Joining me tonight are political Strategist And Commentator Rina Shah and columnist for the i and former Labour Executive Director of Policy Andrew Fisher first , the latest headlines. Israels Defence Minister has said the military is opening a new phase in the war, and will be diverting troops and resources northwards. Yoav gallant was speaking to troops at an airbase near the border with lebanon. It comes as 14 people have been killed and at least a50 injured in further explosions across lebanon involving Walkie Talkies. The us Federal Reserve has cut Interest Rates by half a Percentage Point in its first reduction since the pandemic. It puts the Central Banks benchmark Lending Rate at between 4. 75 and 5 , sharply lowering the cost of borrowing with less than 50 days to go until the us president ial election. The Foreign Office has summoned the russian ambassador to the uk over the expulsion of six british diplomats from moscow. A spokesperson Accused Moscow Of Making malicious and
The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Happy monday. Happy monday and thank you, i appreciate it. I welcome everyone to The Beat and we begin the program covering the developments in the terrible, Near Miss Type Incident at Donald Trumps Golf Course on sunday. The secret Service Opening Fire after seeing a gun that was pointed inside the course, inside the area where the former president was. More details on exactly that exchange of gunfire and what happened and i can tell you with the most recent information, federal authorities are treating this as a second Assassination Attempt. The first occurred at the Pennsylvania Rally with shots fired, agents killing the shooter, and a Rally Attendee being fatally shot. Here, authorities have apprehended the suspected gunman, alive. 58yearold Ryan Routh charged with two federal counts of gun possession. The authorities are stressing how the investigation for determining the motive, thats an ongoing investigation and they also praised the re
The trade implications. Scotlands only Oil Refinery is to close with a cost of 400 jobs the Unite Union calls it an act of industrial vandalism. And Credit Crunch why are so many Women Led bUsinesses cancelling Expansion Plans because they are unable to access finance . Well speak to one big bank trying to address that. Live from london, this is bUsiness today. Im mark lobel. The Aircraft Maker Boeing is awaiting news from its workforce on whether its accepted a four Year Pay Deal which could lead to a walkout of up to 33,000 workers. The deal 25 over four years has been backed by the workers iam union, but many employees are not happy with the terms. A result s expected very shortly and could lead to Strike Action in the coming hours. That would affect production of the companys 737 and 737 max aircraft. Heres our North America BUsiness correspondent ritika gupta. Breaking news on the subject. Boeing workers have voted to strike after rejecting a Pay Offer backed by their own union. T
Of Thousands Ofjobs for other programmes leaving the state. Our business correspondent, theo leggett, joins us now. As we heard, this is Notjust A grievance about rejecting a 25 pay rise, this is problem going back over 15 years, what is the history . We have seen in this vote which was absolutely emphatic, 96 of both pulled voted for the strike shows the depth of feeling between the workforce against management and how little trust there is between the workforce and bowing management. As you say, that does go back a long time because in past renegotiations of Contracts Bowing was in a strong position and it went into these negotiations threatening to remove production from the pacific Northwest Area and take it into other states. That went down very badly with Boeing Workers in the region who are to accept reduced terms and conditions including the removal of Pension Schemes and those resentments have remained. Over the past few years as well while boeing has been trying to mmp while
The International Red Cross says three of its staff have been killed by shellfire in the eastern Donetsk Region of ukraine. They were Unloading Supplies for ukrainian villagers when they were hit. President zelensky called it a russian war crime. The head of unrwa has told the bbc that israel has a deliberate objective to dismantle the organisation after six of its members were killed in an Air Strike in gaza. The israeli military published a list of nine men it says were members of hamas killed in the strike on a school in nuseirat refugee camp. The un says the names do not tally with previous lists given by israel. If you are just if you arejustjoining us, welcome to the programme. Post debate, some new polling is also out tonight. Reuters ipsos have Kamala Harris five points ahead of Donald Trump that is a wider margin than the four Point Lead she had in late august. But then, the Popular Vote is not the deciding factor. The winner of a us president ial election is the candidate tha