nation s debt limit after a last-minute rewrite. and we re tracking the speaker s efforts to get gop holdouts to get in line. joe biden strikes a landmark deal to send a nuclear submarine to south korea for the first time in 40 years. the president and his south korean kocounterpart going to n lengths to deter kim jong-un and his escalating nuclear threats. and oath, testimony by the woman who alleges that donald trump assaulted her decades ago. cnn was there as e. jean carroll took the stand. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to capitol hill for the latest on the very high stakes showdown over raising the nation s federal debt limit. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is following all this. republicans have been scrambling to hold a vote today on their plan to raise the debt ceiling. where do things stand right now? reporter: wolf, the chamber is just here to m
go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
died in hospital in spain, he was 79. nearly four decades of power, marred by allegations of nepotism and corruption, his family enormously wealthy. at 10pm, jane hill will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it s adam in the studio. emma here. and it s chris. chris, i m looking at your phone to see if someone s going to phone with, like, a historic message as we re recording this podcast. because ijust, i assume that just what happens to you all the time now. you got to deliver for newscast as well. yeah. no, i m afraid. exactly. nothing other than are you going to ring before bath time is finished at home? 0h, mikejust managed to do that once we finished the other side of chris mason s life. so what was it like standing in downing streetjust before borisjohnson came to the podium? you could see all the staffers and you could see his few remaining supportive mps. they were all sort of hugging each other, looking. wha
Which almost ended his life in new york two years ago. A new report paints a bleak picture of the future of coral reefs us Officials Say another mass bleaching event is underway. Hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We start in israel, where the countrys war cabinet has been meeting, to consider its response to irans Weekend Drone and missile attack. Iran has called on western nations to appreciate its restraint after its attack in retaliation for a Deadly Strike on its consulate in syria. It comes as International Pressure for restraint mounts, with the un Secretary General Antonio Guterres warning israel to step back from the brink and in the past hour, the british Prime Minister, rishi sunak, telling parliament that his government is working urgently to prevent further escalation in the region. Lets cross straight to our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet, in jerusalem. I think its f
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