Our first report is from our North America correspondent nomia iqbal. On this vote, the yays are 311 and the nays are 112. The bill is passed. The moment has been a long time coming. After more than six months, a bill pledging further military aid for ukraine finally passed. Translation today we have got the decision we were waiting for on the american Support Package for which we fought so hard. President zelensky, how is. . President zelensky had personally met with us lawmakers to lobby for support. Many in congress waved ukrainian plans during voting, but there was still divisions, with members of the Democratic Party backing kyiv, others in the Republican Party not so much. But this is the sell out of america today. When we have members of congress in there waving the ukrainian flag on the United States house of representatives floor, while were doing nothing to secure our border . I think every american in this country should be furious. But the house speaker, republican mikejohn
Would save thousands of lives. Russian officials on the other hand, said it would further ruin ukraine and result in the deaths of even more ukrainians. The focus is now on when that aid will arrive, washington says the first deliveries of American Military hardware and supplies could be in ukraine within a week. Ourfirst report is from our North America correspondent nomia iqbal. On this vote, the yays are 311 and the nays are 112. The bill is passed. The moment has been a long time coming. After more than six months, a bill pledging further military aid for ukraine finally passed. Translation today we have got the decision we were waiting for on the american Support Package for which we fought so hard. President zelensky, how is. . President zelensky had personally met with us lawmakers to lobby for support. Many in Congress Waived ukrainian plans during voting, but there was still divisions, with members of the Democratic Party backing kyiv, others in the Republican Party not so muc
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the elite races for the london marathon are over. kenya s peresjepchirchir set a new women s only world record as she stormed to victory at the 2024 london marathon. jepchirchir crossed the line in two hours, 16 minutes and sixteen seconds to brek the record by 45 seconds. second place tigst assefa and joyciline jepkosgei in third were also within that time. in the men s, alexander mutiso munyao made it a kenyan double, beating the legendary kenenisa bekele. britain s emile cairess was third. meanwhile, the wheelchair races were dominated by swiss duo marcel hug and catherine debrunner. yet another victory for max verstappen in what appears to be an unstoppable run to a fourth formula one world title. he started from pole position and went on to win the chinese grand prix in shanghai ahead of mclaren s lando norris and verstappen s teammate sergio perez. the red bull driver is already 25 points clear at the top of the drivers standings after four wins from the season s first five race