President biden has unveiled his budget proposal for next year, with the highest level of federal government spending since the second world war. He s calling forjust over $6 trillion worth of post pandemic spending which still needs congressional approval. He s demanding huge investments in infrastructure, education and green technology, but he faces a political battle to deliver it and growing concerns over its impact on inflation and the national debt. Reacting to the proposal, the senior republican senator lindsey graham called it insanely expensive, but the democratic house speaker nancy pelosi said it showed the value her party placed on america s workers and its middle class. Here s the president speaking earlier at an event in ohio. The bottom line is this the biden economic plan is working. We ve had record job creation. We re seeing record economic growth. We re creating a new paradigm. And now, 50% of all of america, more than any other country, is fully vaccinated. Applau
Wales, the midlands and east anglia we have showers and thunderstorms forming. The showers are bad because of a change in the wind direction with southerly winds colliding with easterly winds on this trough. Later this afternoon these bigger storms will be across northern england, particularly lincolnshire and yorkshire into the north east, with hail and thunder mixed in with the really hefty downpours. As that feature continues to move northwards, south east england should continue to say try with sunshine, and china for the most part in scotland, northern ireland missing out on the showers. Should be a fine afternoon foremost continuing to stay dry with sunshine. Overnight the showers will continue to push northwards across northern england into scotland, still with some heavy rain. Temperatures around six or seven, similar to last night. Tomorrow, starting with rain across scotland again, pushing slowly northwards again, pushing slowly northwards again but not clearing. Colourful
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our other main news this hour. the czech republic is expelling 18 russian diplomats after russian agents were allegedly involved in a deadly explosion at an arms depot. hello and welcome to bbc news. queen elizabeth s husband, prince philip, the duke of edinburgh, has been laid to rest in the royal vault at st george s chapel in windsor. the queen sat alone at the scaled down service, with only 30 people in attendance. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell was watching the day s events. it was at windsor castle that they fell in love. it was wartime. the young lieutenant philip mountbatten spent his leave at the castle visiting the then princess elizabeth. they were married in 1910. they spent many of the happiest moments of their 73 years together at windsor. and it was within the ancient walls of this castle, that the nation paid its final tributes. music: i vow to thee my country. drawn up in the spring sunshine on the castle s quadrangle were the military detachments.
in the royal vault. and across the nation, at 3pm, gun salutes and a minute s silence took place. good afternoon from windsor castle, where the funeral of the duke of edinburgh has taken place this afternoon. although the service itself was small, due to covid restrictions, the duke s love of the military was reflected in the pageantry here, before the funeral in st george s chapel. inside the chapel, there were only 30 mourners all members of the family or close friends. the queen sat alone again due to covid rules as she said goodbye to her husband of 73 years. our first report is from our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell. it correspondent, nicholas witchell. was that windsc fell it was that windsor castle that they fell in love. it was more the young lieutenant spent his leave at the castle visiting the then princess will elizabeth. they spent many of the happiest moments of their 73 years together at windsor and it was within the ancient walls of this castl