let s get down to business. hsbc has just reported a 92% surge in quarterly profit. rising interest rates helped to swell its net interest income. europe s largest bank that s headquartered in london said pre tax earnings ringed in at $5.2 billion for the fourth quarter that s better than expected and up from $2.7 billion the year before. but it s biggest shareholder, ping an insurance of china, is putting pressure on the board to pivot further east. that s one of the challenges facing hsbc. let s discuss this with will walker arnott, senior investment manager, charles stanley good morning. talk about numbers. shareholders will benefit. hsbc did well in the last quarter- benefit. hsbc did well in the last quarter. yes, benefit. hsbc did well in the last quarter. yes, strong - last quarter. yes, strong results which would have pleased the market and beat expectations, as outlined. gather up 30% over last year, and the results explain why. what strip on the results, first
the week started with republicans literally trying to shout the president down for his passion in defense of social security and medicare at the state of the union. but by the end, it was prominent members of the gop who are feeling the heat. former vice president mike pence has been formerly subpoenaed by jack smith. the justice department appointed special counsel, investigating the efforts of the presidents, pence s former boss, former president donald trump, to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. including, of course, his impact on the january 6th insurrection at the core of that investigation. and his scheme to submit fake electors to falsely declare trump the winner of the election in states that joe biden actually won. a scheme that hinged on pence not declaring biden the winner when he wanted to certify the results on january 6th, which pence ultimately rejected, even as his life was being threatened by insurrectionists en masse on the capitol that day. on
scrambled, and a u.s. f 22 successfully shut it down. it s unclear whether the latest object has anything to do with the chinese by balloon shutdown off the coast of carolina s just last week or the object that was down over alaska on friday. nbc is in washington with the latest. ben, tell us what we know about the jets taken down a short time ago in canada. we do not know really anything more than what you just pointed out, which is this tweet from the canadian prime minister saying that they took down this high altitude object so this is 24 hours since a another high altitude object was taken down off the coast of alaska by a another u.s. fighter jet, another of 22. we still don t have any answers on what that object was other than that it was roughly the size of a small car, and it was not manned. in this case, this was spotted over northern canada, there were u.s. and canadian aircraft tracking it, and the f 22 fighter jet shut it down. what altitude was a? what s beat
mahsa amini. there have also been strikes at a number of other refineries, including in abadan in the west, and kengan in the south. now on bbc news, the travel show. yeah, all checked, triple checked. metal clanking. radio: science team, | are you a go or no go? science says go. radio: rangers, go for launch. go or no go for launch? bridge is go for launch. metal clanking. there will be a time when people will go to space at much less cost and very regularly. i think the same things gonna happen going underwater. it s going to get less expensive and much more accessible. radio: go for launch. this is the point of no return. if there was any point to freak out, now would be the point to freak out. this is an experimental sub. people are informed that it s very dangerous down there. am i spinning? yes. oh, my god. and scott is like, oh no, we have a problem. i was thinking, we re not gonna make it! we can t go anywhere but go in circles! ijust need to get there. radio: ca
One nation and i am Brian Kilmeade and guest are coming your way over the next hour with john speaking out from hollywood and hes one of the few Jewish Americans to do just that, talk about internal confrontations these are two coauthors of that talk about their time the book what we can all learn from it. But first, the recall of year olds, tonight National Police comes to a close, this week ceremonies and visuals honoring those who lost their lives in line of duty took place nationwide. In this remembrance calms troubling concerns for the men and women in blue, who serve and protect us every day, the downhill spiral really started 2020 revealed, wherever listed among northern america, to not i supported not only do we need to defund, but we do this middle start a new student was that were defendant what is it defied this is a word that is going from the streets many cities in america come over one third of their city budget goes to the police. So we have to have this conversation and