greetings everyone, welcome to a new hour of american voices, i m in firm alicia menendez. let s get started! after more drama in the housewives reunion, america had a new house speaker. but the antics of this republican caucus is any indication of what s to come, you might success substance from kevin mccarthy s house. and it s been two years since the capitol attack, you will hear from journalists arguing that it was a expression and it s far from over. we re talking about innovation and the president going to visit the border. i talk with his border advisor on immigration. and nothing short of miraculous. he s being brought home and even talking. but what was the end of the bell do to protect its people from similar scales all and off the field. i ask this is american voices. is american voices. we begin with the chaos that ended in kevin mccarthy gaining the speaker s gavel. and what it tells us about the reality of congress actually getting work done for you. the
airlines meltdown that s leaving passengers stranded in terms analysis. we re going to talk to the president of the company s pilot association about what went and what is still going wrong. meanwhile, other airlines are struggling to get back to track after a monstrous winter storm pummelled the northern part of the country leaving more than 60 people dead. we re going to take you live to western new york. and this morning, another legal roadblock for migrants seeking asylum in the u.s. after the supreme court decided that title 42 will remain in place for now. we re going to be live in el paso. and as we speak, we re closely following news that s coming out of the vatican that s saying the 95-year-old former pontiff, pope benedict, has fallen very sick. pope francis now calling for prayers for from around the world. and later this hour, fresh fallout over that congressman-elect, george santos, facing new criticism after admitting to fabricating parts of his resume a
a political comeback in brazil for the left wing former president who has won back power by a narrow margin. and winding its way through the swiss alps, the longest passenger train in the world. 100 carriages, and stretching more than a mile. and coming up on the bbc news channel. ireland are beaten by australia at the t20 world cup, effectively ending their hopes of qualification, with problems for england too. good afternoon. the home secretary will make a statement in the commons this afternoon over worsening conditions at a migrant processing centre in kent. the facility, at manston, is said to be dangerously overcrowded, with reports of an outbreak of diptheria. some 4000 migrants are being housed there even though it s meant for only up to 1600. more people were sent to manston after a petrol bomb attack on a separate migrant facility in dover. robin brant reports. we need your help. this video was taken yesterday. we need your help. this video was taken yesterday. yo
hello and welcome to bbc news. the focus of the conservative leadership race to elect the next british prime minister is switching to immigration, with both candidates setting out measures to control the uk s borders. the former chancellor, rishi sunak, has proposed a ten point plan including a cap on refugee numbers, and witholding aid from countries which won t accept the return of asylum seekers whose claims have failed. the foreign secretary, liz truss, has told a newspaper she would increase the number of frontline border force staff by a fifth. joining me now is our political correspondent, tony bonsignore. you have been looking in detail at the ten point plan from rishi sunak, what are they saying in more detail? liz truss saying this morning all over the mail on sunday, her key message is she will continue with the rwanda plan, try and expand it to other countries. you mentioned increasing borderfor to other countries. you mentioned increasing border for staff,
hello and welcome to bbc news. russia has admitted that its forces targeted the ukrainian port of odesa on saturday, a day after moscow and kyiv agreed to allow grain shipments to leave the port. russian foreign ministry spokeswoman maria zakharova says cruise missiles destroyed what she described as a ukrainian military boat. the attack on odesa did not appear to hit anything connected with the storage or shipment of grain. but ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, called the strike barbaric, saying it shows moscow cannot be trusted. from odesa, our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, sent this report. in a war littered with broken promises an especially devastating betrayal, two missiles launched from the black sea hitting odesa s port. two others were taken out by air defence systems. for coffee vendor sergei, there was only one thing to do. translation: i saw black smoke after the missiles hit, so i knew i had to run to a bomb shelter and hide. it was very scary