british socialite ghislaine maxwell has been jailed for 20 years by a new york court for helping jeffrey epstein abuse young girls. also, with petrol and diesel prices near record highs, pressure is growing on retailers and the government to step in. i ll be finding out the impact on people who rely on their vehicle for work. good morning, defeat for serena williams on her wimbledon return. when the covers come off later, we will see emma raducanu and andy murray back in action. good morning, we have rain pushing eastwards that will clear the east in the next couple of hours. behind it, sunshine and showers, some of them heavy and thundery but less windy today than yesterday. i will have the details throughout the programme. it s wednesday, 29th ofjune. our main story. the cancer campaigner, blogger and broadcaster, dame deborahjames, also known as bowel babe, has died aged 40. she had been receiving end of life care for bowel cancer at home. the host of the bbc s you, me and
on his car, but he escaped assassination after switching vehicles following an event outside moscow. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello, and welcome to the programme where british journalists debate the week s news with the correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline: london. living with double digit inflation is an unwelcome, if familiar, experience in many countries. turkey, argentina, zimbabwe and iran started 2022 under that yoke. for the british, it had been a distant memory, but not any more. in the united states, presidentjoe biden signed into law the optimistically titled inflation reduction act. would it were that simple. another bad memory from the 1980s, the threat to kill the author sir salman rushdie, came close to being fulfilled. liberals are relieved he survived, but have they helped to fuel intolerance? to discuss all that, in the studio are maria margaronis, a documentary maker who, among other projects, has ch
future of the program remains in jeopardy for hundreds of thousands of people that call america home. we ll talk to one of those dreamers later this hour. we begin with the efforts to bring down the skyrocketing prices we re paying for gas, groceries, and many other items. in a few hours from now the federal reserve is expected to announce its third interest rate hike this year. raising a key interest rate by three quarters of a percent. that s the largest increase since 1994. this comes as president biden looks at other steps to try to reduce the highest priced spikes in more than 40 years. the president sent letters to seven energy companies asking them to explain their record profits, as well as a drop in refining capacity helping to drive up gas prices. he also says he s prepared to use emergency authority to increase refinery capacity and output in the near term. the new york times reporting the president is also considering rolling back some of the tariffs preside
i m bill. let s start with you. aishah, the status quo, title 42 has been in place throughout the massive historic numbers we ve seen and that is not expected to change soon. less than an hour ago, a group of about 60 migrants that crossed illegally in front of our fox news drone in eagle pass, texas. and some of them are waving to our drone as well as a mexican law enforcement helicopter above them and had a chance to talk with some of them. told me they re from cuba, nicaragua and venezuela and that s title 42 is not enforced on. that s not the only group. a second piece of video. a single bigger group costed this one about 120 people in size crossing here into eagle pass. once again mostly cubans, colombians, venezuelans and single adults. this sector is getting hit hard in del rio. and just since october 1st, del rio where we are, more than 270,000 illegal crossings. those numbers are up about 145% over the same time last year. and keep in mind, all those numbers, with
of bills, one of which provides an extra $28 million in funding for the fda that s mainly for staffing issues, oversight into preventing future formula shortages. elizabeth cohen joins us with much more on what is now more or less military operation to get more baby formula to the united states. it really is, john, that s a good way to describe it. who would have thought that it would come to this in the united states. let s take a look at some more details for what you and erica just described. so the defense production act, the government directs formula ingredients, inn gred yents that go into formula, to go to formula manufacturers first. in other words, not to other things first. also the fda making it easier to import formula to the u.s., something that has really not been done very much at all. also, operation fly formula, the department of defense helps expedite formula imports by using commercial planes that have contracts with the dod. also, the fda and abbott a