Cut of half a Percentage Point on wednesday has spurred investors sending us markets into record highs. Traders cheered the Central Banks big call cutting the main Interest Rate to between 4. 75 and 5 . Opening the door with a bang on the first rates Easing Cycle in more than four years. President biden hailed the move as good news for consumers but said there was more work to be done in taming inflation. Lets be clear. The fed lowering Interest Rate is not a declaration of victory, its a declaration of victory, its a declaration of victory, its a declaration of progress. Its a Signal Weve entered a new phase for a colony and are recovery. I believe its important for the country to recognise this process because we dont, the progress we made will remain locked in the fear of negative mindset dominating our economic outlook since the pandemic began. Fed officials have made it clear that this cut was only the beginning and investors seem to have liked what they heard. For more, lets get
Information, and then sent it to Biden Harris staffers. And thats where we are at the top of the new hour. Hello and welcome everyone. I am Sandra Smith in new york, and john is with us. John the fbi says that iran attempt to do reach out to staffers with phishing emails. They are looking into the incident. Sandra Gillian Turner is live from the State Department to kick it off for us. Gillian, do we know if any staffers opened the emails or replied to them . We can presume, sandra, they opened some of the emails, because they eventually figured out it was some kind of phishing attack. But none of the staffers, as far as we know replied to them. Big picture right now, sometime over the summer, iran managed to hack into the Trump Campaign. Stole information, and tried to share it with what was then the biden Harris Campaign. Listen to former President Trump talking about it last night. This is foreign Election Interference. This is Election Interference, not the phony crap they have trie
A french man accused of drugging his wife and enabling her rape by dozens of other men, has admitted to all the charges against him. In his first testimony since the trial opened, Dominique Pelicot admitted that he was a rapist, and said his wife gisele, who has waived her right to anonymity, did not deserve what happened to her. Instagram says its overhauling the way it works for young people 7 promising more built . In protections for teenagers and added controls for parents. Part of the measures being introduced will see new Teen Accounts for 13 to 15 year olds, which will have strict controls on sensitive content to prevent recommendations of potentially harmful material. If You Arejustjoining us, welcome to the programme. The israeli intelligence agencies, Mossad And Shin bet, have a long history of tracking and eliminating israels enemies, wherever they hide. Israel hasnt yet commented but this latest attack on his brother, the iranian backed group in lebanon, is unlike anything
Lets remind people who are justjoining us that we are covering the Sentencing Hearing of huw edwards. Seven of the images possessed by Hugh Edwards of the most serious type, and two were of a child between seven and nine. Hugh edwards paid Alex Williams hundreds of pounds of gifts and presents in exchange for the images. At one Point Alex William said he had naughty and young images, to which you average replied, go on, but he said he did not want to receive anything illegal. The pictures do most of the pictures are aged between 13 and 15. These communications lasted between 20182022. We communications lasted between 2018 2022. We havejust been hearing from seema. What else are you learning, seema . , seema . This is very significant. Seema . This is very significant. He seema . This is very significant. He is. Seema . This is very significant. He is expressing remorse for his crimes. His barrister, philip evans, told the court that Mr Evans Mr Edwards wishes to apologise and that the
A Prison Sentence at all, it may at Community Order or he could be sent on the sex offenders programme, or he could be given a suspended sentence. We knew the man who sentence. We knew the man who sent him the explicit images was given a 12 month suspended sentence. We could hearfairly soon as to what his fate is. In soon as to what his fate is. In terms of watching this unfold, it has been enlightening to hear about this in real time what is happening inside the courtroom via our colleagues. It gives you an idea of the kind of factors that have to go into that consideration by the Chief Magistrate. Chief magistrate. Thats right and the chief Chief Magistrate. Thats right and the Chief Magistrate Chief Magistrate. Thats right and the Chief Magistrate in l and the Chief Magistrate in july when i was here previously asked for a lot of information between now and then, more information on his health, on him as a person, about his motivation, all of that will be looked at and assessed so t