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a akuhn. griff: i m griff jenkins. they re hoping to keep legislation that would transform government as we know it. let s go to mark meredith at the white house. griff, as you mentioned, it s it s been a whoo wild few days on capitol hill yet, the president is sure his agenda is going to get through congress. at issue, one the bipartisan infrastructure agreement that republicans for the most part are going to support and a much larger social safety net bill with moderate democrats saying they do not want to spend the massive amount that progressives want to spend and what they ll be willing to spend to get the goals achieved and we asked what comes next. he said this is messy and it s part of the way that washington works. i m a realist. i think that, i was in the senate a long timement i know how legislation gets done. there is no reason why both these bills couldn t pass independently, except that, they re not supposed to do it that way. got to have the votes. ....
victory over nazi germany. we ll also have a special report from the east of ukraine, where the fighting in this war, is most intense. the big picture here in the donbas is that the kremlin s offensive is largely stalled. they ve taken hardly any significant towns, and the ukrainians are making them pay a heavy price for every scrap of land. and bbc news has revealed how untreated sewage is being dumped illegally in rivers across the uk, putting health and nature at risk. and birmingham airport admits it was chaos this morning as thousands queued for hours to get through security. good evening. welcome to the programme. the labour leader sir keir starmer says he will quit if he s fined by durham police for breaking covid rules last year during lockdown. he s been under pressure after the police announced they would be investigating an event at which he drank beer and had a curry with party workers at an mp s office. in a statement this afternoon sir keir insisted repeat ....
that the uk will get through it because of low unemployment. the guardian also goes with economic news and calls from labour for the government to announce new help for households struggling with the cost of living. the i has worked out that the economic squeeze will shrink household incomes by £1200 this year, but says there are no plans for tax cuts to help ease the pain. the mail says the forecasts add up to the biggest fall in real terms pay since records began in 1990. so, let s begin. really only one story in town. the bank of england warns of household pain and recession this year as rates hit 1% comes that they have gone with the interest rate rise to 1%, the highest level of course since 2009. but i suppose we should not forget it is historically very low but nonetheless grim economic news. . , ., ., , ., news. yeah, it s grim and what you have seen news. yeah, it s grim and what you have seen universally news. yeah, it s grim and what you have seen univ ....
hello and welcome to bbc news. two british volunteers working to provide humanitarian aid in ukraine are understood to have been captured by the russian military. it s believed the men were working as part of a joint humanitarian operations centre project in the country to help provide food, medical supplies and evacuation support. it comes after the foreign office confirmed a british national was killed while fighting in ukraine. it s thought the man, who s not been formally named but is believed to be scott sibley, was fighting for ukrainian forces when he was killed. a second man is understood to be missing. meanwhile, several russian strikes hit kyiv on thursday and killed at last one person, as the secretary general of the united nations, antonio guterres, met ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky in the capital and visited nearby towns. mr guterres said he was shocked by the attacks, and admitted that the un s security council had failed in its role to prevent or ....
major perspective on events outside the uk coming up in half an hour. good evening. the three time wimbledon men s singles champion, boris becker, has been jailed for two years and six months for hiding millions of pounds worth of assets after being declared bankrupt. the 54 year old had been accused of trying to avoid paying his debts, including by hiding two of his tennis trophies. it s estimated his £38 million in career earnings was largely spent on a divorce settlement, child maintenance payments and what becker himself called expensive lifestyle commitments . our sports correspondent natalie pirks has more from southwark crown court. as he walked into court, his tie in the wimbledon colours that had always brought him fame and fortune, boris becker was no doubt contemplating how it came to this. three weeks ago, a jury found him guilty of four of the 2a counts against him, including transferring cash to avoid paying creditors from his 2017 bankruptcy and failin ....