lent. what s the best sweet you re looking forward to having. ice cream. the soft serve from reporters as the border crisis looms. fox & friends first starts right now. sweet dreams are made of this. who am i to disagree. i travel the world and the seven seas. everybody s looking for something. griff: good morning, you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m griff jenkins in for todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus in for jillian mele. i m getting hungry. griff: i gave up pizza for lent. i ve got to tell you, i m going to kill somebody soon if i don t eat a slice of pizza. i didn t think it was going to be that hard. sometimes when you give up the most basic, favorite food it s suffer than you think. i can understand why the president wants that scoop of ice cream. carley: i think that murder in the eyes of the lord is worse than breaking your lenten sacrifice. maybe get a slice of pizza before you commit violence. griff: i m staying str
rising, one study says by next week at this time, it could be 22000. by may, the end of may, close to 30,000. we re also going to be speaking with the retired acting i.c.e. director on what to make of this , but first, we want to go to mark meredith with the president in wilmington, delaware on what he is saying about this. hey, mark. neil, good morning to you. the white house says president biden is regularly briefed by his immigration team about what s going on at the border, but this comes as those republican senators you were just talking about were making it clear this issue isn t going anywhere and they want to keep it front and center what s going on on the border. take a look at some video that texas senator ted cruz posted on his twitter account last nice this comes after a tour on friday where you can see that there appear to be hundreds of migrants enter these border patrol facilities, underneath some mylar blankets resting on the ground. the video came after cru
hello and welcome. the european union has backtracked this hour in a row with the united kingdom over the export of coronavirus vaccines. earlier, brussels introduced new controls giving member states the power to block vaccines being sent abroad. then to reinforce that, it announced the invoking of a clause in the brexit deal that would reinstate border checks between the eu and northern ireland, in effect stopping vaccines entering the u k by the back door. it all underlines how sensitive the distribution of vaccines has become as nick beake reports. throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based vaccine maker has been intensifying. european countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered, even if it means taking them from the uk supply. it all hangs on the contract the two sides signed that s now been released, although with parts blanked out. astrazeneca says it agreed to do its reasonable best. the eu insist
and what it means for your bills. 15 million households in britain will have to pay more for gas and electricity from today. we will ask what it means for your bills. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has urged the public to trust in the police, despite the murder of sarah everard, but admitted that there are problems in the force that need fixing and said the government would come down very hard on them. however borisjohnson said he was absolutely standing by the head of scotland yard, dame cressida dick, despite further calls for her resignation. keir starmer, the labour leader, has backed calls for an independent inquiry. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. wayne couzens, the police officer turned killer, who has so damaged public trust. today, beginning of the life sentence in prison from which he will never be released. his abduction, rape and murder of sarah everard, using his police warrant card and handcuffs, risks undermin
helped to slow down the rate of price increases for non food products, which eased injanuary down from over 3% in december. i m joined now by shanti kelemen, chief investment officer at m&g wealth. good morning. this isjust what we want to hear before the bank of england has its first meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday. meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday- on thursday. yes, we will have a decision on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them - on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them on - a decision from them on interest rates, wiley expected to keep rates unchanged and thatis to keep rates unchanged and that is positive news for inflation and a prices, on the other side we do have the economy still not in a recession and wage growth has been pretty strong. there are some factors balancing inflation, thinking it might not be a sharp drop in the next few months. to not be a sharp drop in the