in 2023. our correspondent been following proceedings in delaware. the first opening statement was from federal prosecutor derek heinz. he set out to penetrate hunter biden as a self confessed habitual crack cocaine addict who lied in order to purchase a handgun in delaware in 2018. the prosecution alleges that hunter biden knowingly misled when he declared he wasn t a drug abuser, and the prosecution says that he clearly knew at the time that he was. mr hynes stirred the court, the jury, and started his statement, making a clear reference to the fact that the person they had to hear these allegations about was the son of the us president. he said that nobody was above the law, it doesn t matter who you are or what your name is. now, behind hunter biden for the second day, key members of the biden family in the public benches. among them, his stepmother, the first lady, jill biden, who is very close to hunter, sitting just a metre behind him. the family were talking to each o
news of another cyber this time affecting several large london hospitals, being described as a major cyber attack. services including the delivery of blood transfusions have been affected, according to memos are sent to nhs staff. we know that the king s couege staff. we know that the king s college hospital and guy s and saint thomases are amongst the hospital is experiencing problems, with some operations reported to have been cancelled or redirected. we will talk to one of a health correspondence about this shortly. more on that story, the breaking story coming up for you. let s continue with the general election campaign. the big news today is rishi sunak and sir keir starmer will go head to head in their first televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. the hour long programme on itv will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. it comes as the conservatives have promised to introduce a yearly cap on the number of migrant visas, while labour has accus
the uk was in the eu and subject to its freedom of movement rules but the really big rise in net migration came after we finally left the eu in 2021. the tories are also claiming labour would let a quota of 250,000 more people come into the uk from the eu every year as part of a supposedly sweetheart deal they want to negotiate with the eu. this is based on a think tank report which assumes a future labour government would have to accept a large eu migrant quota to get a deal where it can return at some asylum seekers to the eu. much of the rest of this figure is based on the idea labour would reverse the new rule blocking care workers from bringing their co dependence but that does not correspond with anything labour and their leader have actually said. labour are seeking a returns agreement would the eu but they have also said they would not sign up to any panic eu scheme with a migrant quoter biggest uk is not member
labour would reverse that new rule blocking care workers from being able to bring their dependents. that doesn t really correspond with anything labour and sir keir starmer have actually said. labour are seeking an eu returns agreement if they win power but have also said they win power but have also said they would not sign up to any pan eu scheme with a migrant quota because the uk is not a member state. they also indicated it would not scrap the care worker visa rules. what about the wider implications of the new hard cap on visas? there are lots of people a desire for lower migration is not motivated by economics but rather the idea of the country changing. there is some evidence migration create additional pressure on public services. however, at the same time, there is evidence it helps to release net public service pressure. the shortage of doctors, nurses, social care workers have been filled by migrants in recent years. training domestic workers to replace