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america's boring limits. australia prepares to open the door to fully vaccinated citizens and residence, 18 months after slamming it's border clothes. and other day of protests in italy, we're activists want firmer action for world leaders, head of next month's climate summits and even more violence exclusions erupt from la paloma volcano, further threatening people on the canary islands. and i'm far as small. have all the de sport including even approach to making the world cab biennial events is criticized by the globals. a players union thief pro ah, having averted a government shut down us politicians appear to be in new york also to solving

bigger, more present problems. they're running out of time to raise america's borrowing limits or risk defaulting on debt. jo, bargains, democrats are divided over the precedence, sweeping domestic agenda, hydro castro reports from capitol hill on this, or the year or $250.00 for the laser $175.00. the merchant is adopted, the u. s. government will remain open at least until early december, democrats and some republicans came together on thursday hours ahead of a midnight deadline. and with his continued resolution, we not only keep government open, keep checks flowing to, to our veterans and social security recipients and the rest. it's just a remarkable thing to think of all the things that we can do working together for the people. but while congress has put out one fire, yet another blaze frightened the country's financial solvency. if the nation's looming debt ceiling the point at which the us can borrow no more money to pay its

bills. that limit will be reached on october 18th, unless congress agrees to raise or suspend it. economists including treasury secretary, janet jaelyn, saying a u. s. government default will likely throw the u. s. economy into recession and destabilize global markets. it's necessary to avert a catastrophic event for our economy representatives, the debt ceiling has been raised, were suspended $78.00 times since 1960, almost always on a bipartisan basis. my hope is that we can work together to do so. again, republicans raised the debt sailing 3 times under former president trump, but have bowed against doing the same for president biden valleys. democrats with the task of solving the issue alone, requiring challenging parliamentary maneuvers with no guarantee of succeeding in

time. republicans need to get out of the way. so senate democrats can address the issue quickly, and without needlessly endangering the stability of our economy. we cannot afford the risk of drawn out unpredictable process. republicans, though refused to budge. they say it's the democrats problem because they control government were able to find the government today because the majority accepted reality. the same day wanted to have him on the dirt, run it naturally. another week, another display of the partisan acrimony accompanying the u. s. congress from crisis to crisis. heidi jo castro, alger 0, washington escal lived to alan fisher at the white house. so no government shocked a, but this battle isn't over. no, the debt limit is still going to be an issue. so what is the debt limit? well, the us bring, spends a lot more than it brings, and therefore is essentially got to give itself

a limit on its credit card. and that is what the debt limit is. normally it's done on a bipartisan basis. but this time the republicans are saying to the democrats, new unit, to sort this out in your own. you run the house, you run the center and you have the white house. so why are they doing this? well the thing that that could be a winning issue for them come the midterms in 2022, even though they raised that during donald trump's time 3 times, they can turn and say, look at it, the debt of the country is increasing and it's the democrats to blame, but essentially this is just the u. s. meeting it's obligations. now if the u. s. defaults that could cause serious financial implications for the economy. it's highly unlikely to happen, but it's something that the democrats want to avoid. so they'll have to start thinking about tactics of raising the debt limit, or even possibly getting rid of her altogether, and doing so without any republican support in the house of the senate. so no congress can focus on t big bills. the white house would like to push through bert is facing opposition

from inside its own party. what's going on inside his own party is now incredible. okay. they're too big bills. first of all, there's the one trillion dollar infrastructure bill in you've heard about that. that's to improve airports, roads, bridges, all over the united states, and that has bipartisan support. there's also a $3.00 trillion dollar bill, which you're biden wanted to push through saying, look, this will help entitlement programs will provide free community college. it will make sure that there's help for young people and for seniors, and this is really important. now, the progressive caucus of the democratic party, there's about 100 of them in the house. they say if we bought for the infrastructure bill 1st, nothing's going to get done on the other bill. so we're not voting for the infrastructure bill that makes the white house slightly crazy, even though they won't admit it publicly. so they're trying to work out some way that they can bring both sides together. no. when it comes to the $3.00 trillion

dollar bill, there are democratic senators who say that's way too much money. we don't want to be spending that there. some people will paint this eyes at the whole thing of the, of the united states government, big an absolute turmoil, and there's fighting everywhere. and there is some degree of conflict between the progressive democrats and those that would be considered much more centrist. but this is how democracy works. you stand up and say, i have a plan, this is what i want to do. and someone says, well, i quite like that plan, but i don't like other parts of it and they get together and the negotiate. so that is what's happening at the moment. the problem is nancy pelosi was almost certainly going to bring the infrastructure bill to the house or on thursday night, really she didn't have the votes because the progressive democratic caucus said we're not supporting it until you do the other bill. and that as where we are, so there's a bit of an impasse that democrats have really got to sort there. so as for the

republicans essentially sitting back saying, go get the popcorn. let's watch how this plays out because they think again is, could be bad news. for joe biden, but particularly for the democrats, come the midterms in 2022 and much more importantly. it could be bad news for the democrats who are currently trying to keep the go. the governorship of virginia, that election is already underway with the votes counted, and the final votes counted in november, so they have a real political reason to try make sure that the infrastructure bill goes through, because everyone agrees that needed, but also the $3.00 trillion dollar bill, which could change the face of benefits here in the united states. okay. alan fisher at the white house. thank you. alan australia aims to begin reopening its borders in november, 18 months after they were slammed shots for the vaccinated citizens and residents will be allowed to come and go once states reach vaccination targets. but the

country remains off limits to foreigners. sarah clark reports from the gold coast in the state of queensland. it's the news. tens of thousands of australians stranded overseas had been waiting for from november. international borders will begin to reopen once again, allowing travel in and out of the country. it's time to give a stride in their lives back with save lives, with side livelihoods. but we must work together to ensure that australians can reclaim the lives that they once had in this country. and we must work together to achieve that goal. city with the 1st city to allow international flights fully vaccinated, australian citizens and permanent residents will be required to quarantine at home for 7 days after coming from overseas. those who haven't been vaccinated or have received a vaccine that's not recognized by the government will have to quarantine in

a hotel for 2 weeks. vaccines produced by china's san a back and the indian manufactured cover shield had been approved. and that will enable australians who are fully vaccinated and australians and residents of australia who are overseas, who are fully vaccinated, to be able to travel again. and to be out the lift. those caps on airports in states where they have moved into phase see of the progress denouncement has been welcomed by family members who been separated due to caps on the number of seats on international flights and unable to re unite due to quarantine restrictions. there still some hurdles restrictions wishing to return home restrictions will only be lifted when states reach an 80 percent vaccination target. which means states like here in queensland and western australia where the vaccine, right trails throughout the country could be required to wait until december, the full borders reopen. if miss atwell victoria opened up to the world before they

open up to all the other states, that will only incentivize it to the other states to get rid of the domestic borders and actually start to reconnect with the world or say they learn to tolerate the virus and know they can still manage it. the travel nonce mon only covers australian citizens and permanent residents. the foreign nationals, australia borders remain closed until further notice. sarah clark, audi 0, queensland australia is pharmaceutical company merge says it's been experiments in with a coven, 19 treatments, which reduces hospitalizations and death. i half it states has not yet been published, or peer reviewed. marcus, seeking emergency use authorization in the united states. but if approved, this would be the 1st pill for coven 19. mark says the medication is designed to be taken twice daily for 5 days after diagnosis, where we can speak now to ok. santa pisec,

who leads the global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious disease. since university college london and joined us by skype from london, it's great to have you with us on the news iraq, santa. i just this pill work. yes it is. an anti virus pill is an oral capsule, so it's easy to take at home. it can be a, you don't have to take it in hospital rather density or, and other treatments were actually an infusion base or inter an intravenous administration. so this is a much more convenient than many of the other types of treatments such as monoclonal antibodies, et cetera. which were much more expensive and were complicated and, and required much more staff to administer on. and rather than targeting the surface protein, this actually of garbled, the viral genes as a less effective at replicating within the body. so it's about time that we were

able to introduce an easy to take a tablet home within our tool kit of various medications that can help prevent and fight corona virus. it certainly sounds like very good use, particularly for people who don't like needs ols, but it's not been peer reviewed yet. do you think there's a chance people might be celebrating this use a little bit too soon? well, the results from the trial that has been shared by the company and has been so positive that there has been a recommendation for it now to be accelerated. however, yes, of course we always do need to have a wider bank of data, wider population level, evidence and peer review to, to be able to forge ahead with its use. that being said, the government, the u. s. government has already advanced, purchased 1700000000 doses i believe. and so

that's a 1700000 rather. and so there is, i think, a view that this is going to be a very effective solution. but we do need to have a further transparency of publications of this to be reviewed by other scientists. i put on the whole would you expect that this type of treatment will be better because it can access more people? absolutely, and i've been a sure and the other treatment, the reason i asked about the peer review and so on. this is to do public perception as well. because as you know, there has been some resistance to the coven vaccines world. why? because they have been developed so quickly, given that situation, do you think people might be slightly more receptive to this treatments, or is it likely to face the same kind of pushback because the vaccine itself was well, i think that there will be, for instance,

people who are more open to taking the vaccine. i will probably not be resistant to the anti viral, but it's very unusual to see that some individuals who have been more vaccine hesitant have been open to take in other medicines, such as mono monoclonal, any but bodies and more controversially, the unproven. i, her mexican medicine, that's horse and i doesn't, isn't it? yeah, they're opposed to the vaccine, but they'll take a tablet that don't have the evidence base behind it. so it is a very complicated aspect to words of what types of barriers are there from the public acceptance of the medications. but i do think that overall, we probably will see more acceptance of the tablet that you can take at home rather than going somewhere to get vaccinated because of the perception around vaccine. ok, well, so very good use and deeds more developments to cancer this disease in this pandemic

. thank you so much. ok. santa pisec for giving us your view in your perceptions. we do appreciate that. thank you very much. thank you. he's act to this have gathered in the italian city of milan, suppose asked against what they say is in action by worldly just a heads of a you and climate summit. next month during a conference in milan on thursday. young, delicate skate their ideas on how to better address global warming. but many expressed frustration saying organizers aren't really interested. atom, reiney has more from milan. we have thousands, perhaps more than 10000 students and young people crowding around the streets of milan and they're saying they're just extremely frustrated, angry and impatient for change and they want that change. now we see a lot of them saying that they're worried about their very future. they say they're the generation. this will be the most impacted by climate change. and all this talk

has done nothing. they're calling for a greater commitment of spending by rich countries for poor countries to equal the playing field in this fight against climate change. and that come says we've been seeing that the rich countries haven't even met their commitments to pay for a $100000000000.00 annual fund for these poor countries. much of their talk is about equality, social justice, and sharing the pain and sharing the solution with the poor countries of the world . and although we saw some success at this you for climate conference, which was part of the pre cop leadings, regretted clung berg while she met with the time prime minister along with other young activists. they still are worried that all the promises made in the past couple days here milan are really just promises and not put in action that made these very bold proposals, including calling for the elimination of fossil fuels in less than 9 years time. they hope that'll be taken on board. at least 9 people had been killed in

a fire as a hospital in the romanian port city of constantia and more than 110 patients in the building, but they have now been evacuated. this is the 3rd deadly hospital far in less than a year, and it's led to growing concerns over agent hospital infrastructure in the country . here in humanitarian coordinator for lebanon, says no, the 80 percent of the country's population has been pushed into poverty. lebanon is grappling with a crushing economic crisis, which the world bank has described as one of the worst, anywhere in the last 150 years. few medicines and basic necessities are running critically short. plenty more has only news are including champion, bolts, or money. backyard hangs up his gloves to fight for the philippines presidency in next year's elections. venezuela overhauls its currency again, mopping 6 zeros off inflation ravaged bank notes and his sports brazilian football

legend pelley has left the hospital will have an update on his recovery. ah. in the canary islands to youth volcanic fissures have opened 400 meters from the erupt. sing contravir her on la panama lava has been flowing into the sea for the past 3 days, and it has formed a peninsula 20 actors, long lat scenario. bigger than $25.00 foot ball pitches showing how has more from lap alma the eruption very much, still ongoing and take a look at it up there. it is. the most extraordinary thing to be in the presence of not just the sight and size of it, but also the sound of it. rumbling down the western slopes of this island or the

air is tinted with a sort of chemical quality. there is a volcanic ash raining down on our heads as we speak and up at the top, there are roughly, i'm told to the left of your picture of the original vent. there was a collapse overnight and 2 new mouths. as you mentioned, there have opened up spewing larva where the original vent is now mostly spewing ash. and it remains unclear at this moment at whether that new lava flow will follow the course of the original lava flow, or open up a new pathway to the sea. potentially taking in yet more homes, yet more property in its park. and overnight on the south side of the island, a brand new issue as arisen around the town of win caliente. there was seismic activity detected there around 7 pm on thursday night, or an earthquake measuring $3.00 on the richter scale, 10 kilometers below the surface of the year. not an enormous event in and of itself . but under these circumstances, certainly something that is of concern to vulcan oldest,

who worry now that that could trigger a new mouth on the south side of the island. so communities here still very much living under the threat of this volcanic eruption and with a high degree of uncertainty about what quite what this volcano may have to offer up next. philippine boxing star many pack. yeah. has officially registered as a candidate for next year's presidential election. the 42 year old was nominated by a faction of the governing party. he early renounced his retirement from boxing. to focus on his political career. patio is a to turn congressman and current senator under constitutional term limits. president rodrigo deter, tate cannot seek re election and will instead contest the vice presidency. jamila alan dorgan is in manila and says patio has a lot of appeal among voters is been seen as the biggest absentee at the senate. you know, he spent a lot of his time travelling as he continued his boxing career up until last week,

where he officially retired and said that he will focus on his political run for the presidency. now, as you see, our money back, your stories, a story, the resonates to millions of filipinos. it's a rags to riches story. a poor boy from the southern philippines, making a young man making his way to the top box, boxing rings all over the world. but over the past few years, it's been quite obvious that filipinos and many filipinos are able to discern the difference between manufactured the politician and manny puck out the boxer. this is why even those who fully support him actually say that the, that money buckles should admit that he does need more time, more training, more experienced in the political arena before running for the presidency. but what is important to note here is that decisiveness of money, backyard. that is because he actually really believes that god anointed him to become president, just as he believes that it was that his decks it destiny to become

a world renowned boxer. and at one point symbolically a president road, eager to tear, to raise the head of money bucko, and said that he was to be the next president of the country. but that has changed very, very quickly over the past few months. the desire of money pocket to actually run for the presidency, split the political party of the to and, and even money pocket breaking away from the administration and accusing president with legal authority as government of you know, being involved in corruption. aries, our guy is a professor of the school science at the university of the philippines, journeyman. he says, park years, popularity will be enough to convince voters. i don't think that pure popularity or name call will deliver him the presidency at this particular juncture. in philippine, it's because the country had seen its share of a celebrity, politicians who were able to reach the highest excellence of

a political office and the, the record of celebrities of becoming an even us sports. men becoming effective governors are effective rulers, leading the government has not been good. the last time a celebrity became president of his didn't was cut short of the other 2001. so. okay. oh, might be writing a lot on the magic of celebrity. but unfortunately, at this point, i think the filipino electorate knows more than just simply on knowing him as a world famous box. one of money pock yoga context and narrative is that he is an ordinary. he used to be and, and he still claims to be an ordinary filipino who, who came from the poor. so i think there is a lot of populist leanings of a pi, a possible agenda for money pa, cow. he has yet to really detail his plans on,

on what he wants to do as if he becomes president. but, you know, in a country with wide spread economic inequality, and with 80 percent of the filipinos are in port conditions, any populist, a appeal by any politician. like i think what money per cal will do will always find some resonance. there might be a few buyers, but i don't think that is enough for him to in the presence rallies are taking place in new york in support of a lawyer known for his decades little battle against you. excellent joint chevron, steven don socker is g to be sentenced for criminal contempt on friday. the case stands from his decade slung fights, omaha off of ecuadorian villagers to prove that chevron polluted the amazon rain forest in the $199.00 seas. kristen selina is in new york. we can speak to her. no . kristin, what kind of sentences he facing yes,

i'm outside of the court house. the federal court house in manhattan, where steve danziger, in a short time, will be sentenced on those criminal contempt charges. he faces a maximum 6 month sentence. but here's the thing. he's already been locked up in his new york apartment for the last 2 years on these charges because the judge found him in contempt. it was a very unusual ruling. i. this all stems from him failing to turn over evidence in a case that he said would have implicated the ecuador and plaintiffs in that lawsuit against chevron in a case that he was and is currently still appealing. he has a lot of support from indigenous groups from ecuador, you can see some of the people gathered behind me and human rights groups as well. like amnesty international who went to the united nations and got a preliminary report from a working group on arbitrary detention. this is part of the human rights council of

the united nations. and the report that has come back is scathing about the proceedings and how donner was treated. and the 2 judges who took on this case raising very, very many questions. danziger his south spoke to us earlier and he said that this these charges stand from him running a successful case against chevron. back in the 90s. i met kristen though while we're speaking to you, so we're showing some pretty disgusting pictures which looks like environmental damage in the amazon. tell us more about this case again, chevron and i will go here. where does that case stand? yes. so in 2013 a judge in atwood or awarded the plaintiffs in that case,

that stephen danziger represented with $9500000000.00 in damages for damage. that was don in obtaining oil in ecuador. i was actually another company that chevron bought. but by buying the company was held liable for all of this destruction in the negative health impacts on the people they are. so after winning this case, however, chevron then turned around and accused danziger of various miss steeds. in the case, bribery, witness tampering and took that case to the united states. now the case against chevron, the damages against chevron, have been up held by the highest court in ecuador by an international court. in canada, the case against danziger that chevron started. they presented it to prosecutors here in new york. the prosecutors refused to take, did the judge in the case, been assigned private attorneys to prosecute danziger?

it's all raises a lot of questions at the un. i said we're good. it should be overturned, basically the way the, the, the, the whole thing went down. so, excuse me. so, so that's where things stand. whichever one to this day, no money has been paid to any of those plaintiffs in ecuador and steven danziger, the attorney who represented them, has been serving time, but chevron has not paid any damages. okay, kristen, selena, that i live for. as in new york kristin, that for now. thank you very much. indeed. george's former president's mikella a sack a sphere. he says he has returned from exile to support the opposition for saturday's election. he posted a video on facebook saying his back despite the risk of arrest. he left george in 2013 and his 2nd terms president n vague. here is lacy, he was sentenced in absentia to 6 years in prison for a piece of para, where he denies the charges. the says they are politically motivated. let's get

more now from robin forest. here walker is lie for us and it's a blessed see. i robin what's going on everybody's wondering whether me house or cash v the is really here. that video we saw of him posting this morning off on facebook, appears to show him in by to me. and it's very dark in the background. it's difficult to figure out whether he's really there but the united national movement, his political party say he absolutely is in georgia. i've spoken to one of the senior figures that she confirmed to me that that was the case. she also shared another photograph of him, seemingly in another town, standing in front of an election feel bored because to morrow there will be municipal elections in georgia. so the idea is that he's here, he's somehow been able to slip into the country undetected and he's working his way

to the capital where he said he hopes to raise the crowds, bring them out onto the streets after the election results come in.