Hes a big fan of the Rolling Stones. Some of his fans and critics alike have described him as cr azy but who is the real javier milei . President milei, thank you so much for speaking with bbc news today. Id like to start this interview firstly by talking about the economy, which youve made a priority. You have got inflation down, but you promised that the political class, not the people, would pay. I spoke to a pensioner here who told me that in tears that this, in her words, was a lie, that with cuts to pensions, salaries, the value of peoples money, its people like her who are paying. What would you say to her . Translation well, | actually, that is false. The largest adjustment is being paid by the political corporation. When we took office, argentinas economy had twin deficits amounting to 17 of gdp. Besides, the previous administration, during the last year, had printed about 13 of gdp to finance fiscal deficit. And when we took office, inflation was at 7,500 a year. And in decem
There is crucial for the success of the war. In other developments, israels military says three soldiers were killed, and several injured after hamas fired rockets from an area in southern gaza, near the rafah crossing. Israel responded by closing the karem shalom border point. Peace talks in cairo have ended no progress on a Ceasefire Agreement was made. The Israeli Government has also forced the News Network Aljazeera to shut down its operations in israel calling It A Mouthpiece for hamas. Frank gardner reports from jerusalem. In a country that prides itself on free speech and democracy, Israeli Police shut down the offices of aljazeera today, seizing its broadcast equipment. If you are watching this pre recorded report, then aljazeera has been banned in the territory of israel. This was one of its final broadcasts from jerusalem before the police arrived. The government accused the tv channel of incitement to terrorism, calling It A Mouthpiece for hamas. Its bureau chief called it a
Spending, spending on things like pensions. This is all part of his big radical plan to try to get inflation and debt in the country. He has started to get inflation down, it is still the highest in the world, but it has come at a cost. A lot of people i spoke to in argentina said they were struggling as a result of high prices at a time when support for them or their pensions or salaries were not keeping up with inflation. When i put that to him he said it was false, said that the Political Class instead were playing and he also claimed that the reason people might think they were paying was due to what he described as the mass media, calling some journalist serial liars. I asked calling some journalist serial liars. Iasked him if calling some journalist serial liars. I asked him if that was the case given that the information that most people have access to as the prices they see on the shelves. Translation do you know how many goods assets exist within an economy . So you dont do ec
From where i am now. For me, actually, im not doing anything for now. Im so confused. Just to be honest, i have no place to go. This was the last place i know. And actually, if i want to come back to khan yunis, there is no place. Its all destroyed. The areas are crowded and i cannot anymore live inside tent, its so hot and my health does not allow for me to be in such situation. Regarding other areas, still there is a lot of airstrikes there. Ive been there and its very dangerous areas. Earlier i spoke to daniel levy, the president of the Us Middle East project and former israeli peace negotiator. I asked him what he thought Benjamin Netanyahus endgame was. I think it is really hard to speak in terms of endgame, because the preponderance of analysis and opinion which i would align with is that netanyahu wants this to be a long war. People have talked in terms of the forever war. Netanyahu is not looking forward to the morning after, not politically, not in terms of the investigations,