al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera and these other top stories, the u. s. federal reserve has announced an interest rate rise of note point 75 percent to try to control high inflation, increases the largest almost 3 decades. the fed says the current economic climate is extraordinarily challenging and uncertain. we anticipate that ongoing rate increases will be appropriate. the pace of those changes will continue to depend on the incoming data and the evolving outlook for the economy. clearly, today s 75 basis point increase is an unusually large one and i do not expect moves of his size to be common from the perspective of to day, either of 50 basis point or a 75 basis point increase seems most likely at our next meeting we will, however, make our decisions, meeting by meeting and will continue to communicate our thinking as clearly as we can. the u. s. house committee investigating the capitol hill rights says a man who was on a tour of the building just a day before the att
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they are 20 places ahead of their opponents in the fee for rankin s. ah, ah. without zera, these are our top stories you as congressional committee investigating last year s attack on capitol hill is holding its 2nd public hearing is focusing on foreign present. donald trump s false claims of election fraud. the committee was supposed to hear from trump s former campaign manager. but bill step and said he couldn t testify due to a family emergency. i don t know, castro has more from washington. we saw the committee start this thing off today by placing the american public who have been invited to tune into this warily inside the white house on election night, the atmosphere, the feeling of being with president trump. that night, as the results were coming in and they were not coming in in the president s favorite, particularly when fox news, the conservative news channel in the us called the state of arizona for president for ever joe biden. not for trump, which in you create
this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, china s defense ministers as tie ones. reunification with the mainland is inevitable and had fallen interference would fail way fingers address and singapore is the latest in a spot between washington and beijing over time ones future. jessica washington s in singapore was more on what the chinese defense minister said very early in his speech, he took the time to remark directly on lloyd austin s comments about china, saying that he regarded them false and news against his country. now, course he did talk about taiwan that has been a contentious issue of discussion across the course at the summit. he did, of course, mentioned that it is that china will fight to the very end if necessary. and he sent a message in his words to those seeking its high ones independence stop the delusion . the pursuit at independence, a dead and hundreds of marches had been taking place across the united states, calling for stricter gun laws. they we