on days when it wasn t raining, which is illegal. the practice is known as dry spilling and is banned because it can cause environmental harm. let s go live to our environment correspondentjonah fisher who s at langstone harbour in hampshire. thanks. last year, ourwater companies in england released raw sewage into our seas and rivers for 1.75 million hours. sewage was discharged on average 825 times every day. breaking that down still further, that means there was a new sewage discharge, roughly speaking, every two minutes. rural west sussex, and one of southern england s celebrated chalk streams. so here we are, welcome to the river lavant or as we locally call it, the river lav. the river lav. the lav, just full of effluent. rob, a retired businessman, is notjoking. there would be no river lavant in the summer without the treated discharges from the next door sewage plant. when we came it was overflowing, so we had the storm overflow coming out here, untreated sewage com
credit report. thank you so much, ed. thanks for joining us. the news continues now on cnn it s wednesday, april 3rd, right now on cnn this morning buildings collapsed, people trapped taiwan, rocked by the most powerful earthquake to hit the island in 25 years. powerful storms, triggering dangerous floods and tearing off rooftops in the heartland here in america and donald trump back on the trail predicting the end of elections in america. if he loses to joe biden again all right 5:00 a.m. here in washington live. look at capitol hill on this misty wednesday morning good morning, everyone on kasie hunt, it s wonderful to have you with us. we begin with breaking news taiwan rocked by a deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake. it s the most powerful earthquake to hit the island nation in 25 years. here s what we know right now, rescue efforts are underway more than two dozen buildings have collapsed, and people are trapped. the epicenter of the quake located just south of the tou
abortion issue, for example, in the state of florida, democrats feel like they can really capitalize on this issue. republican since are trying to find an issue that they feel like they can capitalize on once again, immigration and border security is something that they feel like is a winning issue for them. of course, that s made more complicated by the fact that republicans and killed the bipartisan border security agreement that was reached between a group of senators and the white house earlier this year. so i think this is really an attempt by republicans to shift the narrative back to an issue immigration and border security that they think is beneficial to them. at the same time that democrats are set to benefit from the abortion issue good luck. and as this takes on, you control, you control and shift the narrative. you control the message. better chance you have of winning up, up and down the ticket jackie scratches you, andrew. thank you so much for coming on. new
the labour run council is still struggling to pay off a huge equal pay claim that dates back more than a decade ago. it has also had major issues with a new it system. our midlands correspondent navteonhal is there. the pressure on the city s finances has been rising and rising. europe s biggest local authority is now in biggest local authority is now in big trouble. its problems began more than a decade ago, when a landmark case was brought against the council, which led to it having to pay out more than £1 billion so far in equal pay claims to mostly female staff. but with the authority s revenue budget, the money it spends on recurrent costs like wages, at £750 million, the announcement of this summer but it had up to £760 million still to find to settle the equal pay claims was a huge blow. and that is on top of the botched roll out of a new it system which has set up back and about £100 million. the city council leader who is currently abroad, he says, is part of a l
in two states, he wanted 2016 lost in 2020 and could be key to victory this year. and all we re learning about israel s strike on it food convoy that killed seven workers from world central kitchen. good evening. thanks for joining us when most criminal trials are just days away, most criminal defendants and their legal teams are busy enough, just prepping their cases. don t trump of course, is not moos. defendants. so today with his new york criminal trial, just 13 days away, his legal team try it again to get the trial judge to recuse himself. and in short order, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg responded. so we begin with that as well as some court filings which were expecting tonight in the classified documents case, cnn s kara scannell is following all of it. so what is the trump team s arguments for recusal this time? because the judges gave a ruling on this list in 24 hours ago. well, so trump is asking the judge to recuse himself in this case because of work