Which is 5 fold industries. From just a year ago, a china has been trying to internationalize its currency, the r n b. And the facts that we share in russias on fort settlements has risen up to was 23 percent and 2022, a very fast and development. In fact, the arm b a has now become the most widely used car and see in cross border transaction with in china over at surpassing cus, dollar for the 1st time. And this is going to help stabilize trade 16. The ability is always a keeping the economy moving forward. Well, just the full go. We need to bring you some breaking news is coming from poland. Our apparently the country spa them is all protesting in the national capital. Itd be protesting because theyre against the cheap great imports coming in from ukraine, and they wont be easy to find them. But we now hearing that they of clashing with the police and some a search of even broken in size and National Parliament. What were going to keep across the story and we will bring you more info
American straight state. And probably with even being reported, the main stream is a spike that democrats continue to stick with jo by the mountain because theyre afraid if they look like that, theres that they are trading horses, mid race. Its only going to make their prey look weaker and why theyre not necessarily. I know they would like to keep a hold of the oval office. More importantly, they want to keep ahold of the senate right now. Heavy election was held tomorrow and everything was held straight in there. You would definitely see the donald trump, voters are a lot more engaged in buying it. This exact moment. They probably show up the poles much better. And that is how well but as soon as looking so far this wednesday check back in later. But any, any updates for now though it is cross full, enjoy the the hello and welcome to cross ok. Were all things are considered on peter level. A pattern has a merge to more, the west panics, over its failed ukraine project. The more it is
Spepding, military budget, the cost of reform and personnel pensions. The discussion with fiscal policy and military strategy researchers was hosted by the brookings institute. It is about an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. Im director of fiscal Monetary Policy here at brookings. I want to welcome everyone to the event today. How much money for defense is enough . This event began with a call i got from someone i respect who said to me simply, how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend on defense . I know a little bit about the federal budget but im more comfortable talking about Social Security, low income home energy, the state and local tax itductions than the Defense Budget. So i called my colleague and he said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to the question. So here we are. You can read all 20,000 words on the website. But he promised he will not try to read all of them today. I want to start with a yegz i cant answer, how much does the u. S. Spend on defense.
near the gaza strip s southern border with egypt, trying to escape intense fighting elsewhere. the head of humanitarian affairs for the united nations says there is no longer any humanitarian operation worthy of that name in the south of gaza. meanwhile, aid agencies estimate nearly two million people have already been displaced that s almost 80% of gaza s population. thousands have tried to go to un schools to find shelter, but have had to sleep in front of buildings as there is no room for them. and most of those are struggling to find safe water and food, deepening the humanitarian crisis as israel s military operation against hamas grinds on. for more on the aid situation, here s our diplomatic correspondent paul adams in jerusalem. the israeli army is now fighting intense street battles with three parts of the gaza strip, two in the north, in the jabalia refugee camp and gaza city known as shejaiya. both areas the israelis have described as hamas strongholds. also in t
the head of humanitarian affairs for the united nations says there is no longer any humanitarian operation worthy of that name in the south of gaza. from jerusalem, here s our international editor, jeremy bowen. a warning you may find some of the images upsetting. video emerged this afternoon of palestinian men taken for interrogation. bbc staff recognised the town in northern gaza and we have geolocated the video there, too. palestinian diplomats said these were savage images evoking humanity s darkest times. the israeli army said only that suspects were being interrogated. posts on social media said the men had been sheltering with their families at a un school and that others were killed during the israeli raid. in this photo, the men had been moved to another location which we have not been able to verify. one of the captives is a journalist. he was forced to leave his disabled daughter, according to the newspaper he works for in london. earlier, in israel s parliament,