consequences. last night, there were consequences. also this hour, the iowa caucus campaign blitz with haley and desantis battling for second place. if the latest polls are correct, donald trump has a 30-point lead. kristin welker joins me live from des moines to break it all down. former president trump refocusing on iowa after his fireworks during closing arguments at his civil fraud trial in manhattan. the judge promising his decision on how much to fine the former president and his adult sons before the end of the month. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell back in washington. while u.s. forces in the wider middle east are bracing for retaliation after they struck back at houthi rebel forces in defiance of the ultimatums keeping up their attacks. the pentagon and british allies bombed more than 60 targets inside yemen overnight that they say were used by the rebels to plan and launch dozens of attacks against commercial shipping routes vital to the world econo
here s what the leaders of both sides had to say following the high sta kes meeting. we meeting. agreed to continue our discussions we agreed to continue our discussions and we will meet again on friday. in the meantime our staff will meet today and daily between now then and everyone in the meeting understood the risk of default. our economy would fall into a significant recession and it would devastate retirement accounts, increase learning costs, according to reports nearly 8 million americans would lose their jobs. americans would lose their “obs. , ., , jobs. everyone in this meeting reiterated jobs. everyone in this meeting reiterated the jobs. everyone in this meeting reiterated the positions - jobs. everyone in this meeting reiterated the positions they l reiterated the positions they were reiterated the positions they were at reiterated the positions they were at. i did not see movement. the president said staff movement. the president said staff would get
as the energy price cap for businesses ends tomorrow we talk to companies feeling the heat of rocketing energy bills. sewage was discharged into england s waterways at the equivalent of 800 times a day last year according to the environment agency. and gwyneth paltrow wins her court case against the man who tried to sue her over a skiing accident. and coming up in the sport later in the hour the bbc news channel. we will discuss today s biggest talking points from here at the bbc sport centre. good evening. donald trump has become the first former us president to face criminal charges over money paid to the former porn star stormy daniels. the accusation or indictment was the result of a secret vote by a new york grand jury. that s a group of citizens who hear evidence and decide whether there s enough to charge someone with a crime. we don t know the specifics of the charge yet, but it centres on a payment made to stormy daniels after an alleged affair between her
wherever in the world you rejoining me from, once again, a big hello in a very warm welcome to the show. so are your wages struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living? are you seeing the cost of his supermarket shop go up each week? what about your energy bills or your rent or mortgage payments? well, all of this is thanks to soaring inflation, which was rising because of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and has been made worse by the war in ukraine. some influential voices are now warning a big recession could be on the way. it all means there s massive worldwide problems for the business. and political leaders gathering in the swiss mountain resort of davos to get stuck into their stated aim is to improve the state of the world. this year, more than 2,500 delegates are set to attend, and they typically range from hollywood movie stars to prime ministers and the chief executives of the world s biggest companies. being there, it doesn t come cheap, $180,000.
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america, and around the globe. ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the world s entire wheat harvest or, at least, it should. but russia s blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the un s world food programme to call it a declaration of war on global food security that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. it echoes concerns raised by the ukrainian government, and wider accusations that the kremlin is deliberately targeting food supplies. our economics editor faisal islam reports. across the world, food and energy crises are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger, and leading to whole country is going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. from southeast asia to the middle east, and it s also affecting the uk, t