and getting less spare. it s not for luxuries? no, no, no. not at the moment. it used to be. but it s not now. but i m notjust along for the ride. i m having to work for my supper. what kind of service is that? difficult. oh, there we go. that will be £11.50, please, sir. even with inflation starting to fall, food is still increasing at a faster rate than most other things. and that s felt in every household. how much do you like mushy peas? right to the top. look at this beauty. matt s seen a big change to the cost of potatoes in the last six months, which means prices won t be falling for customers any time soon. was £6 january february time and now it s £21 for a big giant bag, kilogram bag of potatoes. yeah, that s just crazy. it s crazy. the prime minister has promised to halve inflation, but his constituents aren t feeling the benefits yet. gosh, this is much harder than it looks. there you go, sir. enjoy your tea. fuel and energy prices both affect a
covid in the uk last week but the story of the little girl who vanished for days in australia more than half a century ago now finally answers about what happened to her. the office for national statistics has said it will change the way it calculates the cost of living to reflect how it affects people on different incomes a change that has been welcomed by food poverty campaignerjack monroe. earlier this week, she explained how people on the lowest incomes were facing price rises of more than the official 5.2% level of inflation. she tweeted: this time last year, the cheapest pasta in my local supermarket (one of the big four, was 29p for 500g. today it s 70p. that s a 1a1% price increase as it hits the poorest and most vulnerable households. this time last year, the cheapest rice at the same supermarket was 45p for a kilogram bag. today it s £1 for 500g. that s a 344% price increase as it
this literally is a physical wall between the two countries that we re looking at here. the vast amount of hard narcotics don t come through at places like this. the vast amount of hard narcotics come through at the ports of entry where we just were. and besides meth, cocaine, heroin, or marijuana, it s fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin, it s the biggest challenge nowadays, the most recent numbers from the centers for disease control and prevention found that overdose deaths from fentanyl have skyrocketed, at least 1100%, since 2011. in the past, cartels might try and snuggle 100 kilograms of drugs across the border. it wasn t easy to do. they were likely to get caught. here s part of the problem. nowadays they could smuggle across something that looks like this. this is a one kilogram bag of
highly monitored. the president says 90% of the heroin in the united states floods from across our southern boa border. that s his stat. true, but misleading. and most of this stuff is coming from mexico, 90 to 95%. state department records have been citing that number for some time. but the point is that most of it is coming in deep concealment through legal ports of entry. you get the idea, you can take small amounts and that could be turned into lots of drugs. it s coming in deep concealment, typically in cars, like you saw there. oftentimes it s coming in these tractor-trailers, so it s mixed with a lot of legal goods. very, very hard to find, as a result. the point is, a wall would do nothing about any of that, if that s how it s coming in, and you know, you talk about it, that s the one kilogram bag of flour, you re talking 20 to $30 million of value. that stunned me. i didn t realize this. we really dug into this with the border patrol down there. that s about $8,000 worth
this literally is a physical wall. the vast amount of hard narcotics don t come through at places like this. the vast amount of hard narcotics come through at the ports of entry where we just were. reporter: besides meth, cocaine, heroin or marijuana it s fentanyl which is 50 times stronger than heroin. it s the big challenge nowadays. the most recent numbers from the cdc found overdose deaths from fentanyl skyrocketed. at least 1,100% since 2011. in the past, cartels might try to smuggle a hundred kilograms of drugs across the border. it wasn t easy to do. they were likely to be caught. here s part of the problem. nowadays they could smuggle across something that looks like this. this is a one kilogram bag of flour. if it were street fentanyl it