Theres real battle going on on the beach here, must be more than 100 migrants trying to get to the water, they are letting off firecrackers to try and keep the police away from them. Screeching and the 9 year old british boy whos won a European Championship for his uncanny impression of a seagull. Hello. A warm welcome to the programme, im sally bundock. The us senate has approved a 95 billion aid package for ukraine, israel and taiwan. The overwhelming vote in favour marks the end of six months of deadlock in congress. The measures approve around 61 billion in long awaited aid for ukraine alone. The package also designates more than 26 billion in aid for israel and 8 billion for taiwan and Us Indo Pacific allies. On saturday, the House Of Representatives ended months of stalemate to pass the aid package. Its expected to be signed into law by President Biden shortly. The Senate Majority leader, chuck schumer, said the United States had shown its allies that it would not turn its back o
Coast in the early hours leading to the deaths of five of those attempting the crossing, including a child. It happened just hours after mps passed the governments Rwanda Bill Which is designed to deter people from attempting crossings like this. 0ur correspondent Andrew Harding was on that beach in the early hours of this morning just north of Wimereux Filming as police ran towards the people smugglers and those who had paid them to cross. Theyd only been at sea a short time when they got into difficulty. Well, we can join andrew now. Good evening. The smugglers in this area have accessed almost 150 miles of coastline from which to launch their small boats which makes it very rare and very difficult to actually witness one of those launches as it happens but that is what happened to us in the early hours of this morning, on a Big Beautiful Beach close to a french golf resort. Shouting a skirmish early this morning on a french beach. 0k, werejust running to catch up with some migrants
Some doctors who may disagree. But first, lets get the news with ray allison. With ray allison. Thanks, nigel. Good evening. Our top stories tonight. The Prime Minister has announced plans to increase defence spending to 2. 5 of gdp by 2030. Dufing spending to 2. 5 of gdp by 2030. During a trip to poland, rishi sunak said the budget will reach £87 billion by the end of the decade. Addressing troops in a military hangar, he also said the uk Defence Industry will be put on a war footing. Mr sunak described the plans as the biggest strengthening of our National Defence in a generation. As churchill said in 1934, to urge the preparation of defence is not to insert the imminence of war. On the contrary, if war was imminent, preparations for defence would be too late. I believe we must do more to defend our country, our interests and our values. So today im announcing the biggest strengthening of our National Defence. For a generation. We defence. For a generation. We will increase defence
Well, that announcement comes as rishi sunak warned that president putin will not stop at the polish border if his assault on ukraine is allowed to continue. Earlier, britain pledged its largest ever package of aid for kyiv, worth £500 million during the warsaw trip. The pm is holding talks with the leaders of poland, germany and nato, warning that the defence of ukraine is essential to our joint security. Ukraines president zelenskyy has welcomed the package, which includes long range missiles, armoured vehicles and boats. Well, on the vehicles and boats. Well, on the day that five channel migrants died off the french coast, including a four year old child, six gb news can reveal that more than 250 others have crossed to the uk on a small boat, got into difficulties off wimereux beach near boulogne, before 2 am. A number of other migrants were rescued, with at least one now critically ill in hospital. Five critically ill in hospital. Five other small boats have now been received by b
Good morning, everybody. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. We will get into the big picture story in a moment. Breaking news. We are waiting for the Banking Sector to wake up with bnp numbers. Numbers coming through. Lets talk about what they have got to say this morning. They have decided to accelerate the pace of investment. Fourthquarter net interest income. That is ahead of the estimate of 6. 27. They have increased their mortgage volume income. This is a bank that is very exposed to the swedish Housing Market, of course. The impact of the slowdown we have seen in this Housing Market for this business is crucial. We have seen the biggest slump since the financial crisis, even as the economy has been growing faster than average for europe. Saying they see signs that pressure is easing on this Housing Market. Headlinerucial, the coming through. Manus we are officially in a correction. Falls by 2 from the high point. I said to you in the headline that the asian markets were careening