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racing toward what janet yellen calls economic catastrophe, thanks to congress and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle engaging in a game of chicken with the economic recovery at stake. america is on the verge of default unless congress raises the debt limit. house democrats expected to vote today on a bill that would essentially dare republicans to vote against it. minority leader mitch mcconnell indicating he s not budging. since democrats decided to go it alone, they will not get senate republicans help with raising the debt limit. default or economic catastrophe would be the worst birthday present ever for brianna keilar. it is her birthday today. happy birthday. thank you. on top of that, house speaker nancy pelosi says the fate of president biden s economic agenda faces a critical 48 hours. she s trying to lock down a deal on the huge spending package. also the bipartisan infrastructure deal. but as reported, it is currently open warfare between progress ....
the situation in ukraine, the former president has told the bbc that everyone now understands that global security is at stake. he said the world needed to show president putin that it was strong and united. he president putin that it was strong and united.- strong and united. he is absolutely strong and united. he is absolutely serious. - strong and united. he is absolutely serious. the | absolutely serious. the understanding of the world is different because everybody in the world understands this is the danger for ukraine. now no one has an illusion that this is the danger for the european and global security. it can, at the same time, attack the baltic states, attack the baltic states, attack poland, using the ukraine as an instrument for blackmailing the whole world, and with this situation, everybody understands that in western, in ukrainian security, they invest to their own security. and i have one proposal for all the viewers and listeners of bbc. to all the ....
hello, and welcome to bbc news. prince andrew is demanding a trial byjury. he formally denied all the allegations against him as he gave a court in new york his official response to allegations of sexual assault. virginia giuffre accuses the duke of york of forcing her to have sex more than two decades ago at the london home of the convicted sex trafficker ghislaine maxwell. the 11 page document sets out the duke s detailed response, strongly denying that he abused ms giuffre when she was 17. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more details. across 11 pages, andrew s lawyers have set out his defence a denial of the central allegation of sexual abuse made by virginia giuffre and an assertion in respect of others that andrew lacks sufficient information to either admit or deny what s been claimed. he says, for example, in relation to the widely publicised picture of the two of them, that he doesn t have enough information to admit or deny that there exists pho ....
i would urge care homes to do everything they can to allow as many visitors as they can. face coverings are no longer mandatory in england but some big retailers ask customers to continue wearing them. a second man admits his involvement in an assault on england s chief medical officer professor sir chris whitty, in a london park last year. it s holocaust memorial day marking 77 years since the liberation of auschwitz birkenau. seven holocaust survivors have had portraits painted in a project commissioned by prince charles. and tributes to the comedian and writer barry cryer who s died at the age of 86. borisjohnson has described as total rhubarb claims that he personally intervened so a british man could airlift animals from afghanistan last summer when the taliban took control of the country. yesterday, an email released by a parliamentary committee stated that he d authorised the evacuation of pen farthing, his staff and more than 150 cats and dogs under th ....
for dialogue over ukraine. these are the images live from the centre of london. as many people gather around the country to remember 77 years since the liberation of the auschwitz birkenau camp on holocaust memorial day. one of the most influential figures in british comedy for the last six decades barry cryer has died at the age of 86. 77 years ago today the nazi concentration camp of auschwitz was liberated. more thani million people, most of them jewish, were murdered at the camp in occupied poland. today is holocaust memorial day. and to mark it, different artists have painted the portraits of some of the uk s last remaining holocaust survivors. the project was commissioned by prince charles and the people have been encouraged to light candles in their windows at eight o clock tonightjust as candles in their windows at eight o clock tonight just as we speak. and at gatherings including here in central london if you can see and we have seen shots all around the country ....