to ferry people across the channel, it is about getting after the money of these people smugglers and it is about working hard both on the uk border and across europe. that is what driven this 36% reduction. at the same time, is that you re seeing an 80% increase. we are a positive outlier because of the actions that we have taken. so this is not about the weather, this is about the work the home office officials have been doing both domestically and with their counterparts across europe. opposition labour party says ministers are manipulating the figures. here s the shadow home secretary yvette cooper. rishi sunak s claim to have cured the asylum backlog isjust totally false. in fact, the figures are nearly 100,000 cases and they haven t even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting. our political correspondent nick eardley has been working with the bbc verify team and looking at the claims. the big claim from the government today is that it s got rid of the
they say 38% of gen-zers would rather have a middle of the road life. steve: dolly parton got it right. ainsley: working 9-5. what we see on tiktok does not represent all gen-zers. there are young people that will work hard and bust it and get after it. the second phenomena, this generation has watched their parents and grandparents work all the time, work after hours and they are saying, i don t want that life, i think that is the result there. steve: did you say you have three gen-zers in your house? steve: are you doing dry january? i am actually. steve: god bless you. ainsley: thanks, ken. steve: third hour of fox and friends starts now. third and final hour of fox and friends this tuesday with fox news alert. stunning video shows japan airline flight after a deadly collision midair with coast guard plane at the airport in tokyo. ainsley: a spokesperson says five members of the armed forces are dead, everyone on the commercial flight made it out al
kids in one major city get off the school bus to find homeless folks and drug addicts everywhere. president biden heading to saudi arabia this week to beg for oil, and he s trying to defend the trip in an op-ed written by him or his team. the president is trying to paint saudi arabia as an important, quote, strategic partner, even though a couple of years ago he calls the kingdom a pariah after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are. in the op-ed, biden writes from the start, my aim was to reorient, but not rupture relations with a country that s been a strategic partner for 80 years. today saudi arabia has helped to restore unity among the six countries of gulf cooperation council and is now working with my experts to help stabilize markets with other opec producers. i know there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to saudi arabia. my views human rights are c
that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nation s highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke live at the white house with that. reporter: jon, good afternoon. frankly, no two ways about it, the president s upcoming trip to the saudi kingdom comes with fairly heavy risk on both the domestic and international fronts. from the international perspective, he ll to obviously tie to smooth other hard feel feelings with the saudis, all while maybe encouraging them to open the spigot when it comes to oil production. but there s heavy cost and heavy risk here domestically because the president is
illegal immigrants are treated better than legal immigrants and american citizens. they are receiving reduced or free housing and college students like myself have to struggle to afford going to american universities or limit educational opportunities because of it. this is part of the agenda to buy votes. ainsley: and they are here illegally, it is totally different and you have to work double the hours to pay for them to do it for free. right. so nice talking to y all, i appreciate it. we have a fox news alert. commercial plane catches on fire in tokyo, japan and all the passengers onboard survived.