hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after 2 months of campaigning, and 8 initial candidates whittled down to 2, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy is resilient. how will they handle soaring inflation? i borisjohnson s ejection from office injuly triggered a stampede of wannabe successors. tory mps had the job of picking two final candidates. sunak,
to the island after fleeing abroad in the face of massive anti government protests. and spectators gather in rwanda for its annual gorilla naming ceremony. hello, and welcome. it s good to have your company. the russian energy giant gazprom says it has scrapped plans to reopen a key gas pipeline to europe. the company claims it can t restart nordstream one because of an oil leak in a turbine, and that it will remain closed for an indefinite period. that will have implications for europe s energy supply this winter. the pipeline has already been completely shut for three days. moscow denies weaponising energy supplies in retaliation for western sanctions. but that s not how the move has been seen in european capitals, the president of the european council took to twitter to express his disapointment. charles michel said. before going on to say. the bbc s economics editor faisal islam explained more about what russian gas giant gasprom has been saying. let me show you a map of
we have in the last 20 years. all this as republican lawmakers this week on this show and on america reports recount similar stories about their conversations with border patrol agents. i looked out and talking and said the night before, 100 had come across. he said some of them are on the list. he said what list? the terror watch list. we go to monument 3 and talk to the agents. it s not just people from mexico or honduras. they re finding people from yemen, iran, turkey. people on the terrorist watch list they re catching. those remarks prompting this from rubin guillegos comments. in 2019 the state department said there s no credible evidence indicating that terrorist groups have sent operatives via mexico. that same year, dhs said we stop ten individuals on the terrorist watch list per day from traveling to or entering the u.s. former white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany is standing by on this. let s begin with tom holman, former ice director and juan will
say this , i mean anything related to immigration, the democratic-led house or 60 votes in the united states senate you need a conversation and compromise about daca children which he did not bring up and as i mentioned any reporting is that it is something that jared kushner has said that maybe he can get people to be open to but good luck getting the president to commit to something that his base is going to go bonkers about. and to the point on working potentially or not across the aisle, i ve got rose quizon, an immigration law professor at rutgers and it is interesting, i want your thoughts on what we just heard from the president and then i know you do so much work on this and hearing perfect the president s allies and lindsey graham who put forth his own immigration bill, he has even said this is all about uniting republicans and less about it becoming law. so my question is, what then is the point?
major trade deal, the structural changes he talks about. do you know what i want to keep my eyes on? the independents. if you look at the midterm election we had, a lot of women, young people, independents moved against the republicans. the question is has he softened them up at all? he hasn t with one speech, but what does he do over time? if he loses them and he s stuck with the narrow base it s a campaign he has to run where he s tearing somebody else down and that s not going to be good for the country. i think that s where some of his policies he talked about last night hiv, childhood cancer, paid family leave. those are the kind of policies of independents, attract women as well. we should watch for those policies. thank you very much. a great discussion. great discussion. president trump defended his decision to with draw troops