and had promised as a benefit of leaving the european union. here s our global trade correspondent gharshini david with an explanation of what this means for britain. all hopes of that full trade deal which would have covered about a sixth of the uk puzzling over seed trade with the rest of the world with frankly some time ago because it was clear that the joe biden administration wasn t interested in pursuing that end and instead they have been noises for some time that we might get something that was more about an alliance against what was seen as external threats to economic security and also furthering ambitions of net zero. while this might seem like a bit of a pick and mix trade alliance if you like, little bit sheer when it comes to talking about protecting supply chains and a little bit here about making it easier to swap data between us and american firms and a little bit more here about green energy and nuclear. it s actually very much tied together and looking a
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour at the u.s./mexico border. it s been three days since the end of title 42, the pandemic-era policy that slowed the number of migrants allowed into the u.s. with thursday s expiration, many border communities were bracing for a surge of migrants. at least for now, that has not happened yet. homeland security officials say there were about 4,200 encounters yesterday. that s a big drop from the day before. and yesterday s numbers are less than half of the 10,000 seen at the u.s./mexico border in the days before title 42 ended. just minutes ago, we heard from president biden as he completed a bike ride. here s what he had to say about the situation down at the border. how do you think things are going at the board, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? pardon me? do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. no. it wou
six cities across iran were targeted, and in some of the cities, multiple schools were attacked. we started receiving videos from the city of qom, which is the iranian vatican. parents are furious. they re talking to officials, they re shouting at them. there are scenes of chaos and horror. in other cities, we have obtained videos from hospitals where parents are picking up a girl student who has fainted on the floor. other students are crying, gasping for breath on hospital beds, and we have reports that in the north western town of ardabil and also in the southern kurdish town in western iran, the hospitals are packed with schoolgirls. reports of poisonings have become frequent. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. at the beginning of this month, bbc reality check looked into this. the first known case was recorded in november in the city of qom. it s spread to a number of other provinces, including the capital, t
hello and welcome, i m tanya beckett. an italian man has died and three british citizens are among the wounded after a car ploughed in to tourists near a beach in tel aviv. the attacker was shot dead by police. it comes after two british israeli sisters were killed and their mother injured in a shooting in the occupied west bank on friday, in what has been a week of heightened tensions in the region. our correspondent lucy williamson reports from tel aviv a warning, her piece contains some distressing images. last night, tel aviv s holiday crowds became targets. gunfire. this, the moment when police surrounded the attacker and then shot him dead. people shout. you can hear the fear of people filming nearby. the driver was a 45 year old man from a nearby town who drove his car into pedestrians, killing an italian man named as alessandro parini, and injuring five others, and injuring seven others, three of them british. we heard gunfire. we saw shots and then we saw people sp
welcome. to iran now where local media reports that dozens of schoolgirls have been poisoned in several schools. this phenomenon began last november and since then there have been reports of poisoning incidents from gases or toxic substances. in some cases students have been hospitalised. i was joined earlier by bbc persian service s parham ghobadi who told me how wide spread these incidents are. just before coming to the studio, the number of cities that were targeted rose to six, actually, and as you remember, as mentioned in your intro, for several months, we had the story of iranian school poisonings, but it went quiet for a while and the reason for that was that there was persian new yearfor two weeks, so students were on a break at that time. they went back to school on monday, and again, reports of school poisonings started appearing here and there, but today is the most widespread one. as i already mentioned, six cities across iran were targeted and in some of the cit