mandates for both federal workers and employees of large companies. raising new questions about supply chain issues. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn, good evening, peter. bret. peter: good evening, bret. even though officials have talked for months about the urgent dangers presented by crumbling roads and bridges, president biden still hasn t signed the infrastructure bill congress sent to his desk three days ago. any lessons from what you just gone through with the bipartisan infrastructure. none that i didn t already know. pete: now that the bidens are back from a beach weekend the officials are celebrating the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. we are excited with an exclamation point. next up, a few trillion more in the build back better plan. the economic policy agenda that you hear we say this all the time that 81 million people voted for. last year just a year ago. what they voted for and
a very congenial way figured out a way to get this [bleep] done. talking blue right there. new concerns the biden administration is considering a covid vaccine mandate for businesses with fewer than a hundred employees. we ll explore how that could affect millions more u.s. workers and what you need to know. plus, growing attention being payed to a story we needed thursday into had origins of the trump-russia probe. we will examine our the mainstream media have been largely ignoring the case after pushing stories the other way. we begin tonight with an absolutely unforgettable friday on capital-tolkien - - a capitol hill as a deal is finally reached congressional correspondent - - what day. good evening, kevin, the house of representatives tonight has awarded president biden a major component of his economic agenda on a bipartisan vote the house approved a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, 228 to 206. 13 republicans voted yes yes, six democrats voted no. this came after
and dropping slightly in england. ministers now say they will force water companies to make a progressive reduction in the sewage dumped in seas and rivers. and many tributes to a legend of scottish football the manager walter smith who s died at the age of 73. and coming up in the sport, on the bbc news channel. a good night for england as they maintained their perfect record in women s world cup qualifying thrashing latvia 10 0. good evening. the queen has accepted the advice of doctors and decided not to attend the global climate summit in glasgow which starts on sunday. her majesty, who s 95, spent a night in hospital last week and her doctors have recommended some rest. the cop26 summit will be a major gathering of world leaders and the queen was expected to play a prominent role in welcoming those attending. to play a prominent role in instead, she will be recording a special message to show to delegates as our royal correspondent jonny dymond reports. this time l
instituitionally racist and sexist in what s thought to be the first admission of its kind in the uk. household energy bills for many will fall for the first time in almost three years this summer, but they ll still be much higher than before the war in ukraine. and how hundreds of strangers gathered in london today for the military funeral of a black world war ii veteran who died alone. coming up on bbc news. have spurs missed their slot? the dutch manager says he s staying at feyenoord. the latest being linked with a vacantjob in north london turns down the chance to join tottenham. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. net migration in the uk soared last year, reaching record levels. have a look at this, it gives you a clear picture ofjust how much migration to the uk has changed over the past 31 years from tens of thousands in 1991 to more than 600,000 last year. the dotted line refers to the change in the way that the figures were collected. and just to explai
programme. there will no be default. those were the words of president biden on thursday as he hailed what he called productive talks with his political rivals as the clock ticks on the country s finances. he is trying to avoid hitting the debt ceiling. the us government is set to hit its borrowing limit of $31.4 trillion next week, raising fears it could run out of money to pay its bills without a deal to increase the debt ceiling. from new york, michelle fleury reports. with just one week left until treasury officials say the us will run out of cash to pay its bills, the mood music from washington was upbeat that a deal can be done to avoid default. i want to be clear that the negotiations we re having with speaker mccarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like not about default. it s about competing visions for america. nothing will be resolved till we solve them all. we know where our differences lie. we worked well past midnight last night, we r