happening on the border no closer than griff jenkins in mexico right now and their side of the border, thanks are things are getting worse and rampant there. we re in mexico and witnessed multiple times this morning of smugglers moving the migrants across. i want to you see this, by the way, this is a rope that you can see that literally been tied together for the migrants in the dark hours to take into the water to go across and this over here is the u.s. side. that s where we have seen groups for the last 24 hours we ve been here crossing all day, every day. a smuggler tells me that the border is quote, open, and he also says that to cross this river about 500 to $1500 u.s. dollars, but then if you want to be picked up and taken to san antonio or houston, upwards of 9 to $10,000. let me show you a drone shot, some footage of the group that crossed right at this location several hours ago. our drone on the u.s. side eagle pass was able to get a shot of that. this is part
Well be talking to the winners and losers. And who would you trust with your bank account. We will need one London Digital bank that promises a new way of managing your money. We ask what would be the one thing you change about the bank you use, cheaper loans, better Interest Rates, Faster Service . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. Good to have you with us. Banking is dominating the programme today, get in touch with your thoughts. We are talking about europes biggest bank, hsbc. One of the worlds biggest banks, hsbc, has reported its latest set of earnings and if youre a shareholder you are going to be very pleased with what they have to say today. The bank made a pre tax profit of 5. 28 billion in the Second Quarter of the year thats more than the 4. 6 than the 4. 6 billion that analysts were expecting. Hsbc announced a Share Buyback of up to 2 billion as it looks to make the most of its huge cash pile. The move will effectively restri
have you looked at the sales? are you intrigued? no, sometimes i would end up buying stuff i don t need. i m the kind of person who does holiday shopping in the middle of december. and anxiety really motivates me. neil: all right. well, these are anxious times, prices are generally much higher than they were a year ago, kelly. so what do you do? yeah, no, so, i mean all of these retailers, they re moving up the discounts, but personally i m waiting until black friday because we re going to see some of the biggest discounts ever. upwards of 30% on computers and electronics and i think that s going to help folks that are kind of dealing with that cash flow issue like okay, let s wait for the really, really, really big deal. neil: you know, you re right about that, electronic items, laptops, 30% less than last year at this time. one of the few items that are. really, kat, it seems to be whether you go for that or
why it s true it s it is a cash product for transnational criminal organizations based in mexico. we shouldn t think of the carte as a drug gang, you have to think of them as a multinationa corporation that is engaged in black-market drug sales. they bring and precursor chemicals from china, they make the fentanyl pills themselves and build factories in northern mexico and they ship it en mass across the border and making a lot of money doingng it and so this is a cash flow issue for them. and they re going to keep doin it and keep producing as much a they possibly can as long as we let as long as the border policies are what they are they won t stop it. we need to update our assumptions about the world. it s not 1955, we aren t ready and dub of great pickers to go to the central valley and helpe her accept her.
part of why it s true is that i is a cash product for transnational criminal organizations based in mexico. we shouldn t think of this cartel is like a drug gang. if they think of them as a multinational corporation that is engaged in black-market drug sales. they bring in precursor chemicals from china, they make the pills themselves in pill factories in northern mexico, and they ship it en masse acros the border and they are making lot of money doing it. so this is a cash flow issue fo them. they are going to keep doing it and keep producing as much of this stuff as they possibly can as long as we let them as long as the border policies are what they are, they re not going to stop. we need to update our assumptions great it s not 1955 and we re not leading in dozens to go to the central valley and help our egg center.