track to pass a major part of the biden administration. it would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history and make big changes to healthcare policy. republicans are fighting gagaint it right now, but it appears that all 50 democrats are on the same page. si sinema offered her support this week. jessica dean is on capitol hill for us. we ve learned there has been some pretty serious movement. i guess getting this ball down the field. what s happened? absolutely. get it rolling. this is breaking news that we ve just gotten in the last five minutes or so. that is that we have bill text and we have a ruling or the congressional budget office has come back and said this is all good, that they can move forward. so now what we re expecting is for chuck schumer to go to the senate floor and make some remarks and begin this first step. they re using a special budget process. the first step will be a motion to receive that requires just a simple majority. all 50 senat
some companies including southeastern and crosscountry aren t running any services at all. it s been revealed the search warrant for donald trump s florida home was partly based on suspicion of violations of the us espionage act. court documents show that 20 boxes of items were removed including some documents marked top secret . now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london with shaun ley. hello, and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline london. this week, a meeting between borisjohnson and the energy companies about the ticking time bomb which is the capping of energy bills. the cap will rise further in october. the meeting achieved nothing. the british have a government that apparently must wait for action until the conservatives have chosen their leader, the country s next prime minister. there was another meeting which ended without result to
hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. we re following the breaking news out of morocco where more than a thousand people were killed after a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck late friday. it was the strongest to hit the area in over a century. the epicenter was located in the high atlas mountains just southwes southwest. rescuers are struggling to access the areas after roads were damaged. hospitals were filling up, prompting patients to wait outside as hospital beds were moved onto the streets. more than 700 people are in critical condition. and with intense aftershocks expected in the area, officials believe the death toll will steadily rise. i heard people screaming. everyone went out of their houses. the street is full of people and women screaming. that s what happened. even now people can t go back home because they re still afraid. toi want to bring in ben wedeman for more. the destruction is devastating. looking at some of t
that there was an english newspaper headline prime minister visits country. i hope you will visit dateline london again next week. goodbye. hello. temperatures have been shooting up already today in the warm sunshine. we started the day at 20 degrees in some areas in the south and we still have an amber extreme heat warning valid through the rest of the weekend across a good part of england come into east wales as well. but wherever you are you are going to be seen hot weather through the weekend. potential for travel delays and heat problems. temperatures reaching 36 degrees in
it s a toll on so many things down the line and the science shows us that by the middle of the century, you ll feel like your city has moved about 500 miles south. so cooling centers and city planning and all of these things are going to add up more and more. it s interesting, john thune was just on the floor of the senate sort of taking shots at this bill. the climate bill. saying there s a billion and a half dollars in there for tree canopy studies. well, these days a lot of people think more shade would be a good thing given the extremes between dark asphalt and any kind of green space. so those examples and you re seeing that not just here, but around the world. if it s not bad in the most developed countries, imagine how it is in india and china going through a lot of the same heat problems. no question about it. thanks for covering the climate crisis for us. it s just invaluable. appreciate it. please come back anytime. thanks again. thanks.