warning over the country s debt ceiling. this is the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow to pay for pretty much everything they do. without an agreement to increase what the federal government can borrow, it could run out of money by earlyjune. at that point the federal government might not be able to make wage, welfare and other payments. our north america business correspondent michelle fleury is live in new york for us. we have been here before but once again, a stark warning that if nothing is done, it causes huge repercussions around the world. this is because as repercussions around the world. ti 3 is because as you say it is going to affect the jobs of government employees in the united states and have a knock on effect on the border economy, but then there is beyond the shores of the united states, the kind of ricochets it will have around the global financial system and that is why you have had this increasing drumbeat as we get closer to the kin
and we ll start with everton. they pulled off a remarkable 5 1victory at brighton, who themselves are chasing a european qualification place. the win moves sean dyche s side out of the relegation zone. it was a superb display of counterattacking football from everton who were 3 0 up after 35 minutes. dwight mcneil and abdoulaye doucoure each scored twice. it means everton are two points above the drop zone with three matches left to play. you got it wrong and sometimes people forget it s not like you got it wrong. it might still be the right tactic. but they have taken on. it was very open minded to it. that s really pleasing, because that s the whole point of coaching, that s the whole point of managing. it is to have a format for them to work on and then go deliver it. to the players deserve a lot of credit tonight. to the players deserve a lot of credit tonight. they have taken that on. and not only taken her on but take along with a plum. it s a very pleasing thing as a c
we begin in the us, where the treasury secretary janet yellen has sounded a stark warning over the country s debt ceiling. this is the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow to pay for pretty much everything they do. speaking to abc, she says that if lawmakers fail to raise that ceiling the us could be left unable to pay its bills by the beginning ofjune. it is congress s job to do this. if they fail to do it, we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making and there is no action that president biden and the us treasury can take to prevent that catastrophe. russ mould is investment research director at aj bell. we have been here before. all of the same warnings that the us could tape off a cliff if it doesn t raise the debt ceiling and yet more warnings. yes, we have and i think the us debt ceiling has been raised 75 or 80 times in its history and we have had eight government shutdowns while a new debt ceiling has been wor
grip of a severe heat wave with several countries experiencing sweltering conditions. hello. we begin in ukriane, where russia s launched its biggest wave of drone attacks on the country in months. ten regions were targeted, and at least three civilians were killed. this comes after a lull in russian attacks on civilian targets in recent months, which saw the capital kyiv go days without an attack. the southern city of odesa has also been targeted. russia has stepped up its aerial attacks ahead of an expected offensive by ukraine. a ukrainian general in bakhmut said russia had intensified its shelling of the devastated city too. russia s wagner group boss says moscow has agreed to his demands for more ammunition days after he threatened to withdraw his men from bakhmut. russian troops and fighters from wagner, a private military company, have been trying to capture bakhmut for months, despite the city s questionable strategic value. british foreign ministerjames cleverly wi