Change Interest Rates from five percent. The decision, expected at midday, comes after inflation, showing the rise in consumer prices, remained at 2. 2 Per Cent last month. The Central Bank in the united states lowered Interest Rates by half a Percentage Point Yesterday the first cut for more than four years. Lets speak to our Business Correspondent peter ruddick. What is the expectation with the Bank Of England . I knew you will ask me that. I am not a betting man but the one thing we can predict is it is going to be a close decision. The last time the nine Person Committee voted five to four, as close as you can get to cut Interest Rates last time to the 5 level they are now, a quarter of a Percentage Point change. Why will it be so although there is disagreement really among the committee and economic experts about how sticky, how stubborn Inflation Price rises are, there is agreement that the trend is Price Rises and the rate of inflation is coming down but relatively slowly, relat
This is bbc news, the headlines. At least 32 killed in lebanon after two days of exploding Device Attacks targeting hezbollah. Pagers and walkie talkies have been banned from flights out of beirut. Israel widely believed to be behind the attacks has announced what it calls a new phase in The War the United States is urging calm. The bbc reveals that the former Harrods Boss the late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of rape by five female ex employees. Evacuations in Northern Italy as Storm Boris batters the country causing severe flooding and landslides. And in the uk calls for urgent Maternity Service Reform after two thirds of hospitals inspected fail to meet safety standards. The bbc has revealed that the late Mohamed Al Fayed former owner of harrods, the uks largest Luxury Department Store has been accused of rape by five female ex employees. The egyptian born businessman rose from a poor family in alexandria to buying the world famous Department Store in 1985. A Bbc Documentary h
We start in the Middle East, where israel has launched fresh Air Strikes in Southern Lebanon, in what security sources there say is some of the most intense bombing since the start of the Gaza War in october. And these are the latest pictures of israeli strikes on the Southern Lebanese Border Village of rihan. It all comes as the leader of hezbollah, a proscribed Terrorist Organisation by some western governments, was giving his first public reaction to the wave of attacks across lebanon. At least 37 people have been killed and thousands injured by Exploding Pagers and Walkie Talkies. Hassan nasrallah described the attacks as a massacre and said it could be called a declaration of war. Our chief international correspondent, orla guerin, has this report. Israeli Fighter Jets swooping low over beirut this afternoon, dominating the skies and sending a message to hassan nasrallah. Booms. Breaking the Sound Barrier as the hezbollah leader was making a televised address. Thats Something Isra
Soft and america has beaten back the unprecedented economic challenges of the global pandemic and the ensuing disruption to the economy. It is proof that the biden economic recovery has been nothing short of miraculous. Especially given the mess he inherited from trump and the u. S. Outperformed every other country on earth. Trump like so many republicans before him has enjoyed a pulling advantage with voters over the economy. That may be changing. Multiple polls in recent weeks suggesting harris is closing the gap and possibly even leading trump on economic issues. Harris has been helped by trumps inability to feign caring about the expenses of americans as he proved earlier this month with that rambling answer to that direct question in New York. It was Word Salad but with one under noticed but toxic ingredient that deserves more attention. If you take it in november, can you commit to making childcare affordable and if so what specific legislation will you advance . Childcare is chi
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