some reports say the treasury secretary, janet yellen, has been personally calling chief executives to warn them of the dire consequences a default could have on the us and the global economy. so how did washington end up here again? samira hussain has been investigating. first of all, this debt ceiling crisis is actually a political crisis, itjust happens to hinge on a must pass piece of legislation to save the country from economic catastrophe. so what exactly is happening here? major consequences for the economy. the us could default on its debt in a matter of weeks. debt limit measuresl may be exhausted. weeks to go before the federal government is unable to pay its bills. well, the us government spends more money than it brings in, so it needs to borrow money to pay its bills. it can only borrow a certain amount of money and if it needs to borrow more, congress has to approve that. it used to be a routine thing but not any more. republicans see this as an opportunity t
with an alleged corruption case. the picture is pretty startling. this is him right in the middle of all those black paramilitary style officers taking him away and putting him in that black truck at the bottom of the screen there. we have slowed down the footage again, which we will play you here. just so you can get a sense. he is wearing a white top, you can see white sleeves and a black waistcoat. that is the former prime minister imran khan. just a year or so ago he was in charge until he was ousted. he fell out of favour with mps and the army and now facing arrest. we don t actually know his current location. he has been detained in an undisclosed location. that is another set of pictures he does well, him sitting inside. he was actually at court in an unrelated case. this is the scene just in front of him, breaking down glass windows to try to get to him. and after that, we believe he was taken out and then taken away. these pictures, i should say, were released by pti
stories and we started in the us. congressional leaders are due to meet with president biden for emergency talks on how to deal with the debt ceiling. reports are coming in the treasury secretary janet yellen has been personally calling chief executives to warn them of the dire consequences a default could have on the us and the global economy. so how did washington get here? samira hussain has been investigating. first of all, this debt ceiling crisis is actually a political crisis, itjust happens to hinge on a must pass piece of legislation to save the country from economic catastrophe, so what is happening here? major consequences for the economy. the us could default on the economy. the us could default on the dead in a metabolic. weeks on the dead in a metabolic. weeks to on the dead in a metabolic. weeks to go before the federal government weeks to go before the federal government is weeks to go before the federal government is unable - weeks to go before the fed
includes not declaring state money includes not declaring state money in the way that he should have declared it. this particular case. the police have said that this is to do with corruption charges. we know that he was appearing in court on corruption charges today, one of the many court cases that he is currently being charged with. what we are waking to lee mack waiting to hear about is what happens next. we are waiting to hear details about the police station, where he is going, and also we are already seeing a strong reaction on social media from mr khan pass supporters and party. they are sharing videos of the moment that he was arrested. we are seeing videos of him being taken from the courtroom surrounded by police, some of whom we have seen are wearing riot gear. there are some crowd shots which appear to show police in riot gear with shields as well. we see mr khan being taken into a car and driven out from the islamabad high court, where he was appearing on those
stories and we started in the us. congressional leaders are due to meet with president biden for emergency talks on how to deal with the debt ceiling. reports are coming in the treasury secretary janet yellen has been personally calling chief executives to warn them of the dire consequences a default could have on the us and the global economy. so how did washington get here? samira hussain has been investigating. first of all, this debt ceiling crisis is actually a political crisis, itjust happens to hinge on a must pass piece of legislation to save the country from economic catastrophe, so what is happening here? major consequences for the economy. the us could default on the economy. the us could default on the dead in a metabolic. weeks on the dead in a metabolic. weeks to on the dead in a metabolic. weeks to go before the federal government weeks to go before the federal government is weeks to go before the federal government is unable - weeks to go before the federal gover