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give you a call back said meeks a new york democrat referring to the white house. the white house spokesman said we thought it was important that all perspective to be represented. they were false and politically motivated claims. i know what the press office is trying to do and doing the best they can with the facts they have. but they don't have necessarily the communications problem, they have a fact problem, mark. >> well, i was chuckling when i read that how they called back let us set the record straight. it was an odd story in the "wall street journal." cobbled together what voters know. over 60% of the voters are concerned that biden is too old to be running again for another term. and i don't think that issue is going to be decided by these whisper stories. i think there is going to be a debate. they have deliberately thrown down the gauntlet for an early debate. i think that will be the point at which americans judge is he ready for another term or not? clearly an issue.
ones. let's bring in our panel. steven and mark. this comes at a time when "time" magazine also wrote a piece that posted yesterday. biden did a long interview with them and even the reporters acknowledged there had been a visible change. and i go back to the maxim if you find a turtle on a fence post it didn't get there itself. these stories are coming out at a time when, steven, my reporting, a couple people i've talked to is there are democrats who are very concerned about biden's state right now. and that's kind of a delicate topic but one that is driving a lot of consternation among voters. let me turn it over to you and what you think about this news report and the development and what you've heard. >> certainly. president biden's cognitive decline has been the talk of the town in d.c. for well near a year, dana. you and i know washington is a small town. people know each other and
a mix of purified kerosene and liquid oxygen. and then they go into the upper stage, which is going to be a critical part. you're going to hear separation, moving to the upper stage of the rocket where they burn liquid hydrogen and oxygen. again, accelerating, hitting that as fast as they can, they need to rendezvous with the international space station. this is all calculated, down to the millisecond. we watch 11 minutes and 09 seconds of elapsed time, waiting to hit the 12-minute mark because we want to listen for meco, main engine cutoff. i might make the point very quickly that sunita williams, the pilot, commander butch wilmore is also on board, but sunny, sunita, calls this capsule calypso in a nod to jacques cousteau, the famous french explorer. that's what they're trying to do, explore the heavens as they race toward the international space station. and if you don't mind, i'll make
tilted, so off the mark. is he 81 years old? he is a bit slower in terms of his reaction to some things? probably. that, i don't know. we don't know. i do know, richard, and you've talked to people, i'm sure, who have been with him in national security meetings. i've been with people who have been with him in the situation room where he literally goes around the globe on the chart in the situation room. i've never been in there but electronically and he points out the weakness and strengths with the united states with other countries with no notes. he is an 81-year-old president of the united states who gets up every day and has to deal with b.b. netanyahu and his son is on trial and an addict and on his mind all the time. this piece is outrageous. >> but mike, it's not that complicated. it's just not. you know -- >> look who they quote.
but you can look at the videos people are running and see i what they're trying to achieve with them and so on. - i think, you know, - in a sense, who targets me is a response to that, right? a kind of organisation that's| there to try and monitor this content, point out interesting stuff, show how people - are trying to use it _ in different ways, try and just kind of make people aware of the ways that's going. to going to happen to them over the next six weeks or so. - and how much have the parties spent already? i know it's early days, but do you have an assessment of how much they've spent on digital campaigning so far in this election? yeah, i mean, - it's a lot of money. i mean, obviously- the spending rules have changed for this election. they've nearly doubled. erm, you know, labour, since. the election was announced has spent about £375,000| on google/youtube ads alone, which is half. as much as they spent last time already. so in the first week- of the campaign, where notionally things are just - getting set up and we're just trying to work things out, - they're already 50% of the way to what they did in 2019. erm, the conservatives - are a bit slower off the mark. i mean, certainly their- advertising spend is maybe not even a quarter of what labour
he says, we must act quickly. justin rowlatt, bbc news. in india, narendra modi is set to retain power and be sworn in for a third term — equalling the record set by the country's first prime ministerjawaharlal nehru. but for the first time in ten years, mr modi's party has failed to secure an outright majority in parliament, winning 240 seats instead of their target of nearer 400. he is now dependent on coalition allies to get past the 272 mark needed to form a government. together the coalition has 293 seats. the bbc�*s yogita limaye is in delhi for us now. what's this likely to mean for mr modi's third term? this is a really unexpected turn of events we are seeing here in india, the vgp finding itself in a position
entire article on. then in frankly it's very misleading and i'd like to say that will probably could get the same number of slip hopes for donald trump and practically for anybody else including us. >> but we are sure mark, let me reaction the gate though, that it is a real concern for voters time and again, will absolutely see that voters have, and they have a greater concern about joe biden's age than they do about donald trump's, even though they're 3.5 years apart. so i don't want to like undercut what is actually one of the biggest vulnerable abilities for joe biden, even as we discussed what listened joe biden spent an hour every morning getting his hair together and putting makeup on. he looked a little less old. >> it's a serious issue for the president. he had a great moment at the state of the union. it gave him a temporary bump and the poles where democrats were reinvigorated didn't i felt this is still our guy and who we are what? 9,000 plus days later and people are looking at the president again, no thinking will kenny continue to do this job for another four years because of his age, you also throne with his son is going through and trying to mix that
celsius above pre—industrial levels. and that's a goal that's been espoused for a very long time. but unfortunately, we keep reaching that mark. breaching that mark. and the concern is that if we breach it in kind of a long term way, then we're really going to be in a world of hurt and we'll continue to see people being impacted by these heat waves. so that's really kind of the key target. and i think what secretary general guterres is trying to do is highlight that and sort of do a clarion call as a last ditch effort to action. now to sudan — at least 150 people are feared dead in a massacre carried out by the rapid support forces paramilitary. local activists in gezira state say the soldiers surrounded the village of wad al—nou—rah before launching two attacks. the sudanese army — which is fighting the rsf across the country — has called for the international community to condemn what they called an atrocity. the circumstances of the massacre remain unclear. reports say the army had launched air strikes against rsf positions
change conference — for more on this. i think secretary general guterres really hit the mark in his speech. it was a very impassioned speech. it was very fiery, but it absolutely matched the moment. i mean, we're ata point in time where you just talked about india. there have been 25,000 reported heat related strokes just between march and may and at least 50 confirmed deaths, likely more, according to government officials. we're seeing here in the us where i'm coming at you from the national weather service, issuing a heat advisory. and we have the southwestern united states bracing for what will likely be a pretty devastating heat wave. so it's absolutely critical for the key players of the climate crisis, meaning big oil, which secretary gutierrez called out to finally be held accountable. and i'm really glad to see that strong language be included in a speech. and i'm hopeful that the upcoming un climate change conference this year will keep that same type of energy in calling out the big emitters for their role in propagating this crisis.
the sides about the president's mental fitness. here's a couple of them. >> i want to congratulate the "wall street journal" for cracking the cold case that biden is old. i mean, breaking news. >> i am sort of actually embarrassed for the "wall street journal" with this piece. this piece is so tilted, so off the mark. is he 81 years old? yes. is he a bit slower in terms of his reactions to some things? probably. >> my response to the piece when i read it was now do donald trump. >> requirement not about age, it's about the capacity, the energy, the mental focus. >> the energy that is required to deliver. and our adversaries are sensing this as well. i think that's why you see vladimir putin testing us. you see hamas now continuing to hold on to hostages in the face of america trying to restrain israel.