Told shes off to the olympics. And coming up on bbc news, its winner takes all this weekend as england women travel to bordeaux to take on france for france for the six nations title decider. Reading. Hello, good evening. Its just been announced that the king is to return to some public facing duties his first since it was revealed that hed been diagnosed with cancer. Buckingham palace says the kings treatment isnt over, but that doctors are encouraged by his progress. This photo of the king and queen had been released tonight, taking the day after their 19th wedding anniversary. The first engagement will be a joint visit with Queen Camilla to a Cancer Treatment centre, next week. Charlotte gallagher reports. The king and queen together in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. A positive sign about the kings l. The photo was taken earlier this month but has just been released. The photo was taken earlier this month but hasjust been released. Makings hell. The palace says the king is making
good afternoon. net migration to the uk hit a record level last year almost three quarters of a million more people coming to live here than leaving. the figure stood at 745,000 last year, according to the office for national statistics, higher than previously thought. but the indications are that net migration is now slowing. in 2010, the then prime minister david cameron promised to bring it down to the tens of thousands. our home editor mark easton is here with more details. mark. the figure i think most people will be looking at and the one that will raise eyebrows is the right advised net migration figure for 2022. 745,000 more people came to the uk than left, helping push the population of england and wales up at its fastest rate since the baby boom of the early 1960s. now, the latest net migration figure for the year tojune this year is 672,000. down a bit from what we now think happened last year and it looks like net migration is maybe on a downward trajectory. who
would provide stability for the region and the whole world. the us and china agreed on resuming high level military communication and slowing the production of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of drug overdose deaths in the us. however, the leaders are still at odds over taiwan with president xi calling it the biggest and most dangerous issue in bilateral ties. beijing considers it part of its territory, while the us maintains unofficial relations with taiwan as a democratically self governed island. for more on the apec summit, i spoke to chief presenter sumi somaskanda in san francisco. this really has been an all government approach, several members of the biden administration cabinet here working with chinese counterparts, the commerce secretary, the secretary of state, and also the us special climate envoy, john kerry, an important part of negotiations as well. president biden said, we want to make sure there is a level economic playing fi
the crown divides critics. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in gaza city, where israel says its soldiers have found a tunnel shaft and a vehicle containing a large number of weapons at al shifa hospital as the military operation there continues. israel is under pressure to back up its allegation that al shifa gaza s biggest hospital has been used by hamas for military purposes. hamas which is designated a terrorist organisation by many western governments denies locating a command centre in tunnels beneath the buildings. nearal shifa, israeli soldiers also found the body of a 65 year old woman, one of the 240 hostages who was kidnapped by hamas last month. we begin our coverage with this report from lucy williamson who was taken into the hospital by israeli forces. we are inside the gaza strip with the israeli army. this with the israeli army. is what israel says hamas has this is what israel says hamas has been tr
and the state of texas actually did a taking of our property, which is unconstitutional, it s against the law and it s against our wishes. they were travelling from south america, from venezuela, and they crossed the darien gap. they walked through several states through mexico. this is not going to stop them. they re coming across. do you feel like you re in the middle of a political football here? 0h, completely. we ve seen quite a few candidates that are running for president who ve been down here. we ve seen a lot of people from congress on both sides, republican and democrat. you know, you don t have to, it doesn t matter whether you re a republican or a democrat. there s right and wrong, and what s happening here is wrong. it doesn t matter what spectrum or side you re on. most people here in eagle pass happen to be democrats, but they ll tell you they re not happy. once the migrants are across the river and through the wire, they re taken into custody by border patro