Chief Ursula Von Der Leyen. It comes a day after President Biden said the us planned to build a Temporary Port In Gaza. Well have the latest reaction from washington And Jerusalem. Also on the programme. Joe biden delivers a fiery State Of The Union speech, setting out the key issues likely to feature in his re Election Campaign and takes a swipe at his president ial rival donald trump. But has he done enough to stop the doubters. The Great Barrier reef is showing signs of strain after record high sea temperatures, undergoing another mass bleaching event. The un has been warning that gaza faces famine and that children there are dying from hunger. It says there have beenoverwhelming obstacles when it comes to getting aid into the territory. But on friday a potential breakthrough the uk says it willjoin the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver essential aid directly to gaza. Ajoint statement from the uk, us, eu, cyprus and the United Arab Emirates said. The plan
and i m max foster. just ahead negotiations still ongoing, still unresolved. stewart rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on thursday. have a good day. next. memorial day weekend is just the start of what will be a busy summer travel season that we re expecting. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 26, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where they are moving closer to a day to pay the government s bill. it would reportedly raise the debt ceiling but cap spending levels for two years. and manu raju reports that nothing is final until it is final. reporter: negotiations between the speaker and his top allies and the white house still ongoing, still unresolved, even as the u.s. is considering prospects of the first ever debt default as soon as next week and amid warnings that the u.s. credit rating could be downgraded if the national down limit which now stands at $31.4 trillion
polls for president biden, they are bad, saying that the majority of americans are losing trust in our president. a new poll shows his approval rating at 36%. that s a new low and all time low. and democrats have good reason to worry about the president s age and mental fitness heading into 2024. 63% of americans said they do not believe biden has the mental sharpness to effectively serve as president. even the left wing media couldn t ignore president biden s terrible numbers. this poll is just brutal for president biden. absolutely, george. and you talked earlier about that record low approval rating for president biden. it s actually six points down just since february. and the skepticism over his leadership extends deep inside his own party. i was told i could not send the poll around until after 12:00 midnight. i sent it out at 12:02 because it kept me up and i thought they should wake up and look at those numbers. the coalition that elected joe biden with the hist
in georgia and lucas tomlinson outside the white house. but we start first with rich edson in harrisburg, pennsylvania, where all eyes are on the nail-biter race between fetterman and oz. rich, good afternoon. reporter: good afternoon, mike. this is a government union headquarters here in harrisburg, the capital city of pennsylvania, john fetterman just finished rallying supporters here, he s been highlighting union workers here, the union vote. of he was rallying with union officials and workers yesterday in the philadelphia area. he said at this rally here that he plans on continuing to recover from his stroke, and he wants to win this election. c. oz has never forgotten every day that i had a stroke. in january i ll be much better, but he will still be a fraud. reporter: oz ripped fetterman for refusing to debate, and when he agreed, did so only once, two weeks before election day, and after hundreds of thousands of early votes had been cast. oz and republicans natio
may 11th is the date that marks the end of the crisis officially. the crisis status that we have been in since january 2020. one thing that is not ending, though, the spending. president biden showing no signs of slowing down when it comes to hand-outs. his student loan relief measure looking more expensive than initially thought. new analysis that shows biden s newly proposed income driven repayment plan will cost you taxpayers, get this, more than $360 billion in the next decade. that s on top of the almost $4 hundred 70 billion in direct loan forgiveness. it all makes for a possible escalation in the battle between the white house and republican lawmakers who say the spending must stop. we finally reached that point in time where enough is enough. 18 trillion in debt when i got here. a little over four years ago. now 31 trillion. it has gotten to a point where if you don t start exercising a little bit of discipline like everyone else does in this country, all other enti