of criminal justice reform. more with andy mccarthy and rafael coming up. sandra: president biden, no good, horrible, very bad week. first year of his presidency, major set backs to his agenda and plummeting approval numbers. hello and welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. and here we made it to friday, john. john: good to be with you on friday, nothing sounds as good as that word. john roberts in washington. the president facing a litany, criticizing election overhaul speech. approval rating sinking to 33% in a new quinnipiac poll. the supreme court blocking the vaccine mandate for large businesses. sandra: also, key democratic senators joe manchin and kir sten sinema opposing changes to the filibuster, and the president acknowledging it will likely fail and covid-19 hospitalizations at a record high, even though he campaigned on getting it under control. jacqui heinrich from theorth lawn. how is the white house taking all this, what is the mood around there?
and concerns grow over the whereabouts of chinese tennis player peng shuai, who s not been heard from since she made sexual assault allegations against a top chinese official. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in the morning in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in new york, where two of the three men convicted of killing the civil rights activist malcolm x are expected to have their convictions thrown out. in the 1960s, malcolm x was one of the most charismatic leaders of the civil rights movement in the united states and at times one of the most controversial. his murder in 1965 shocked the world. but more recently, there have been doubts about the supposed guilt of two of the three men who were jailed, not least following a documentary about the case that aired on netflix. i spoke to our north america correspondent david willis a short while ago and asked him how this turn of events has come about. that s right, all starting fro
hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rachel cunliffe, deputy online editor at the new statesman, and the former conservative adviser mo hussein. let s ta ke let s take a look at some of tomorrow s front pages. the i is one of several papers to report once again with the mps standards row. it claims tory backbenchers are in revolt at the way borisjohnson has handled the sleaze allegations. the telegraph leads on comments made by the pm to a meeting of tory backbenchers, admitting reportedly that he crashed the car over the way he dealt with the scandal. the times has the same story, but leads with claims the home office is planning to fly cross channel migrants to albania for processing. the daily mail splashes on the rise in the cost of living, saying a combination of higher inflation, tax rises and interest rate hikes could cost people £2,000 a year each. the guardian reports on changes to the way socia
accepted that it was a mistake and that it was my mistake. the government releases more details about how we pay for social care in england. former yorkshire cricketer azeem rafiq talks to the bbc about the racism he suffered at the club, and says he is determined that sharing his experiences will move society as a whole. britney spears speaks about the joys of the little things she has been able to do since being freed from her 13 year conservatorship last week. and cambridge dictionary s 2021 word of the year takes on a martian theme. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the cost of living has reached the highest rate in almost a decade due to rising fuel and energy costs. inflation is now more than double the bank of england s target, and climbing at a much steeper rate than economists predicted. it rose to 4.2% last month mainly due to rising prices at the pumps and household energy bills as well as an increase in the cost of second hand cars and eating out. in s