The us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken, has warned an all out assault on rafah will provoke anarchy without actually eliminating hamas. In gaza, the fighting has returned to the north, where israel says it has seen signs of hamas regrouping. Good evening. When Michael Cohen informed donald trump in 2016 that a former adult film star, Stormy Daniels, was selling a story about an alleged sexual encounter, trump hit the roof. The Access Hollywood story was already hurting his campaign with female voters. Cohen said trump feared that if this got out, the women would hate him. Cohen testified today that trump wanted him to buy the rights to that story so it would not come out ahead of the election. According to cohen, trump didnt care much if the story came out after the election. He wasnt concerned about his wifes reaction to it, and there is the nub of the prosecutions case. They need to prove that trump was directly involved in the payment to daniels and wanted her story killed becaus
Geopolitical tensions and how it could drive up prices for all, especially poorer countries. Weve cut our forecast down from 1. 7 in april, cut it down to 0. 8 . We have already said risks were the downside when we made this earlierforecast, so down by almost one percentage point. There are number of factors, the continuing crisis in the world that we see and now of course we have the crisis in The Middle East. We have the slowdown in growth in china, we also have high Interest Rates that have continued. We see weak demand across the board in most sectors and most geographies. Thats why we cut the forecast. How much of this is actual policy . Were hearing from the west this idea of nearshoring, friendshoring, Rebuilding Supply Chains away from east asia. How much of this is here to stay and how much of a problem is that . We saw there is more trade ongoing now within politically similar blocks number than between blocks that are dissimilar. That is some indication. We look at certain s
For euro 2024 was stopped short by spain, the hosts winning 2 0 on a controversial night. Needing just a point to secure qualification, scotland took a 1 0 lead in the second half only for the goal to be ruled out. Steve clarkes side had nothing to show for weathering the worst of the spain storm as jane dougall reports from seville. So it wasnt to be tonight for scotland but that goal that wasnt will probably be talked about fora while to come. About for a while to come. The first half, spain dominated, putting chance after chance towards scotland, which they defended with their lives. And then scott mctominay s perfectly placed freekick which delighted the crowd was ruled out. There was a debate as to whether it was a foul or off side. Mctominay was furious at the decision. Scotlands heads then went down and spain quickly took advantage and they took their chance, morata scoring in the 72nd minute. Just after that, adams could have got them the point. He was through on goal but he ju
Rusted assault on ukrainian gas plans causing problems for european supplies with matt we get the view from kyiv. Good evening. President biden has told the pro palestinian demonstrators they have the right to protest, but not a right to cause chaos. It was the first time the president has spoken on the campus protests amid criticism from donald trump and republicans that he has been absent from the debate. Peaceful protest in america. Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest is. Its against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. Its against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations none of this is a peaceful protest. Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest. Its against the law. Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can
Here is chair, jerome powell, during his press conference. The economy has made considerable progress toward our dual mandate objectives. Inflation has eased substantially over the past year, while the Labour Market has remained strong. And that is very good news. But inflation is still too high, further progress in bringing it down is not assured and the path forward is uncertain. We are fully committed to returning inflation to our 2 goal. While the prices of many goods have fallen, from cars to furniture, an increase in housing and Petrol Prices have contributed to a recent rise in consumer inflation. With progress on inflation taking longer than expected, hopes for lower rates have dimmed. One scenario that could change that calculation . Chair powell said if the Labour Market unexpectedly weakened, that could spur rate cuts. And sweetening the mood on wall street, the Dowjones Industrial Average closed higher, after the fed chair implied that the Central Banks next move was unlike