President Biden unveils budget proposal

President Biden unveils proposals for next year’s budget on the same day Republicans in the US Senate block a proposal to create a commission to investigate the violence on Capitol Hill in January.

Also in the programme; we hear from Colombia after four people are killed during anti-government demonstrations; and in a landmark case a Dutch court has ruled that oil giant Shell must substantially cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Joining Julian Worricker on the programme is Catherine Fieschi, a political scientist and founder and executive director of the Counterpoint political research and advisory organisation and Toby Cadman, Barrister and co-Founder of Guernica 37, a specialist barrister's chambers in the field of international human rights.

(Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as he visits Joint Base Langley-Eustis with first lady Jill Biden, in Hampton, Virginia. Credit: REUTERS/Ken Cedeno)