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welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. tens of thousands of people have been gathering along this is ciudad juarez on the mexican side of the border. they ve been there for weeks, and many are expected to try to cross into the us in the coming days. that s because a temporary law introduced during the pandemic that makes it easier to remove migrants from the us is expiring later tonight. the us has been beefing up its security forces along the 2,000 mile border. that s where we start tonight. sophie long is in el paso, texas. sophie, president biden himself said this week that the border situation wil be chaotic for a while. what s the situation on the ground where you are? interestingly, at the moment, where interestingly, at the moment, where i am, in el paso, a stone s throw away from one of the crossings, it s very quiet. for many months here there has been hundreds of people who have made it across the border, sleeping on the streets of el pas ....
officially the end of a controversial immigration policy in the us and officials are warning about a potential surge of migrants at the us mexico border. let s remind ourselves what the policy is, and how it might affect us immigration. the temporary law introduced by donald trump, known as title 42, meant illegal migrants could be removed quickly. it expires overnight tonight. the policy made it easier for the us to send people back to mexico, using the coronavirus pandemic as a justification. the winding down of covid measures means the policy no longer has any public health basis, prompting officials to announce it would end on may 11th, the same day as the official us public health emergency. and when it ends, in a few hours from now, the us will return to a policy where migrants are screened, to determine if they are eligible for asylum, and quickly deported if they do not qualify. in the past hour, a federal judge in florida has temporarily blocked the biden administrat ....
the government confirms it is supplying ukraine with the long range missiles it requested for its fight against russian forces. and the australian immigration lawyer taking on eurovision tonight. at 6.30: concerns of how the cost of living crisis will make access to health care worse in london s poorest areas. and rail strikes make an unwelcome return tomorrow. we look ahead to semifinals. the bank of england has raised interest rates again, as it tries to stop prices rising so high. but the bank s governor has warned that prices will not fall nearly as fast they had predicted though he says the economy won t now go into recession. have a look at what has happened to interest rates over the past 15 years. these here were booming times before the financial crash. the economy was growing, there was a house price boom and the bank raised rates to try to damp it all down. and then this steep fall after the crash, with the bank of england trying to save the economy by sl ....
outside africa. risking their lives to escape. how an easing of us sanctions comes amid an exodus of cubans trying to reach america. by by the current diary economic circumstances mean this exodus is more acute than it has been for many years. and double fault for wimbledon, as it s stripped of its ranking points over its decision to ban russian players from this year s championships because of the war in ukraine. hello and welcome to the programme. in ukraine, russian forces have been advancing on the battlefield in the south and east of the country, after suffering weeks of setbacks since their invasion in february. the last few ukrainian defenders of mariupol are finally ending their resistance. now the donbas region is the key focus for russia. it says that what it calls the liberation of luhansk province is nearing completion, and it s intensifying its attacks on neighbouring donetsk. jeremy bowen sent this report from ukraine. explosions the russians are shelling ....
more than 100 cases are reported across 11 countries outside africa. risking their lives to escape: how an easing of us sanctions comes amid an exodus of cubans trying to reach america. but the current dire economic circumstances mean this exodus is more acute than it has been for many years. and it s a double fault for wimbledon as it s stripped of its ranking points over its decision to ban russian players from this year s championships because of the war in ukraine. hello and welcome to the programme. in ukraine, russian forces have been advancing on the battlefield in the south and east of the country after suffering weeks of setbacks since their invasion in february. the last few ukrainian defenders of mariupol are finally ending their resistance. now, the donbas region is the key focus for russia. it says that what it calls the liberation of luhansk province is nearing completion, and it s intensifying its attacks on neighbouring donetsk. the bbc sjeremy bowen s ....