the bbc finds evidence of major success in clamping down on opium growing in afghanistan. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. thank you for being with us. we start in ukraine, and the attack on a crucial dam in the south of the country. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, because of rising flood waters. the dam sits between russian held territory to the south and ukrainian territory to the north. kyiv says that moscow is to blame, and so do nato and the eu, which has called the destruction a war crime . at a un meeting, russia has accused ukraine of sabotage. the uk prime minister, rishi sunak has said to kherson now, and this report from our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse. i think it is still if you go by what us officials are saying just today it is still in its early phases. it has started nevertheless where ukrainian forces, small new units are probing different parts of this vast front line. they re trying to fin
massive caravan fuelling. all mayors agree on one thing. the federal government needs to stop dithering. coming up, we ll hear from a texas republican, tony gonzalez, who says there s one simple thing we can be doing right now. welcome, i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is your world. the congressman coming up. first to nate foy on the growing crisis. nate? a caravan with an estimated 8,000 migrants is making its way to our southern border right now. sanctuary city mayors are again asking president joe biden to do more to help them. states across the entire country deal with this crisis. texas governor greg abbott continues bussing and now flying migrants to sanctuary cities. only a fraction of what texas and other border states deal with. take a look at this. the southern border is on pace for the most migrant encounters ever in a single month with 250,000 so far in december alone. that includes over 35,000 during the four-day christmas weekend. now new york c
for sexual abuse, ordering him to pay $5 million to writer e. jean carroll. we have legal analysis on the case and more reaction from capitol hill straight ahead. also ahead, a high stakes meeting on the debt ceiling lives up to the low expectations everyone predicted. a look at what could come next as both sides have a small window to hammer out a deal. plus it appears that george santos elis and questionable financial claims are finally catching up to him as he is facing federal charges. and a live report from el paso, texas on how the biden administration is preparing for the end of a pandemic-era immigration restriction. good morning and welcome to morning joe it s wednesday, may 10th. along with joe, willie and me, we have host of way too early, jonathan lemire. former white house director of communications, jen palmerry. cohost of show time s the circus . attorney and columnist for the washington post george conway is with us as well. so it begins. donald tru
just to keep the country running. this news coming on the heels of a politico report that says, concerns are mounting on capitol hill about the administration s ability to properly account for all the money and weapons heading to ukraine. it s coming under increased scrutiny from members of both parties from progressive elizabeth warren to libertarian ran paul. some lawmakers warning the administration that a future aid package for ukraine could lose the overwhelming support past efforts have had if the pentagon doesn t step up its oversight on previously allocated funds. with no cease fire or peace agreement in sight, the fight between ukrainian and russian forces slogs on. zelenskyy, this week told lawmakers in luxembourg that nearly 12 million people have been internally displaced since the russian invasion started. he also conceded that russian forces are advancing in the eastern part of ukraine, and now control a greater amount of territory than they did before the war s
And again that matters. Because the question being raised whether past the point of anger which hes allowed to feel and into something that involves a vendetta where the truth might be sacrificed. Or lied about that history. He said he did ask to be President Trumps personal attorney, but not a different rule of general counsel. It went on and on like this today, if you will. Ke this just like it did the other day. And so its possible or dilute the larger. Defense attorneys are trying to make, but that they are trying to raise. Its possible on the other hand, and i was watching Michael Cohen go through it, that the cuts can slowly eat away as the key witness to Donald Trumps State Of Mind. Another way to put this is without the other money guy, Allen Weisselberg, who is in jail can certainly make trump look bad here in the real world. Others can factor that in, the guys have been to jail twice now. Without the cfo they needed the other trump aid who knew about the state of his mind. In