Ukraine. Its an ancient and proud land. With a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. Ukraine is a border land. A place where east meets west. This is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. Ukraine is a prize many have sought. And much blood spilled in the quest to possess it. Ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. In world war one. And world war 2. And every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. History doesnt repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. If one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. Being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and they are they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. In the middle of the 17th century ukrainian leader dunn who. Broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russi
Burner as the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats push forward on a cody relief bill that some lawmakers and even leftleaning economists say could actually hurt the economy in the long run. President biden saying today its an easy choice, pointing to the latest jobs numbers as proof there is no time to waste. This as he met with 10 republican senators earlier this week who proposed a Counter Offer to his nearly 2 trillion plan. White house correspondent Kristin Fisher has been following it all. She joins us live from the north lawn from the white house with the latest. Good evening, kristin. Good evening, bret. The week started with President Biden meeting with republican senators and hoping to cut a deal. But it is ending with the president giving his strongest signal yet that he intends to move forward with his relief plan without republican support. Im going to act. Im going to act fast. In his most fiery defense of his 1. 9 trilliondollar relief plan, President Biden made it
With demographic information, thinking about the future of our elections. Each year, we have new data, a new report. Says,nk, as the name about the state, not only our country, but how the states are changing over time. We also have different scenarios as to what might happen. In one way, change Voter Preferences in another. Just like every year, we have an interesting new report. We will hear from the authors of that and walk through that. We also have a particular theme this year we are emphasizing generational change. We have now seen jens he enter z entertorate gen the electorate. All of our generations are moving through the electorate. Addressess report that aspect, how things are changing, how they might change, and some of the scenarios, whether voter change their attitudes when the age into different parts of life. They age into different parts of life. We are going to have a presentation of the report. The coauthors of the report are all are three of our important partners. I
On mass transit getting word of some bark delays weve gone from a minor delay to a major delay, its up to 20 minutes now because of equipment issue so between west oakland ending a market there in the San Francisco. Theyre having some issues there and thats causing delays on the San Francisco line heading to antioch dublin sfo millbrae and daly city so once again equipment issues between these 2 points west oakland and a market air on the San Francisco line causing major delays up to 20 minutes, you need to plan ahead not so bad bay bridge toll plaza little bit of a wait here in some of the lanes right down the middle, but this is good 12 minutes and growing into San Francisco. Well check more bridges coming up back to you, thanks a lot rob. It is 6 oh one and our top story more bay area counties. Are able to reopen and loosen their restrictions because theyre changing tears, moving into the moderate tier. Yeah, those are counties in orange you can see there. It correlates to the moder
Women and given the right to have their names included on their childrens Identity Cards. Welcome to the program after less than a month the man juge to become a lebanese next Prime Minister is resigning was to fire a db says his bid to form a government was doomed to fail because of a complicated political system which as power between muslims and christians is resignation as dealt a blow to france which is pushing lebanon to fix its financial crisis i was there as a to hold reports now from the lebanese capital beirut. Its been almost a month since most of a db was designated Prime Minister his job was to form a government independent of Party Loyalists after the previous cabinet resigned following the devastating explosion at the port of beirut last month its not easy in lebanon where the same political elite accused of pushing the country to near bankruptcy have been in power for decades i realise that the agreement on the basis i accepted this National Mission during this difficul