killed. italy s prime and, mario draghi has resigned. the doctors have effectively cured the rare bleeding disorder, haemophilia b. and no ordinary telescope. a first time that scientists will be able to detect the smashing together of neutron stars. welcome to the programme. the foreign secretary, liz truss, says the treasury s economic economic policies have failed to deliver growth for two decades, including the past 12 years of conservative rule. she s rejected concerns that the tax cuts she s promised if she becomes the next prime minister would increase inflation. ms truss and her conservative leadership rival, rishi sunak, are now setting out their pitches to win over the party membership, who will have the deciding vote over the summer. our political correspondent, iain watson, reports. his report contains some flashing images. it s going to be a busy six weeks. liz truss has been in the cabinet for the past eight years, but she s fighting this leadership election lik
Biden s watch. More than 245,000 crossings have been made this year in the Rio Grande Valley area alone. Septembers data is expected to show record crossings. In august, however, Us Border Patrol apprehended just over 181,000 people along the southern border. Thats up almost 50,000 injust one month, when you comparejuly s number of about 132,000. And mexicos president , Andres Manuel lopez 0brador, said that last week alone, 10,000 people arrived at the border every day. Here in the us, we spoke to members of congress on both sides of the aisle about the border wall, including republican congressman ralph norman, in 2020, his platform was not building the wall anymore. According tojoe biden, not a serious Policy Solution and he did not think wallace would work, which is total insanity. Now he has proposed 20 miles to be built from starr county in texas. He is using the funds that have really been appropriated in 2019 and dhs is appropriated in 2019 and dhs is a right to use those funds
with turkey, returns agreement with places like albania and crossings on the channel down by a third. we have action taking hundreds of people arrested who have been part of a legal all involved in trafficking here in the uk as well. this is the next step on that, this will be the top is legislation that has ever been brought forward by a british government to tackle illegal immigration and that is what we are really focusing on today top as legislation. we heard from keir starmer early on, he doesn t back the plan. his only plan is to borrow £28 million a year more. which would go into higher taxes for everyone in the country. he wants open borders, he opposes our rwanda bill today because he is not interested in controlling illegal immigration and what we are really trying to assert colleagues at the moment is that this is a very important next step in exactly what we are trying to do, which is tackle illegal migration across the channel. which is tackle illegal migrat
England women continue their impressive Euro 2017 Run by beating france, 1 0, in the netherlands. England will play the hosts on thursday and in half an hour, well be looking some more of tomorrows front pages with Caroline Frost and journalist tony grew. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Ceremonies have taken place in belgium to mark the centenary of the Battle Of Passchendaele one of the bloodiest of the First World War. Half a million allied and german soldiers were killed, wounded or went missing injust three months of fighting. This evening, the duke and Duchess Of Cambridge joined the prime minister, theresa may here as two days of commemorations to mark the start of the battle got underway, as robert hall reports. This is a city that has dedicated itself to remembrance. The firemen of ypres have sounded the last post for the missing in the heat of summer and the snows of winter, as the decades rolled by. Around them, carved into the great darch of the menin gate, over 5a,000
Showers for england and wales, the skies may be dry. Heavy showers across scotland and Northern Ireland, the far north of england quite slow moving with hail and thunder possible. Temperature similarto thunder possible. Temperature similar to what we have had recently, average for this time of year. Recently, average for this time of yea r. Fewer recently, average for this time of year. Fewer light showers, notjust in the south this time on tuesday, but then on wednesday the wind picks up but then on wednesday the wind picks up from the south west with rain away. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines President Trump has criticised china on twitter, saying its doing nothing to halt north koreas Weapons Programme after pyongyang test fired its second Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in a month. The australian Prime Minister says Counter Terror police have foiled an attempt to blow up a plane. Four people have been arrested in raids across sydney. International trade secretary liam fox