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senate tradition. more on this on america reports. sandra: to another alert, increasing covid cases, lack of testing and the highest inflation in four decades is sending president biden s poll numbers into a tailspin. hello, welcome, everyone. sandra smith. thursday. john: we like to call it friday eve around here, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you again. a brand-new poll showing only 33% of americans approve of the job that biden is doing, and a whopping 53% disapprove of the president s performance so far. sandra: all of this as the poll tracking website, 538.com, shows joe biden underwater on covid the first time since he was elected president. trying to get a handle on the testing debacle, as americans wait on the 500 million free a the home tests. administration promised would go out. now biden says even more tests are on the way. today i m directing my team to procure additional 500 million more tests to distribute for free. tha ....
just about half an hour from now, president biden is scheduled to speak about his administration s next steps in the fight against the pandemic, including sending central medical teams to hospitals in six states where hospitals have been overwhelmed. as covid runs rampant through schools and child hospitalizations rise, we look at what can be done to keep kids safe and in the classroom. we re also watching the u.s. supreme court, could be a big day, justices might release more rulings any moment now, among those we could see, the biden vaccination rule for businesses. we re also keeping an eye on capitol hill, where later today, president biden will appeal to senate democrats to change the rules to pass voting rights legislation, which now is looking challenged, to say the least. meantime, american and russian diplomats are wrapping up several days of talks aimed at easing tensions between russia and ukraine, but has anything changed? and the biden administration sa ....
as the tennis star admits breaking isolation rules when he had covid and says there was an error on his immigration form. putting the brakes on smart motorways the government pauses their rollout over safety concerns. and the boss of the uk s biggest energy supplier warns that high energy bills will last for two years. hello and welcome to bbc news this morning. borisjohnson will face mps later, with pressure mounting for him to say whether he attended a bring your own booze drinks party in the downing street garden during the first lockdown. witnesses have said that mrjohnson and his wife were among about thirty people present at the event in may 2020, when outdoor gatherings were banned. conservative mps have joined labour in saying he must explain his actions. backbencher nigel mills said it would be utterly untenable for any senior figure who attended the gathering to be responsible for coronavirus policy. he said he couldn t see how the prime minister could continu ....
good morning. and welcome to way too early. the show that can t believe it has to say something nice about the yankees but hey, this is a cool story. i m jonathan lemire on this wednesday, january 12th and we ll start with the news. with his most forceful speech yet, president biden is making his case for why he believes the senate filibuster should not stand in the way of moving forward with voting rights. i m making it clear, to protect our democracy, i support changing the senate rules. whichever way they need to be changed, to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. when it comes to protecting majority rule, in america, the majority should rule in the united states senate. not a single republican has displayed the courage to stand up to a defeated president. to protect america s right to vote. not one. will we choose dem shadows? justice over injustice? i know where i stand. i will not yield. i will not flinch. i will defend the rig ....
downing street party is - him to fight. another twist in the downing street party is a - downing street party is a controversy, the e mail from a pm s private secretary inviting people to drinks in the private garden while the uk was facing strict limits on social gatherings. the largest fossilised skeleton of its kind ever found in the uk, a sea dragon, 250 million years old. and to mark the queen s platinumjubilee, it is parade, parties and puddings. there is a competition to design a brand new pudding for the occasion and a royal chef tells us where to start. ., . ,, and a royal chef tells us where to start. ., ., ,, ., start. you have the queen on the throne for start. you have the queen on the throne for 70 start. you have the queen on the throne for 70 years start. you have the queen on the throne for 70 years now, - start. you have the queen on the throne for 70 years now, and - start. you have the queen on the throne for 70 years now, and we | start. you h ....