President trump called off military strikes against iran with just minutes to spare last night. He said the planes were in the air cocked and loaded and had three targets in their sights. But the president said he decided to halt the air strikes because too many people would have been killed. The attack was to be in retaliation for the shooting down of an american unmanned surveillance drone on thursday. In the volatile region which supplies a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace. The us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. The last time the us launched a significant military effort heres our north america editorjon sopel. In iran, they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 130 million us drone, the latest escalation in tensions between washington and tehran. Today on iranian tv, the results of their handiwork were being shown off. America has no shortage of military assets in the region but the anticipated
major consequences for all americans. just one hour from now the federal reserve is expected to roll out its eighth straight interest rate hike. experts, executives and the markets all hope it will be one of the smallest yet. just a few blocks away, down at the white house, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy will sit down for their first stare-down since mccarthy became speaker over the debt ceiling. if one doesn t blink soon, you can say goodbye to federal elt benefits and hello to a financial meltdown, all courtesy of your representatives on capitol hill. let s start with cnn s matt egan over at the fed. matt, is today the day that jerome powell starts to pump the brakes on these interest rate hikes? it certainly looks that way. it would be a big surprise if that didn t happen. fed officials have been dropping hints, strong hints for weeks now that they do plan to dial back this war on inflation today. the thinking is that the fed goes from a 50 basis poin
Suffer with. Suffer with. But anyway, ovo energy has become one of these places where its very trendy to work, apparently. And their head office in bristol, apparently. And their head office in bristol , theyve built office in bristol, theyve built a tree house in the fire. Oh brilliant. With a complete with a slide, of course. A slide, of course. Is there a ball pit at the bottom . There should be, shouldnt there. And its come to light because someones someones complained because they were taken into the tree house for a dressing down. Oh, and then the boss then got on the slide to exit the meeting. I mean, i have to say, i think this sort of thing is absolutely ridiculous. I guess it depends on the job. I mean, for some sort of creative industries, i guess, like advertising, where youre trying to like, inspire people and get all the juices flowing, have been beanbags to sit on bags and dart boards and foosball, and you can see people trying to sort of find their inner child. But for
Enter uncle bob. Come and help me, im on a mission to make the world healthy dont need money to be wealthy, pick up a camera, take a selfie [ laughter ] you hooked me. But i dont know what im hooked for. What am i buying here . Sunshine. Well, its funny you say that, charity, because sindu was selling homemade juice from the store. I dont know what it is. What the benefits are, but when the trading standards found out they removed their license and is going to prevent them from keeping their store open. They thought, well, maybe if we do a goofy song, a jingle like this look, i know we broke the law, but how about a song and dance . Right. Well, you see, they tried to become celebrities. They can get away with anything. No word on what the status of their case is. But im kind of rooting for them. I hope the sun shines on you today thanks for watching and for a shot at that ipad mini go over to rightthisminute. Com and enter your buzz word. Plus, catch us on the next all new rtm. With c
Refute president obamas speech, do you remember that catastrophe . Its rubio it was a moment rubio was waiting for. Tweeting, similar, but needs work on his form, has to be done in one single motion and eyes should never leave the camera, but not bad for his first time. Luckily for the president , he did it twice. Enough for people to criticize his technique. Im sorry. When a natural, graceful, effortless way to open a bottle, grasped with both hands like a baby and take a sip. Oh, and late night comics had a field day. I dont always drink water, but when i do, i look super weird. Hes not ohm bringing jobs back to america, hes drink ago bottle of fiji water. Its fiji water. I got this. Okay. Others wondered why a man with his own line of water would drink fiji. While another twitter user pointed out that some president s drink water right from the source. Oh, some shade there. A little workout. How do you drink from fiji water . Oh, youre going the glass method . The pinky has to be up