this optimistic tone while speaking this morning. start treating each other with respect. that s what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. but a good meeting yesterday. we ll get latest ahead. also this morning, day four of that deadly ice storm across the south. cars are spinning out of control on highways. thousands of flights delayed and canceled. and in texas, nearly half a million people are facing the bone chilling cold without power. it is scary. definitely scary. i can say that. it is very slippery out here. probably one of the worst. we ll get an update from
we report from the arctic circle, which is warming more quickly than any other place on earth. president putin warns that the coming decade will be the most dangerous and unpredictable since the end of the second world war. elon musk claims he s buying twitter to help humanity as the deadline approaches for him to complete the deal. and why british schools that try to ban pupils from wearing their afro hair in certain styles are likely to be breaking the law. black people are disproportionately affected by hair discrimination in the workplace and at school according to the equality and human rights commission, and the lasting impact in many cases can be devastating. welcome to the programme. there s been another grim warning from the un that there s no credible way of limiting the rise in global warming to one of the key thresholds. a new report talks of woefully inadequate action by the world s governments to keep the increase below 1.5 degrees celsius. as leaders prep
i am going to break the number one rule of making news. not a huge amount has happened today, but that in itself is news. it is certainly a change. my feeling on day three of the rishi sunak era is thatjust, the thing is that we re talking about feel much more normal already, like classic politics. and i think they will look far as mission, not accomplished, but the start of the project is how they want it to be, which is, to use the line from michael gove, the new levelling secretary, boring is back. and just thinking of it in news terms, we have spent, those of us here at westminster, running around like mad things for quite a while, and today, i was on the radio briefly this morning but that was it because there has not really been any news here. and it has gone from gale force to the most gentle of breezes. and yet there are still things happening. so, today, the suella braverman reappointment controversy rumbles on. with the opposition parties trying to keep that alive.
let s welcome tonight s guests, readers get so lost in his books. his publisher includes a map novelist and literary critic walter kerr. she s so bright that daylight savings time sends her hate mail. former director of press communication for trump s reelection campaign, erin perini, he gets in bed while you re still at work and he s always gone. before you get home, go home to fox and friends first, pyro . and she keeps herself so thin so she can slip through the bars of her holding cell. fox news contributor tim so exhausted all. it s been another great week of shows, thanks mostly to some new creams and ointments i ve been using that allow me to sit comfortably. thanks, larry. but it s been seven days since my favorite segment. so let s do right now, shall we? greg s leftovers. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. it s time once again for leftovers. it s where i read the joked we didn t use this week. and as always, it s my first time reading them. so if they , it s not my f