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Given the speaker does not have to be a member of the house. fix, speaker does not have to be a member of the house. Speaker does not have to be a member of the house. A lot of eole member of the house. A lot of people have member of the house. A lot of people have been member of the house. A lot of people have been calling member of the house. A lot of people have been calling me l people have been calling me about that. We will do whatever is best for the country. Congress has only agreed to fund the country for another six weeks and republicans are at each other� s throats extending that has become much harder. Earlier, my colleague Caitriona Perry spoke with Catie Edmondson, congressional reporter with the new york times. Catie, we have two names in the ring now. Are we expecting any others . I think we will have to wait and see. Obviously representative Kevin Mccarthy, the former speaker, was ousted just last night. There are a number of lawmakers waiting to see if he might try to run again for that leadership post, and once he formally announced that he would not seek to become speaker again, the gates really opened but again, we are less than 2a hours out from that announcement, so more people could throw their hat in the ring but i think the bottom line is that no one is really expecting a quick and easy election of a speaker next week. If you remember, it took Kevin Mccarthy 15 rounds of votes in order to win the speakership Back Injanuary so we potentially have a very long saga ahead of us still. Will it be a similar process then . Just what is going to happen next week . It will be a similar process. We understand that on tuesday lawmakers are going to come back from their districts, they will return to washington and republicans are going to have a sort of Candidate Forum for people running for speaker to put forward their vision for running the republican conference and we expect at the earliest, there could be a vote on wednesday and again were going to see the same process that we saw for those of you who watched injanuary when Kevin Mccarthy was elected that lawmakers are going to have to stand up one by one on the house floor and say who they want to be speaker of the house. While this process is going on, the clock is still ticking on that Stopgap Measure to keep the government funded and open until mid november. Can anything happen with that while there is no speaker . Thats right, the stakes of this is notjust that you have a Republican Party at odds with itself right now, at least in the house, but we have again a Stopgap Funding Bill that is going to run out in the middle of november and negotiations really should start as soon as possible in order to make sure the Us Government does not shut down next month. And you also have the house floor currently paralysed because the house does not have a leader. We have, as you mentioned, acting speaker, Patrick Mchenry, a congressman from North Carolina but hes vested with the full powers of speaker. He is serving in a purely interim position and so many of the functions of the House Of Representatives, such as committees ability to be move pieces of legislation onto the house floor are currently shut down until republicans can elect a speaker. It is there any sense of any Side Negotiations going on then in relation to trying to get agreement on a longer term Spending Measure . No, i think house republicans, many of them were quite shocked actually, last night, to see Kevin Mccarthy toppled in the fashion that he was. There were a number of lawmakers who were crying, who were putting forward Kevin Mccarthys name, that maybe he would run again for speaker, actually as he was telling lawmakers that he would not. So this is a series of events that got a number of republicans by surprise and it is a part of the reason why Patrick Mchenry elected to send everyone home so that they could regroup so i would not expect to see any substantial negotiations on that funding bill until there is a speaker elected. What will happen next for Speaker Mccarthy then . That is the question. He alluded he did 50 minutes of a Press Conference taking questions from reporters last night, he said repeatedly that he believes he can serve america in some sort of position that is not speaker of the house but he did not allude to what he plans to do next. I asked a congressman who attended the private meeting that former Speaker Mccarthy spoke at last night, if mccarthy alluded to whether or not he would resign from congress altogether and the congressman said that mr mccarthy did not give any hints one way or another. There is some precedent for that, john boehner, when he was facing an ouster from hard right republicans, chose to resign and relinquish the speakers gavel, rather than face an ouster vote like mr mccarthyjust did. There will be a new speaker of the house, whoever that is, it seems there is no apparent change to the polarised politics. Former Democratic Leaders we saw today being asked to vacate their offices . Thats right, two of the names you mentioned, who are currently in contention for becoming speaker, steve scalise, who is the current majority leader, from louisiana, as well asjim jordan of ohio, these are both very conservative men. I think most people would say temperamentally they are more politically conservative than mr mccarthy was and so i do not think anyone should really expect to see a change in tone with a new speaker when it comes to how the republican conference in the House Of Representatives operates. What is this going to mean for the aid to ukraine, the extra 24 billion that the president has asked for . We saw it had to be removed in order to get a deal at the weekend. Thats right and it was removed because of that vote for house republicans, they see it as politically toxic. They hear from their voters when they go back home to their districts that many of them, particularly in very conservative, very right districts, are hearing that their voters do not want to see more american money sent to help ukraine fend off the russian invasion. And so it is hard to see a new speaker of the house wanting to put some sort of Bill Sending Aid to ukraine on the house floor for a vote, in fact, several hard line Conservative Lawmakers in the past few days were warning either Speaker Mccarthy at the time or whoever was going to become speaker that that was not a move that they should take and so you see a lot of republican and democratic lawmakers at the capitol who are strong supporters of ukraine quite worried at this juncture in time as in the future of new aid bills for ukraine. Ok, Catie Edmondson is a Congressional Correspondent with the new york times, thank you forjoining us. Thank you. President biden has warned that a � poisonous atmosphere in washington is threatening the countrys aid to ukraine. Hell deliver a major speech on why funding is critically important for the United States and other allies. On thursday, he is set to receive a briefing from members of his National Security team on ukraine. The us showed its continued support by sending ukraine more thani million rounds of iranian ammunition on wednesday. The us military said the ammunition had been seized last yearfrom iran backed fighters in yemen. But it is unlikely to make a major difference on the battlefield when long range weapons and air Defense Systems are on the top of ukraines wish list. Against that backdrop, a new survey finds that while most Americans Still support funding ukraine, the number has been slipping. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs finds that 63 of americans support military aid to ukraine. Thats still a majority of course, but its down from 72 injuly 2022. A short while ago, i spoke with emily guskin, polling analyst from the Washington Post about these results. Good evening to you. Thank you so much forjoining us here in the programme. Emily, these Survey Results appear to indicate that we are seeing some fraying of bipartisan support for us military assistance to ukraine. Do we know whats behind that . It looks like the decline is really concentrated among Republican Voters as opposed to democrats or independents. They are down to 50 who support additional arms and military supplies to ukraine, where there are still a majority of democrats and independents who say the same. Lets look a little more in terms of whats driving this. Is this more indicative of what weve been seeing when it comes to ukraines performance in its most recent counteroffensive on the battlefield . Is it a case of domestic politics playing at home here in the United States and the messaging around that . What have you been seeing . The survey was taken in september before this latest almost Government Shutdown and the pulling of the support, the us support for ukraine in the last bill. So it is not the most recent amount of data, it is from september. But we have heard more republicans speak up, far right members of the party have mentioned several times that they want to pull back funding. Weve seen americans divided, whether or not it is worth the 15 billion that we have provided so far, and thats higher among republicans, the majority of republicans say its not worth the cost and the majority of democrats say it is worth the cost. This is a critical moment for ukraine now as it seeks further funding. How do you see this playing out then for ukraine, as president biden, as we know, seeks a further 24 billion of aid. We have got tumult in the house right now. Do you think that these results show that ukraine does risk seeing dwindling support from some quarters . We are seeing that in the data that republicans are less supportive of sending aid to ukraine but we also see Interesting Data throughout. For example, the survey asked if americans had a greater responsibility to european countries. 66 say that europe should be equally responsible as the us to ukraine. Just 3 of americans said that the us has greater responsibility and 30 say europe should be more responsible. So a majority of americans here really think there is a united front between the us and europe and we see that in time and time again in surveys that americans really like working together. Theres also questions here about nato there is a lot of support for supporting nato and partner countries. Recently we had the president of ukraine here in washington and at that time, we started to see some concerns emerging about how long this war will continue. Did you also see that concern coming through from the Poll Respondents . Yes, few expect a short end to it. 34 say the fighting will go on for over a year and another 34 said it will last for two or four more more years and 50 it will last five years or more, so there is not an optimistic view among americans that the war will end anytime soon. You mentioned zelensky visited the us recently and he still has a Majority Positive Rating of the us unlike the president here, and he has 67 Approval Rating from americans, a favourable rating, rather, down from 81 he had in 2022, but still net positive and better than most american politicians enjoy their own ratings here, and that decreases among republicans as well, not among democrats or independents. Emily guskin from the Washington Post, great to talk to you. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me. Around the world and across the uk. This is bbc news. Lets look at some other stories making news. 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Many workplaces have also been closed as heavy rain and winds sweep across the region. Youre live with bbc news. More than 75,000 employees of one of the us� s biggest Healthcare Providers have walked off thejob prompting the largest Healthcare Worker strike in the nations history. Medical support staff, cleaners, technicians and pharmacists, working for Kaiser Permanente are on strike after the non profit Healthcare Giant and unions failed to reach an agreement after months of talks over wages, outsourcing and staffing shortages. Demonstrations are happening across the country form california to right here in washington, dc. The Kaiser Permanente strike is one of several labour strikes weve seen in the us in recent months. Other high Profile Demonstrations have been led by the United Auto Workers and the actors union. The us Bureau Of Labour Statistics reports that more than 300,000 workers went on strike through august this year alone. For more on the strike, i spoke earlier with the Executive Director of the coalition of Kaiser Permanente unions, caroline lucas. Caroline, in a statement today, Kaiser Permanente said it had already agreed to a minimum wage increase of 25 dollars an hour in california, that they are aggressively hiring new staff. Whats your response to what they put on the table . Thank you so much for having me at this pivotal moment. We do acknowledge Kaiser Permanente has made a commitment to hire 10,000 new staff and they are close to that goal but their failure to create a comprehe