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hoping to ease tensions, as china s foreign minister says relations between the superpowers are at their lowest point in years. key issues include taiwan, spying and the dangerous military encounters. will blinken meet with president xi? matt rivers in beijing. a weekend of deadly gun violence. 20 people shot, 1 killed at a juneteenth celebration outside of chicago. two dead when a gunman fires randomly at a music festival in washington state. and a teenager killed in st. louis. new details in the investigation into letters containing suspicious white powder sent to kansas lawmakers. more than 90 letters sent. lawmakers tell abc news, most were sent to republicans. the cryptic message in those letters and the hunt for a suspect. pope francis makes his first public address since undergoing abdominal surgery, thanking the faithful for their prayers. his doctor proclaiming he s better than before. ukraine s counteroffensive. explosions ripping through a dozen russi ....
thanks, jesse. jesse: see ya. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. following two major stories president trump has filed appeal with the colorado supreme court with the decision to keep his name off the primary ballot. we will have that plus analysis with brit hume and shannon bream in just moments. but we begin with the crisis at the southern border. more than 50 house republicans are in eagle pass, texas tonight meeting with border officials. getting a first-hand look at the migrant crisis that is forcing the biden administration to go on the offense. the white house placing blame on the house g.o.p. saying members are obstructing progress, even as president biden faces mounting criticism from democrats. correspondent bill melugin starts us off tonight in eagle pass, texas again. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. today s congressional delegation was the largest one to ever visit the southern border. and these house republicans came here after d ....
famous theatres in london lose grants in favour of bodies outside the capital, in a major change to arts funding in england. and exactly 100 years since its discovery we hear about the continuing fascination with tutankhamun s 3,000 year old tomb. coming up on the bbc news channel, england know they have to beat sri lanka tomorrow to reach the t20 world cup semifinal, after australia edged a close win over afghanistan. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. in a week that s been dominated by news about the immigration system, the bbc has heard evidence that albanian drug gangs are using migrant camps in northern france as a recruitment ground offering to pay the passage of people who are prepared to work in the uk s illegal drugs trade. albanians account for at least one third of the 38,000 people who ve crossed the channel to england this year, according to the latest to the latest government figures. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson has this report. for each boa ....
the bbc has heard evidence that albanian drug gangs are using migrant camps in northern france as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of people who looking for better economic prospects and are prepared to work in the uk s illegal drugs trade. albanians account for at least one third of the 38,000 people who ve crossed the channel to england this year, according to the latest government figures. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson reports. for each boat, each migrant, there can be many smugglers. albanian fixers, uk guarantors, kurdish criminal gangs. one man who paid for a place on a kurdish boat this summer says he was approached by recruiters for the uk drugs trade in a dunkirk migrant camp. translation: they offered me lots of things - - to pay for thejourney, to give me a job, but i wasn t interested. they asked me four or five times. this is where the albanian migrant trail begins. small towns like laknas marked by absence the shuttered houses and em ....
dana: incredible. i m glad to be back with all of you. let me tell you the world over they are amazing and we appreciate you very much. the national average soaring to an all time high of $4.86 a gallon up 25 cents from last week and $2 from a year ago. bill: americans say it will be one of the deciding issues how they vote in november and also concerned about the economy and inflation and crime. the president is under water on the big three issues when it comes to your wallet. dana: i ve been dying to talk about all of this. let s start with peter doocy reporting from the north lawn this morning. hi, peter. good morning. welcome back. white house officials aren t just saying they think things are going well. they are saying they think thing are going well because of them. i have reporters calling me when delta hit, omicron hit, putin went into ukraine saying is that it? will that derail the recovery? and so far you ve seen resilience. that has a lot to do wit ....