political mood. a week to until the us mid term elections, iam laura trevalyan in the battleground state of pennsylvania, reporting from scranton, the hometown of presidentjoe biden. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraine s energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country including the capital kyiv where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine from the frontline battlefields of the donbas to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated to try to stop the ukrainian offensive. his report contains some deeply distressing details. for ukrainians, this is a fight for national survival. the hardest test any nation can face. it upends every life. it has ended the lives of thous
Welcome to todays verified live. This will be one of the central dividing lines at the next general election. Labours sir keir starmer has pledged to scrap the governments Rwanda Scheme straight away if his party wins the general poll. The Labour Leader says he would use money saved to hire specialist investigators to tackle small boats crossing the channel. Well have more on that in a moment. But this is happened as the bbc has tracks down one of europes most wanted people smugglers Barzan Majeed nicknamed the scorpion. Speaking from northern iraq, he defended arranging for thousands of people, to travel to the uk, in small boats and lorries, arguing migrants are begging him for help. Our reporter sue mitchell is part of the team that tracked him down. She says Barzan Majeeds phone number was found on the phones of migrants coming to britain in small boats. My partner in this investigation is rob lawrie. Hes former british army and he has a lot of contacts in the migrant camps in bo
so, a real attempts by the prime minister there, i think, to show that he has a grip on this. there s been some dissent internally amongst conservatives, privately and to a degree publicly, a frustration that the prime minister hasn t been willing to do or say more, to act more to try and put a lid on all of this, because there is the prospect that there could be a dribble of further revelations in the coming days when the prime minister and other conservatives would rather talk about anything else. must go back to our panel, anna gross and jenny kleeman. we ve been talking about these allegations, anna, for days now. i m pretty sure that mr sunak once the agenda to move on, but haven t. it that mr sunak once the agenda to move on, but haven t. that mr sunak once the agenda to move on, but haven t. it hasn t. it has been move on, but haven t. it hasn t. it has been raised move on, but haven t. it hasn t. it has been raised - move on, but haven t. it hasn t. it has been
and partnerships and help the united states in dealing with china. these things have been going on now for five years and this year, this five year has been a banner year of success and so the momentum on the us side is very strong and there is going to be more. we are going to be cutting off us investment in china. they re going to be doing of other things that are going to take place over the next year. that will now have very strong public support. the chinese actions are just reinforcing this broad momentum that you see in washington and you see it in the country. washington and you see it in the count . ., ~ ,, washington and you see it in the count . . ~ ,, , washington and you see it in the count . ., ~ , . thank country. thank you very much. thank ou ve country. thank you very much. thank you very much- thank you very much. the pope, archbishop of canterbury and moderator of the church of scotland are on an historic three day visit to south sudan. they ve called it a pilgrim