success welcome to the programme. in the us, just hours to go until donald trump s controversial immigration legislation title 42 expires. the us homeland security secretary says their borders are not open and warns of tougher consequences for those who try to cross illegally. we ll look at what will it mean for people waiting to cross the us mexico border. also in the programme. the uk is to supply ukraine with long range cruise missiles to help push back russian forces. we ll look at exactly what these missiles are. interest rates in the uk go up again. now at their highest level in the uk for nearly 15 years. what does that mean for the economy? and it s eurovision the second semifinal is getting under way right now in liverpool. we ll be live with the latest from the contest. we re going to start in the us with title a2. that s the name of the legislation that makes it easier to expel people he who cross the border from mexico. it was introduced in covid times, on pub
out-of-control rage. we have details from investigators. kyiv is preparing for a major counter offensive as russia is facing more setbacks on the battlefield. four of its aircraft down in a single day. two of its understand commaers killed, as well. fighters also losing ground in the key eastern ukrainian town of bakhmut. and under investigation, a florida teacher says she might be in trouble for showing her students a disney move we a biracial and gay character. hear from the teacher and the parent who reported her ahead on cnn news central. we start this afternoon with breaking news. a violent attack at a congressman s office in virginia. police say a man with a baseball bat walked into the office of democrat jerry conley and assaulted two of his staff members, one of them an intern, her first day on the job. cnn s manu raju is here with the details. manu, walk us through what police say happened? yeah. this is a harrowing incident. in fact, i just got off the
good afternoon. i heard that karine jean-pierre, the spokes woman at the white house says she doesn t know what title 42 will look like when it lifts may 11th. let me help and give you an idea. we re here at ground zero at camp monument in brownsville. there s over 2,000 migrants a day coming to this location. nearly 15,000 in the week i ve been here. they re getting better at screening, processing and transporting these migrants out. that is the problem that we re dealing with now. this is the calm before the storm. it s already overwhelming agents on the ground. let me show you also some of the humanitarian crisis. we can show you video. the migrants are in the water on flotation devices. many struggling with trying to deal with the river. some of them can t swim. that s why you have border patrol agents along with texas dps and texas national guard down on the river literally saving lives around the clock as well. we talk though to some brownsville residents, neil. the
made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this coronavirus
hello and welcome. the french president emmanuel macron and the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, are in beijing, where they re holding talks with the chinese leadership. the trip is the latest push by europe to engage with china, and they re expected to urge china to use its influence on russia to halt the war in ukraine. after meeting with china s premier li qiang preident macron has met president xi xingping in the last half hour. in his first comments, mr macron said the visit would focus on economic ties as well as international stability. joining me from the newsroom is our asia pacific editor, michael bristow. thank you for being with us. tell us how significant this meeting is. it is very significant, you have seen the pomp and ceremony of the welcome xijinping has given emmanuel macron and it starts on a note of something like optimism. president macron said his meetings with the chinese premier, president macron said this was a chance f