could make inflation worse. because of my economic plan, we are better positioned than any other major economy in the world to weather the challenges and come through this as a strong iser company. republicans win, inflation if s going to get worse. it s that simple. paul: let s bring in texas congressman kevin brady. welcome, congressman, appreciate your coming in. the president says lots of progress, but wait, look, you ve got the last three months it came down from 9% to 8 and something, now 8.2%, so three months in a row it s gone down, so isn t that progress? yeah, no, it really isn t. and this week we saw, as you know, a double dose of bad if news for families and main street businesses. obviously, wholesale prices are still very, very high, and we know at the end of the day those get passed down to consumers in the future. and, of course, core inflation now hit the highest level in joe biden s presidency. that s a full year after he declared inflation had peaked. h
governor and tomorrow in the contest for senate in pennsylvania. nearly 7.3 million people have already cast their ballots in 39 states according to one analysis. right now, president biden is making his pitch to voters. he s hoping to shift the momentum away from republicans. a new analysis of the political landscape in these final weeks shows republicans are making late gains as they try to win back control of the house. white house correspondent jeremy diamond is with us now. give us details on what the president is saying. reporter: president biden is delivering right now what he termed a closing argument here as we are just about two weeks from election day. the president, though, isn t in the battleground states where you might expect him to be delivering that kind of closing argument. he s at democratic party headquarters where he said his goal is to try to energize the organizers who are calling into those battleground states, the staff at the democratic party who
first bill melugin live at the border in eagle pass, texas. 11:00 p.m. on a friday night the press office at department of homeland security released numbers, 11 p.m. on a friday night. an unusual time to be releasing a statement. dana, good morning that s exactly right. as blatant of a friday night news drop as you will ever see. keep in mind these september numbers are the last numbers the public would get a chance to see when it comes to the border before the mid-terms. those numbers are historic. let s take a look at them right now. september 2022, fiscal year 2022 they report more than 227,000 migrant encounters, that s the highest september in dhs history. the numbers also show fiscal year 2022 ended with nearly 2.4 million migrant encounters. that s the highest fiscal year ever recorded. perhaps most concerning if we can pull up this graphic. fiscal year 2022 ended with 98 border patrol arrests of people on the f.b.i. terror watch list. under president trump the high
asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls eve
investigation is launched. iran releases an alleged confession of spying by a british iranian man who s facing the death sentence he says the confession was forced. the social media personality andrew tate investigated in relation to organised crime, we investigate his popularity with young people. and the brit award nominations are out with a notable absence of women in the category of artist of the year. and stay with us here on bbc news channel for continuing coverage in analysis with our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good evening. ambulance response times in england and waits in accident and emergency departments have reached the highest levels on record. the latest figures have exposed the alarming state of emergency care in the national health service. for some emergencies, including suspected strokes and heart attacks, the average wait was over 90 minutes. the target is 18 minutes. more than a third of patients waited more than four hours t