good monday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just moments ago, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy arrived in the united kingdom. he s meeting with prime minister risch she sunak who plans to announce hundreds of air missiles for ukraine as it prepares a corner offensive against russia. cnn s clare sebastian joins me from london. clare, zelenskyy on the german leg of that tour, he said he vowed to reclaim all of his country from the russians. what more are we learning about the support he s getting? yeah, christine, it s been a productive weekend for ukraine. he got the biggest ever pledge to date in his war to germany, $3 billion, and included another 30 leopard 2 tanks crucial for ukraine. france also pledging tens of armored vehicles as we hear the meeting gets under way at chequers outside of london. and the ukraine will be pledging more missiles attack drones with a range of 200 kilometers. this is som
good morning. a good one. good weekend. how was yours? it was. happy mother s day? i slept, my kids made me breakfast. it was a beautiful day. i hope you had a great weekend. let s get started with five things to know this monday, may 15th. president zelenskyy is in the uk this morning meeting with the british prime minister. the visit is the latest a series of high stakes meet agz cross europe. russia experience az string of battleground setbacks. also, illegal border crossings dropping by 50% in the days after that immigration policy known as title 42 was lifted. that is according to the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he warns it s too early to know if the surge peaked. president biden is supposed to hold another round of debt ceiling talks tomorrow with kevin mccarthy and the other congressional leaders. yesterday, the president sounded opt m optimistic. ron desantis headlining big political events in iowa this weekend. the florida governor making
the government confirms it is supplying ukraine with the long range missiles it requested for its fight against russian forces. and the australian immigration lawyer taking on eurovision tonight. at 6.30: concerns of how the cost of living crisis will make access to health care worse in london s poorest areas. and rail strikes make an unwelcome return tomorrow. we look ahead to semifinals. the bank of england has raised interest rates again, as it tries to stop prices rising so high. but the bank s governor has warned that prices will not fall nearly as fast they had predicted though he says the economy won t now go into recession. have a look at what has happened to interest rates over the past 15 years. these here were booming times before the financial crash. the economy was growing, there was a house price boom and the bank raised rates to try to damp it all down. and then this steep fall after the crash, with the bank of england trying to save the economy by slashing
the first leg of their champions league semi final. city are top of the premeir league, they have an fa cup final to come injune and are three games away from lifting the only trophy that s so far eluded pep guardiola during his time at the etihad. olly foster reports from madrid. they ve been here before almost exactly a year ago when real madrid knocked them out at the same stage. that was one of the most extraordinary matches in the history of the champions league, the spaniards with injury time goals and an extra time winner, but manchester city and their manager come armed this time. we have haaland. best striker in the world. that s what s different. he will get two, we . are going to win 4 0. is your voice going to hold out until the match? i don t think so, no! nobody has made such an impact on the english game in their debut season 51 goals and counting, the striking viking keeping city ahead in the title race. tonight, he leads the line against the european cham
Butjens stoltenberg stressed it was important that sweden too joined as soon as possible. President erdogan said sweden still hadnt handed over people he called terrorists. Now on bbc news, seans story death on the ward. A warning this programme contains upsetting scenes and includes references to self harm and suicide. Sean. This is sean boyle. Look at the road leading to the horizon for their look. At this point, walking with his mum on Sleeve Gullion in county armagh, he had his whole life ahead of him. Sean was a great, exciting young fella and he loved to be the centre of attention. So he enjoyed going to different places with me. And enjoyed being around people and had a lot of promise, great future ahead of him. Was just simply a great, great fella. 2a years old, a music fan, interested in a career in farming near his home in newry county down. But sean also battled Serious Mental Health challenges. There were times i cried and i watched him cry. Thats for a mummy to watch that.