donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they and they alone can fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actual fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actual immigration policy, but they are the sort of plans you can tell people you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be as painful as possible. none of that addresses the root cause of migration and the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it is a plan around which republicans are largely unified. this is video from last friday of migrants including children and adults carrying children, attempting to cross a river at the
is similar, dry and sunny again, but it gets more humid by the weekend and as the humidity levels rise, we are likely to see some showers and thunderstorms breaking up and for some it will bring the first significant rainfall we have seen forfour significant rainfall we have seen for four weeks. thanks, chris. and that s bbc news at ten. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with victoria derbyshire, which is just getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. but, from the ten team, it s goodnight. rishi sunak is tonight on his way to meetjoe biden in washington. is the threat posed by artificial intelligence to humanity now at the top his agenda? as the prime minister prepares to make the case for britain to be a global leader in policing ai, we ll ask if it might actually suit big tech to warn us about the dangers. also tonight: anoth
in kharkiv. they are blaming each other for serious deconstruction. what do we know about what happened and what is being done i guess to save lives and property here? reporter: the exact cause of a substantial explosion that destroyed this hydroelectric power dam that holds up the dnipro river remains under investigation. of course ukrainians say russian pre-mined it, in other words set explosives on that dam. and that the ukrainian side of the dam had been regularly subjected to shelling. rather the ukrainian bank. so that had been under russian control. but nonetheless 80 settlements the government here saying are being affected as this vast amount of water is unleashed. huge amount of the water of course that has been built up over the winter months, melt water building up the size of the dnipro river now being unleashed downstream, likely to affect kherson or parts, districts of the city recappturd by ukraine last year. but most of the flooding is likely to be to the e
yo your body, but this is the latest from here. i ll send it back to you, jake. bill, thank you so much. now to west new york, new jersey, that s the name of the city, west new york. maria, tell us what the air is like where you are. reporter: yeah, it has been very, very bad throughout the day. things have improved in the last hour, but like the governor of new jersey said in your show earlier, it gets really bad depending on where you are. i want to show you what it looks like. we are really west of new york. that is midtown manhattan across the hudson river right now. you can kind of make out the buildings at this point. earlier today, you couldn t see anything. it was so dense and thick with smoke that it was completely white. it also got very dark hours earlier, to the point where the street lights, as bill weir said, turned on here. the authorities in new jersey are recommending that people stay indoors, that they limit their outdoor active tis. and here in this p