resort for sensitive files. the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an american president. now on bbc news. click meets the comedians who are making the leap from being social media stars to the live stage at the edinburgh festival fringe. this week we are at the hospital that s using ai to try and cut waiting times for surgery. we are all at sea to see if sailing can go solar, we are finding our funny at the fringe festival to ask whether tiktok comedians can make it on stage. there is so much scope for error. and there s so much stuff that s not in our control. on tiktok it is actually all in our control. and talking of control, we ll see how trying to track the twitter bots is no laughing matter. i said no laughing matter.oh, never mind. you are back, we re back, everybody is back, and this august so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it is a melting pot of theatre, music, d
the former conservative cabinet secretaryjustine greening, the is chief political commentator paul waugh and the republican political analyst doug heye. good evening, welcome to the programme. by the 5th september we will know who is to become the next prime minister of the united kingdom. currently, we have 11 candidates, the hope is that by next week, 11 will become two. in the last hour, the 1922 committee of conservative backbenchers has set out the rules by which they will eliminate candidates. here is the chair of that committee sir graham brady. we tried to find a balance where we are not making it impossibly difficult for serious candidates to enter the contest but we don t want to have a cast of thousands of people who don t really have great prospects of progressing in the election. so the first round will be held on wednesday, by which time candidates will require the support of 20 mps. a second on thursday, in which they will need the support of 30. another round
now on bbc news, click meets the comedians who are making the leap from being social media stars to the live stage at the edinburgh festival fringe. this week we are at the hospital that s using ai to try and cut waiting times for surgery. we are all at sea to see if sailing can go solar, we are finding our funny at the fringe festival to ask whether tiktok comedians can make it on stage. there is so much scope for error. and there s so much stuff that s not in our control. on tiktok it is actually all in our control. and talking of control, we ll see how trying to track the twitter bots is no laughing matter. i said no laughing matter.oh, never mind. you are back, we re back, everybody is back, and this august so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it is a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the edinburgh fringe. please, neverspeak to me again. fil
hello this is bbc news. the headlines: nasa calls off their second attempt to launch its most powerful rocket, artemis i to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered the first. moscow blames maintenance problems forfailing to resume the main pipeline that transports gas from russia to europe after a three day closure. it s going to be harder to fill up. gas storage. is going to raise the risks of energy shortages this winter. and it really sharpens dilemma for european politicians as they plan for what could be a very difficult situation over the next few months. ukraine s first lady olena zelenska highlights the importance of the human cost of war in an interview with the bbc. when you start counting pennies on your bank account or in your pocket. we do the same and count our casualties. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. now on bbc news, click. this week we are at the hospit
nearly two years, the dow dropped nearly 1200 points, it came after target reported a huge 52% drop in profits for the first quarter, walmart slashed its outlooks. these stores are pocketing less money because they have to pay so much more to get product on their shelves. wal walmart s stock fell more than 11% on tuesday, the company s worst day since 1987. and then of course there are also gas prices to talk b now above $4 a gallon in every state in america for the first time ever. the national average this morning $4.52 a gallon and climbing and that ripple effect is now hitting markets around the globe. overnight european markets opening lower, stocks also tumbled in asia after wall street s hellish day. inflation fears now depressing investor sentiment, many ceos publicly stating their concerns about a possible recession, something fed chairman jerome powell is keenly aware of. what we need to see is inflation coming down in a clear and convincing way and we re goin