calling on the president to susspend interest payments for student loans for 12 months. nancy mace on that and who pays for it. she s here. welcome, everyone. i m not neil cavuto. neil cavuto is getting well-deserved vacation. i m edward lawrence. this is a special edition of your world. first to jacqui heinrich on what the white house is saying about next steps for this. jacqui? yeah, the white house is going to have a hard time fulfilling calls from alexandria ocasio-cortez and others to suspect interest on students loan payments during that 12-month great period the administration is enacting before payments resume. as part of the budget agreement, the president signed in to law those payments must start again after august. the first ones are due in october. the only reason this grace period is considered a valid work around is because the bills would still be due but interest would be accruing. otherwise, it would be a postponement, which is barred under the new law.
offices and pushed the protesters behind a barricade. on thursday, ranil wickremesinghe was sworn in as president. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. around the world, there are signs of deepening worker discontent. inflation is outstripping wages, global corporations stand accused of putting profits before people, while many governments see organised labour as a threat. why, then, is the union movement seemingly in retreat? have workers lost their faith in collective action? well, my guest is long time boss of the international trade union confederation, sharan burrow. do workers have problems that unions cannot fix? sharan burrow in brussels. welcome to hardtalk. good evening. good to have you on the show. let s look at what is happening in the world right now. we have a spike in energy costs right around the world, we have rising inflation in many countries and a squeeze on the cost of living. how grim do you think the prospec
ukraine, russia and turkey to allow rain exports through the black sea to resume. hundreds of police in riot gear begin to dismantle anti government protest camps in the sri lankan capital, colombo. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. he did not fail to act, he chose not to act , that s what one republican member of the commitee investigating the us capitol riot on six january last year said about donald trump. the panel has been setting out in minute by minute detail how the former president ate lunch and watched tv, doing nothing to rein in the mob of his supporters over 187 perilous minutes. during this last hearing of the summer, dramatic footage from several witnesses was shown. they each corroborate that donald trump s daughter ivanka was among several key figures close to the president who tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade him into making a statement condemning the violence. sarah matthews, one of today s live witnesses, was deputy press se
who has the upper hand. we can see victory ahead and it is all because of you, so thank you, pennsylvania. increased forest fires in the u.s., leaving of corals in the oceans. time is running out. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, may 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in new york and washington. investors on wall street will be waking up after reporting the worst trading day in nearly two years, all eyes on the u.s. markets to see if the roller coaster ride continues as fears of a recession grows. let s take a look at how it is impacting life. gasoline prices are soaring. so are home prices. and if americans want to buy a car, with the supply chain shortages even the price of used cars has skyrocketed. in california, gas prices have hit $6 a gallon this week and experts warn that could be the national average before the summer is out. aaa has the current gas average at just a little over $4.50 today. the cost of grocerie