About that. If you worked on the ground for an ngo, get in touch and tell us. Indias rocket to the moon, 60 million quid, ouraid tell us. Indias rocket to the moon, 60 million quid, our aid to india, 33. 4 60 million quid, our aid to india, 33. 1; million quite. Is foreign aid money well spent a few donald trump is due in Court Tomorrow charged with trying to overturn the result of the 2020 us election, the former president is already accused of mishandling classified documents and falsifying business records, he denies the allegations. Thousands of women in africa are at risk of unsafe abortion or death during childbirth according to an internal report by Civil Servants that says it is because of Government Cuts to overseas aid. The Foreign Office says it is spending nearly double in the next year. Asylum seekers are not likely to move to the Accommodation Barge in dorset until next week, the local fire service has not given the go ahead, halting the first group of arrivals. The home
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
to fly out of washington, d.c. until the 6:00 p.m. tonight. instead, they very quietly gathered a press pool and left yesterday about 4:15. the president appeared in kyiv, not on his original itinerary. we were told he was just coming to poland to commemorate the one year anniversary of the russian invasion instead he droons into an active war zone. the new york times is reporting that he took an hour s long train ride from poland into the ukrainian capital that is besieged by the russians right now and while there he announced an extra half a billion dollars in new u.s. security assistance. listen. that announcement includes artillery ammunition for himars and howitzers, nor javelins, raiders, they will protect the people from aerial bombardments. he rattled off a lot of different kinds of assistance. it is all equipment that the u.s. has given ukraine so far. ukrainians van v. been asking for f-16s that s not on the list of things the president gave as half a billion do
4% of the dow is the worst we ve seen in two years. all hit hard because inflation remains stuck and no one can get it under control. an 8.3% annualized inflation rate. the core rate, that is without food and energy, also soaring more than 6.3%. this is the fourth 1,000 point sell-off for the dow just this year. again, this was a worse than expected inflation report. now the president is heralding this inflation reduction act that some people said is actually making the situation worse. because across the board, prices are going up. he s touting the prospect of eventually drug prices going down. even if he gets that and it s a herculean leap, it would be but a fraction of the overall costs that continue to soar. keep this in mind that with inflation running north of 8%, most food and related items are running at about double to sometimes triple that. whatever progress we ve seen on gasoline and related prices has done little to affect prices almost everywhere else. and then a
Our weather is going to stay on the chilly side. Weve seen flakes of snow on the highest hills of Northern England and scotland. An area of low pressure is swelling in the north sea. Patches of cloud for england and wales but brighter skies for scotland where there will be a few passing showers but if you want the sunshine this is the place to be and those brighter skies are set to work into Northern England and Northern Ireland as we go through the afternoon, staying quite cloudy with rain at times. Wales, midlands and east anglia and southern counties of england. Wherever you are, temperature is below average, about 9 13 , with some parts of Eastern England temperatures no higher than seven celsius this afternoon. Overnight tonight we will still see a few patches of rain coming and going across southern most areas of england, perhaps south wales, otherwise skies clear particularly across North Western areas of the country with frost developing in the countryside. Another cold start t