Pressure continues to mount on president biden, to step back from seeking a second term in office, after last month s poor performance, in a tv debate with donald trump. Overnight, a sixth senior democrat, says he should pull out of the race. Sarah smith is following events in washington. Let s turn to those live shots in washington where that opening banquet of nato leaders is due to take place imminently. Nato leaders gathering there ahead of what is going to be a key nato summit for ukraine, ukraine top of the agenda especially after the attacks that we ve been saying on the children s hospital in kyiv, but this will also be a key nato summit forjoe biden as he is facing mounting pressure around his presidential reelection campaign, we will of course keep an eye on that banquet that is due to take place imminently. There were exchanges between reporters and the white house press secretary karine john pierre, which turned testy around questions about resident biden s health and his f
laterfor the murdered mp sir david amess. and less than 1% of the population in england account for more than 16% of visits to accident and emergency departments according to a new study. good morning and welcome to bbc news. there have been distressing scenes as five people have been killed and dozens injured after a car drove at high speed into a christmas parade in the us state of wisconsin. more than 20 people half of them children were taken to hospital following the incident. it s understood police are not treating the incident as terrorism and believe the suspect may have been fleeing another crime scene. a person of interest is in police custody. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. this was the scene seconds before the holiday parade in waukesha descended into chaos and mayhem. all of a sudden, a red sports utility vehicle ploughed at high speed into a school marching band that was entertaining the crowd. the sequence of events was captu
specialist motor manufacturing sector which is the biggest in the world. i spent hours listening to the porridge like sound of the biggest engines as i put my foot down and burned away at speeds i would not confess to my protection officers. i only tried two electric vehicles. an extraordinary wheeled rabbit hutch which was so tiny you could plug it sideways and i tried the first tesla for sale in this country. it expired in the fast lane of the 40, i m sad to say. they ve got a lot better. a few years later i tried to get london motorists to go electric and we put charging points around the city. i must confess they were not a soaraway success and stood forlorn like some piece of unused outdoor gym equipment. ten years after that, the tipping point has come. uk sales of evs are now increasing at 70% a year. in 2013 we are ending the market for internal combustion engines ahead of other european countries and that companies are responding. nissan has decided to make an enorm
zelensky warns of big battles to come against russian forces in the east of the country. a rise in the state pension and various benefits from today, but charities warn it fails to tackle the cost of living crisis. pakistan s parliament elects shehbaz sharif as the country s prime minister after members of the ousted former premier imran khan s party walk out. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. ajury at good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a jury at the old bailey has found 26 year old ali harbi ali guilty of murdering the mp sir david amess and preparing acts of terrorism. the islamic state group fanatic carried out the cold and calculating murder of the veteran backbencher was my constituency surgery in leigh on sea in essex last october. at the veteran backbencher s constituency. it didn t take long to reach the verdict. it didn t take long to reach the verdict. ., , verdict. it really didn t, in the last hour verdict. it really didn t, in the last hour we
one hand you had democrats and president biden s singh raise the debt ceiling without adding any caveats, without any spending cuts, just do a clean raise, but republicans were pushing for some spending cuts, and needed to find some sort of middle ground here and it seems as though they d got to that point where it would raise the debt limit to 2025 which gets us to the next election cycle in exchange for cuts to things like tighter restrictions on some social safety net programmes like food stamps, allowing for more energy permitting which is something we ve seen republicans really being pushed for here. 50 republicans really being pushed for here. , ., here. so president biden and kevin mccarth , here. so president biden and kevin mccarthy. the here. so president biden and kevin mccarthy, the speaker here. so president biden and kevin mccarthy, the speaker of here. so president biden and kevin mccarthy, the speaker of the - here. so president biden and kevin i mccar