hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m laila harrak. in the first oval office address of his presidency, joe biden hails the debt ceiling deal as an example of bipartisanship. he plans to sign the bill into law later today. the search for survivors and answers. india reels from a deadly train crash that has taken nearly 300 lives. and the draft of what could become the first global treaty to take on plastic pollution. we ll talk to an environmental lawyer about what it will take to make an impact. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. sometime today, u.s. president joe biden is expected to sign into law one of the most consequential pieces of legislation ever drafted in modern times. just 48 hours ago, there were doubts that the highly contentious bill to suspend the nation s debt limit would even survive in congress. but it did, coming mere days before the u.s. risked def
and, we look at a treasure trove of freddie mercury s personal items collected over 30 years before they go under the hammer. and coming up on bbc news. manchester city and arsenal go head to head at the etihad, with city looking to turn the tide in the title race with a win over the league leaders. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the first plane carrying british nationals fleeing sudan is due to land at stansted airport in about an hour. the evacuees were initially taken to larnaca in cyprus, before boarding a charter flight to the uk. more flights are expected throughout the day, to move hundreds of uk citizens out of the country during a 72 hour ceasefire, which has come after more than a week of fighting. british passport holders have been asked to make their own way to an airbase on the outskirts of the sudanese capital khartoum. so far, three british planes have flown from there to larnaca. another potential escape route is by sea, from port sudan, bu
before. let s start this a half hour with the latest from sudan. so many through the course of the day let s start with the british nationals getting out because the foreign office said more than 300 british nationals have embarked on flights leaving sudan at the end of the date there will be eight flights. the airstrip being used in sudan, north of khartoum, is beginning to break up. that is what the bbc has been told, sparking fears over how long that runway will last. some of that detail has come from the most senior british commander in charge of that operation in sudan, brigadier dan reeves and had been talking to the bbc about so many different aspects of the operation from the runway to haul full the flights are to those questions around who actually gets on. it s here in the of that interview. some other countries have acted more quickly, some countries like france in particular have escorted his people out. people are terrified. is not the right thing to do? this peo
so many of the world s top powers and top leaders coming to new delhi for this prestigious forum, a huge opportunity for india. the concern about age is very real and getting more deeply entrenched in voters psyches. 14 months until an election and there is a lot of work we have to do. up, alert, talking but not healed on the inside yet. so i ll need a lot of help to get out of here. all ri . live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is september 8, 1:30 in the afternoon in new delhi where president biden will arrive in the coming hours for this weekend s g-20 summit. leaders representing about 80% of the world s gdp have already begun arriving. vladimir putin won t be there. the russian president is again staying home sending his foreign minister instead. putin has an international arrest warrant hanging over him and leaving russia is risky. xi jinping who commands the world s second largest economy has also decided not
abortion a crime was unconstitional because it violated the rights of those who can have children. the ruling opens the door for mexico s health care system to start providing abortions and is a major victory for abortion rights advocates in the mostly catholic country. mexico is the latest in a wave of latin american nations to loosen abortion restrictions. live now to mimi swaby, who s monitoring this story for the bbc world service. as we mentioned, a sweeping ruling, practically speaking, what will this mean for the country and for women in mexico? country and for women in mexico? , ., ., , . , ., mexico? this unanimous decision by mexic0 s mexico? this unanimous decision by mexico s highest mexico? this unanimous decision by mexico s highest court - by mexico s highest court obliges all public health institutions to provide abortion services for anybody who requests it. this means women across mexico can access these procedures without fear of any legal repercussion