at home safely. lung disease costs the nhs billions. ministers say more funding for research and new targets to cut pollution and smoking should make a difference. but doctors think more still needs to be done to improve and save thousands of lives. jim reed, bbc news. let s return to today s scathing review of london s metropolitan police which found it to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. the report s author baronness casey said many londoners had lost faith in the metropolitan police and the force could be broken up if it didn t change. labour party leader sir keir starmer and shadow home secretary yvette cooper are giving a press conference in response to the report, let s listen in. good afternoon everyone thank you very much forjoining us. baroness casey s report today commissioned by the mayor of london is forensic, thorough and truly damning. it is deeply critical about the problems in the metropolitan police and the urgent change some of
Republicans counter, of course, where have you been on this and the hypocrisy of all of this when you yourself have approved hundreds of such planes over the last year, two years year and a half i should say since hes been in power, approving migrants from all over mexico and south america, who have made their way here, sent oftentimes in the middle of the night to cities and states across the country. And theres no rage there. But again, were just keeping you posted on these developments and there is rage about not only the people coming across the border, but all the drugs and the Fentanyl Problems that often times comes with them and that is a very, very big worry for nebraskas republican governor pete ricketts, joining other governors saying this has got to stop. This is from earlier. One of the things weve seen Biden Administration as abdicated its responsibility to defend our Southern Border. A huge amount of fentanyl and other Illegal Drugs across the border. We see so much fent
wishing him the best. thank you for watching. cnn this morning starts right now. i want everyone who is dealing with the problems we have been facing, whether you haven t been able to get to where you need to go or you re one of our heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline we re doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. and please also hear that i m truly sorry. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, december the 28th and that was an apology from the ceo of southwest airlines after the chaos that continues for the airline and so many passengers. it is little solace for thousands of stranded passengers across the country and thousands more who are about to find out their flight today has been canceled. also, title 42 still being enforced at the southern border after a new supreme court decision we got overnight. it has left thousands of migrants and advocates in a state of flux and confusion. we are getting a new batc
we begin with the turmoil on financial markets today, the pound sterling continues to languish against the us dollar and several other currencies. the slide in its value was triggered by last week s mini budget, with its controversial package of tax cuts. let s get historical for a moment. we have records for sterling against the dollar going back through history, and in the early hours of monday morning it reached an all time low that is since the creation of the us currency in 1792. let s take a closer look at the past few days the dollar has been strong but this further drop down is about sterling weakness, with a bit of a recovery and then falling back again. you can see this dramatic few days, sterling weakness with a little bit of recovery before it fell back again. on friday and monday there were massive moves within a day, which for a currency like sterling is rare. and one of the impacts of a low pound means that we import inflation, oil and gas is more expensi
republicans counter, of course, where have you been on this and the hypocrisy of all of this when you yourself have approved hundreds of such planes over the last year, two years year and a half i should say since he s been in power, approving migrants from all over mexico and south america, who have made their way here, sent oftentimes in the middle of the night to cities and states across the country. and there s no rage there. but again, we re just keeping you posted on these developments and there is rage about not only the people coming across the border, but all the drugs and the fentanyl problems that often times comes with them and that is a very, very big worry for nebraska s republican governor pete ricketts, joining other governors saying this has got to stop. this is from earlier. one of the things we ve seen biden administration as abdicated its responsibility to defend our southern border. a huge amount of fentanyl and other illegal drugs across the border.