Theres real battle going on on the beach here, must be more than 100 migrants trying to get to the water, they are letting off firecrackers to try and keep the police away from them. Screeching and the 9 year old british boy whos won a European Championship for his uncanny impression of a seagull. Hello. A warm welcome to the programme, im sally bundock. The us senate has approved a 95 billion aid package for ukraine, israel and taiwan. The overwhelming vote in favour marks the end of six months of deadlock in congress. The measures approve around 61 billion in long awaited aid for ukraine alone. The package also designates more than 26 billion in aid for israel and 8 billion for taiwan and Us Indo Pacific allies. On saturday, the House Of Representatives ended months of stalemate to pass the aid package. Its expected to be signed into law by President Biden shortly. The Senate Majority leader, chuck schumer, said the United States had shown its allies that it would not turn its back o
Coast in the early hours leading to the deaths of five of those attempting the crossing, including a child. It happened just hours after mps passed the governments Rwanda Bill Which is designed to deter people from attempting crossings like this. 0ur correspondent Andrew Harding was on that beach in the early hours of this morning just north of Wimereux Filming as police ran towards the people smugglers and those who had paid them to cross. Theyd only been at sea a short time when they got into difficulty. Well, we can join andrew now. Good evening. The smugglers in this area have accessed almost 150 miles of coastline from which to launch their small boats which makes it very rare and very difficult to actually witness one of those launches as it happens but that is what happened to us in the early hours of this morning, on a Big Beautiful Beach close to a french golf resort. Shouting a skirmish early this morning on a french beach. 0k, werejust running to catch up with some migrants
The bbc witnessed migrants on several beaches trying to get onto boats to cross the english channel. These are some of the pictures from another attempt just after dawn. The Uk Border Force has brought around 70 migrants, inluding young children, ashore. Of thought there could be around of thought there could be around 300 people. 0ur correspondent Andrew Harding was on the beach where a boat ran aground and left five people dead. Lets take a look at what he witnessed as that ill fated crossing began. Theres a real battle going on on the beach here. Must be more than 100 migrants trying to get to the water. Theyre letting off firecrackers to try and keep the police away from them, but the police are moving in. Theyre trying to stop them from getting to the water. Lets go ahead and see what we can see. You can see the smugglers here. Some of them have sticks. Theyre trying to protect the migrants as they head towards the sea. Lets cross live very briefly to new york, because this is the
These are some of the latest pictures from our team there. Joining us now on the line, the bbc s tom symonds who has been in calais in Northern France this morning. Lets start with what has happened in the last few hours and those deaths. What more do we know . Were ustt in deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to work deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to work this deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to work this out. Deaths. What more do we know . , just trying to work this out. They were perfect conditions for the channel. Flat seas and very clear visibility. A large number of boats have tried to get away. There were three potentials crossing is that it started. We think that it was at wimereux which is between boulogne and calais, where the migrants both live and try to escape to get to the uk, we have some details of those. The people who have died in the incident. There will be questions about w
Hello, and welcome to the programme. We begin in the United States where a key witness at the Hush Money Trial of donald trump has told the court in new york how he suppressed negative stories about the former president to help him win the 2016 election. The court heard today how the then candidate picked up the phone and called this man, david pecker, former publisher of a tabloid, the national enquier, to discuss whether to pay off a Playboy Model who was shopping around a story of having a year long affair with trump. Before the trial resumed, though, thejudge held a fiery hearing to determine if mr trump violated a gag order, which bans the former president from verbally attacking the jury and witnesses. This was Donald Trumps response. Well, i think the gag order is totally unconstitutional. Cant even allow articles to be put in. For example, these were articles over the last day and a half. Theyre very good articles. They tell you the case the sham, it shouldnt even have been tri