let s start in the us, where there is growing footsteps. 0k. let s get started, shall we? the cameras do not want to play ball but i can walk back to this position. let s start in the us, where there is growing nervousness in financial markets over the possibility the us could default on its debt. a stand off in congress over plans to lift the federal debt ceiling which is currently at an eye watering $31.4 trillion has led to the cost of buying insurance against a us government default has moved to its highest level in more than a decade this month. so, later today, the republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy will give a speech at the new york stock exchange, where he s expected to lay out the conditions republicans want democrats to agree to in exchange for movement on the debt ceiling. it sounds like a stand off. scott anderson is chief economist at bank of the west in san francisco. welcome to the programme. what will kevin mccarthy say? what is he going to p
Its 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm in the evening in new york, where the United Nations Security Council has unanimously condemned north koreas latest Ballistic Missile test. The Us Ambassador to the un, nikki haley, said it is time to hold north korea accountable with actions, not words. A few hours before, President Trump told a joint News Conference with the canadian Prime Minister, that the us faces many dangers. When i was campaigning, i said it is not a good situation. Now that i see it, including with our intelligence briefings, we have problems that a lot of people have no idea how bad they are, how serious they are. Not only internationally, but when you come right here. 0bviously north korea is a big, big problem, and we will deal with that very strongly. 0ur correspondent neda tawfik is at the un in new york. She told me there was a clear message from the Security Council. Well, the Security Council issued a very strong statement, as you said, unanimous the
Its 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm in the evening in new york, where the United Nations Security Council has unanimously condemned north koreas latest Ballistic Missile test. The Us Ambassador to the un, nikki haley, said it is time to hold north korea accountable with actions, not words. A few hours before, President Trump told a joint News Conference with the canadian Prime Minister, that the us faces many dangers. When i was campaigning, i said it is not a good situation. Now that i see it, including with our intelligence briefings, we have problems that a lot of people have no idea how bad they are, how serious they are. Not only internationally, but when you come right here. 0bviously north korea is a big, big problem, and we will deal with that very strongly. 0ur correspondent neda tawfik is at the un in new york. She told me there was a clear message from the Security Council. Well, the Security Council issued a very strong statement, as you said, unanimous the
around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. meet mina, a keen knitter who wanted to do something special to mark eurovision taking place in the uk. so she spent three months making this new dress. and she s even knitted a mini graham norton to go with it. i love knitting. i love eurovision. ijust love knitting. i love eurovision. i just thought, what can i do to put the two together? i had this mad idea. everybody said, don t be ridiculous. you can t knit a dressable flag of all the countries of eurovision? if somebody tells me i can t do something, that s when i m going to pick up my needles and off i went. taste