goods but they couldn t off load them. there was no place to do it. the containers sat there. thanks to the biden administration s vaccine mandates, there weren t enough truckers to pick up the cargo and take it anywhere. so all of that combined to create the worst shipping bottle neck in memory and lasted for months. the price of transporting goods rose by 600%. so if you re wondering why inflation started to go up, that s a big part of the reason. none of this happened by accident. the bottle neck was a manmade disaster. it could have been, should have been fixed by the people in charge of transportation. they re called the department of transportation. but for much of the time, this disaster was unfolding, joe biden s secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg from south bend, indiana, was disengaged. he wasn t on the job. he was at home. i was on paid paternity leave posing for selfies for social media. buttigieg didn t seem embarrassed at all by this. this is work, h
a convicted italian mafia killer has been arrested in france after 16 years on the run. he was hiding out as a pizza chef. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories. we speak to the microsoft founder, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain their oversimplistic explanation. and we begin in the us, where the department of defense says a chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over the northern us. officials at the pentagon say the balloon had flown over the state of montana, but haven t revealed its current location. these are the first pictures we have received, which are believed to be of the baloon. the department of defense says the baloon was most certainly launched by china, but there s been no word yet from beijing. the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defense website, saying the balloon is being tracked. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has been follow
welcome to the programme. there are tentative signs that inflation is coming under control, and the recession forecast last year will be shallower and shorter than expected. butjust to make sure, the central banks are raising the interest rates again. yesterday it was the fed, today the bank of england increased the base rate, half a point, to 4% the highest it has been in m years. we think inflation will come down rapidly, and a lot of that is down to energy prices, which have fallen rapidly. but i m afraid there are big risks out there which mean that it may not happen in that way. yet we re still seeing stronger pressure from price and wage setting in the economy in the question is, will that start to ease off? coinciding with the bank s decision came a profit announcement from shell and a rather blunt illustration of why we re all getting poorer. the oil and gas giant has reaped profits of £40 billion last year. the taxman has reaped far less. shell said it paid $1
it s a search that the biden white house had not previously revealed. it raises new questions about the biden administration s insistence it is being completely open about the facts here. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. despite many claims of transparency, the fbi search of the penn biden center did not appear on timelines given to us by the president s personal attorneys and also separately from the white house counsel s office. it s not clear if fbi agents retrieved any documents from the penn biden center when they combed through it some time in mid november. the fbi and doj won t comment but multiple sources confirm biden s team gave consent and there was no search warrant making it the second known instance in which federal investigators checked over a biden property where his team previously found classified material. the other being the wilmington search earlier this