rates to a 15 year high at 4.5% as it continues its fight against high inflation. and donald trump calls for republicans to let the us default on its debt rather than give way on biden s spending plans. hello. a warm welcome to the programme. this is world business report, i m ben thompson and we are going to start in the uk where the bank of england has raised interest rates for a 12th consecutive month. all of that as it tries to fight high inflation. uk interest rates were raised by 0.25%, while the bank said inflation would fall sharply in april but not as far or as fast as it previously thought. last month inflation slowed to 10.1% but that figure is still way above the bank of england s target. remember that target is 2%. let s speak to victorias, head of investment at interactive investor. lovely to see you. let s talk about what we have heard. first the interest rate itself because the interesting stuff is what the bank told us about what might happen next. a widely
john , i have fun. great show tonight. all all right.graham angle from i am laura ingraham. this is ingram angle fromon a washington tonight. and wend w begin the hour with a scandal of monumental significance. charge finally, with republicans inthe charge of the house, the rocks are being lifted on the covide cover up and the rotth that we see underneath is what we warned you about long ago. rank corruption at the heart of our federal response. now, the former cdc director under trump, dr. robert redfield, was questioned about anthony foundry s mad scramblee s mad to conceals the role he and others playeditr with green lightineeg funding to the juhan lab in china. so what did redfield think ofhep the paper that fauci pressured scientiscientist to write backa february? 2020. 020? c that wouldon conclude ultimatel that covid most likely did not escape from a lab. this whole approach that was taken on its antithetical to science . i thank you. need t science has to be and t
together with you broadcasting balloons. rachel: that s right. if you get a little chilly, i have a heat or here, will. will: is it on? pete: i don t know why you haven t turned it on yet. rachel: because it s been cozy. pete: have you been to the great american ballpark in cincinnati? will: no. never been to cincinnati. pete: never been? will: have you been to cincinnati? everybody acts, like, wow. pete: dial up a diner for will in cincinnati, and you ve got to have chili for breakfast. rachel: that sounds good right now. pete: on noodles. will: let s do a list of american cities by population and find the biggest city you haven t been to. want to do that? i don t think cincinnati is the biggest city we ll find out, let s do the three of us, what s the biggest american city you ve never visited? @. pete: it s going to be a small i know i ve been to all 50 states, multiple times over. will: i ve never been to. pete: i don t know if i ve been to big cities in maine. yes, i
right. i think that meaningful work is absolutely a part of our health, and part of a balanced and important life. but it s finding meaning in what you do every day, it s not looking at vanity or other peoples approval, or more money than you need to lead a secure life. or maybe it s just about going to work every day to support the people who need you, to support those people that you love. but it s really it s not even about the big moments, like the graduations, that i was thinking about these moments, it s the little ones. if my son was coming home in school and he s being bullied, would i be there, or would i not? and i think that s really what matters the most. a man, i m glad to hear. thank you, don. thank you, kasie, thank you for sharing, glad to see you tonight. so, this is don lemon tonight. and, kasie just put things into perspective now. and i want to put the news into perspective. because there are some big issues that are happening. there is a lot of hy
more than 100 classified documents found in the search of mar-a-lago, which would also mean trump s legal team could see them. which sounds like a page right out of the trump playbook. and you know what that page is, it s delay, delay, delay. that s really all this is. you want to put things into perspective? it s just delay, push it further down the road. and then also, you know, sent a fund raising letters to help so that he could raise money off of all of this. that s just, that s what s happening. and he s hoping that the court will take beside. a conservative majority court courtesy of, of course, the former president himself. a fact is probably top of mind down in mar-a-lago. but you ve got to wonder whether the supreme court, which has ruled against him in earlier cases, actually want anything to do with this. they might not want to touch it with a ten foot pole, amidst the outrage over what a lot of americans see as the politicization of the highest court in the land,