live from washington, this is bbc news, welcome to viewers on pbs in america. is a deal on the us debt limit close? president biden believes it might be. things are looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some clearer evidence tonight. an attack in ukraine destroys a medical facility, killing at least two people. we'll have the latest from our correspondent at the scene. the shooting of an 11—year—old boy in mississippi raises new questions over police practices. aderrien murry had actually called officers for help, only to be shot himself.

hello i'm sumi somaskanda. we begin right here in washington dc where democrats and republicans are scrambling to close a deal on raising the federal debt limit. there is still no deal in place but as many lawmakers leave for a holiday weekend, president biden has hinted a deal might be not be too far away. with regards to the debt limit, things are looking good, i'm very optimistic. i hope we will have some clearer evidence tonight, before the clock strikes 12, that we have a deal. but it is very close and i am optimistic. so according to the president, we might get the news of a deal in less than an hour. a top republican negotiator, congressman patrick mchenry, was a bit more cautious with his assessment, saying: "we are in the window by which we meet thejune five deadline. it's not over, we're not done." "but we have to come

to some tough terms in these closing hours." earlier on friday, congress got a bit more runway for its negotiations. us treasury secretary janet yellen sending this letter to congressional leaders, she now says the us has untiljune 5th to avoid a default. she had previously said june 1st. if republicans and the white house fail to reach a comprimise, the world's largest economy could possibly default on its debt, triggering financial chaos. earlier, i spoke with representative mike waltz, republican congressman from florida, about the possibility of a deal and whether he'd support it well, i'll have to actually see the legislative text, and i think it'sjust worth reminding everybody that house republicans have passed a bill that does raise the debt ceiling, and does limit spending, save the taxpayer money and put measures in place to actually grow our economy, so we've had a deal

on the table for three months. it's a shame president biden, just now, just a week ago, even named negotiators and we're at the edge of a crisis. so we will see what the actual deal says, then we will make a decision on how we are going to vote, but i did already vote to raise the debt ceiling with those other measures in place. yes, you voted alongside your republican colleagues. one more question, are you confident speaker of the house kevin mccarthy can get your republican colleagues on board with any agreement that includes some compromises? you already said not all republicans and democrats will be happy with the end agreement. well, you already see folks on both sides of the aisle, whether its work requirements, or demands that we go to just where we were, just one year ago, fiscal year 2022 levels of spending, not �*23, so we will see. i mean, this is really being tightly held right now as they try to finalise a deal. i want to see the actual legislative text, and again, we have seen this before, where we have rhetoric, we have discussion,

but the devil is in the details on what we actually put into text and put into law. that's what many of us will want to see before we make a decision on how we're going to vote. russia' bombardment of ukraine has become an all—too—regular occurrance, with increasingly deadly results. this is a medical clinic in the central city of dnipro, on fire after it was hit by a missile. at least two people died. president zelensky described the attack as "another crime against humanity" and said russia had "chosen the path of evil of its own will." other cities, including kharkiv and the capital kyiv, were also targetted. our ukraine correspondentjames waterhouse has travelled to dnipro and sent this report. sirens wail another difficult day for ukrainian cities.

this time, it's dnipro with the most acute of impacts. a psychiatric clinic on the receiving end of a ballistic missile. after a brief reprieve, russia has resumed its tactic of targeting civilian areas. this is the residual threat that people have to live with — the idea that something like this could happen at any point, in any city. the authorities are sadly well practised in dealing with the consequences of russia's tactics. it's almost a dignified efficiency. these are the signature signs of a ballistic missile. people say the explosion happened before the sirens could react. they're harder to detect and shoot down. the blast area is always vast. we meet yulia, in a queue for aid. she shows me the moment her window shattered from the force.

translation: this is war. it's not our fault. calm and peaceful civilians suffer every day, mentally. children suffer. well, it's hard. it's just difficult. we're not even in bakhmut. we're far away. nevertheless, we get hit regularly. ukraine has spent another night under russian drones and missiles. almost 50 were shot down, we're told. translation: the thing is, russia's now irritated - - especially in recent days, when our air defence is becoming more powerful — and when they become irritated, they send their missiles everywhere. there is a methodical ferociousness to this clean—up. dnipro is, after all, trying to avoid russia's grasp, but moscow has a long reach.

james waterhouse, bbc news, dnipro. and joining me now was the former deputy interior general of nato. thank you forjoining us on our programme tonight he i want to start with the intense fighting we have been seeing in ukraine particularly around bakhmut. the wagner group said it is pulling out and heading over to russian troops, russia said it is still in control of parts of the city but do you think we are seeing a significant shift in the front lines here? actually comedy _ front lines here? actually comedy shift _ front lines here? actually comedy shift to _ front lines here? actually comedy shift to my - front lines here? actually comedy shift to my mind| front lines here? actually . comedy shift to my mind has beenin comedy shift to my mind has been in the ukrainian favour because ukraine has been able to regain control of some of the key arteries coming into the key arteries coming into the city of bakhmut. one of the problems they had during this operation over many, many months was that the russians controlled the high ground, above the only roads getting into the city, ukrainian supply

lines were under a critical situation, but now russia has been pushed back from those areas and no longer exercises that kind of control so in wartime when you have the lines of communication open, you control the supply lines, you are in a much better both tactical and i would argue also strategic situation, so i think although the russians have claimed some kind of re in seizing that shattered city of bakhmut which they ground down to the ground they nevertheless have i think in some sense lost this capability to control the high ground around the city. something we also saw this week was raids into southern russia, into bulga rod and russia said this is ante kremlin militia attacking and russian. are you worried that these kind of militia could escalate this?

they are accusing them of directly controlling this militia and the ukrainians say they are russian partisans who are fighting against the putin regime so therefore are inspired to attack territory inside russia. to be honest with you why don't you know the truth of this situation, it is very murky but i think what is clear is that these border areas in russia are coming under increased attack, i was reading again today about drone attacks in these areas close to russian borders, not only in that immediate area but other areas as well. so the border regions of russia are now increasingly under pressure. but again, what do you see here is the potential for an escalation of russia seeing increasing pressure directly on its territory? i increasing pressure directly on its territory?— its territory? i think of course _ its territory? i think of course that _ its territory? i think of course that this - its territory? i think of course that this has i its territory? i think of i course that this has been its territory? i think of - course that this has been a red line that russia has laid down in the past but they will say as far as these attacks in

these border areas are concerned, russia has not overreact, in my view. what worries me is actions that would affect some of the key strategic site, we saw when the ukrainians attack, while they never admitted it, but there were attacks on the airbase where russian strategic bombers were earlier or later last year, this led to a really firm and strong response from the russian federation, they ceased their implementation of the new treaty so they took not a military but a diplomatic action in that case so i think we have to watch and see what happens when the russians decree or believe that it is a major strategic base of some kind or a strategic target of some kind then they seem to react more strongly. i'm not sure these border skirmishes at “p sure these border skirmishes at up to that. i sure these border skirmishes at up to that-— up to that. i want to have a look at how _

up to that. i want to have a look at how ukraine's - up to that. i want to have aj look at how ukraine's allies are looking at this conflict and we spoke to mike watts of florida and i want to play you a clip of what he said a little bit earlier.— bit earlier. europe at a minimum _ bit earlier. europe at a minimum is _ bit earlier. europe at a minimum is going - bit earlier. europe at a minimum is going to l bit earlier. europe at a - minimum is going to need to step up as a true partner, a dollarfor euro type step up as a true partner, a dollar for euro type approach or i think you are going to see other demands that when it comes to reconstruction and bearing the brunt of that cost, if our european partners, and look, friends and allies can also have tough conversations and hold each other accountable to our promises.— to our promises. what do you make of that _ to our promises. what do you make of that statement? - to our promises. what do you make of that statement? i i to our promises. what do you i make of that statement? i think it's much in _ make of that statement? i think it's much in line _ make of that statement? i think it's much in line to _ make of that statement? i think it's much in line to be _ make of that statement? i think it's much in line to be honest i it's much in line to be honest with a kind of bipartisan view in the united states that the nato allies have to carry their weight of the defence burden in europe and as far as they understand that the european union is already expect in that they will have to carry a significant amount of the burden of ukrainian reconstruction, when we get to that point, so i know the congressmen was trying to make

a point about nato and european union countries being freeloaders, free riders on the united states but in actual fact i think there is a very clear recognition in both international institutions, nato and the european union, that they have to help bear the burden of this fight and they will have to help bear the burden of reconstruction. but if this war _ burden of reconstruction. but if this war continues on, we are expecting a counteroffensive from ukraine, if this counteroffensive drags on, are you worried about support from the us in particular faltering, support from the us in particularfaltering, we have seen some voices on the right wing of the republican party questioning whether this type of monetary aid and support to ukraine is necessary. i of monetary aid and support to ukraine is necessary.— ukraine is necessary. i think will be important _ ukraine is necessary. i think will be important for - ukraine is necessary. i think will be important for the - ukraine is necessary. i think. will be important for the biden administration to continue to hard on the point that the security of ukraine is about the security of europe overall and the health and stability and the health and stability and security of europe, both in

security but also economic and political terms, that means a lot for the stability and health of the us economy, so there are of course some tough arguments that the biden administration has and they have been consistent throughout in i think conveying the importance of this fight for the continuity of prosperity and stability for the united states itself but those messages will definitely have to keep coming out clear and strong. to keep coming out clear and stronu. . , to keep coming out clear and stronu. .,, , ., to keep coming out clear and stron. .,, , ., strong. last question, we saw ukraine's — strong. last question, we saw ukraine's president _ strong. last question, we saw ukraine's president lenski - ukraine's president lenski making a flurry of visits to european capitals, also the g7 summit, looking to maintain support for ukraine going lord, do you think he achieved that goal? it do you think he achieved that coal? . , , do you think he achieved that ioal? ., , , , goal? it was very interesting to me how — goal? it was very interesting to me how cleverly - goal? it was very interesting to me how cleverly done - goal? it was very interesting to me how cleverly done it l goal? it was very interesting . to me how cleverly done it was, it was not only the g7 but he stopped on the way to talk with the arab league who have not been that supportive of ukraine's war effort and have tended to lean on the direction of russia instead so he very cleverly i think covered a lot

of bases on that trip and i think to deliverfor of bases on that trip and i think to deliver for ukraine the middle eastern countries now stepping forward and saying they want to be involved in a peace process. of course if that involves pressure on ukraine to capitulate in areas they don't want to give ground on that will be a problem but it is good i think that those arab countries have been involved as well as the broader g7. , , ., ~ , ., g7. very interesting, thank you forjoining _ g7. very interesting, thank you forjoining us— g7. very interesting, thank you forjoining us on _ g7. very interesting, thank you forjoining us on our— g7. very interesting, thank you| forjoining us on our programme tonight. staying in the us, and the state of mississippi, where an officer has been suspended after shooting an 11—year—old boy while responding to a domestic disturbance. the boy's mother says police arrived to the home in reponse to a domestic disturbance call placed by the child. he was then shot in the chest. the child has since been released from a local hospital. the bbc�*sjess parker has been following that story. according to the family, he was told by his mother to call 911 after next partner of hers had shown up

at the house was acting in an irate fashion. —— an ex—partner. police came to the property and the family said an officer called on everyone to leave the house and as he moved through the property and that's when he was shot in chest. but the family say is that while the 11—year—old boy is back at home, he suffered from a lacerated liver, fractured ribs and a collapsed lung. the police department are not commenting but the mississippi bureau of investigations is looking into the matter and saying they will handle their findings over to the state's attorney general. let's take a look some of the headlines from the uk: the presenter phillip schofield has resigned

from itv and admitted that he lied about a relationship he had with a younger male colleague at this morning. he said his departure from the show last week was not related to the affair, and described the relationship as "unwise, but not illegal." and british cycling is to ban transgender women from taking part in female elite events, following a 9—month review. transgender women will now compete with men, in what will be known as an open category. staying in the uk, and to a maternity unit in kent. a new mother left in blood—stained sheets for three days, health staff who failed to wash their hands after each patient, and life—saving equipment not in the right place — all features of a unit which inspectors found so poor it was almost shut down. officials visited the william harvey hospital in ashford injanuary after a damning report, which found at least 45 babies might have survived with better care from the east kent hospitals trust. its chief executive has apologised. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan has this special report. the errors kept coming.

our son harry died because of a number of serious and preventable failures. years of harm... some days do i want to go out and face the big, wide world. nah. at least 45 babies who may have survived. no one spotted what was going on. they could have saved him. and yet care has not improved. sweetheart! ambrose chapman is healthy and happy, but his mother, philippa, will never forget his birth. should we put you back and then you can go forward? labour wasn't progressing well, so exhausted and in pain, philippa asked for an epidural but was told the clinicians were too busy to help her. at this point, they said as well as his head swelling, he was getting distressed. they said, well, what we have to do is wait until either your life is in danger or his life is in danger before we can bump you up the queue, which was terrifying to hear. after two hours of worrying, staff at the william harvey

hospital safely delivered ambrose by forceps and episiotomy. but he soon developed jaundice, necessitating a hospital stay. three days of which philippa spent in the same place sheets she'd given birth on. the cleaner had come round to mop the floor and had heard me previously asking for clean sheets, and had seen the midwife run off and not come back. she said, have they not changed your sheets yet? she said, i've had enough of this, and she went and got a midwife, said to the midwife, she's still in dirty sheets. she's changing her baby on bloody sheets. get her a clean bed. to many families are having a poor experience in east camden, according to the care quality commission. inspectors found multiple examples of inadequate practices, staff routinely in some areas didn't wash their hands after treating patients. life—saving equipment wasn't in the right areas, posing a high risk of delay and emergency treatment, and staff didn't have the skills or experience

to keep women safe. we have learned that inspectors were so concerned about the quality of care that they wrote to nhs england, asking them to draw up contingency plans in case they had to close inpatient maternity facilities, a highly unusual move and insight into the gravity of their concerns. i know that i am definitely not the only one who's taking antidepressants whilst on the midwifery course. isolde spent a year in 2020 working as a student midwife in the william harvey hospital. she says she often ended shifts in tears, felt wholly unsupported and began suffering from anxiety before quitting midwifery. if people are being rude about other people behind their back, you are not going to work well asa team. and that's when things happen and things go wrong. the trust say they have hired more staff and changed some working practices. we fully accept what cqc have recommended we do. they called

for immediate action, and we have responded to that, and they seem satisfied with what we've done. but that still leaves an awful lot of other things to do. ambrose recently celebrated his first birthday, but his parents fear having another baby, certainly in east kent. other women have apparently already started avoiding the trust. michael buchanan, bbc news, kent. voters in turkey will go back to the polls on sunday in a presidential election run—off between the country's long—time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan, and his main rival, the secular opposition leader kemal kilicdaroglu. the president held a slim lead in the first round of voting but did not receive more than the required 50% majority. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters. from istanbul, our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports. all chant. "one nation, one flag, one motherland," they chant. take a look at the fervent support for turkey's strongman leader. recep tayyip erdogan is facing into sunday's second

round in a commanding position. cheering and applause. at this cab drivers�* convention in istanbul, they couldn't get enough of him. we meet kasim, a fan of the president's nationalist message and track record in office. "what our president did in 21 years would take others 100 "years," he says. "that's why we support him. "may god keep him from harm." "erdogan is everything to me," says ayse. "we couldn't get to hospitals before. "now, we can get around easily. "we have transportation. "we have everything." and what of the president's rival, kemal kilicdaroglu? from him now, less talk of hope and a much harder tone. "i declare," he says,

"as soon as i come to power, "i'll send all refugees home". that includes more than 3 million syrians. it's a campaign pledge that goes down well here. whoever is turkey's next president, nationalism is already a winner in this election. in kasimpasa, few doubt the outcome. president erdogan grew up on the streets of this working class neighbourhood. at the corner shop opposite his old home, semita tells us he brought freedom for religious conservatives like her. translation: there are police, teachers and civil servants - in headscarves now. god bless brother tayyip. we have hot running water and gas in our homes. there's been a great

improvement. but for others, there has been just the opposite. mert and zeynep are students from the lgbtq+ community. they are already banned from holding pride marches and fear worse to come. when you think about maybe five more years of president erdogan in charge in turkey, what's your gut feeling? scared. i'm scared. we will still do something and we will still fight but i don't know how hard they will attack this time. because over these two — two years, our hopes were like, "yes, he will go after these elections. "we can still — we still have a chance." but if he still wins, they will attack us more, they will take our rights more. they will ban many more things, i think.

so, what's ahead here if president erdogan wins on sunday, as looks likely? supporters say more development and a stronger turkey. critics say more repression and a darker future. orla guerin, bbc news, istanbul. an experimental brain implant company founded by elon musk says it has won approvalfrom us regulators to carry out its first clinical study on a human. in a tweet, neuralink said it's an "important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people." the company didn't elaborate on the aim of the study but are working on treating conditions such as paralysis. our north america technology reporter james clayton has more details. i think this is quite significant news for the company. it is worth saying that this is from neuralink, not the fda. i have spoken to the fda today and they say that

although they have acknowledged neuralink�*s statement they have not confirmed it, however i would say it is very likely they would be refuting this if it were not true. so it does appearas it were not true. so it does appear as though the fda has given permission to neuralink to do human trials on humans, and that is a really significant moments of the company. there were many who thought this day would never come, there were reports that neuralink had already applied to do this and been rejected by the fda. there were also reports that the fda had had reports that the fda had had reports about the way it had conducted trials on animals as well. the significant moment for the company, it is a good day for people who have paralysis, who have suffered strokes, and who have other neurological disorders or diseases, because this could potentially be a game changer in the years to come. it is also a good day for elon musk, he has had a terrible week after that twitter spaces with ron desantis, so some good news for him to end the week.

stay with us here on bbc news. we will leave you with these live images of london at this hour, as daylight is just about to break there. thanks for watching, and stay with bbc news. hello. friday was another fine and dry day for the vast majority with high pressure dominating our weather picture. there was lots of sunshine around. just a little bit of this fair weather cloud popping up for a time — like here in chorley, lancashire. it was across the other side of the hills that we had the day's highest temperature. bainbridge in north yorkshire, popping up to 23 degrees celsius friday afternoon — that's seven degrees above the may average. so, pleasant in the sun. and you can see on the satellite picture just how sunny it was. just a little bit of cloud across northern england, a bit for northern ireland and a bit for northern scotland but looking out in the atlantic, we've got a weather front that's set to bring some much thicker cloud in over the next few hours. so, clouding over across north—western areas of the uk. an odd spit of rain by dawn. otherwise, it's dry with clear skies and temperatures

about six to eight degrees celsius. if you're heading outside first thing in the morning saturday morning, yes, you might need a layer or two — it will be a little on the cool side. saturday's forecast, then. high pressure staying put for most of us but this week, weather front is working into that area of high pressure and so, for scotland, we see the cloud thicken. a little bit of light, patchy rain, followed by sunshine and showers in the afternoon. it will turn cooler — temperatures about 11 to 13 across the far north of scotland. for northern ireland, england and wales, plenty of dry weather and sunshine and it's going to feel warm — high teens to low 20s widely but peaking at around 23 across the spine of the country, through parts of northern england, the midlands and central southern england. southern and eastern scotland should be pleasant enough as well. still holding on to a bit of sunshine here. ok, on sunday, high pressure is still with us but there's probably going to be a little bit more in the way of cloud developing for a time. i think sunny spells, though, coming through that. temperatures just easing down for scotland, northern ireland,

northern england so, mid—to—high teens here. the warmest weather towards the south—west, where we could see around 23 degrees again. but wherever the may sunshine comes out, i think it's going to feel ok. and it's a similar picture, really, for bank holiday monday itself. a bit more of a wind blowing for east anglia and south—east england. that could make it feel a little on the cool side first thing in the morning. but once we've got that sunshine coming through again, it should feel ok. and temperatures are going to start to rise in scotland. 21 in glasgow could be one of the warmest places in the country but turning a bit cooler down the eastern side of england. beyond that, deeper into next week, it's sunny and it's set to get warmer. for some, temperatures could reach the mid 20s. bye for now.

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