the overall stimulus may have an easier time moving forward in the senate. also this hour, president biden and first lady jill biden are in houston where they are set to visit a food bank, meet some of the volunteers there. earlier today they surveyed some of the damage from the devastating winter storms in texas. we re going to bring you that video as soon as it we get it, but, first, we do want to get to an a update on where things stand with this covid relief bill on capitol hill. cnn s jessica dean is there for us this afternoon. so, just how close are we at this point to the bill passing? well, erica, we expected this bill will pass. as far as how close we are, we are many, many hours away from that actually happening, so just to give everyone a timeline update, right now that bill is still in the rules committee which is where it needs to kind of get sorted out before they can take it to the floor. once it gets to the floor, we estimate between six and seven and a hal
overnight, back into northern ireland and southern scotland the rain will track north. now to the north of that band of rain it could be quite chilly for a while in northern this programme continues on bbc one. published by michael gove tomorrow help stamp out extremist ideologies, as it claims? since october 7th, anti semitic and anti muslim hate cases have soared. the government says its new more precise defintiion of extremism will tackle the ever evolving threat of such behaviour in our country. will it? we ll ask the secretary general of the muslim council of britain and the policy director of a think tank called the counter extremism group which works closely with mps. also tonight, the labour leader drills down on the tory party being bankrolled , as he put it, by a businessman who reportedly said diane abbott made him want to hate all black women and that she should be shot. meanwhile, there are growing calls for labour to restore the whip to ms abbott. we l
high, we some and this was close to liverpool earlier this afternoon in southport. slightly different across scotland, one running down the north sea filtering lots of clouds. it is damp and dreary with scattered shop showers across the far south and east. that will translate into this this afternoon, the weather front clinging to the north sea, filtering and quite a lot of clouds, the best of the breaks further inland where have already seen them through the spine of the country unto the west. a pretty messy story that in comparison to the weather lately not bad for some. where we have the cloud, temperatures will struggle, perhaps around eight or nine, but further west with sunshine, highs of 11 or 12. in the clear skies by day, that will allow temperatures to fall through the night, frost and fog returning for some, certainly across parts of wales and central england we could see temperatures just below freezing, obviously with the crowd from the north sea temperatures hol
submersible which has less than 20 hours supply of oxygen left. also on the programme tonight. more worrying economic data for the uk. inflation the rate at which prices are rising didn t fall last month as expected. that s left many expecting the bank of england to raise interest rates yet again tomorrow heaping more pressure on many people with mortgages and loans. president zelensky tells the bbc that the battle to defeat russia is not a hollywood film and while things are moving slowly, ukraine s counteroffensive will be successful. and the bbc uncovers evidence that hundreds of sick and mentally ill people from the windrush generation were wrongly deported from the uk and returned to the caribbean. less than 20 hours of oxygen remain for the five people who are trapped inside a submersible after they went missing on sunday morning in a remote part of the north atlantic. search and rescue teams have been monitoring underwater noises that were picked up by a can