Well be taking you live to the West Midlands this hour thats where The Labour Leader sir keir starmer is set to launch the partys local Election Campaign, alongside his deputy leader Angela Rayner. Elections are taking place in 107 local authorities across england on the 2nd of may. With labourfar ahead in National Opinion polls, many conservatives are likely braced for a bad night on 2 may. Voters will go to the polls to choose councillors in more than 100 local authorities, as well as 11 mayors, 37 police and crime commissioners, and London Assembly members. The Labour Launch comes after the leaders of the conservatives and liberal demoracts kicked off their campaigns last week. These off their campaigns last week. Are the live pictures again these are the live pictures once again from the West Midlands where the labour deputy leader Angela Rayner is addressing the crowd. Before i pass on to keir starmer let me say this, i know that some would listen to my speech today will feel that
Inaction. Sandra the new york city mayor has been saying that for the last year. Nearly 100,000 migrants have arrived here. So many that families are now sleeping on sidewalks and in makeshift tent cities that are popping up. Thats all expected to cost a whopping 12 billion down the line. Gillian perhaps most surprising is the mayors lack of communication with the commander in chief. Have you talked to the president directly . We had a conversation last year, we communicated with the white house several times. We have a body, a contingent from Homeland Security here now. Gillian last year . Chaos up north stems from the chaos unfolding down south. Illegal Border Crossings are surging in the Rio Grande Valley. Bill melugin, what kind of activity is the Border Patrol seeing today . Gillian, good afternoon to you. Cbp source tells me as of this morning, more than 19,000 migrants in federal custody nationwide and that all four of their main Border Patrol sectors are already almost at capac
so coming up very shortly, we will have that briefing from the pentagon, live here on bbc news. we will be hearing from a number of officials, including mark milley, the general. and secretary lloyd austin, as well. there is at the officials we will be hearing from but i think now we can stay with us pictures, we can go back to that as and when the briefing starts, that we can now talk about the extreme heat around europe. we have been talking about the extreme heat and temperatures across the world, and the heatwave that is continuing across southern europe. several cities in italy are on the red list, places like rome and sardinia have passed a0 celsius. we can now cross live to martinjones, who is in lazio, he is a british citizen who has lived in italy for the past five years. how hot is it where you are? the past five years. how hot is it where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so where you are? rig
round after beating frenchman alexandre muller in straight sets. andy murray follows him on centre court where he ll resume his match against stefanos tsitsipas. we can join chetan pathak who s there for us. the 20 year old alcaraz is looking very impressive, a slight wobble in the second set, though? yes, a little bit. understandably so, i suspect. yes, a little bit. understandably so, isuspect. he yes, a little bit. understandably so, i suspect. he will figure out on grass. at the end of the third set, as he was looking to serve it out, slight lack of concentration lack of concentration. carlos alcaraz is formidable and it s the first time i ve seen him in person and he is an extraordinary talent, explosive on all sides, extraordinary talent, explosive on allsides, his extraordinary talent, explosive on all sides, his servers almost perfect. serve. alexander millar was not going to be making much of a. alcatraz in straight sets and many people saying he is the biggest
deal promised in the wake of brexiter. in its place, a commitment to co operate on defence, trade, a deal on data protection and ways to regulate new ai technology. the uk prime minister hailed this approach is a better response to the challenges the two countries face. the economic relationship between our two countries has never been stronger. the trade is worth hundreds of billions of pounds, dollars, a year. over a million of our citizens in each other s countries work in each other s countries work in each other s companies. we are the largest investors in each other s countries. and that trade is growing as something like 20% last year. as part of the atlantic declaration, president biden pledged to give uk exporters access to critical minerals needed for electric car batteries. similar to an agreement of the us made with japan. there is no reason why great britain will not play a major role in not only critical material but in investing in united states of america and