stormont elections before christmas. keeping the lights on this winter a new scheme launches which will see customers offered discounts on their energy bills if they agree to use less electricity at peak times. with the key us midterm elections just four days away, donald trump drops his strongest hint yet that he plans another run for the white house. and now, in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again, 0k? very, very, very probably. we are going to find the solutions to repair our planet. prince william has announced the finalists for his global environment awards, the earthshot prize. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the bbc has heard evidence that albanian drug gangs are using the migrant camps of northern france as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of those prepared to work in the uk drugs industry on arrival. it comes as record numbers of migrants are us
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 empty ca
they by potentially reinforcing this image of extremism that hurt republicans so much through purple states. there are others, but for me those are the biggest known unknowns for 2024. and that last one is a great question because you have heard republicans, you know, they have been basically chomping at the bit to take over the majority for obvious reasons. but with such a small majority, you negotiation i heard from republicans who say, we re concerned about what these investigations look like and what path this goes down and do we look like we have a strategy that we have it together or we don t know who is going to be the house speaker next week when the new congress takes over. good point. ron, thank you very, very much. thank you, guys. happy holidays. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. it is 8:00 a.m. eastern. we re so glad you re with us. it is december 27th. welcome to cnn this morning. all right, so we will begin with
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john: as we continue to watch the unfolding situation on the very famous golden gate bridge which has been shut down now for about 3.5 hours as protesters, anti-israel palestinian protesters have locks traffic near know that they have got the main protest group out of the way, we are saying that traffic is still not moving at all. we also noticed that the people who were in the front row of cars standing there, and fellow and a dark jacket on the left and the person in a vest on the right seemed to have their hands against the car which brings out the idea, how they like now there protesters that we have seen around the world glued themselves to those vehicles so that they cannot be removed? we don t have confirmation of that. for some reason, those folks aren t moving whereas everybody else did. sandra: are aerial shot is going back out again. is that incredible. you think about just how far back that traffic is now going. we saw police a moment ago on the live footage