right now secretary of state antony blinken is in the west bank, set to speak at any moment. this at the end of his three-day tour of the middle east, the trip gained new urgency following an outbreak of deadly violence. he met with mahmoud abbas earlier today and met with benjamin netanyahu yesterday in an effort to get both sides to work together to end the bloodshed. also kevin mccarthy will meet tomorrow with president biden at the white house for the first time since becoming house speaker. top of his agenda the debt ceiling. republicans with that slim majority in the house are holding the threat of defaulting on the nation s debt to demand budget cuts. and this morning two more memphis police officers have been put on leave in connection to the death of tyre nichols. that in addition to the five officers who have already been fired, charged with second-degree murder. plus, the memphis fire department has also fired three employees for their response or nonresponse
a verdict in the cases of two other women he was alleged to have attacked, so he will face a retrial later this year. now on bbc news reporting iran: inside bbc persian. here we go in ten, nine, eight, seven, six. - hi right, so you want me to. up sound next, up sound. woman sobbing phone line cuts off give me a thumbs up that you can hear. - phone line cuts off thank you very much, everybody, thank you. lovely, good stuff. that was the toughest interview of my entire career. we didn t know that we were going to get him. i had no idea that we might get him. so just literally five seconds before the interview, the producer shouted in my ear, saying that we have mahsa s father on the line. i just didn t know what to tell him. what do you tell someone who spent all his life, raising his daughter to the age of 22, and now she s gone? just over, for nothing. right, so we need to choreograph a bit. so we are getting ready for our live at 12.30, which on normal days, i go downst
turbine generators. the visit was part of a effort to acknowledge the effects of the inflation reduction act signed into law a year ago today. but president biden said he was not there to declare victory on the economy just yet. we have more work to do. but we always have a plan. like turning things around, making america stronger and safer and more competitive. bidenomics is just another way of saying, restoring the american dream. that is the that is what it is. it s restoring the american dream. i believe every american willing to work hard should be able to get a job no matter where they live in the heart lands, small towns, and raise their kids on a good paycheck and keep their roofs where they grew up. that is the american dream. that is bidenomics. it s always works best for this country, investing in america. investing in americans, because
rationale in the first place. there have been air strikes in the ukrainian capital overtime. it s building launching raids in russian territory that have been difficult for the russian military to stop. so the question is, how will the russian security forces deal with armored, battle-hardened ranks of convicted criminals and mercenaries charging in the russian heart lands. it s a scenario that is mind boggling. excellent question. thank you so much for explaining that. we will try to get answers. we will bring in cnn military analyst and retired colonel. thanks for being here, to understand the breaking news in russia. let s start there, colonel. what ivan was just talking
telling us is that if you look at biden s schedule, it is being crafted in such a way that he is doing several important things ahead of both of those things, the state of the union speech as well as his expected 2024 announcement. one of those things is obviously touting the economic progress of the last two years, we ve heard him do that a lot, whether it s talking about the jobs market, being robust, or talking about inflation finally seeming to moderate. and then there s the implementation part of the legislative accomplishments of the last two years. you know, we are going to see him do this when he talks about the infrastructure bill at an event in new york today and we also saw him do this yesterday as well in baltimore. take a listen. it s about making investments in american cities, towns, heart lands and rural america. it s about making things here in america again. it s about good jobs, it s about the dignity of work, it s about respect and self-worth and it s about damn t