appear to be borne out by photographs from the white house bathroom. tonight with the context, the international trade expert rebecca harding, and former adviser to president george w bush ron christie. hello, welcome to the programme. president biden is defying expectations, and earning a reputation as a president who gets things done. despite the toxic nature of washington politics or maybe because of it senate democrats have been working through the summer to bring about an impressive list of achievements and a lot of that has come with the support of republicans. first came the pandemic relief $1.9 trillion, otherswise known as the american rescue plan. then in november the infrastructure bill. injune the first bipartisan legislation in decades on gun safety. then came the chips act, to strengthen semiconductor manufacturing. then new health care benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. a bipartian agreement on nato expansion admitting finland
to flee their homes and are in need of shelter, food and medicine. the floods have also submerged vital infrastructure and farmland, killing livestock and destroying millions of acres of crops. the situation is likely to get worse as heavy rains continue. it s easy to feel powerless in the face of so much devastation, but you can help. the disasters emergency committee represents 15 of the uk s leading aid charities. many of its members are already working in pakistan and are preparing to scale up their operations. they can provide food, water, medicines and shelter. £10 could provide essential hygiene supplies, like soap and mosquito nets, for two people. £25 could provide emergency shelterfor a family. £50 could provide emergency food for a family for a month. you can give now. or you can send a text. or you can write a cheque. thank you. hello there. first day of meteorological autumn and its going to feel like that as we head into this weekend thanks to low pressure, s
is at the plant and is not moving. it s going to stay there. a review into failings at nhs maternity units in nottingham launches, with a call for affected families to come forward. tributes this evening for the star of the breakfast sofa bill turnbull, who s died at the age of 66. good evening. merseyside police have revealed that two guns were used in the shooting that killed nine year old olivia pratt korbel. olivia was shot in her home last week as her mother tried to stop a gunman entering their house. detectives have now released cctv of the gunman running from the scene. a 35 year old man who was the target of the attack and was on parole, is still being treated in hospital and will be sent back to prison when he s discharged. our north of england correspondentjudith moritz reports from liverpool. running away from the horror he caused, this is the man who used two guns to shoot a nine year old child dead. moments after the murder, he disappeared into the darkness. the
amanda renteria and brian taylor, political commentator and columnist of the herald newspaper. hello welcome to the programme. government forces in ukraine are trying to seize the initiative before the arrival of winter. a counter offensive is already under way in the south of the country, around kherson, the only city that russian forces have captured west of the strategically important dnipro river. but the ukrainians are now preparing to expand that operation in the donbas to the east and also around kharkiv in the north. our correspondent quentin sommerville and camera journalist in the donbas to the east and also around kharkiv in the north. our correspondent quentin sommerville and camera journalist darren conway have had exclusive access to a unit of ukrainian troops, near the front line. in donbas, there will be no harvest. as russian shells fall, about us these fields and furrows are instead ploughed gun tracks and fighting men. ukraine s national guard leads us thro
we ll ask the un s former director for operations in the occupied territories whether that fuel support will be enough to resume aid operations. the israeli military says a second hostage has been found dead near the al shifa hospital in gaza. we ll speak to a relative of one of the many hostages still being held by hamas six weeks after they were abducted on october the 7th. and rishi sunak rejects the criticism from former home secretary suella braverman that he is only tinkering with the plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda. we ll look closer at what the revisions to that plan might entail. good evening. last night on this programme, we broke the story that the un s biggest agency in gaza would no longer be able to bring in or distribute vital aid because fuel had run out, and today that came to pass. aid operations were shut down, but there was perhaps a glimmer of hope for the palestinians who go hungry. the israeli war cabinet approved the delivery of two trucks of f