Middlehurst. Middlehurst. Nigel. Thank you. And good evening to you. Well, the top story tonight from the gb newsroom is that the Prime Minister says hes going to be urging his israeli counterpart to show restraint following irans drone and missile attack on israel. Rishi sunak told the commons that hell be speaking to Binyamin Netanyahu later on today to both reiterate the uks solidarity with israel, but also to discuss how to prevent an escalation of violence in the region. There was condemnation of irans military offensive against israel from both sir keir starmer and rishi sunak. Today, our aim is to support stability and security because it is right for the region and because, although the middle east is thousands of miles away, it has a direct effect on our security and prosperity at home. There can be no doubt that the attack perpetrated by Iranian Forces this weekend has left the world a more dangerous place. It targeted innocent civilians with a clear intent to destabilise the
Sir keir starmer speaking earlier on today, now , in other earlier on today, now, in other news, 534 migrants were intercepted while crossing the engush intercepted while crossing the English Channel yesterday. That makes it the highest number of crossings on a single day so far this year. And it means the number of small boat arrivals this year now stands at a provisional total of 6265. It comes as the governments flagship rwanda policy returns to parliament, as you heard, with mps debating the latest amendments by peers this evening , a judge ordered today that prince harry must pay 90 of Home Office Legal costs after losing a case over his personal security. The duke of sussex had security. The duke of sussex had argued the court should reduce the amount he was required to pay by the amount he was required to pay by more than half. He launched legal action against the home office for cutting his Police Protection , after he Police Protection, after he stopped being a full time worki
Our funding because were just trying to keep Public Safety issues. Philadelphia has some of the same rub. Should we jump on the bandwagon . Monica, you know, i do this every day. Im in the trenches on immigration, and so i have sort of like a bottomup view of this, and i have a problem with both extremes on this issue. We have people who do not only want to limit illegal immigration but also legal immigration, and so what theyre doing is theyre conflating criminal activity with illegality, with your legal status. There is absolutely no correlation there. On the other hand, you have immigrant advocates who are unwilling to even acknowledge the fact that you need some kind of Cooperation Among all of the Public Safety officials and officers to keep everyone, including those who may not be here in a documented way, safe. I do tend to agree with those who argue, though, that if an immigrant, legal of illegal, feels that theyre in danger of being arrested and or deported by ice if they go a
Ever. Haidi hello from sydney. This is daybreak australia on this Easter Monday. Betty a happy easter to you. It is just after 6 00 p. M. Your in new york. Here in new york. We had some surprising news here in the u. S. On friday which show that inflation not robust not as robust as we might have expected. Falling for the first time in a long while. That indicating to several investors that the trade we have been talking about since trump was elected might not really be planning out. That is what you saw the index is also heavily on friday. The nasdaq down almost half a percent. These tensions with north korea not helping things along either. Haidi that is right. The fragility we are talking about. The sentiment that it could go either way from here. It is quiet on the side of the world in terms of markets. We have no trading today in australia, new zealand, or hong kong. Check of currencies underway. We had a jump in the lira. Referendum of the result. The aussie dollar sitting at. 7
Months. Haidi the u. S. Rebukes plans for north korea following the weekend show of force. China urging coma on both sides. The lira jumping as president erdogan claims sweeping new powers, the biggest changes in turkey. Dump in ans data hour, looking at First Quarter growth, 6. 8 . Lets bring up this chart, 6839 showing the potential for further gdp growth looking ahead, the blue line indicating that target the government put andlace, anticipating 6. 5 2019, a six. 8 handle, but the data dump continues and we have industrial output, retail sales, and fixed Asset Investment, all of that out in 60 minutes. Not exactly the most surprising of indicators. We were expecting that 6. 8 for a Second Quarter, but the question is whether it is sustainable, and also at what cost good we had credit numbers showing momentum in terms of money supply, shadow banking still running hot and china, so we dig deeper into that within the next two hours. We are 30 minutes away from the open in china, that s