Longstanding interest as a commentator and analyst in iran. Im delighted to be joined by two of the people i think understand iran best in this country, and i will just move from my left, Maziar Bahari was my colleague as a newsweek reporter in iran. He worked for newsweek from 1998 until june 21, 2009, thousand nine, when he was arrested and imprisoned in tehran. You will know if youve read his wonderful memoir, then they came for me, what that imprisonment was like. If you havent read the book, you can go see the movie because it was made into a movie by jon stewart called rosewater if memory serves, was the name and the unmistakable calling card of his interrogator. In 2014 he started something that im sure its know youre too many people in this audience, certainly is a must read for anyone who wants to follow iran, and thats his website called iran wire which gathers information from iran, reporting, commentary, immensely valuable resource for all of us. And Suzanne Maloney who is
of 30 billion dollar rescue package for the embattled first republic bank in the us. hopes turkey will ratify finland s application for nato membership as the leaders of the two countries meet. and a former professional surfer has broken the world record for the longest surf session in australia. hello and welcome. the chinese president, xijinping, will travel to russia next week for talks with president putin. the state visit follows us claims that china may be considering sending weapons to russia to support its war in ukraine. meanwhile, there s been a big boost for the ukrainian government. slovakia has followed poland with a promise to send it combat aircraft. from kyiv, james landale reports. before the war, they agreed what they called a partnership with no limits. one that next week will bring president xi to moscow in a rare show of solidarity, for a leader in need of allies. china has neither endorsed nor condemned president putin s invasion of ukraine. but it has k
target of the unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter. here s my answer. i am here. mr. biden, was it worth it trying to sell the family name? do you want president biden to pardon you, sir? neil: so it went or didn t go. still on the hunt for answers. hunter biden showing up on capitol hill, but a no-show for the closed door deposition that republicans had demanded. so what happens now that he s defying that subpoena? we don t know. this much we do. he used his appearance to blast the impeachment inquiry in to his dad that could be just hours away. all of that and as martha was telling you, we have a new record at the corner of wall and broad. the biggest finish we ve seen in two years. the dow has never been higher. the other averages racing along. we ll tell you what sparked this and what it could mean for you now in your world. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. so much going on today. the record on wall street, more on that in a second. first to
More investment in House Building and infrastructure. On the other side he has a lot of brexiteers who are very side he has a lot of brexiteers who are very much looking to hamstring him for anything they can in this budget and if he goes too far one way he risks damaging this reputation of fiscal responsibility that he spent seven years cultivating. Can he not get around that by saying that this money is no longer on the books of the treasury or the public accounts because it is Housing Associations and they are not part of the Public Sector . guess he can. Ijust think he is in a very precarious position, especially given the disastrous budget of last year with his u turn on National Insurance for example. He had to climb down in a matter of days after the huge backlash. I think he is under a lot of pressure to get this right. Whether that will come off for him remains to be seen. Another story in the independent. Budget sector to deliver Council Housing boost, local authorities who h
Word of the day for traders. Chinese stocks extended the worst fiveday drop since 1996. The marx apparently unconvinced by the peoples bank of china decision to cut markets rate the apparently unconvinced. Stoxx 60019 indices are down here lets cross to our chief asia correspondent. Enda, a very good day to you. Markets simply unconvinced is the word. Enda unconvinced is exactly right. What the Global Markets wanted out of china was a Circuit Breaker. There is a feeling this crisis began in china. Dona needed to intervene, to something. It does not look like what they have done has been enough. The central bank will need to cut rates further. That the government will need to do more to shore up the chinese economy and turn sentiment around. The positive thing is that china has monday of more ammunition in its arsenal if needed china has plenty more ammunition in its arsenal if needed. Francine what is next . I guess the question is how much will they intervene . Enda well, so this is o