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Democrats divided over Biden's infrastructure and social spending bills

President Biden has urged his party to pass his $1 trillion infrastructure bill

President Biden has urged his party to pass his $1 trillion infrastructure bill. But interparty disagreement over a separate social spending bill is threatening to block the passage of both in the House of Representatives. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher brings us the latest from Washington DC.
At the end of the first week of the COP26 climate conference, we take stock of progress. Claire Shakya is director of climate change at the International Institute of Environment and Development, and discusses the commitments made to find funds to help developing economies tackle climate change.
Also in the programme, the US economy added 531,000 jobs in October, beating analysts' expectations. We look at the latest data with Chris Low of FHN Financial.
And we have a report from Stoke-on-Trent in central England about taxi driver shortages, after the organisation representing the industry in the UK said more than half of licensed drivers have not returned to the trade since the pandemic.

(Picture: Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Credit: Getty Images)

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Sat 6 Nov 2021 01:06GMT

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  • Sat 6 Nov 2021 01:06GMT