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in front of a record crowd at wembley may be his last. good morning. we ll be talking a lot about dry weather for today and for the week ahead. a few sneaky showers to come as well and we will lock some of those down in the detail for you, coming up. defying the doctors. 95 year old harold, told he may never walk again after a fall, just keeps on running. it s sunday, the 24th april. voters in france will choose today whether to re elect emmanuel macron as president, or replace him with far right candidate marine le pen. the polls suggest mr macron is the favourite to win, but it s expected to be a much closer race than their election run off five years ago, as our europe correspondent nick beake reports. the french are not exactly thrilled with what is on offer at this election. the frustration at this market is the same story across the country. just listen to this office worker and this retired fireman. they will not be voting for anyone. translation: i they will not be vo ....
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with breaking news on the war in ukraine. although it is now 8 pm in kyiv, we are still waiting for word on whether a big meeting and ukraine has indeed taken place. president zelenskyy said he was meeting with u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin today. nbc news has not independently confirmed the visit. u.s. officials are not commenting on it, but they say they are committed to ukraine success in this war. i would point to the last two weeks, really the last ten days, where the united states has announced 1.6 billion dollars in additional security assistance that is having a significant effect on the ground. in terms of enabling ukraine to hold off and push back against russian forces. we have been announcing deliverables, which is a fancy word for things we are providing to the ukrainians to enable their fight, just about ....
they re supposed to be teaching. the students in question are not teenagers, their kindergartners, first-graders, kids who have no perspective on life and no power to fight back. so many parents saw these videos, in some cases on @libsoftiktok, and they were shocked. they had no idea anything like this was happening in the classroom. having some purple haired loser in a nose ring convince your six euros to get a sex change is not why most people send their children to school. so they complained, the parents did commit across the country, republican officeholders responded by promising to do something about this. they made out ranged noises, but then in very short order they moved on to talking about ukraine, which is what they really care about, not you. in the end, only one state really did anything about this, that would be the state of florida with governor ron desantis. several weeks ago, the florida legislature passed a law banning teachers from bragging about thei ....
new york times report saying he was among republicans who thought trump should resign over his role in the capitol attack. hours after that flatout denial, we heard mccarthy saying exactly what the new york times excerpt of a new book said what he said. in an audio recording heard for the first too many on the rachel maddow show last night. kevin, heard of audio recordings? that ultimately brought down the nixon presidency. they re a thing. this damming one we heard occurred days after trump supporters stormed the capitol. it was a conversation between mccarthy and republican leadership team including representative liz cheney ousted from party leadership weeks later over her opposition to trump. but what i think i m going to do is i m going to call him. this is what i think. it will pass the house. i think it will pass the senate. there is always a discussion you have with him is that i think this will pass and it will be my recommendation this should be done. ....
of the month? well, more of the same to come. no rain really to speak of at all. there is no weather fronts heading our way, no areas of low pressure at all. where has the rain gone, you may be asking. it has been steered into the mediterranean. it has been very wet here. another area of low pressure bringing more rain today into spain and portugal. at home, we have seen more cloud this morning. that produced one or two showers, nothing more than that. the cloud is still there across southern parts of england and wales, especially in the south west there could be a spot of rain. otherwise dry with sunshine around. still brisk easterly winds, so the highest temperatures will be in the west. it could make 19 celsius in argyll and bute. a bit misty and cool in northern parts of scotland. still cloud this evening into the far south, but cloud will increase again overnight, more widely across england and wales. still the breeze keeps going. temperatures of four or five celsi ....