hello and welcome to the programme. president biden has been visiting the city of tulsa in oklahoma to mark a century since a white mob attacked a black district killing as many as 300 people. the attack on an affluent black community known as black wallstreet followed an alleged assault on a white teenage girl. president biden has called on all americans to reflect on what he described as the deep roots of racial terror in the country s history. 0ur correspondent gary 0 donoghue reports from tulsa. this is the first time an american president has come to tulsa to acknowledge the horror of the massacre. local residents showed him around the greenwood cultural centre where he got to meet the only known survivors of that murderous night in 1921 america s worst single act of racial violence in its history. some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous they can t be buried, no matter how hard people try. in the light of the tulsa massacre and a year where racial
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terrorist attack, it s on tuesday another one followed, claimed he hoped to kill and on wednesday three conservative mps left their party. every person on earth. plus, a species of giant tortoise all of them said politics believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years, in the uk was broken is discovered in the that their respective parties had galapagos islands. moved too far to the extreme. take a listen to the week so far. i cannot remain in a party that i have today come hello and welcome, i m jane o brien in washington to the sickening conclusion and matthew price is in london. is institutionally anti semitic. a month ago, few had really heard i am furious that the labour leadership is complicit of the tv actorjussie smollett until he said he was the victim in facilitating brexit. of a racist and homophobic attack in chicago. his allegations sparked a national outcry. any criticism of the leadership several presidential candidates is responded to with abuse. and
more than 4,000 miles away here in the u.s., the president s agenda is hanging on by a thread. a house vote that was supposed to take place last night was delayed. that s the third time that has happened. progressive house members say they re still not satisfied that the two key senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, are fully committed to the president s plan. in other words, we re right back where we were two days ago, two weeks ago, two months ago. no deal. the infrastructure bill, it s sitting on the shelf getting dusty. i want to bring in mike message memoli. the president wanted this done before he left town. he put it all on the line. where are we now? how are they spinning this? reporter: well, what the white house is saying this morning and we heard from kate benningfield they re going to get this done. we heard time over time this trip for the president was not a deadline he was racing to meet in terms of gets his infrastructure bill over the finish line. let s