EIght people have drowned whIle tryIng to cross the channel from france to england. TheIr Rubber Boat was overloaded, wIth more than 50 people On Board IncludIng erItreans, sudanese, syrIans and IranIans. It comes as SIr KeIr Starmer heads off to Italy to meet hIs ItalIan counterpart, gIorgIa melonI, tomorrow. The two leaders are expected to dIscuss Illegal mIgratIon, and to see what lessons can be learned from Italys Scheme of sendIng mIgrants to albanIa. So far thIs year 45 people have dIed tryIng to make the journey across the channel. Thats the hIghest number sInce 2021 and nearly four tImes last years fIgure. The boat got Into dIffIcultIes off the french town of ambleteuse and was drIven onto rocks where It came apart. The Rocky Shore made the french Rescue Effort dIffIcult. SImonjones has the latest. The channel has claImed more lIves. ThIs Is what remaIns of the FlImsy DInghy that took to the water In the early hours wIth the aIm of gettIng to the uk. Most of those On Board had
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the country because tomorrow is being billed as biden s first campaign rally since announcing his reelection bid and what better place to do it then back in philadelphia. the side of the unifier dark divisive speech where he warned republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundation of our republic. let me ask you. what could be more threatening to the republic than trying to deny your chief political opponent an opportunity to campaign just like you? the 45th president of the united states has surrendered without incident to federal law enforcement. he is in custody of the government. donald trump arrested again. advised of his rights and this time booked on 37 counts. the special counsel watches from the front row as the ex-president pleads not guilty. to give you a sense of how twisted this is, let s document what we have learned over the last 24 hours. the fbi 1023 form alleges the bidens coerced a foreign national to pay them $10 million in brib
that s news to the rest of the country because tomorrow is being billed as biden s first big campaign rally since formally announcing his reelection bid. and what better place to do it then? back in philadelphia, the site of the unifier in chief s dark divisive speech where he warned that republicans represent an extreme schism that threatens the very foundation of our republic. let me ask you, what could be more threatening to the republic than to deny your chief political opponent the opportunity to just like you. the 45th president of the united states has surrendered incident to federal law enforcement, and he s now in the custody of the government he once ran. donald trump arrested again advised of his rights again and booked time on 37 federal felony counts. the counsel watches from the front row as the ex-president pleads not guilty. just to give you a sense of how twisted all of this is, let s document what we ve learned over last 20 4 hours. so according to the f
talks and he is confident they will come to a bitart san agreement before it is too late. todd: alexandria hoff live in washington. alexandria: president biden did receive a briefing this morning, the president s team informed him steady progress is being made and the president directed his team to keep pushing forward for bipartisan agreement. on wednesday, they introduced procedural resolution that would allow members to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling. president biden is in japan. hakeem jeffries wrote to colleagues, given the impending june 1 deadline, it is important all legislative options be pursued in the event no agreement is reached. for a forced vote to be successful, all democrats, plus five republicans would have to join the effort. here is house speaker kevin mccarthy. i do not think it is going anywhere, for one, it seems that would be playing into a biden default. i think america public is tired of those political games. freedom caucus members u