Now its time for economic news. Inflation will slow down in the third quarter, the bank of russia predicts. According to the head of the Monetary Policy department, kirill trimasov, the annual rate of price growth has approached. Percent, this is the maximum after which a reversal will begin. Back in the fall, one could talk about doubledigit inflation, but the increase in the key rate had a positive, albeit delayed, effect. The central bank noted that a rate cut is possible in the second half of the year. In russia, the demand for land plots for Housing Construction is growing. At the beginning of the year, the volume of transactions jumped 2. 5 times to 92 billion rubles. By the end of the year, investments could reach 185 billion, analysts believe. As the businessman writes, developers are investing the funds generated by record apartment sales in past years. Market participants did not expect such activity and now fear that it may suddenly give way to calm. The main risk factor is
Jesse now you are thinking. Bret all right, thanks. Greg see you. Bret good evening from washington. Im bret baier. Another potential firestorm over Republican Leadership in the house. A second g. O. P. Lawmaker says he would cosponsor a motion to vacate the chair. In other words, get rid of Speaker Mike Johnson. This comes as the speaker tries to push an International Aid package through the chamber. Congressional correspondent Aishah Hasnie starts us off with the breaking news tonight. Good evening, aishah. Good evening to you, bret. We still dont have tests for that International Aid package. In fact, a source is telling me just now that they are still having meetings about that text. That is a very, very bad sign if the house really does intend to take votes by the end of the week. We dont know what the holdup is but Speaker Johnson today was vowing that he is not going to let any threat to oust him try to deter this. I am not resigning. House Speaker Mike Johnson defiant amid a ne
to washington. i m bret baier. israel works to wrap up northern gaza operation and move south amid rising concerns over civilian casualties. house republicans focus on possible impeachment inquiry into president biden and the controversy over college football s final four. we ll take a look. but, first, breaking tonight, the biden administration is condition deming the rape of israeli women by hamas terrorists. it s a move critics say is overdue. it comes as a prominent democratic lawmaker is under fire tonight for comments she calls balance in covering this issue. gillian turner has details tonight from the state department. good evening, gillian. good evening to you, bret. the biden administration today acknowledged ha hamas terrorists are using rape as a weapon of war against israeli women and girls. we have seen hamas commit atrocities. both on october 7th and since october 7th. and we obviously condemn those across at this and support israel s actions to hold hamas
To resign as president of the republic with immediate effect south africas scandal plagued president jacob zuma steps down after the ruling a. N. C. Party told him to go also. At least one person killed and more than twenty injured by a government who opened fire at a us high school. Russia can push the regime to commit to seeking a real peace in syria the u. S. And russia again trade blame at the u. N. In response to a chilling report from the special envoy for syria plus. Im Andrew Thomas in sydney where artists have responded to the moment incidents recorded at australias offshore refugee crisis. Welcome to the news hour jacob zuma has resigned as south africa. As president reluctantly heeding orders from his ruling party the a. N. C. Will go with immediate effect to bringing an end to almost nine scandal plagued years in power the n. C. Told him to quit on choose day and when he had gone by wednesday the party and else that it would bank moves in parliament to force him to leave i
The public. Im terry martin. Welcome to the program. Military vessels and aircraft from several countries have been searching the waters off libya for survivors from a capsized vessel, plunging hundreds of migrants into the sea. Hopes of finding anyone alive are fading fast. Reporter they were the lucky ones. More than 20 200 people are feared to have drowns. People rushed to one side of the boat in desperation. Most of the migrants are believed to have been from syria. An irish naval ship arrived in sicily. The crew recovered about 25 bodies on their way to palermo. The second rescue ship belonged to doctors without borders, a global humanitarian group. They have called on the eu to invest more resources in the sech and rescue operation. We believe it is very important to manage this operation. To increase resources specialized resources, people who are used to this kind of rescue. Also, most vital they are [indiscernible] reporter the irish naval vessel was part of the Triton Mission