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
breaking news, a fire has brown out at russia s defense ministry in moscow. u.s. intelligence tonight is pointing to ukraine meantime as the likely culprit behind that drone attack on the creme line. we re live on the ground tonight. and she was simply the best. tonight, the legendary tina turner has died. singer s bryan adams and ruth pointer of the pointer sisters will join me to remember their friend and a true musical icon. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, he s in, the florida governor ron desantis officially kicking off his bid for the white house, and he did it on twitter. there is no substitute for victory. we must end the culture of losing that has infected the republican party in recent years. the tired dogmas of the past are inadequate for a vibrant future. we must look forward, not backwards. now, during his appearance on twitter, desantis went on to talk about his policies in florida to brag about the ones that targ
in the human league, they were going to be in heaven 17. they were doing an album of cover versions called british electric foundation and they persuaded tina to sing the temptations ball of confusion. that gave capitol records the idea to give her a one single year deal. and she made the most of it doing an impassioned cover version of let s stay together, the al green song. that allowed capital to say, right, you have two weeks to capitalize on this and make an album. and she did it where i am in london in two weeks, scrambling to find songs, calling in favours, getting dire straits to give her private dancer, getting david bowie to let her cover 1984, and even doing a cover version of a buck s fizz song, what s love got to do with it? she was given the chance and she made the most of it taking songs that other people weren t making work, pouring her life story into it,
found out you were dating the same guy, but i suppose that would be a tale for another conversation. bryan, let me play a bit more of what tina turner said her favorite song was, the best. here s what she said. you re the best better than all the rest better than anyone that was the song. let me play what she told larry king about why that song is her favorite. it s very special because at the time when i got it, no one believed in it but me, and i organized writing the chorus, it was a really struggle with roger, my manager and the record company, what are you going to do, but the whole thing was a freedom i felt. i felt just riding and that music in the back, and i felt it would be great for sport, and it
rock vocal performance. what memories can you share, bryan, of working with her? oh, my god, i don t even know where to start. i mean, incredibly sad all day since i heard the news, and it s taken a lot to actually even do this interview because, you know, she was not only really kind to me in the beginning, but just fabulous to work for, and i ll tell you one story which probably nobody knows, the story i recorded when we started with her, she came into the studio, and we ran the song down quickly, and i just started talking to the engineer, and i said, okay, this and this, and i looked up and i said, tina, can you and she left, and i went running down the hall. i said, tina, you need to do it again. she said, no, no, no, honey, you got it, and we didn t quite get