Staying with the us President Joe Biden has increased tariffs on 18 billion worth of imports from china. Hes accused the country of unfairly subsidising its Clean Energy Sector and flooding International Markets with cheap goods. From new york, the bbc s erin delmore has more. Its not often we find former President Trump and curtin President Trump and curtin President Biden in agreement, but now we are seeing President Biden not only keeping tariffs enacted by his predecessor, but increasing them. They focus on the key technologies that power the key technologies that power the green transition and include a 100 tariff on all chinese made electric imported into the us thats up from 25 and a doubling on the levy of solar cells to 50 and semiconductors. President biden says they are designed to protect us manufacturers from being undercut by Chinese Industries in the future, from tvs, semiconductors, steel and aluminium, and even masks. China heavily subsidises these products, far more t
encircle hamas forces. the latest bombardment comes as the heads of 18 aid organizations, including agencies at the u.n. issued a rare joint statement, calling for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in both israel and gaza. president biden falling behind former president trump in key battleground states that he carried in 2020. this is a new poll from the new york times and siena college, and biden s campaign is downplaying the survey, but some democratic lawmakers are calling it all, quote, concerning. this hour of cnn this morning starts now. this is a minor case that could end up being a big deal if he mis-testifies. if he says something in court that is under oath, that is false, it s going to be a lot of trouble for him, particularly with a judge that is already given him two gag orders. so, you know, i know the guy pretty well. he ll be very subdued. he ll be polite and respectful in that court. that s my prediction. interesting. is that the donald trump we
hello, i m wolf blitzer, alongside dana bash. we re here in washington. moments from now, donald trump will be back under oath after a historic and heated day in the new york civil fraud trial against him, after two impeachments and multiple lawsuits and depositions, the former president is defending himself on the stand for the first time. within minutes, trump was accused of making speeches, and later he insulted the new york attorney general and he publicly criticized the judge in this case. the judge has already found that trump and his eldest sons committed what were described as, quote, persistent and repeated fraud, by inflating certain property values to acquire loans and insurance benefits. now judge arthur engoron is trying to figure out what damages the trumps should pay. he spent much of the morning admonishing trump for, quote, long-winded answers and not answering the questions being asked to him, even telling trump s attorney at one point to, quote, i beseech
this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to the special live coverage. you are looking right now at inside of the courtroom. donald trump sitting down with his attorneys as you are getting just consider it like a pool spray. we have seen it in other moments and the cameras are allowed in for a moment to kind of scene set each day in the courtroom. this is donald trump moments before he is set to take the stand and be under oath to take questioning from the judge in this civil fraud trial in new york. as he was entering court a moment ago, he spoke to the reporters and cameras in the hallway, and he attacked the case, he attacked the judge and he attacked attorney general and then made a campaign speech. now, what happens next could decide him as a businessman and business empire, and also impact his presidential aspirations, and the other criminal cases where he is a defendant. yeah, and again, those pictures that you are looking at, and what is different this time, he is
in to applause. crowds outside chanted his name. a day of national mourning has been declared, the first time that a former prime minister of italy has been honoured in this way. the one time cruise singer who led italy with no prior political experience became a billionaire tycoon, whose business empire spanned media to soccer. more than 80 years after it went missing on a top secret world war ii mission, the submarine hms triumph has been found off the coast of greece. at the time she was lost, the submarine was known to have 64 people onboard. as nicholas witchell reports, the wreck s discovery by a greek diver ends a nearly 25 year long search for the vessel that was one of the royal navy s most successful world war ii subs, sinking 15 enemy ships injust eight months. she set sail on boxing day 1941, supposedly on one last mission before heading for home. but hms triumph was never seen again.