The worlds biggest Trade Blocs is deepening with china announcing new tariffs on Brandy Imports from the european unIon. It follows last Weeks DecisIon by the eu to push ahead with Import Taxes of its own on Electric Vehicles from china. Last Year China imported about 1. 8bn of brandy from the eu with the vast majority coming from france. From Friday Companies that import will have to pay a tariff of up to 39 to the chinese government after they decided their own producers were being unfairly harmed. It follows the eu pushing ahead with tariffs of up to 45 of chinas Electric Vehicles which it says have benefitted unfairly from government help. Last Year Trade between the Eu And China was worth about 811 BillIon after it fell last year. With more tarfffs under consideratIon, it could fall further. Im joined now by Dr Deborah elms, head of Trade Policy at the Hinrich FoundatIon in singapore. It describes itself as a philanthropic organizatIon that works adavance sustainable trade. So the
President Kamala Harris and second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will commemorate the victims and hostages of that devastating attack. Well bring those remarks live as soon as they get under way. We begin with the 2024 president Ial Demain now roiled by a deadly disaster in a republican nominee who is defined by his neverending penchant for lying. Heres what Vice President harris said to describe Donald Trump in a podcast last night. This guy is full of lies. I mean, i just have to be very candid with you. You know, in my career, from the time i got out of Law School through most of my career as a prosecutor, i understood that the words that i spoke and what i did with those words would be the difference between whether somebody was charged with a crime or went to prison, maybe prison for life. When i was attorney general, i was the top Law Enforcement Officer of the biggest state in the country, and i was acutely aware that the words i spoke could be the difference between whether a corporati
A lineup of special Guest Tonight including the mother of the israeli hostage. Reporting from the ground in gaza battling a rising Death Toll for palestinians and journalists. Sir Richard Branson on the movement he is back that could provide a path to peace. Lets do it. October 7, 2023 hamas militants launched an unprecedented coordinated attack from Gaza Breaching the Security Barrier Israel had built. The targeted and massacred israeli soldiers and civilians. Mortared communities. Setting fire to homes. Killed and abducted women, men, and the children. As the Sun Rose rockets flew over the music festival. Excitement turned into terror as militants on motorcycles and trucks approached mowing down festivalgoers who try to run those who hid in bushes and ditches were shot point blank. 40 were abducted. Overall over 1200 people were killed that day. 250 taken hostage into gaza. It was the deadliest day for jewish people since the holocaust and Shock Waves of grief reverberated around the
Friday. Former President Trump is on the ground right now in storm ravaged georgia. Will see him towards The End of this hour with Governor Kemp. You can see the supplies lined up as they get ready for that in evans, georgia. Well take you live when that gets underway. Towards The End of the hour this afternoon. But first moments ago a surprise in the white House Briefing Room when President Biden moncton. This is extremely rare for him to attend an open News Briefing Environment at the White House. He showed up and took questions for a little under 10 minutes. He cannot with a Victory Lap on the Jobs Numbers can clearly 1 of the driving forces behind him wanting to get out there and talk today. He barely touched. I thought when i first saw him walk out this be about Hurricane Helene but. He wanted to address the devastation but there is emotional questions from the press on it and when he did get an opportunity it was just barely touched on Soil Talk about that. He was also asked how