alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
deadlocked. 11 days left on the clock and debt ceiling negotiators are moving farther apart. much of what they ve already proposed is, quite frankly, unacceptable. is the risk of default only growing? i ll speak exclusively to republican senator bill cassidy in moments. and show of unity, president biden gives ukraine fighters a sky-high advantage. we have ukraine s back. after scrapping part of his world trip for debt ceiling talks is the u.s. on shaky ground on the world stage? national security adviser jake sullivan joins me exclusively from japan, plus go time. president trump readies himself for his biggest gop challenger yet. it s easy to be a front-runner. as the republican field expand, will any of them crack trump s hold on the party? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is careening toward the edge of an economic cliff with 11 days until the moment the u.s. government could run out of money to pay its bills accord
president biden gives ukraine s fighters a sky high advantage. we have ukraine s back. but after scrapping part of his world trip for debt ceiling talks, is the u.s. on shaky ground on the world stage? national security adviser jake sullivan joins me exclusively from japan. plus go time. president trump readies himself for his biggest gop challenger yet. it is easy to be a front-runner and harder to dig in. reporter: as the field expands will any crack trump s hold on the party? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is kareening toward the edge of an economic cliff with 11 days until the moment the u.s. government could run out of money to pay its bills according to the treasury secretary. president biden just told reporters he cannot guarantee the u.s. will not default and the same message came from the top house republican negotiator just hours before. it is the only thing the sides seem to agree on in addition to blaming the other si
to $1 billion, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than $50 billion by switzerland s central bank, but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. our business correspondent marc ashdownjoins me now. an urgency around these talks in switzerland to try and facilitate this takeover by ubs. this takeover by ubs. yes, the shares were this takeover by ubs. yes, the shares were sliding this takeover by ubs. yes, the shares were sliding all- this takeover by ubs. yes, the shares were sliding all last - this takeover by ubs. yes, the i shares were sliding all last week and there was a period of a pause for a couple of days when markets have been shut till tomorrow morning, so this has given them time to sort this out
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