youngsters are actually some of the most economically active in the developed world. waving goodbye to the french open for what is likely to be the last time. the record 1a time champion in paris rafael nadal is knocked out in the opening round. good morning. rain is coming in from the south west pushing north east through the day. behind it we see a return to sunshine but some scattered showers. all of the details later. it s tuesday, the 28th of may. the conservatives have promised to raise the tax free pension allowance if they win the general election. they say the proposal would be worth £275 a year to each pensioner by 2030. under the plans, the state pension would always remain below the tax free threshold. rishi sunak says the scheme shows the conservatives are on the side of pensioners but labour have called it desperate . 0ur political correspondent, ben wright, has the details. what do you love about it? there s one particular reason politicians like to present t
republican congressman john katko of new york calls the situation disorder at the border by executive order. reaction from him in a minute but first fox team coverage david sphungt is in wilmington, delaware where biden is spending the weekend and we begin with griff jenkins live in mission, texas, griff. reporter: good afternoon jon we re here in rio grand valley next to wall and turn and use a visual here with our drone you can see i m behind wall that is intended to stop the illegal crossers from getting into the u.s. but then all of a sudden, in this section of the wall, it is nothing but a gigantic hole. this section of the wall intended to be completed during the trump administration but it was stopped during the biden administration simply because he halted all wall construction. and here in this specific area it is ground zero for border surge in terms of numbers people coming across we ve been here talking to agents and talking to residents one of them jr. and who ha
meanwhile, the biden administration is still denying there is a border crisis preferring to call it a, quote, challenge. with officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including a new influx of young children. we have live team coverage for you on all of this. david spunt is in wilmington the, delaware, covering the administration s response, but first we start with griff jenkins who s down on the border in mission, texas. griff? reporter: hey, eric, good afternoon. we are here in the rio grande valley sector, mission, texas, part of that. and let me just show you the proximity to which we are to the border. you can see as we come around the wall, a hole in the wall, the levee in the distance about a mile two two miles is the rio grande river. that is ground zero where we see migrant after migrant, as well as some single adults. they are just coming in an overwhelming number that the border patrol agents here can t deal with. and it s not just the of
Another 119 billion for our collective defence and for the financing of additional nato reserves. We should recognise that with these chronic underpayments and growing threats even 2 of gdp is insufficient to close the gaps in modernising readiness and the size of forces. We have to make up for the many years lost. President trump with his message to nato leaders in brussels. There was a partial resumption of campaigning in the general election today as the leader of ukip, paul nuttall, launched the partys manifesto. But the event was overshadowed by the partys accusation that theresa may had some responsibility for the Manchester Bombing. The current home secretary, amber rudd, said it was not the time to make political points. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. Manchester on everyones minds, but ukips manifesto was hardly a quiet affair. The party accusing theresa may of playing a part in creating the circumstances that led to mondays attack. The Prime Minister has, durin
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