letting their voices be heard. chief patrol agents in charge of the rio grande valley and tucson sectors in extensive detail why millions have been able to cross the southern border since president biden took office and putting the blame squarely on the policies coming from the white house. sandra: will their testimony put more pressure on president biden to secure the border. that is a huge question. brandon judd is here to weigh in. that s coming up. china is the most challenging national security threat america has faced in 30 years. the prc is a learning machine. xi jinping is watching and learning. hopes for a beneficial relationship is misplaced, culminating with the spy balloon over my community. john: sounding the alarm over the growing national security threat from the chinese communist party and whether the u.s. is truly prepared for conflict with our number one foreign adversary. hello, john roberts in washington on this state of the union day. sandra, we
from washington. really good news for the british diplomats an their families. reporter: absolutely. what we ve been hearing is this was a very complex situation with not a whole lot of time to plan but that planning was very intensive, pentagon officials say. they describe the operation as fast and clean. say it was conducted in one movement with service members spending less than an hour on the ground. so under 100 u.s. government personnel were removed from sudan s capital city by way of three helicopters. again, officials say that this was about a week of planning as they saw chaos erupting in sudan. president biden thanked the unmatched skill of service members of getting the this this completed. they confirmed the operations at the u.s. embassy have been temporarily suspended. the president added that this has cost the lives of hundreds of civilians and it must stop. sudan entered the second week of violence as the army and paramilitary group battle for control of the
i don t know how you feel about that. but i you know, i think that you know, decorum and courtesy and kindness always works, but everybody i know has an opinion about something. i just think we have to figure out a way to have a good conversation without tearing each other down, and i think that we can do that question. today was the first day of the show. what s got what s going on in the world. what s going on in sports? let s go on what would be the topic today? today i think the thing me and ernie actually touched on it on the podcast the other day. i don t want to be the person. they re like every time we want to have one of these mass shootings be like, oh, another mass shooting happened. let s get to the next story. like nah, man, we ve had three mass shootings in the last week. the one in alabama. the young black kid who got shot and knocking on the wrong door. the girl was in the driveway in the driveway who got went to the wrong house and got to do didn t even ask f
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. the bye bye blues. the tick is removed, sending social media into meltdown. but what does it mean for the future of twitter. and our trust in it. for many of you the blue bird has flown the nest? well the blue tick anyway. if you are a twitter user, you might have had one of those ticks on your account, to authenticate who you are. but now they come at a cost, and yesterday by virtual tweezer, many of the ticks were being removed. the pope, beyonce, jk rowling, christiano ronaldo among many high profile users who ve been hit. the cost for annual subscription at least through android is £11 a month. but some are getting it free, lebronjames, william shatner the author stephen king. not that stephen king knew about it my twitter account says i ve subscribed to twitter blue. he said. there is, though, a serious side to all this. no longer will you have that certainty that the person you follow is who they
memorabilia few was one of the richest best organized cities in the country. had a booming economy. it had beautiful municipal parks and a lot more than 100. had one of the most modern sanitations systems in the world, something we take for granted now. when yellow fever was real, no one took it for granted. memphis was such a big deal it was the informal capitol of the entire region, the mississippi delta. not anymore. in fact by last year, if you want to memphis, hard to believe any was true at any point because at that point and now, memphis had become a husk and a highly threatening one. in 2021, according to federal statistics, memphis, tennessee, was the most dangerous city in the united states. last year it record add total of 342 murders. how much is that? by comparison, san antonio, texas, has more than twice the population recorded fewer than half as many murders. so by any measure at all, memphis was absolutely falling apart. but eliza fletcher decided to make a li