. >>> the white house says president biden will speak with the new prime minister of britain, ricci sunak, in the coming days. the 42-year-old former finance minister was chosen by the ruling conservative party yesterday to replace liz truss. sunak will officially be named prime minister today after meeting with king charles. he takes over after truss's now scrapped economic program led to a financial crisis. >> we now need stability and unity, and i will make it my utmost priority to bring my party and our country together. >> sunak is the first person of color to become britain's prime minister. he's also the youngest person to lead the country in more than two centuries. >>> a new report shows covid's devastating impact on america's school children. math scores saw their biggest decline on record, and reading scores hit their lowest level in three decades. nikki battiste has more on the nation's report card. >> a new york city mother says her son struggled during the pandemic. he's now in eighth grade. >> before the pandemic, he was always on the honor roll. after that he couldn't get

lesya ukrainka, our territory we must win back, but when the language dies , so does the nation ricci sunakew prime minister of great britain king charles iii received him at buckingham palace and asked to form a government sunak became the 57th prime minister of the united kingdom and the youngest head of government in the last two centuries for the first time the 42-year-old politician of indian origin was elected to the house of commons of great britain in 2015 and headed the british ministry of finance in february 2020. now he will replace listras, who spent a record-breaking 45 years as prime minister days our country is currently going through a deep economic crisis, the effects of covid remain and still putin's war in ukraine has destabilized energy markets and supply chains all over the world, i want to pay tribute to my predecessors from the tracks, she was not wrong when she wanted to bring economic growth to this country, this is a noble goal and i admire her desire to make changes, but some mistakes were made, of course not with bad intentions , but i was elected the leader of m