we are awaiting a white house briefing moments from now, it s the biden administration s first in-person news conference since former president trump s landslide victory in the iowa caucuses and the first since lloyd austin s release from the hospital. sandra: and so many questions also swirling own hunter biden after a major development in one of the criminal cases against the president s son. for all of those reasons, we are going to be watching for the white house press briefing. when it begins, we will bring you the news from it. now this. 2023 was the biggest year for illegal border crossings, resources stretched, fentanyl in the country, do you think it s a crisis? we want solutions. solutions are at hand but frankly we are at an election year and the folks who want to return donald trump to the white house prefer to focus on the broken immigration system than the solutions at hand. petty politics at play on this issue as much as anything. john: vice president h
mentioned, with the possible exception of myself, but i pay tribute to everybody for the big effort. and that effort will continue, we will keep going right to the wire. and on our relations with france, i really renew what i ve said before we are working very, very closely with our french friends and partners on the things that matter most to the people of the world, and that is tackling climate change, reducing c02 and, by comparison with that hugely important issue, the ones you man it semi convention are vanishingly unimportant. but since you ask whether the uk has changed its position, let me put it that way, on the fishing issue, the answer is no. i hope that will do so far, thank you for all your attention. prime
paris to head to meet the france europe minister, both men are known for their robust diplomacy so it ll be interesting to see how that meeting shakes out. it is all part of a wider brexit tensions, and lord frost is in brussels on friday to meet with the commission to talk about the northern ireland protocol and the ongoing dispute over that as well. it s all part, now, of a wider set of tensions around brexit. so on this fishing issue, for now, the deadline delayed. it does feel rather familiar in terms of what we have seen with brexit where you see a lot of noise, deadline is missed and then pushed back a little way. we will put some of those questions on the fishing issue and some of the other big topics around to george eustace, the environment secretary, in 15 minutes. for more on this, let s
coming together and having a great performance, which will need to be competing against a very strong new zealand side. australia have lost another wicket in the cricket so it is 15 3. plenty more rugby union on the website, including all the latest from the premiership matches. leicester are up premiership matches. leicester are up against northampton saints, but thatis up against northampton saints, but that is all the sports for now. let s return to the row between the uk and france over post brexit fishing. the prime minister borisjohnson has admitted that there is turbulence in the relationship with france. the french president said the row was a test of the uk s global credibility. but, on the eve of the landmark climate cop 26 summit in glasgow, borisjohnson also said that the fishing issue was dwarfed by the urgent need to tackle climate change. the prime minister has been speaking to our political editor laura kuenssberg do you think france is trying to punish the uk overfishi
of the brexit trade deal that was struck, with the french prime minister appealing to the eu in a letter, seen by the bbc, to show that it was more damaging to be outside than inside the eu. but, on the eve of the landmark climate cop26 summit in glasgow, the british prime minister also said that the fishing issue was dwarfed by the urgent need to tackle climate change. borisjohnson has been speaking to our political editor, laura kuenssberg. do you think france is trying to punish the uk overfishing permits? things that unite france and the uk are far more important than those that divide us. we will work closely to get to the bottom of the issues. i must say we are a bit worried that france may be about to become in breach or is already in breach of the trade and co operation agreement that we struck, but all of those issues are dwarfed