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the fight between america s biggest car companies and the uaw over pay and better benefits is playing out in a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election. that is michigan. so this visit by president biden is no accident. he s trying to turbocharge the market for electric vehicles. that is part of his policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. his signature legislation, well, it s known as the inflation reduction act, and it includes billions of dollars in incentives to get more clean cars on the road. but republicans, including biden s likely presidential opponent, donald trump, who is also visiting michigan on wednesday, well, they ve argued the shift to electric vehicles will killjobs because after all, it takes fewer people to make a battery than a combustion engine. and many of the new battery plants are being built in states that are hostile to organising. add to that biden s push for clean energy. well, it hit another roadblock on monday. that is af ....
controversial 95 billion-dollar foreign aid package with bipartisan support for the senate has scheduled a vote for tuesday afternoon. the bill provides funding for ukraine, israel, and taiwan they advance despite a threat from conservative republicans to remove speaker michael johnson over the ukraine aided. welcome to bring our fox news live i am arthel neville, height bill. bill: i am bill melugin in for sean today. it s been a busy saturday. that aid package includes over 60 package for ukraine. only 101 republicans voting in favor for part 112 voted against it. georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene led the gop effort to kill the ukraine agent. she filed a motion last month to vacate speaker michael johnson and vowed to introduce it if ukraine aid past, which i did today big green did not follow through with her threat today. she did speak after the rare saturday vote. take a listen. you have the strongest loudest voices and republican movements, grassroo ....
good evening. world leaders are again calling for restraint in the middle east, after what s believed to have been an israeli attack on iran overnight. according to us officials, israel was responsible for air strikes near the city of isfahan, which is at the centre of iran s nuclear programme. it appears to be the latest tit for tat exchange between the two arch enemies. for days, israel has been threatening to retaliate after it was targeted last weekend by 300 iranian missiles and drones. we ll be live in israel shortly and we ll have the latest from washington but first, our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley reports on what we know so far about the overnight attack. it s a strange position tonight where we re still not sure exactly what s happened. israel has not publicly acknowledged it carried out the strike. iran is minimising it. so what do we know? well, we know a clear message was being sent. there were explosions overnight in syria, iraq and, most si ....
and presenter russell brand of sexual assault says his response to the allegations has been insulting . the woman, known as alice , says she was 16 at the time, and is one of four women alleging he assaulted them in the uk and us between 2006 and 2013. russell brand denies the claims saying his relationships have been always consensual . the bbc and channel 4 the broadcasters where he used to work have both launched investigations. here s helena wilkinson. actor, comedian, entertainer russell brand, now accused of serious allegations by four women, including rape and sexual assault, allegations he denies. one of his accusers, alice, not her real name, alleges that russell brand assaulted her when he was in his early 30s and she was 16 and still at school. she spoke to radio 4 s woman s hour and had this to say about his denials. first of all, i think it is insulting. it is laughable he would even imply that this is some kind of mainstream media conspiracy. he is ....
it s monday the 18th of september. more women have reportedly come forward with allegations about russell brand. today s times newspaper claims several women have contacted its journalists since saturday, when it published the accounts of four women who said the comedian had raped or sexually assaulted them. russell brand has denied those claims and insisted all his relationships were consensual. our media correspondent david sillito reports. russell brand, comedian, actor, political commentator, accused of multiple sexual assaults and the rape of a woman that the programme dispatches called nadia. he s grabbing at my underwear, pulling it to the side. i m telling him to get off me and he won t get off. i was very distraught, trying to get out of the house. with him being so much taller than me, like, holding me up against the wall. further details have now been published about nadia reporting the incident to a rape crisis centre and also a series of text messages tha ....