another ambulance strike this time in wales as nurses in england also stage more industrial action. and the harrowing anti war epic all quiet on the western front leads the nominations for this year s british academy film awards. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 3pm in los angeles where we begin our programme, with the news that the hollywood actor alec baldwin is to be charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the cinematographer halyna hutchins, who was shot dead on the set of the film rust. the film s armourer who was responsible for the weapon will face the same charge, after a gun that the actor discharged on set was found to contain live ammunition. sophie long has the latest from los angeles. the frantic efforts to save halyna hutchins in the moments after she was shot. it was during rehearsals on the set at the bonanza creek ranch in new mexico when the shootings and deaths depicted on the 19th
exclusive report reveals federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children were vitims of human trafficking amid allegations they were illegally employed to clean slaughter houses. we begin with a high stakes fiscal fight now underway here in the nation s capital. the treasury secretary said today could be the day the u.s. reaches its borrowing limit. once that happens, the treasury department will start taking extraordinary measures to make sure the nation pays its bills, but those measures could run out sometime in june. now it s up to congress to raise the debt limit. many republicans say they will not do so unless there are cuts in federal spending setting the stage for an economic showdown with democrats and the white house which insists the debt ceiling increase is nongauchable. it s something that should be done without conditions. we should not be negotiating around it. it is the duty, the basic duty of congress to get that done. so we re not going to neg
cinematographer. miguel a ma gator is interviewing the special prosecutor right now. we re listening. we ll share everything we learn in realtime. plus president biden is putting 3,000 miles between himself and the growing political headaches in washington. the white house and some top democrats trying to down play concerns about whether the special counsel will derail his reelection bid. but are other democrats sensing a 2024 opportunity? and more proof of egregious lies from george santos ares exposed, including a claim about his mother and september 11th. alec baldwin is now facing serious charges in the shooting of a cinematographer. he will face two counts of involuntary manslaughter. here he is back in 2021. all of what happened on that day leading up to this event was precipitated on one idea, and that is that we had something profound in common. and we both assumed the gun was empty. the da writing if any one of these three people had done their jobs, she would
the fatal shooting of breonna taylor. ms taylor s death in 2020 became a focus of the black lives matter protests across the us. hello and welcome to our look ahead at what the newspapers are going to bring us tomorrow. 0ne story dominates, as you can imagine. with me tonight are yasmin alibhai brown, journalist and author, and rosa prince, editor of house magazine, all about the workings of parliament. let s have a look at some of the front pages before we discuss them in detail. first off, let s look at the ft, which leads with the only story in town really today the warning from the bank of england about a looming recession. experts are predicting inflation will hit 13% by the end of the year. the big squeeze is the is headline, with a dramatic front page graphic of the inflation rise. the daily express tells it s readers to batten down the hatches as a recession is on the way . the mail pictures the bank of england governor andrew bailey, calling him the banker wh
Award winning Business Leader who took over a Waste Management company at the age of 19. Also today ryanair profits are down but passengers are up. Fares continue to fall. So do you still have the cheap flights bug . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. If you are planning your holidays, why not tell us where you are off to . Welcome to the programme. The political events of 2016 may have ignited an unprecedented period of uncertainty for the Global Economy but one thing that appears to remain unaffected is the growing appetite of chinese investors. Last year Chinese Investment in the us increased by nearly 190 percent. Meanwhile, Chinese Investment into europe grew by 90 percent. All of this gives the impression 2016 was a good year for western economies when it comes to foreign investment. So will this trend continue . Well the uk is about to begin a two year period of brexit negotiations and this echoes wider concerns over the health of the european union. France, germany and the nether