Thought for american workers like i would fight for my own family. I took care of our economy like i would take care of my own company. This election will decide whether or not we reward Kamala Harris with reelection, and four more years of crime, economic calamity, and international humiliation, or whether we change that direction, and once again build the greatest economy in the history of the world. Sandra thats former President Donald Trump laying out his vision to Business Leaders with the New York economic Club Right here in manhattan. Thats happening right now. All of this as his 2024 rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, is on the road arriving in pittsburgh where shell be preparing for tuesdays High Stakes debate. And that is where we are as we top a brandnew hour. Welcome, everyone. Im Sandra Smith in New York. Good to be with you. John im John Roberts in washington. This is america reports. The former president also promising gasoline at under 2 a gallon, and that he would ap
Whether it should match elsewhere in the uk or whether it is set at the right level are likely to continue. Our correspondent are likely to continue. Our correspondent lorna are likely to continue. Our correspondent Lorna Gordon in holyrood. As if by magic we can speak to the general secretary of the scottish trades union congress. Can you explain, what did you mean when you say the Scottish Government could have raised more revenue by taxing any different way . We more revenue by taxing any different way . More revenue by taxing any different way . We have been settin different way . We have been setting out different way . We have been setting out for different way . We have been setting out for a different way . We have been setting out for a couple different way . We have been setting out for a Couple Of. Setting out for a Couple Of years ways that the Scottish Government could raise additional revenue within existing powers and it is not just all about income tax. They could, for
Brands barbie, fisher price and moi, that is mattel to find out how his company s fortunes are being revived. Wherever you are joining around the world, once again hello and welcome to the programme. It is a billion dollar industry driven by creativity and innovation with a global reach and a diverse market. The toy industry is forecast to reach $302 billion in sales by 2030 and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we have seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, big name companies reported sales have started to slip back once again. Let s look at some of those numbers. Local toy sales reached $108. 7 billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022 with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional growth linked to the pandemic. But acr
As we learn more about that unfolding situation today. But first, we want to turn or attention to a major change underway in america. Today workers in our Energy Industry are wondering where the Biden White House is leaving them. They spent decades Building Energy independence in this country. Thats been great news for workers and not such great news for other big Energy Providers like venezuela or russia or the middle east. We were building our own enormous energy supply. That shifted. The global power dynamic in a way that has not been seen since the advent of the automobile. Now its changing. Executive orders are it sheing down new leases for fracking on federal land. As you know, the xl pipeline is a casualty here. Heres what some of those workers are saying as they react to this. You prepare for these large projects. When one gets the rug yanked out from under it, you have nothing the next year or two years. I cant believe that all this in one day, that a mans stroke of a pen can
Now on bbc news dateline london. Hello, im shaun ley. Welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uks leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists whove worked as Foreign Correspondents, Filing Stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. This week will there be enough Vaccine Doses . The uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. And what a disputed Prime Ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. 0n dateline s panel this week janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. Jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and Foreign Correspondent in canada and the United States. And here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. Warm welcome to all of you. The European Commission has been Piling Pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of march may be cut