president biden's massive coronavirus relief package has cleared its final hurdle in the us congress.ion — was approved by the house of representatives without a single republican vote in favour. the bill includes a one—off payment of $1,a00 for most americans and extends weekly unemployment benefits, as well as providing funding for vaccine distribution, and re—opening schools. our washington correspondent, lebo diseko, has more. this is a huge victory for democrats and president biden's first major piece of president to be made into common law. speaking up there past, democratic leaders of congress said bill would give vital help to americans.— said bill would give vital help to americans. you will receive $1400 checks _ to americans. you will receive $1400 checks by _ to americans. you will receive $1400 checks by the - to americans. you will receive $1400 checks by the end - to americans. you will receive $1400 checks by the end of. $1400 checks by the end of march. help is on the way. vaccines will be available far more quickly to far more people. more quickly to far more maple-—

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the us congress has approved a sweeping pandemic relief package the 1st major legislative triumph of the biden administration the covert $1000.00 bill is expected to be signed into law on friday the measures include direct relief payments for most americans and billions of dollars for schools local authorities and businesses and by. the number of daily covert 19 deaths recorded in brazil has climbed above 2000 people for the 1st time over 270000 people there have now lost their lives due to the corona virus a death toll surpassed only by the united states scientists say the president's current wave of infections and deaths is being fueled by more contagious virus variants it started in early january in the amazonian city of menow us hospitals ran out of oxygen people died waiting for medical attention but health experts fear complacency has now set in and that could lead to more virus mutations developing and spread. they did have a reporter johann ramirez traveled to many else. lucy lennon doesn't but he's back to live in a normal life in meet john want to reach an early date when t

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that was with us a short while ago mexico's lower house of congress has voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana use a legislation which still needs final approval by the upper house is partly aimed at curbing drug related violence that claims thousands of lives each year in mexico . mexico's marijuana smokers have every reason to be high their long running campaign to legalize the plant is almost our reality after lawmakers inside the lower house of congress approved the bill that permits recreational use and introduces farming licenses campaigners say the legislation is a step in the right direction. with a small willow cultivation both self cultivation of a number of plants pear parish an unpaired property and also associates of cultivation community cultivation through cooperatives associations and finally the national production. last year mexican police seized more than 200000000 tons of the plant supporters hope the changes will alleviate the plague of violence wrought by the illegal drug trade though analysts are skeptical among those pushing for a change is a forme

a group of us congress representatives and senate representatives put out a statement talking about these of georgia's law enforcement and judiciary to execute politically motivated actions, this jeopardising what remains of georgia's democracy and its euro—atlantic path. this is not me in my opinion, madam president, this is your key allies in washington. yes, but at the same time, the new state secretary, just two months ago, so he was not that concerned with the path of georgia, was publicly in front of the congress saying that our path to nato was open and that the new administration was going to support it. but with respect, with respect, that was long before... it was long before the arrest of mr melia. now you have to let me finish, because you have.. let me say that i have been in brusselsjust a month and a half ago, where i visited both nato and the european union, and i've not heard anything of that kind. one thing, the public campaign that is launched against georgia, which i don't know where it comes from, and for me it's surprising, or not surprising... it's a concern that

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now gone beyond the hispanic caucus, the black caucus, the asian pacific caucus and to all of us in the congress. this legislation is protecting dreamers and t.p.s. and d.e.d. recipients, honors the truth that immigrants are the constant reinvigoration of our country. when they come here with their hopes and dreams and aspirations, these parents bringing their children, the hopes and dreams and aspirations for a better future for their children, that courage, that determination, those aspirations are american traits and they all make america more american. with all of that. indeed, they are true and legitimate heirs, these dreamers are, of our founders. epluribus une yum, from many one. we talk about that all the time. many in this chamber have been part of the fight to protect our

anna: can you give us any sense of when the president will give a joint address to congress? people are wondering why it is taking so long. ron: we wanted to get through the rescue plan first and get it passed. then we are going to go to the country, take a couple weeks to explain the plan. shortly after that, you will see him work with congress on a joint address that is appropriate for covid and the times we are living in. anna: ron klain, white house chief of staff, thank you. we appreciate it. now, we welcome lisa ross, element's u.s. ceo for a fireside chat to talk about our conversation with ron klain, how democrats are approaching the new washington, and more. lisa, thanks for joining us. lisa: thank you, anna and jake. before i got, congratulations. when i met you, i was struck your composure and willingness to hear diverse points of view. i and -- and i am happy to see you here at punchbowl. anna: thank you. we appreciate it. we pressed ron klain on many issues. a couple things stood out to me, but what is your top line? what was your take away hearing from him about

the leaders of twitter, facebook and google have faced a grilling in the us congress about the high levels committee accused jack dorsey, mark zuckerberg and sundar pichai of profiting from spreading falsehoods. the members of the house energy and commerce committee pointed a finger directly at the companies for fostering a hateful environment, that helped lead to the insurrection. each boss was asked whether their platform bore some repsonsibility. they were asked to answer yes or no — here's how they responded.( our responsibility is to make sure we build effective systems... 0k, your preference is not to the question. mr pichai, yes or no? we always feel a deep sense of responsibility but i think we've worked hard in this election it was one of our most substantive efforts. is that is that a yes or no? congressman, it's a complex question, we... 0k, we'll move on. mr dorsey. yes, but you have to take in the consideration - of a broader ecosystem. it's not just about - the technology platforms. thousands of people have been displaced by a fire which tore through a slum in freetown, sierr

president biden�*s massive coronavirus relief package has cleared its final hurdle in the us congressthe economic aid plan worth almost $2 trillion was approved by the house of representatives without a single republican vote in favour. the bill includes a one—off payment of $1,400 for most americans. thousands of pilgrims are gathering on the banks of the ganges river for the start of the kumbh mela hindu festival. officials have put a number of measures in place — including testing — to help stop the spread of coronavirus. india's government says devotees who flout guidelines will be prosecuted. it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone half past four now on bbc news: hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. it seems myanmar�*s military is prepared to kill as many pro—democracy protesters as it takes to safeguard its grip on power. so what options do the opponents of the coup have left? well, my guest is doctor sasa, representative of the committee which represents the ousted parliament to the united nations. why has myanmar�*s democratic transition gone to so tragicall

and now to some of the other global business stories making news the us congress has approved president biden's $1.00 trillion dollar economic relief package the bill will give financial aid to millions of families and businesses struggling under the pend republicans have criticized the measures for being too expensive saying they inflate the national debts and funnel money to unrelated projects. a facebook consortium has withdrawn plans to install an underwater fiber optic cable between california and hong kong a side of concerns from the u.s. government which fears beijing mij use the system to collect information on citizens the proposed link would have also had branches to taiwan and the philippines. take over a snapple is set to invest over a 1000000000 euros in germany's southern state of bavaria over the next 3 years the company plans to expand its munich research and development base to become the major center for chip design apple said it's aircraft manufacturer boeing is poised to begin paying holiday $500000000.00 victim compensation fund to the families of those killed in 2

president biden�*s massive coronavirus relief package has cleared its final hurdle in the us congressricans. thousands of pilgrims are gathering on the banks of the ganges river for the start of the kumbh mela officials have put a number of measures in place, including testing, to help stop the spread of coronavirus. india�*s government says devotees who flout guidelines will be prosecuted.

president biden�*s massive coronavirus relief package has cleared its final hurdle in the us congressthe economic aid plan — worth almost $2 trillion — was approved by the house of representatives without a single republican vote in favour. the bill includes a one—off payment of $1,400 for most americans. burmese police who've fled across the border to india have told the bbc, they left the country after refusing to follow the orders of the military. they said they'd been told by senior officers to shoot at protesters. the nhs test and trace system, which is likely to cost the taxpayer £37 billion failed to prevent lockdowns and there is no evidence that cut the number of coronavirus infections. those other findings in the house of commons�* public accounts committee, publishing a highly critical report of the scheme. it said the cost was staggering and the taxpayers were being treated like a cash machine. hugh pym reports. a testing site, today, now part of everyday life, but it has cost a lot of money to get where we are and a highly critical report by mps has fuelled a new debate o

president biden�*s massive coronavirus relief package has cleared its final hurdle in the us congressthe economic aid plan worth almost $2 trillion was approved by the house of representatives without a single republican vote in favour. the bill includes a one—off payment of $1,400 for most americans. thousands of pilgrims are gathering on the banks of the ganges river for the start of the kumbh mela officials have put a number of measures in place, including testing, to help stop the spread of coronavirus. india's government says devotees who flout guidelines will be prosecuted. it is about 3:30am. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, we look at gaming in your gaff, holograms in your home, and dinosaurs in yourdining room! hey, welcome to click! hope you're doing 0k. i think it's fair to say that each of us have had to work out our own way to manage the last 12 months and let's be honest, i don't think anyone�*s coming out of this unscathed — i'm certainly not. lara, how are you doing? i'm getting strangely used to this existence, which i think is probably worrying in its

president biden's massive coronavirus relief package has cleared its final hurdle in the us congress.ne—off payment of $1,a00 for most americans. burmese police who've fled across the border to india have told the bbc, they left the country after refusing to follow the orders of the military. they said they'd been told by senior officers to shoot at protesters.

is no political support for that saudi led conflict we've seen that in repeated measures in the us congress we saw donald trump try to block those efforts and in fact to successful doing so vetoing some legislation but now that we've seen the biden administration moving forward this is it should jack 3 that the including members of the president's own party want to see continue so to that end what we're seeing is this kind of effort to kind of differentiate the u.s. position well the one hand the united states believes there is an important role for the u.s. saudi relationship with respect to it being allowed to defend itself at the same time it also wants to continue this conversation because it's not just yemen that the united states is concerned about in the yemeni citizens but also that there is a lack of freedom of expression even democracy inside the saudi kingdom so a sort of a foundation of the policies in the foreign policy of this administration has been this a folding of human rights as so that this is sort of just another manifestation of that recalibration of the u.s. saudi rel

again using congress a key example they're obviously pointing now to the east i think i think they are on my very explicit statement or said the liberal model of the west will not be competitive if you're sure we have to orient ourselves more towards a model of russia more towards china more tor singh or 2 or it's done more in the east so rejecting this excess of liberalism the way this is so i think i do agree that. the rice on china russia and others in the east of us trade turn into models for want a list the west has been pushing the past 40 years. so you do see this split already west and you george that the splits that we see when we think about the you know that this rhetoric that i'm going back to january 6th going to the attack on our democracy but you know that they're not our doesn't mean all of us it means my democracy not yours ok and this is the only way they're going to be able to sell these ideas because you'll do you'll disenfranchise them because you don't have a right to participate because you're not worthy of been bracing these ideas we already have this in the in

president biden�*s massive coronavirus relief package has cleared its final hurdle in the us congressthe economic aid plan, worth almost $2 trillion, was approved by the house of representatives without the bill includes a one—off payment of $1,400 for most americans. thousands of pilgrims are gathering on the banks of the ganges river for the start of the kumbh mela hindu festival. officials have put a number of measures in place, including testing, to help stop the spread of coronavirus. india's government says devotees who flout guidelines will be prosecuted. now on bbc news — wednesday in parliament. hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament — as borisjohnson denies cutting nurses pay. we're increasing pay for nurses. we are massively increasing our investment in the nhs. but labour's leader isn't convinced. when i clapped for carers, i meant it. he clapped for carers, then he shut the door in their face at the first opportunity. also in this programme — the equalities minister on why she joined a vaccines trial. we could see the misinformation laround the vaccine being

us invasion of iraq in july 2003 a british prime minister tony blair told a joint session of the us congress that it is a myth that quote or attachment to freedom is a product of our culture. blair added ours are not western values. they are the universal values of the human spirit in anywhere anytime. an ordinary people are given a chance to choose. the choices the same freedom not tyranny. democracy not dictatorship well churchill himself a historian of distinction and a keen student of history knew better he knew that not everyone everywhere shares our attachment to freedom or even our definition of freedom. some people for her prefer piety or they prefer social solidarity. or they prefer order. there are lots of competing values. freedom is but one. churchill knew that our attachment to freedom and to the institutions indispensable for making it flourish is the product of a complex attracted centuries long a culturation primarily in the west especially among those churchill hymned in his great work the english-speaking people. blair seemed to say baghdad or boston, new york or new delhi

have been largely impacted but not helped from the previous two bills that have been passed by the us congressoming and it is on its way. this package is going to be great. it may come a little too late in that our economy is already reopening in many us states and what has been found to mention is that it will pass on party lines and will put a damper on future deals in his presidency. we damper on future deals in his presidency-— presidency. we are very familiar— presidency. we are very familiar with _ presidency. we are very familiar with that - presidency. we are very familiar with that and i presidency. we are very| familiar with that and we presidency. we are very - familiar with that and we will watch this space. shares of gamestop, which surged over 2,000% injanuary, rose over 40% during monday's trading session, as expectations that retail investors may soon use their stimulus cheques to once again buy in the equity market. 0ther stocks favored by retail investors on forums such as reddit�*s wall—street—bets also rallied. our technology reporter james clayton has more from san francis

public hearing before the us congress. which is working to create. a more equitable artificial intelligence when it comes to equality we still have a long way to go especially when algorithms are involved algorithms also use the online search engines the most obvious example is. image search helps us navigate the world if you're looking for information on something or want to see what someone looks like you'll probably start. but a recent experiment conducted by the w. shows that google rhythms often lead to skewed results searching for women of specific nationalities online is a harsh lesson in stereotypes searching for brazilian women yields young women in suggestive poses that german women brings up many politicians and actually. used google's very own cloud vision safes to analyze thousands of images this image processing software was designed to spot sexualized content google uses it to flag suggestive images. search for women from dominican republic brazil and up to 40 percent of sexually suggestive american women it's just 5 percent women 4 per

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citizenship, the federal government claims that it can do things to us by wielding virtually absolute political power that's vested in congress because of the commerce clause that leaves us without any recourse, so even though we are armed with all these layers of citizenship, our rights are subject and are more tenuous and more attenuated than those of any other group in this country. and again, that all traces back to the early, early jeffersonian period. >> that's fascinating and just makes me remember and want to underscore, again, that as with every conversation we have here at monticello, it might be about the past, but it's not really about the past. >> exactly. >> it helps us understand so much more about where we are today and where we still might go. >> right, right. >> professor wilkins, i can't thank you enough. thank you for just enlightening all of us with this conversation, giving us a lot more to think about and study, and i hope that this is as i referenced in the beginning, just the very beginning of what might be a long conversation for us at monticello and for many people around the united states and the w

president biden has urged us congress not to "wait another minute" to bring in a ban on assault rifles people. humanitarian organisations, working in a rohingya refugee camp in bangladesh say monday's devastating fire — destroyed health facilities, feeding centres and schools. 400 people are still missing. 45,000 have been displaced. a fulljury has been selected in the us for the high profile trial of derek chauvin, the former police officer facing murder charges over the death of george floyd. the process has taken two weeks.

that interagency process doesn't respond to us in congress, does it? >> we are required to comply with the interagency process to provide our responses to questions for the record. having said that -- >> by what are you allowed to comply with that interagency process? >> i can't cite you the reg or the rule. >> it seemed to me when the fbi wanted to get information to this committee particularly when it wanted to get information to republican members of this committee so they could investigate your investigation of the trump-russia connection, that information got right through to our republican colleagues. it didn't seem to go through any interagency process. it wasn't delayed. what we seem to have is for most of us -- but this was bipartisan, by the way. when i say we got zero questions from the record answered from those hearings. i mean zero questions of any member of this committee, not zero democratic members answered. okay? so you've got this basic highway for responses to congress. let me ask you just a little sidebar. do you think congress des

us. >>> so from the congress now to the senate. i want to bring in now california senator alex padilla. senator, thank you for joining. you heard what the congresswoman said. good evening to you. you brought up a point at the senate judiciary hearing today on gun violence. it happens to have been held today. i just want our viewers to hear it, and then we'll discuss it. here it is. >> voters must be registered and have specific forms of i.d. in order to cast a ballot. but those same states allow people to buy rifles without permits and require no background checks for some sales. additionally in a majority of states, new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they're able to cast their first ballot. it seems to me that we have our priorities entirely backwards. >> why is it easier to buy a gun than it is to vote?

do here is get more decision-makers and reassert the authority the founding fathers thought congress should use. they put the declaration of war in congress because they did not want a single individual being able to put the country at war. they wanted to be a broadly popular decision. we have gotten away from that since the second world war, particularly since 9/11. i think what we are about is an effort to reclaim that and make sure that if we do commit our men and women the most awesome -- most national -- responsible for having made a mistake if you will and getting us into a war that they opposed or we shouldn't have been in in the first place. host: go ahead. rep. mcgovern: tom made an important point when he reference to the 1991 authorization on the use of force in the persian gulf. it is still standing. we have not ended it. it is ridiculous that such an authorization is still on the books, as it is in 1991, and its current form, and in 1992. that is a long time. if we use the 2001 authorization act, if we use that to justify a military attack someplace that involves u.s. troops today

i was in congress when we voted on the authorization of the use of military force in afghanistan. every member of congress democrat or republican with the exception of congresswoman barbara lee voted for that. i thought in the aftermath of 9/11 it was appropriate to go after those who were responsible for the terrible tragedy that took lace on our homeland. today, could i go back and change that vote, i probably would, because that authorization has been used to justify a continued involvement in afghanistan that has changed and changed and been used to justify military operations other countries as well. i voted against the authorization for the use of military force in iraq because i was concerned about how these open ended aumfs would be used for a president to do whatever they wanted to do. i was concerned under democratic presidents as well as republican presidents and we may have finally caught lightning in a bottle in that we have bipartisan concern in congress, we have a president now who has indicated that it is open to reviewing some of these things. let's pursue this and

congress said we will not go along with that. he decided he would build it using funds from here and there and talked into his back pocket anyway. -- tucked into his back pocket anyway. why doesn't congress stand up for its powers? those are fundamental powers vested in congress, not the president. why doesn't congress stand up for itself? sen. lee: because this is a feature from the subjective viewpoint of many members of congress. i'm not inclined to say that publicly. many might not articulate that concept to themselves. it works for many members of congress to be able to have someone else to demagogue and someone else to blame to embrace a president whose views they agree with and condemn and belittle a president whose views they disagree with. it's interesting you mentioned as examples. i've had this very argument with president obama and with president trump on the topics you are describing. i disagreed with both of them about those issues. there was nothing about the fact that president trump launched my political party that saw me to -- i believe the natio

congress ted cruz doesn't need any voters until 2024. or and trump denied reports that she will challenge marco rubio so he can exhale but does it matter does january 6th tell us that americans faith in congress has eroded or was that moment just the climax of a trump era now passed how about it john well i think 1st of all to what steve said yes lower taxes and and conservative thinking conservative judges and i think they put 3 on the supreme court not 2 and that was with mitch mcconnell mitch mcconnell was the one who shepherded those 3 through as opposed to trump he tossed the ball up in the air mcconnell got it and he ran with it as far as elder statesman chuck grassley who if you told him to act as a g. di you know he's still not sure that he's going to run again i mean what is. somewhere between $89.10 so who knows what he's going to do still since pretty

, any limitations upon us by congress.n a regulatory board so i would ask thatt you reconsider this is a small amount of money here the blind and for overseas and i understand all of your concerns. i can assure you that we are trying to address number you have all the money away from us is really not going to help. >> i do need to go forward. ms. lawrence is now recognized pretty. >> thank you. it is my understanding that the united states postal service announced the following organizational changes last week and your consolidating 67 district into 5000 district territories it will be aligned with state boundaries. the district will align with the communities of postal service and providing similar boundaries employees and customers. it goes on and on. your previous and your predecessor meantime she had a plan to change and reorganize the postal service. she give a briefing to the oversights which you knoww i'm on, which gives oversight and improving the operational issues with the postal service. you have denied us that.

of justice direction to work with the community to meaningfully engage the community including us in congress. that is why we immediately called to set this up. for the last year, we tried to meet with the department of justice and they refused to meet with us and refused to do anything with us to combat the crimes occurring. have the president saying we must do something about this and have him say this within the first week of taking office was very meaningful. as a result, we were able to get first of all media attention but also had a press conference and speaker pelosi came. we had so much attention brought to the issue because of him. as a result, we have had numerous rallies all around the nation in which people come together from all walks of life in different ethnicities to say stop these hate crimes and incidents. host: here is part of president biden's memorandum. we must realize references to the pandemic and the location of its origin that they have perpetuated stigma about asians and have contributed to increasing hate crimes. these actions defy the best practices of health offi

the only place the needle isn't moving is on the republican side of the aisle in the use congress. >>o congressman, we heard president biden mention the assault weapons ban, which, of course, was originally passed while he was a member of the senate. he mentioned the fact it had gotten through congress when he was there. it, of course, was allowed to expire and has not been renewed and there was one point where that seemed like the obvious thing to do and the politics of that dramatically changed. does it help to have the president put the assault weapons ban on the table the way he did in his speech? what was your reaction to him doing that? >> well, i wasn't surprised, kasie. he ran on this issue. he's always been opposed to military-type assault weapons in civilian hands in our communities. and he's not alone. the american people agree with him. i think 60-some percent support that. but the issue before us today are background checks and tightening up the background check process so it works appropriately and keeps people safe. if we can't get republicans to joan us on this very co

the us congress has passed president joe biden's $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package over republican opposition it will give a direct payments to most taxpayers as well as extended jobless benefits in a major expansion of the country social security net republicans have criticized the bill for being too expensive. this is w. news from berlin you can follow us on instagram and twitter at g w news or you can visit our website w dot com. today texas allowed all businesses in the state to reopen 100 percent and it ended the state wide facemask requirement the number of people infected with the coronavirus is planted towing it's not going down and only 80 percent of texans have been vaccinated and yet the governor says we've waited long enough a huge risk in a state where the locals claim everything is bigger for the texas themselves let's hope this doesn't apply to the number of people who could soon be headed for the hospital i'm bored golf in berlin this is the day. it is now time to open texas 100 percent why not. you know the timing doesn't make sense texans have mastered