streaming further westwards. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the oxford astrazeneca vaccine offers limited protection against mild disease caused by the south african variant of covid 19. but scientists say it will still help to beat the pandemic. the uk government has no plans to introduce vaccine passports according to the vaccines minister who says the focus should remain on the inoculation programme itself. the collapse of a himalayan glacier causes flash flooding in northern india three people are dead and at least 150 are missing. now on bbc news, geeta guru murthy presents dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london, the programme bringing together bbc expertise with correspondents filing around the world. i m geeta guru murthy. this week, we heard president biden s new take on us foreign policy ending support for the saudi offensive in yemen, a tougher line on russia and a still strong stance against china. the challenges ahead are many. in
predictably, still tough on china? some things won t change and he does have much wiggle room on china because this was a bipartisan area of concern before trump and that remains and given xi jinping s new authoritarianism which has been building since he came to power in 2012, i think it is very difficult for any american leader given, you know, the challenge that china is offering, he couldn t get away with it in congress, for one thing, even if he wanted to. it is something that they are just going to have to square up to. but part of his difficulty will be re establishing america s credibility as an ally afterfour america s credibility as an ally after four years of america s credibility as an ally afterfour years of trump america s credibility as an ally after four years of trump and given that china works a lot through trade and investment and how complicated trade deals are for a democratic president given by den s narrow wiggle room in congress i think that is going t
new video of the suspected pipe bomber still on the loose after targeting the rnc and dnc. plus, the race to vaccinate as the coronavirus mutates. as long as that there s a lot of virus circulating in the community, there will be the evolution of mutants because that s what viruses do. and the new polling on the popularity of the biden agenda and the big push to get it done. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hays. the biden administration is attempting to govern in the aftermath of this essentially seditious conspiracy to end his presidency before it even started. and the president, today, was very clear that while he was looking for partner and bipartisanship to help his agenda, the agenda is what he s focused on. i support passing covid relief with support from republicans if we can get it, but the covid relief has to pass. there s no ifs, ands or buts. the president is trying to pass legislation in a congress with slim democratic ma
executive actions, including 22 executive orders addressing almost all area of government from climate change to racial equity to the coronavirus pandemic. now the biden administration has to pivot to a far harder task, legislating. president biden is working to get his covid relief bill through a deeply divided congress. democrat do have control of both chambers for the first time since 2009, but the margin is so small that biden and democrats are still going to have to work across the aisle for most of the time. how do you work across the aisle when some of the people on the other side are zealots who will lie, cheat and steel to get what they want. democrats need to work with 150 republicans who sup t ported overturning the results of a free and fair election. democrats need to work with a party whose members have tied to extremist groups that stormed the u.s. capitol. next week the house will take up a budget resolution, the first step in president biden s $1.9 trillion r
through a deeply divided congress. democrats do have control of both chambers for the first time since 2009, but the margin is so small that biden and democrats are still going to have to work across the aisle for most of the time. how do you work across the aisle when some of the people on the other side are zealots who will lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want. democrats need to work with 150 republicans who supported overturning the results of a free and fair election. democrats need to work with a party whose members have ties to extremist groups that stormed the u.s. capitol. next week the house will take up a budget resolution, the first step in president biden s $1.9 trillion relief package. biden s made it clear he will work with the other side but will go it alone if he has to. i support passing covid relief with support from republicans if we can get it. but the covid relief has to pass. there s no ifs, ands, or buts. thank you. there are moderate democra