phase of this war on ukraine. just today, president putin has made overt nuclear threats against europe. i talk with the president of finland, who knows putin well. i also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in police custody there. what will come of the demonstrations? i will ask an expert. but first, here s my take. let s not play down what has happened this week. the leader of the world s largest nuclear power publicly threatened to use nuclear weapons. in an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all weapons systems available to us to defend the country. he emphasized it. this is not a bluff. it might be. putin s threat is an add-on of traditional soviet doctrine. now they contemplate scenarios which it could use
iran s supreme leader accuses the united states of orchestrating widespread public protests over the death of a young woman in police custody. we re going to start here in the uk and politics. the row over giving a tax cut to some of the richest people in the country. to some of the richest for ten days the conservative government said it was the right thing to do. now they say they re not going to do it. here s the chancellor kwasi kwarteng saying that particular tax cut is not now going ahead. the 45p rate was simply a distraction from what was a very very strong set of measures and with the prime minister i decided not to proceed with the abolition of the rate. to be clear, what we re talking about is a huge u turn on one of the government s flagship economic policies, scrapping the top rate of income tax. let s take a closer look. currently, the highest earners pay 45% tax on their income over £150,000. some 660,000 people are thought to pay the highest tax rate. so if t
collision course. tropical storm force winds could hit florida tuesday. in puerto rico, further south, they are still dealing with property damage and washed out roads after hurricane fiona ravaged the island nearly one week ago. and fiona is not done yet. it could become one of the strongest storms canada ever experienced. it made landfall in nova scotia. allison chinchar is in the cnn weather center. it could slam florida in the coming days. right. it is expected to get to major hurricane strength. let s break it down. you have two significant storms to talk about. this is tropical storm ian. sustained winds only at 45 miles per hour, gusting up to 60. but the potential is there as it makes its way to the cayman islands, which is where we forecast this is likely to get up to hurricane strength. category 1, maybe even cat going 2 over the islands. it will make its way over cuba, into the eastern portion of the gulf of mexico from. there that system is expected to make the
distinction, actually goes to the heart of the difference between the u.s. and and israel on this. israel s fear is that by the time iran actually got to a nuclear weapon it would be too late to stop it so they have been conducting sabotage operations, assassination toss slow the enrichment of uranium. president biden has said and said again today a diplomatic solution is the best way to get this done. that s why he s trying to restart the 2015 agreement. the problem is he s been trying that for 18 months now and the iranians aren t playing and it s not clear at this point whether there s really any hope left that they would get into that agreement. very significant moment right now, the concern that the u.s. and israel and some of the other states in the region, the saudis, the united arab emirates have as far as iran is concerned hovering over these talks. very important. kaitlan collins is our chief white house correspondent. you were there in the room. what was your t
president welcomes all ideas to protect consumers and make sure oil companies are not taking advantage of putin s war and are competing fairly. no company should be engaging in unfair practices to hike up prices on american consumers press the president has said president putin s actions are what s driving the price increase at the pump. spring wall street journal columnist dan henninger. so mary, bad news continues economically. the gas prices the signs of slowing consumer spending on the stock markets have been just awful. what are those signals all telling us? are we headed towards stagflation or maybe recession? nothing has really changed. the fed was giving a lot of what we call monetary accommodation which is flooding basically the economy with money. and on the fiscal side president biden was spending a lot of money. there is a lot of concern that at some point that was going to cause inflation but begot the inflation the entertainment they re going to raise inte