Doing so would be a serious escalation of the war, but Keir Starmer said moscow started the conflict and can end it by withdrawing its troops from ukraine. Our Political Editor Chris Mason was on the prime Ministers Plane, and sent this report shortly after landing. The Prime Minister arriving here in washington with the foreign secretary, David Lammy Sir Keir Starmer s second visit to the White House in two months. Ukraines allies remain rather guarded in their public remarks about a change in policy on the use of Western Missiles inside russia. But the diplomatic dashing to arrive at a decision is in plain sight and that has proved enough for President Putin to say this. Translation if this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than direct participation of nato countries, the United States, I European countries. In the war in ukraine. It is their direct participation and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence of the conflict. This will mean that nato countries
pete: it is the 7 a.m. hour of fox & friends carley: weekend! pete: weekend, on sunday, january 28th, year of our lord, 2024. and former president trump taking shots at biden s battle with texas as he promises to help border states instead of fighting them if he gets reelected. carley: plus, jay leno reveals why he won t do political jokes anymore. will: and may the best friend win. rick issuing a geography challenge yesterday. not only am i good at it, i m amazed sometimes how bad pete is at it. pete: oh, come on. will: could i beat you at a geography competition? rick: not a chance. will: it is on. we put our geography if knowledge to the test with a competition. the second hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. you re my if brown-eyed girl. do you remember when we used to sing will: do you think it s the most catchy song? if is it the hardest song not to sing along to? if. carley: it s a toe-tapper. pete: pretty tough. thely ins are pretty easy l
2023 ending with a record monthly number of migrant encounters at our southern border. more than 286,000 with one more day to go. and as migrants continue rushing in more democrats from sanctuary cities like new york and chicago, are speaking out. they re going to have to fork out more money for those here illegally. kelly. illinois governor pritzker s office says the money for those hotel rooms will come from additional $160 million set aside in the 2024 budget. this, as more migrants are arriving to the city daily. via train, plane and bus. chicago s mayor saying they can t do this without extra funding from the federal government, take a listen. as buses continue to arrive in the city of chicago and all over the country, the type of chaos that s been administered has left many of our local economies under tremendous amount of duress. we cannot do this alone. we need more support from the federal government. the windy city has received over 30,000 migrants from texa
of the population vote. caveat number two, we don t know what impact so called greeters had on the numbers. these were people employed by some local authorities to meet voters outside the polling stations, they are there to manage queues, help those with mobility issues etc. some reminded people they needed id to vote. we don t know who was discouraged at that stage. the figures we have got do not record those numbers. according to the electoral commission that is one aspect that they are going to investigate. one final thing to consider whatever the impact at polling stations, and whatever the level of voter fraud that id is meant to tackle which in terms of recorded offences or convictions is tiny there has been a big positive impact on voter confidence in the electoral system according to polling by the electoral commission. at a time when trust in institutions is low, that fact on its own, say supporters of voter id, is a not insignificant benefit. bob posner, chief
give up its secrets. rebecca morelle, bbc news. the time is 10:30pm and darren is here with the weather. hello, i want to touch on the flooding in italy first of all. this is just another example of severe weather becoming more severe and happening more often. it wasn t too long ago that this part of italy was in drought, but there has been six months of rain in the last couple of weeks which has certainly changed all that. this programme contains repetitive flashing images there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with victoria which is just getting under way the site of the former redcar steelworks is at the centre of a furious row between the conservative mayor of tees valley and labour. truly shocking. industrial scale corruption on teesside. a huge site acquired by the public body south tees developments limited for £12 million, in 2019. what s going on then? we ll talk live to the conservative mayor who s facing labour claims of cronyism, corruption