at the white house for the third time to discuss the debt ceiling. this comes a little more than a week away from the treasury secretary s so-called hard deadline for default. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. we are expected to hear something each side following this meeting which has happened after every other meeting. it is speaker mccarthy s first solo meeting with the president, after talks fell apart last week and both sides exchanged barbed over the weekend. treasury secretary janet yellen setting the stable for the president s meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy saying again it is highly likely the treasury will no longer be able to satisfy all of the government s obligations if congress has not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by early june and potentially as early as june 1st. there will be hard choices if that doesn t occur. after exchanging barbs
not switched on yet. we can go back now to daniel sanford who can explain to us just the process behind these cameras being switched on, when and where that happens. having done the experimentation, the appeal court in the supreme court, the decision was made eventually last year, that we should go back and start thinking about whether there should be cameras allowed in there should be cameras allowed in the criminal courts, the crown courts, the place where the most serious cases are heard. and so eventually a decision was made. that yes, cameras should be allowed in court but only for that very last bit of the process, the final bit for thejudge passed bit of the process, the final bit for the judge passed sentence. bit of the process, the final bit for thejudge passed sentence. no cameras for the evidence, witnesses, lawyers making their arguments in court and no cameras for any of those victim impact statements that are going on at the moment at manchester crown court, bu
and the story of this startling image a 16 year girl old in her prom dress, in the ruins of her school in kharkiv. it s 8 in the morning in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington, where lawmakers have been hearing searing testimony from the victims and families of those caught up in several recent mass shootings. among them was an 11 year old girl, mia cerrillo. a student at the robb elementary school in texas, she described how she smeared herself in blood and played dead, to avoid being killed along with 19 other children and two teachers. the shooting, carried out by an 18 year old gunman, has provoked a nation wide debate about the sale of firearms. our north america editor sarah smith has more from washington. we should warn you her report contains some graphic testimony which some may find distressing. this is the last photograph of lexi rubio, getting a school prize just hours before she was shot dead, the last time her parents saw her. we don t want you to
since winning a confidence vote, insisting nothing will stop his government from delivering. one person is killed and many are injured as a car careers into a crowd in berlin police say they don t yet know if it was deliberate. the former hollywood producer harvey weinstein is to be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in london in 1996. and plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda as soon as next week face a legal challenge under emergency proceedings launched in the high court. the government has called the rmt union selfish and thoroughly irresponsible after it announced action that will shut down large parts of the rail network later this month. thousands of railway workers are due to walk out onjune 21st, 23rd and 25th in a row aboutjobs and pensions. the rmt says its members have waited patiently for two or three years for a real pay offer. members of the unite union on the london underground will also strike on the 21st. it s all happening during
railways. we start with the war in ukraine, and russia is denying that its invasion has caused a global food crisis, despite the fact that we ve seen soaring wheat prices driven by the collapse of ukrainian exports. its foreign minister, sergey lavrov, is in the turkish capital, ankara, for talks with his turkish counterpart mevlut cavusoglu. on the agenda creating a potential sea corridor for ukrainian agricultural exports. throughout the war, russia has been blockading black sea ports, including odesa. 20 million tonnes of grain is now stuck there grain many countries are reliant on. but mr lavrov says the onus is on ukraine to demine the waters around them, which were laid by ukraine as part of its defence. here s mr lavrov. to resolve this problem, we need one thing for the ukrainians to allow access to their ports, either by demining or the provision of safe corridors. nothing more is required. ukraine wants proper assurances that any safe, demined pathway wouldn t