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welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. tens of thousands of people have been gathering along this is ciudad juarez on the mexican side of the border. they ve been there for weeks, and many are expected to try to cross into the us in the coming days. that s because a temporary law introduced during the pandemic that makes it easier to remove migrants from the us is expiring later tonight. the us has been beefing up its security forces along the 2,000 mile border. that s where we start tonight. sophie long is in el paso, texas. sophie, president biden himself said this week that the border situation wil be chaotic for a while. what s the situation on the ground where you are? interestingly, at the moment, where interestingly, at the moment, where i am, in el paso, a stone s throw away from one of the crossings, it s very quiet. for many months here there has been hundreds of people who have made it across the border, sleeping on the streets of el pas ....
the us mexico border. officials have said that when title 42 is no longer in effect, tens of thousands of people could try to cross over. let s look at what the policy is. the temporary law title 42 was introduced by donald trump and meant illegal migrants could be removed quickly and it expires overnight tonight. the policy made it easier for the us to send people back to mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification. the winding down of covid measures means the policy no longer has any public health justification, prompting officials to announce it would end on may 11th, the same day as the official us public health emergency. and when it ends in a few hours from now, the us will return to a policy where migrants are screened to determine if they are eligible for asylum and quickly deported if they do not qualify. earlier, us homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas had this warning for those who are not eligible to seek asylum. our borders are not op ....
conserative party said sunack won the race and prime minister. the first person of color ever to hold that position. he will succeed liz truss after 44 days in office because of a revolt over her economic policies. former prime minister boris johnson thought about a comeback but ended up pulling out of a race. nbc news correspondent and associate editor at the financial times. what can we expect him to take over as prime minister? reporter: jose, this has been a very fast moving forward days since liz truss stepped down. it will be a fast moving 24 hours. what we expect, and you mentioned in your in tree, not only the first person of color to walk through 10 downing, also the youngest prime minister in two centuries, really a historic day. so what we expect, and we can t confirm exact timing is liz truss, who is still prime minister technically, will have to go to king charles to resign. then we expect him to be asked to form a government. then what happens? he walk ....
jdbalart. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. good morning. i m lindsey reiser in new york. breaking news in the united kingdom, the country s third prime minister in seven weeks has officially been decided. rishi sunak is, therefore, elected as the lead of the conservative party. you heard it there, rishi sunak, britain s former finance minister will take over for liz truss who resigned last week after 44 days on the job. we ll talk about the latest twist in this political turmoil. does the u.s. have a triple-demic on the horizon with the covid, the flu and respiratory viruses on the rise. you re seeing a tidal wave of sweeping across this country right now. but we start with crunch time before the midterm elections. two critical states begin early voting today. with 15 days to go, polling shows historic levels of voter enthusiasm with 70% of registered voters expressing high interest in this election. ....
over the weekend. all of it part of that effort to address the nationwide shortage. as more babies are hospitalized. the flight was the first of several shipments expected from europe this week. we have new details this morning on when we could see some other flights. let s begin this morning with president biden s trip to asia. jeremy diamond is in tokyo. selena wang is in beijing. jeremy, first to you, president biden s indo-pacific economic framework, as it s known, agreement of a number of nations, a dozen nations in the region, something of a replacement for the transpacific partnership, tpp, which the obama administration introduced but trump scrapped, but not quite. tell us exactly what this would do. reporter: yeah, that s right. this is a broad economic framework known as the indo-pacific economic framework launched by president biden earlier today. but the details of this still very much have to be negotiated. they will be negotiated over the next several ....