Banned from his profession after misgendering a student, has taken his case to the high court . Ill be speaking to the man himself tonight. State of the nation starts now. Ill also be joined by my most intellectual panel this evening. Gb news is senior political commentator nigel nelson and the journalist and conservative peer paul goodman. As always, as you know, i want to hear from you. Its a crucial part of the programme. Email me mailmogg gbnews. Com. But now its what youve all been waiting for. The news bulletin with sam francis. With sam francis. Jacob thank you and good evening to you. Its 8 00 and the top story from the newsroom tonight is that more than 700 migrants arrived in the uk today after crossing the channel in a single day, a new record for the yeah single day, a new record for the year. So far. Home Office Figures show 711 people made the journey in 14 boats on wednesday, suggesting an average of 51 people per boat. It brings the total number whove made the crossing
Nasdaq up 27 . Again, the dow has been weak over the last several trading sessions. You are seeing the issues going on and the bigger deal is the russell 2000. It turned negative for the year yesterday. It is a huge pullback with the dow industrials and russell. All these pulling back with the potential for recession. These are the things we watch along with treasury yields and inversion in the treasury yield curve. Twoyear yield at an 5. 1 . Above the 5year and 10year and 30year. Those yields picking up is what we are watching. Yields are picking up because the economy is strong. Why is the dow and russell indicating otherwise . Maybe it is so strong that the fed has to do something. If they do something that is why. They have to go further. Here we are. Dijamie dimon made comments yesterday. He said it could go 7 . He said it is not something he is predicting, but you have to prepare for it. Thats what he told his board and clients. Prepare for it. Dont be surprised if rates are high
Last week the independent federal Energy Regulatory commission, even one stuffed with trump appointees, rejected secretary perrys proposed power grid reliability rule to subsidize coal and nuclear plants. The ferc commissioners found that the commission failed to meet clear and legal requirements like that the result will be just and reasonable under the federal power act. As an aside here, the theory of the coal industry was that their units provide more reliability than renewables. Well, tell that to iowas electric grid operators who have baked iowas abundant wind energy not just into their flow but into their reliability modeling. Tell that to new englands i. S. O. Which has allowed renewables into its capacity auctions to be paid for meeting base Load Capacity requirements. And of course tell that to anyone who has had to deal with scheduled and unscheduled outages at coal plants. When i went on one of my climate visits to, in this case, tennessee, i heard about a coal plant that h
Risis deepened. 1000 hundred migrant attempted to enter the channel tunnel. Tengion mount as thousands of people camped out trying to enter the u. K. A sudanese migrant has died during his attempt to cross to britain from the french port, adding to the number of people who have lost their lives this way this year. The French Interior or has vowed to reinforce security at the light minister has vowed to reinforce security at the site. France is employing exceptional measures and knows it can count on a fruitful art airship with the United Kingdom. Partnership with the United Kingdom. The u. K. Has echoed the important of collaborating with france. Coming out of an emergent the meeting, the british home secretarys just what is needed is not simply security but the tarrant the tarrant deterrents. We are reducing the number of migrant, that we break the link. Measures decided upon include repatriation of migrant. No details were given about how this would work. But the law professor joins
Across the United States. He said more than 140 americans died each day as a result of overdoses and the country faced its worst drug crisis in history. Rajini Vaidya Nathan starts our coverage. She was very outgoing, she was an exceptional athlete and all that was robbed from her when she was introduced to opiates and then eventually heroin. So this is the future site of her house. Its been two years since Kevin Simmons lost his daughter to a heroin overdose. She wasjust 19. A Drug Squad Police officer for decades, he used to lock up addicts. Then his daughter became one. Never seen it coming, never dreamed this would happen. This has reached epidemic proportions and something has got to be done. For kevin, that something means building a womens only Treatment Centre in her memory. He says the way to deal with the problem is through more investment in recovery and education. Were doing it all wrong. For every illness, were prescribed a pill. There is no education out here. Kids are mo