Im lukwesa burak. We start here in the uk because the uks national debt is on course to triple over the next half a century. Thats the warning from the governments official forecaster, the office for budget responsibility. An ageing population, climate change, and rising geopolitical tensions will all put increasing pressure on the Public Finances according to the 0brs report. And it says without extra Tax Revenues or a return to post War Productivity levels, the Public Finances are not sustainable over the long term, and something has got to give. Uk national debt is currently at almost 100 of the size of its annual Economy Output or gdp. The 0br says its Base Scenario is a national debt of 274 of gdp in 2071. Risks from war, disease, cyber Conflict And Trade tensions could push that even higher. By 2071, the 0br expects the uk to be spending more than £200 Billion extra per year on things like health, Social Care and pensions. The chair of the 0br Richard Hughes spoke to the bbc ear
Really sunny on the channel coast, East Anglia and into lincolnshire. Most of the North Sea Coast as well. The wind will change direction, by saturday they will come in from the south west. Through sunday, the milder air will have established itself across the uk, so temperatures once start to nudge up to about 20 or so. Some of us will pay for it, in the South Westerly is we often get Weather Fronts so there will be a few showers on sunday, not everywhere, and certainly some sunny spells. 18 in belfast once again, 17 in aberdeen. To the east of the pennines, not far off 20 celsius. High pressure expected to build across the uk on monday, which means Light Winds, prolonged spells of sunshine, which are expected to last for the days ahead. Monday, tuesday, wednesday across the bulk of the uk, bright and fairly warm. Goodbye. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. When israel fires missiles on gaza, it describes them as precision strikes aimed at hamas targets. What results is often cat
The Justice Department into a quote, political Weapon Speech coming less than two months before the president ial election is expected to condemn what he calls an escalation of attacks based on quote, conspiracy theories, Dana Peter is falsehoods. Efforts to bully and intimidate career public servants by repeatedly and publicly singling them out and threats of actual violence. Cnns Jessica Schneider joins us now with more and jessica, this is very unmarried. Garland of berkoff, garland to come out like this. Its notable, jim, weve seen the Attorney General respond to these attacks and congressional hearing springs one questioned by lawmakers, may be in response to questions from the press, but he is going to be making a full throated defense of his employees. Doj officials fbi agents in this really notable speech, hes going to be delivering it around 11, 30 this morning to his employees, two u. S. Attorneys who are in town and its real really incredible. You know, we say we wont let th
Experts now and analysts proclaImIng VIce PresIdent Kamala HarrIs vIctorIous after thIs Weeks PresIdent Ial debate. However, some voters are tellIng a very dIfferent story. But most for the very same reason. Im HarrIs Faulkner and you are In the faulkner focus. You hear me say It all the tIme. The pollIng, all of that can tell one story, The One that matters comes from the voters. Many voters, IncludIng our very own voters voIces panel yesterday, say the VIce PresIdent was not convIncIng on theIr very top electIon Issue, the economy. WhIle InflatIon may be easIng but the prIces of thIngs are under deep pressure from years of hIgh InflatIon under bIdenharrIs. And It Is not helpIng amerIcans who are crushed beneath the weIght of all of that. The New York tImes put It thIs way. What they wanted to hear and dIdnt was the fIne prInt. ThIs Is what they heard on the economy from Kamala HarrIs. When It comes to the economy, do you belIeve amerIcans are better off than they were four years ago
Thank you. Outnumbered starts right now. All right, moments ago we were watching live, a defiant Attorney General Merrick Garland defending his Department Of Justice denouncing claims that the Law Enforcement Branch has become a political weapon. A little bit of that and then we will talk about more here on outnumbered. This provision of the principles ends with an admonition federal prosecutors and agents may never make a decision regarding an Investigation Or Prosecution for the purpose of affecting any election or the purpose of giving an Advantage Or Disadvantage to any candidate or political party in short, we must treat like cases alike. There is not one rule for friends and another for photos. One rule for the powerful and another for the powerless. One rule for the rich and another for the poor, one rule for democrats and another for republicans, or different roles depending on Ones Race or ethnicity. To the contrary, we have only one rule, we follow the facts and apply the law