foreign policy and deputy dean in the department of government at the university of essex. is also author of "democracies and authoritarian regimes." and in arlington, virginia, in the united states, khaled elgindy, senior fellow at middle east institute and author of "blind spot: americans and the palestinians, from balfour to trump." good to have you all with us. natasha lindstaedt, if i could start with you, this is the first time in 12 years that an american president is meeting with an israeli prime minister who is not benjamin netanyahu. i suspect the optics of this will be more important than anything else at this point. what is the biden administration looking to get out of this? >> yeah, i do think it really is more about the optics, particularly because, for biden, he is dealing with the crisis in afghanistan, things look a bit chaotic, and he wants things to look as business as usual. i think that he does want to try to assure israel that iran is a threat, but i think you will be -- he will be communicating that his approach to dealing with iran will be different

s. foreign policy and deputy dean in the department of government at the university of essex. natasha is also author of democracies and authoritarian regimes. and in arlington, virginia in the united states salad again the senior fellow at the middle east institute and author of blind spot american and america, and the palestinians from bow 4 to trump. good to have you with us. natasha lynch, that if i could start with you. this is the 1st time in 12 years that american president is meeting with an israeli prime minister who is not benjamin netanyahu. i suspect the optics of this will be more important than anything else at this point, but what is the brightest button administration looking to get out of this? yeah, do you think it really is more about the optics particularly because for biden, he's dealing with the crisis in afghanistan. i think look a bit chaotic and he wants me to look at business as usual. i think that he does want to try to assure israel that iran is a threat, but i think he will be communicating that his approach to dealing with the wrong will be different than

. >>> joining me now is a professor of government at the university of essex.ith us. >> thanks for having me. >> so not to cover, but first, the senatery reconvenes at noon today, with a vote set for early tuesday. how significant is it that republicans are poised to help joe biden pass his massive infrastructure bill? and what might this mean politically? >> this is definitely significant, because the u.s. senators have been very much in line with president trump on most things. this is an opportunity for them to break with him, and we think there will be about 20 senators willing to do so. this is one of the key policies of the biden administration. he really wants to get this infrastructure bill passed. it is popular, and i think that's hs why you have senators breaking rank with trump. and deciding to vote with biden. they know it is popular and badly needed. and it's also not going to be paid for by raising taxes. so there are a few holdoutsdela this looks like it will get through because it is overwhelmingly popular. >> we'll be watching those speeches at

report into the incident which occurred at the university of essex were two macro female speakers had itself across the uk. it is really established now and it is here to stay for the next few days but notice there is a cold front here just across the north sea and if you look at the motion of the cloud, it is coming out of the north, dropping from the north, moving southwards and that will introduce slightly fresher air come tomorrow. but today, the best of the weather so far has been across the north—west of the uk. in fact, you are a winner here, it has been so fine for the last couple of days. look at all of that cloud across from east anglia, the midlands, into wales. this cloud will be breaking during the day and giving way to some sunshine, but really the warmest, the sunniest weather will be in the south—west and west of scotland, up to 26 degrees today in glasgow. mid—20s possible for northern ireland too. here�*s that cool front moving across the uk during the course of the night. that will introduce fresher conditions to the north sea coast initially and then the cloud and