a superstar for the ages, and we reflect in a moment on one of the biggest voices and losses in music history. but first, we begin tonight with the breaking development in the 2024 presidential race. the man who is viewed by many pundits as the biggest threat to donald trump to the republican nomination. he just made it official in a post on trump s old turf, twitter. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. and commons s can no longer be an uncommon virtue. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i am ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american come back. but ron desantis s big announcement tonight went a little bit south from there. a very rocky start to his formal bid, with major glitches plaguing his planned conversation with twitter spaces ceo elon musk, an audio form that had some major technical difficulties, and the moderator blamed heavy traffic. the florida governor s campai
price for the defence of bakhmut. and tributes continue to pour in following the death of the queen of rock and roll tina turner at 83 years old. hello. we start here in the uk, where new figures show net migration the difference between the number of people coming to live in the uk and the number leaving hit a record high in 2022. it rose to 606,000 last year, driven by people from non eu countries arriving for work and study after the pandemic. that s up from 488,000 in 2021. the figure includes people coming to the uk under resettlement schemes from both ukraine and hong kong, with many more visas being issued following a political crackdown in the former british colony. britain has long been a popular destination for migrants from nigeria. earlier i spoke to the bbc s mayenijones who is in lagos and also our correspondent in hong kong martin yip. first, a little bit on the figures. among those 606,000 people who moved to the uk in the past year. hong kongers t
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
broadcasting the viewers around the world. florida governor ron desantis has a officially announced that he will be running for us president in 2024. but his much anticipated campaign launch on twitter and audio chat with the site owner elon musk was hit with a series of technical issues. to individuals of technical issues. to individuals who - of technical issues. trr individuals who have done more to loosen. might have surprised many but not those who have worked with elon musk for nearly a quarter century. his freedom as putting money is were, elite institutions and corporate media and it s an incredible honour. to corporate media and it s an incredible honour.- incredible honour. to have governor incredible honour. to have governor ron incredible honour. to have governor ron desantis - incredible honour. to have governor ron desantis to | incredible honour. to have - governor ron desantis to make this announcement. this announcement. (music) and after this announc
of bakhmut over to russian forces. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. here in the uk new figures show net migration hit a record high in 2022. net migration is the difference between the number of people coming to live in the uk and the number leaving. it rose to 606,000 last year, driven by people from non eu countries arriving for work and study, after the pandemic. that s up from 488,000 in 2021. the figure includes people coming to the uk under resettlement schemes from both ukraine because of the war and hong kong, after a political crackdown in the former british territory. joining me live to discuss the issue is peter walsh senior researcher at the oxford university migration 0bservatory. also the bbc s mayeni jones who is in lagos in nigeria and our correspondent in hong kong martin yip. first, let s go to peter, thank you for coming on the programme. what do you make of these n