Bret i will. Thank you. Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the u. S. State Department Says the number of americans looking to leave haiti is approaching one thousand now as violent gangs increase their chokehold on the country. The u. S. Evacuated dozens of americans from the haitian capital over the weekend, days after saying they had no active plans to help remove americans from that country. We had fox team conch tonight. Correspondent bryan llenas is in the Dominican Republic where officials are preparing for a major surge in haitian migrants. But we begin with correspondent Gillian Turner live at the state department with the latest. Good evening, gillian. Hi, bret. An aboutface from the state department today. Officials here are now working to try to get more americans out of haiti. They also say that nearly a thousand americans now contacting the contempt about getting out. Dramatic uptick from just a few hundred people last week. This is a fluid situation. The numbe
one thing remains certain, the security of our continent depends on ukraine security of our continent depends on ukraine winning this war. i commend the foreign ukraine winning this war. i commend the foreign secretary for hosting ukraine the foreign secretary for hosting ukraine recovery conference last week ukraine recovery conference last week following discussions with foreign week following discussions with foreign ministers. is he confident ukraine foreign ministers. is he confident ukraine will get the humanitarian support ukraine will get the humanitarian support it ukraine will get the humanitarian support it needs in the months ahead question support it needs in the months ahead question mark and when we going to -et question mark and when we going to get on question mark and when we going to get on with question mark and when we going to get on with not just freezing but seizing get on with not just freezing but seizing russian state assets as ou
and the prime minister even dodged a vote on borisjohnson s conduct. so our big question this morning how is rishi sunak faring in numberten? we sat down in the number ten garden to talk about the rebellion in russia, more staff for the nhs, and how on earth thousands of families are going to pay their mortgages. what s the alternative? labour s lisa nandy is with us from salford. to make sense of what is going on in russia none better than steve rosenberg, our editor there. # never going to give you up #. and it s sunday. there s always room for a bit of light relief. the reluctant star of this year s glastonbury, rick astley, on whether he is cool at last. morning, morning. it s a big day. the first time we ve sat down to talk to rishi sunak at length since january. he s keen to talk about his plan for staff in the nhs. we were keen to put your big questions on the economy. but the last 2a hours have reminded everyone we live in an unpredictable world. here are the pict
this programme continues on bbc one. good evening. welcome to our weeknight newsnight extravaganza of interviews and intoxicating insight. here in the studio, a critical friend of the conservative party, the commentator tim montgomery, the former leader of the scottish labour party, kezia dugdale, and the uber pollster, luke tryl, the uk director of more in common. first, that debate in nottingham, only the second time sunak and starmer have shared a stage in the last five weeks. we ll show some of the most interesting bits, but was this the moment of the debate? interesting bits, but was this mr sunak, i think you made a fair job of being chancellor. but you re a pretty mediocre prime minister. sir keir, i think that that your strings are being pulled by very senior members of the labour party. are you two really the best we ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country? applause. there was just that moment, wasn t there kind of a whoa . your reaction to the deb
In what has been characterized as a significant setback for Russian forces, a battalion-sized mechanized assault near Avdiivka, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk province, resulted in the loss of 12 tanks and eight infantry fighting vehicles. The Institute for the Study of War reported that the large-scale operation, involving elements of the Russian 6th Tank Regiment…