with the price of allotments shooting up even faster than these spring greens, thousands of plot holders across the country think they might have to give up their plots. i will find out why costs are going up so much on what people feel about it. de bruyne s brilliance at the bernabeu. this stunning strike keeps city s european dream alive ahead of the champions league semifinal second leg with real in manchester next week. the first eurovision semifinal hits the stage in liverpool. favourites sweden go through, but ireland are out. good morning. yesterday, ireland and the uk had over 8000 lightning strikes. today we are looking at a similar day, showery, some sunshine, but also thunder and lightning and some hail. all of the details later in the programme. it s wednesday the 10th of may. a jury in new york has found former president donald trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in the 19905 and then defamed her by calling her a liar. the civil trial rejected ejean carrol
a committee member joins us with more on that. and russia and chichina s leaders are meeting face to face. and speak with foreign relations committee chair bob menendez about it. today is day one of hispanic heritage month. we ll talk about efforts to address mental health access for latinos. plus thousands of people lining up for hours to pay their respects as the queen lies in state. we ll go live to london. we begin this hour with two buss with people who had crossed the border in texas arriing near the residence of vice president harris in washington, d.c. this according to fox news. they were reportedly sent by texas governor greg abbott, who has also sent buss with migrants to new york city in an effort to pressure the biden administration on immigration. this morning new york city mayor eric adams toured a center that s now helping those who were bussed there. el paso also bussed people theres last month. in florida the office of governor ron desantis provided
To the people they are exploiting, you have never met a criminal gang. Those gangs are vile, they are making a huge amount of money. They are putting people in boats that they shouldnt be. We have to be serious about smashing those gangs and taking them down. That is where the Border Security command comes in. New command, new resources and new powers, including counterterrorism powers. We talk about small boats. That is the language that is used. If you look at the bouts that are being used these days, they are not that small. They are being made to order, stored in europe and moved up to the north coast of france. Vulnerable people are being put in them for money by violent gangs. I worked for years as a prosecutor and i worked with police and law in florence Law Enforcement across europe to take down these gangs. They are sophisticated gangs, by the way. I would never accept that it is impossible to take down the vile gangs that bring people in small boats to cross the channel. We w
We have visited thus far, it is the hard right that lead the polls. There are other systemic issues. Its public finances are still in a precarious condition. And italy needs more workers for its various industries. But as mark lowen has been discovering, that drive to grow the workforce, is likely to be held back because of the growing hard right influence. The big beasts of italian politics are lining up for their european battle. And at this farm south of rome, which rears 1800 buffaloes, the question is whether change is afloat. Its a very italian family business, churning out exceptional mozzarella and ricotta. The grandson of the founder says the problems are many from european farmers being undercut by non eu countries to another Long Standing italian issue. Its not that easy to find workers. The median salary in italy is not growing up from a long time, and this is very sad because many times Younger University students prefer to not work instead of working just because of this.