Tear gas on protesters marching against pension and tax reforms and well tell you the british oppositions big plans for the next election and they all about brings it. All right were starting in israel where the attorney general has charged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with corruption and it stems from 3 separate cases in which nathaniel who is accused of bribery fraud and breach of trust harry force that begins our coverage from western. Theres never been anything like it in israeli politics on the day the grinding stalemate over forming a new government and to the new unprecedented phase the attorney general was ready with his own historical 1st. Today i informed the representative of the Prime Minister mr Benjamin Netanyahu about my decision to try him under an inch document little clues 3 charges a day in which the attorney general decided to serve an indictment against a seated Prime Minister the serious crimes of corrupt governance is a heavy and sad day for the israeli publ
More on all our stories, with analysis from our correspondents, on our website, or you can download the bbc news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. The fed split over rate decision. The fed split over rate decision. The worlds most important Central Bank Cuts the cost of borrowing but policymakers disagree over future moves. Raising to sell off 10,000 tons of pigmeat to help cool soaring prices. It is a thursday. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Glad you could join us for another action packed edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We started the programme with the Global Economy because Americas Central Bank has lower the cost of borrowing for a second time since the 2008 financial crisis. The widely anticipated 0. 25 cut comes as fears grow about slowing growth and trade wa is grow about slowing growth and trade wars around the world. But that wasnt enough for the us president. Despite the Federal Reserves long held independence from the white
And fibers of the security and National Threat concerns. This subcommittee hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but ive read some history, what was like to build the electric grid a century ago. We couldnt of imagine the technologies we use to power our homes and businesses today. The real challenge was extending power itself in every form of our society and there was a challenge that those providing power make money in the cities in well Populated Areas with business and commercial opportunities, with electric the government made a basic deal, we would provide an a monopoly over providing power and a lot of these areas, firms would make a lot of m
Friday on cspan2 and cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The house will be in order. For 40 years cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress. The white house. The supreme court. And Public Policy events from washington d. C. And around the country. You can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1978. Cspan is brought by the local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a hearing on Agriculture Research and the status of the implementation of the 2018 farm bill. We hear about relocating parts of the Agriculture Department to the kansas city region. This hearing was held by the Senate Agriculture committee. Good morning. I call this meeting to order. Over two years ago we kicked off the 2018 farm bill, and that whole process was by holding a hearing at Kansas State University of our Land Grant Institution. A few months later there was a hearing in this room. What we heard from the officials representatives fro
Priorities for the 2018 farm bill. The needs are certainly great. Every day our producers encounter extreme and unpredictable weather and pests to name a few. Researches and institutions tasked with these challenges are directed to do so with minimal federal resources and an aging infrastructure. Crafting the agriculture improvement act of and i along with members of this committee recognized that we had to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. With the enactment of the bill, the primary department of Agriculture Research education authorities were reauthorize z including the Agriculture Research and the National Institute of food and agriculture. Funds including the hatch act and the smith lever mccann tis sten nis and evans allen were extended and competitive Grant Programs were included to support Research Facilities and equipment improvements. Provisions were included to bring incompetent to 1890 and 1994 institutions. The farm and Ra