Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
square. they ll help us ring in 2024. 2023 was a year like no other in big news, politics, movies, music, culture, science, sports and more. everyone seemed to be going all in, all the time. and now it s time to take a look at the whole crazy year william our guests laura coats, john berman, charlotte wilder, coy wire and max foster. we re playing for keeps. it s all the best, all the worst, 2023. welcome. it s worth asking, how did we get through the past 12 months? many of us hoped it would be easier than recent years and there were moments of accomplishment, community and joy. but we were also challenged, divided over issues and often unable to agree even on what we want, and it was wildly apparent where we begin with the biggest news stories of the year. we are the union. the worst big news for many americans started in their pocketbooks. the economy this year was an absolute emotional roller coaster. unemployment was down, earnings were up, at any moment, a l
execution style. greg abbott is offering $80,000 award for the arrest of francisco oropesa. he is an illegal immigrant who has been deported five times. family members gather in the community to remember the victims, including the five year old boy. a neighbor asked him to quiet down and he allegedly opened fire on his family killing five of the 10 people inside the home. that man lost his wife and step-son in the senseless attack. i never thought he would shoot and he went room to room shooting. i can t believe what he did. meanwhile, el paso expected to issue a new state of emergency as border facility hit full capacity ahead of the end of title 42 in just 10 days and border officials releasing this new video, do not believe the lies of assert smugglers. listen here. do not take the dangerous journey only to be sent back. many migrants don t know and believe the lies they hear on social media or hear from others. griff: we are in brownsville, ground zero in the past 12 da
the government says it is a reasonable offer. the chief minister of the indian state of uttar pradesh appeals for calm after a former politician convicted of kidnapping is shot dead live on tv along with his brother. now on bbc news it s talking business. hello and welcome to talking business, with me, tadhg enright. let s have a look at what s on the show. can revenge spending save the world economy? after more than three years, lockdown is finally over for more than a billion people in china. they ve had time to stash trillions of dollars worth of savings. are they about to spend it travelling the world? and what s that going to mean for the rest of us? i ll be getting the lowdown on revenge spending with this top team steve odlan of the us conference board, tian lu from the economist intelligence unit in china, and gary barrowman, the man who literally wrote the book about the chinese tourist. and now people have got places to go, are they going to bejewel themselves
i ll be getting the lowdown on revenge spending with this top team steve odlan of the us conference board, tian lu from the economist intelligence unit in china, and gary barrowman, the man who literally wrote the book about the chinese tourist. and now people have got places to go, are they going to bejewel themselves to go there? wherever you rejoining me from around the world, i ll be finding out from the boss of pandora, the biggest jewellery brand in the world. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. china was the first country to lock people down due to covid, and now it s one of the last to ease restrictions. following anti lockdown protests late last year, president she finally ended his zero covid policy, opening up cities and travel once more. that reopening was underlined in the last few weeks by president xi welcoming european leaders, including france s president emanuel macron, to the country, and