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in the canary islands as fears grow that lava flowing into the sea could create dangerous gases. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. at a virtual summit on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly, president biden asked world leaders to pledge to vaccinate 70% of the world s population against covid i9 by september next year. he said america would buy an additional 500 million doses of the pfizer vaccine to donate to poorer countries. research underlines a stark contrast richer countries have vaccinated much of their populations, while poorer ones are lagging far behind. our health editor, hugh pym, has more details. wealthier nations are pushing on with boosterjabs, but it s a different story in low income countries in africa and around the world, where vaccination rates are much lower. that divergence has been criticised by the world health organization, and there ve been growing calls fo ....
reach a deal could unleash economic havoc. they are sparring with each other, progressives and moderates directly at odds over the timing of passing two critical pieces of the president s agenda. you have the hard infrastructure and also expanding the social safety net. today president biden will meet with house speaker pelosi and senate ma jordan leader chuck schumer and other democrats in the most extensive in-person engagement with democrats in the white house since the president took office. danielle diaz is live on capitol hill. take us through what happened. reporter: it was a crazy night. crazy nights are not rare on capitol hill. look, the house passed this funding bill that would fund the government through early december, along with a measure that would raise excuse me, suspend the debt ceiling through early december 2022. but this matters because this stopgap measure which needs to be passed in order to avoid a government shutdown when funding expires ....
bill to keep the government running and also avoid running up against the country s debt ceiling. but over in the senate, republicans are at mant they won t support the measure, insisting that democrats would have to do it alone, not only hypocrisy in action but pushing the country to the brink once again. more on that to come. all of this is coming as a standoff is happening between liberal and moderate democrats threatening to derail the bipartisan infrastructure package and the much bigger $3.5 billion budget deal that liberal democrats want so bad. in hours the president will be hosting democrats at the white house to try to iron things out. biden touts that he knows how capitol hill works better than anyone, but does he know what to do with this mess before them now? cnn s manu raju is live on capitol hill tracking all of this. manu, where are things this morning? reporter: in a very precarious state. things could collapse. it requires both sides to get together ....
giving way or is more pain around the corner? in wyoming, the battle for the soul of the republican party. prior president george bush starts a campaign fundraiser for liz cheney. just today president biden is meeting with the house speaker, the top democrat in the senate, the point person for house progressives and a leader of a centrist group. that is only a partial list. at issue? well, just about everything. the size of a giant democratic spending plan. how that money is split up among a long list of democratic policy goals. how to keep our promise to centrists to vote for a separate br bridge plan on monday and how to do that when they insist that both plans need to succeed at the same time. joe biden has his own version of the new deal, in midterm election year having failed to deliver on campaign promises. let s start with phil mattingly. phil, lbj, fdr, joe biden on the block today. a pretty chilling day at the white house given what s at stake. i think wh ....
authorities, a miles-long steel barrier of texas state trooper vehicles has gone up. to deter the up to 30,000 haitians cnn has been told could be heading towards the border. if you are targ etsing texes too come to, we re going to show up in force and shut down the border. reporter: tonight, the camp beginning to dwindle in size. the fate of the migrants still there uncertain. some are returned to their home countries. others, like ruiz from haiti, are allowed to stay. he feels well that he is able to stay. blessed? one by one, migrants under the bridge, many of whom are haitian are loaded onto buses and transported to u.s. immigration processing facilities. we do enforce our immigration laws. those are not only the laws of humanitarian relief, but the laws of accountability. for those who seek to enter illegally, and do not have a claim for relief under law. reporter: some are expelled to haiti and other countries under a pandemic health rule. and nearly a tho ....