hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us house of representatives has just voted to pass presidentjoe biden s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill. the cash would be extended as emergency financial aid to households, small businesses and state governments. unemployment in the us is close to 10%, with some ten million jobs lost in the pandemic. the vote comes in the same week the us passed 500,000 coronavirus related deaths the largest figure of any nation in the world. the republicans who say it is too expensive had fought to get it defeated in committees. 0ur washington correspondent lebo diseko sent us this update. it s not a surprise that this bill has passed in the house. democrats hold a majority there and it was just a simple majority that was needed to get it through. the real battle will come in the senate. democrats are using a special process called budgetary reconciliation and it means that there are two in the senate it willju
worst slump in over 300 years, and we ve moved from a protect and survive mode to a support mode and then a growth mode is what we need next. if there s one thing that is the most powerful weapon to bring down debt as a percentage of your economy it is growth. if you ve got this debt to gdp relationship, one of the best ways to get that down is increase the denominator, gdp, keep that going. if you have that, then you can also keep unemployment down, which will then keep the numerator of that fraction under control. so there will be a big emphasis on growth, and i expectjobs, jobs, jobs to be the mantra running through the chancellor s mind. you have a furlough, the wild card is what happens when there is measures are removed. it seems to me almost guaranteed that he will extend the furlough scheme that supports wages. people also extend the business rates and business tax holiday. but he will say that he has to be honest about the challenge of the public finances. it is almo
for dateline london. hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading columnists, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to their audiences back home, from the dateline london. this week, borisjohnson s stay of execution, the uk s inflation problem and why joe biden has a problem keeping nato allies on side over ukraine. to discuss all that, we are joined by marc roche, a columnist and correspondent with the french news magazine le point and isabel hilton, who is distinguished as a foreign correspondent, and has been followed by founding china dialogue, improving the understanding of china s environmental challenges. here in the studio, the bbc s business editor, simonjack. welcome to all of you, good to have you all with us this weekend. now, it is official, everything in the uk is going up. the number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mp
hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading columnists, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to their audiences back home, from the dateline london. this week, borisjohnson s stay of execution, the uk s inflation problem and why joe biden has a problem keeping nato allies on side over ukraine. to discuss all that, we are joined by marc roche, a columnist and correspondent with the french news magazine le point and isabel hilton, who is distinguished as a foreign correspondent, and this has been followed by founding china dialogue, improving the understanding of china s environmental challenges. here in the studio, the bbc s business editor, simonjack. welcome to all of you, good to have you all with us this weekend. now, it is official, everything in the uk is going up. the number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mps, after this we
bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to their audiences back home, from the dateline london. this week, borisjohnson s stay of execution, the uk s inflation problem and whyjoe biden has a problem keeping nato allies on side over ukraine. to discuss all that, we are joined by marc roche, a columnist and correspondent with the french news magazine le point and isabel hilton, who is distinguished as a foreign correspondent, and this has been followed by founding china dialogue, improving the understanding of china s environmental challenges. here in the studio, the bbc s business editor, simonjack. welcome to all of you, good to have you all with us this weekend. now, it is official, everything in the uk is going up. the number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mps, after this week s defection and the odds on borisjohnson surviving in office. none of that can be blamed on i