hearing, has held what the us calls candid and constructive talks with china s foreign minister in beijing. this at the start of two days of meetings with chinese officials. mr blinken emphasised the need for diplomacy and keeping open channels of communication us officials added. the trip to china is the first by a top us diplomat in almost five years and comes months after an earlier visit by the secretary of state was postponed when a suspected chinese spy balloon flew in us airspace. can this trip reboot relations? to discuss this and what s at stake for the world s two biggest economies, i m joined by alicia garcia herrero chief economist at natixis. good to have you on the programme. from your perspective, when we are looking at trade, the two biggest economies in the world, how important is this trip? extremely important. and the main reason for this trip is not even trade, it s about assurance to really avoid a military conflict in taiwan and i think that s th
staircases. scenes not usually photographed by typical tourists. one of the men seen the next day walking from the president s rally. there s no escape, pelosi. schumer. nadler. we re coming for you. we re coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc, we re coming to take you out. there is a lot more. we will have a report from capitol hill on the latest. the federal reserve today back in the spotlight with the expected announcement of the first big interest rate boost since 1994 to try to combat historic levels of inflation, which shows no sign of leveling off. president biden pressuring oil companies as prices at the pump soar, sending letters to seven refiners asking them to increase supply and explain their big profit margins and a meeting with the energy secretary about to happen. on capitol hill, more optimism about bipartisan support for a compromise gun safety bill. if it leads to a piece of legislation, i intend to support it. i t
Earnings on thursday, alphabet and microsoft took centre stage. Both Beat Expectations on earnings and revenue, thanks in no small part to investments in artificial intelligence, One Stand Out spot for alphabet was google cloud revenue whichjumped 28 in 01. A lot of Generative Ai Tools that rely on the cloud to reach customers. Alphabet announced some good news for investors, its first ever dividend of 20 cents per share, and an additional 70 billion buy back. That sent shares into double digits after the bill. For microsofts part, its Intelligent Cloud Division delivered greater revenue than expected thanks to Microsoft Partnership but with openai, the creator of chat gbd. Chatg pt. And together, they should go some way through restoring confidence in the tech sector which was shaken wednesday after metas stock fell after its own Earnings Report and the market was rattled by slowing us gdp and stubborn inflation. Intel also announced its results but it was its outlook for the Second Q
beijing does not want to unseat the united states as the world s superpower, but xi jinping tells president biden china s absorption of taiwan is inevitable. we will take you this hour to san francisco where the asia pacific countries are sitting down for a working lunch. in the uk rishi sunak s government will present new legislation to set aside the supreme court s ban on sending asylum seekers to rwanda. but backbench mps want assurances from number ten the bill will be tight enough to prevent future legal challenges. and what about labour. a party of government or a party of protest. the shadow front bench staged a mass rebellion last night, over keir starmer s stance on a ceasefire in gaza. we will get the thoughts on all of that from our panel tonight. with us labour sjohn mctiernan, formerly tony blair director of political operations. also here tara setmeyer, former communications director for the republican party, and now a resident scholar at the university of vir
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