different this time around. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we start here in the united states where the pentagon says a leak of classified defence department documents poses a serious risk to national security. as well as some highly detailed information about the war in ukraine, the documents also contain sensitive details about us allies and this country s dealings with china. it has been described as one of the largest public breaches of us intelligence information since the wikileaks saga. a short while ago, the white house said officials had reached out to america s allies in regard to the disclosures. we are taking this very, very seriously. there is no excuse for these kinds of documents to be in the public domain. they don t deserve to be in the public domain. they deserve to be protected. so we re going to get to the bottom of this. and then if there s actions that need to be taken, as we learn more about the extent of what happened
and no, but through the night, into the morning, got a brief ridge of high pressure, quite a shallow one. so there should be a few showers around into the morning, but a lot of dry and clearer weather and a call to start to the morning as well. even a touch of frost through some sheltered scottish glens. but whilst there will be some cloud across scotland, one or two showers, many start fine and bright. lots of sunshine around make the most of it south west, england, south west, wales, south west and northern ireland. rapidly through the morning, that rain spreading through the rest of northern ireland, wales into western england for the end of the afternoon with strengthening winds. temperatures down a little bit on today. but given the strength of the wind and that rain spreading in, it will feel cooler and the winds will be strongest into the first part of the night around these irish sea coasts and hills that could cause some damage and disruption, particularly in coastal parts. ea
imf in the lowest growth projections by the imf in since the 1990s. itjust shows the kind of impact the high inflation is having on countries around the world. a lot of countries are raising interest rates to try and slow down those price increases. and while those are still important things to do, it still has a ripple effect on other parts of the global economy. effect on other parts of the global econom . ., effect on other parts of the global econom . ~ ., , , ., economy. and of course, that potentially economy. and of course, that potentially impacts, - economy. and of course, that potentially impacts, doesn t l economy. and of course, that l potentially impacts, doesn t it, economy. and of course, that - potentially impacts, doesn t it, low potentially impacts, doesn t it, low income countries? will that be pressure at these meetings for those countries to be afforded this same sort of recognition that has been given to ukraine? sort of recognition that has been given
reassure them. the department of justice has opened this criminal investigation. i don t know who is behind it, orat investigation. i don t know who is behind it, or at least they are not saying i think about that. i don t know the scope of it. the spokesman for the national security council was asked, is the threat contained, and he said what we just don t know. what s the likely impact of all this, particularly regarding the us relations with its allies? relations with its allies? well, that s diplomatically relations with its allies? -ii that s diplomatically embarrassing. that s diplomatically embarrassing. and it could be diplomatically damaging, although the us has weathered this sort of thing before with the other leaks that have happened. in terms of the ukraine war, it is not a detailed battle plan. it s not like a plan for ukraine s spring offensive. it s more like a us snapshot of the war. but he could give useful information to the restaurant. it could put us sources, in
it, the us assessment of it. also details of how the international community is trying to build up ukrainian military forces. there are some areas it looks as though some of the documents were doctored, in particular, the casualty figures for the russians is much lower than what the russians is much lower than what the us usually says it is. so that s interesting. and as you mentioned, there s also information about other washington allies, such as canada, and israel, and south korea, and some of that is highly sensitive information. mil some of that is highly sensitive information. some of that is highly sensitive information. all of this seems to have sent information. all of this seems to have sent the information. all of this seems to have sent the government - information. all of this seems to - have sent the government scrambling. what are officials doing about this? well, they are trying to find out more about it. we are in the finding out stage. so we are told that there i