As another two brigades of Troops Head for the border. Ukraines president , Volodymyr Zelensky, has warned the United Nations delegates that russia is preparing a serious escalation of its war against his country. Polling stations have closed in Indian Administered Kashmir in the first elections to take place there in more than ten years. Ubas Crime Rate soars, fuelled by Gang Crime and drugs. Well have a Special Report from havana. And the Newjoker Movie divides critics as it heads to cinemas well be live from the Red Carpet ahead of the Uk Premiere as we have been hearing, one our main stories this hour the head of the israeli armed forces, herzi halevi, has said preparations are being made for a possible Ground Invasion of lebanon. Israel has been conducting extensive strikes across lebanon, hitting 280 targets according to the idf. Lebanons Health Ministry says 51 People Have been killed, and more than 200 wounded so far today. Earlier on wednesday, israel intercepted a ballistic m
All of those stories coming up in a moment. Before we go to ben thompson, i want to show the live pictures from washington because he seemed pretty much set up there, we are expecting about four or five senators in the next few minutes to come to the microphone to condemn those protests we have seen at Different University campuses, certainly of the last few weeks, but more focused on what we saw overnight, both at ucla and at Columbia University in new york. So when that starts we will obviously return to washington. That gives us time to bring in ben thompson. He is herewith todays business needs. Good afternoon, what do you have for us . Lets move these things out of the way, i can actually see you extract thanks very much. Yes, we will start in washington, actually, and we will keep an eye on the stories you are talking about there as well, but we are looking at the worlds most powerful central bank of the big question of whether it will cut the cost of borrowing this year. That ha
Some of our biggest cities and its busiest right here in birmingham. So what does the state of the Construction Industry tell us about the economy . Ill be finding out. In sport, its the tie they wanted. The lowest ranked side left in the fa cup Sutton United will host the 12 time winners arsenal in the last 16. Tastes like burnt rubber and carol has the weather. A cloudy and wet start to the day with rain or drizzle. Brightening up later in Northern Ireland but for the rest of us what you start with is more or less what youre going to end up with during the day. More in about 13 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Donald trump has sacked the United States top Legal Advisor after she told Government Lawyers not to enforce his travel ban. Sally yates was the latest critic to speak out against his decision to stop refugees and citizens of seven mainly muslim countries from coming to the United States. Meanwhile, barack 0bama has made an unprecedented intervention in the immigra
catholic university in lima. hejoins me now. thank you for joining me. things are quite clearly moving fast and we have seen protest pictures there against the new leaders. what the latest on the ground and watch the reaction began? thank ou for watch the reaction began? thank you for the watch the reaction began? thank you for the interview. you for the interview. everything, it s basically done now. the president has been impeached, the vice president has been sworn in because of violating the constitutional order. there are no protests, at least not significant ones so far. everything is very peaceful. yes, the final decisions were because the president dissolved congress when he had no reason to do it and no legal basis to do it. so every single institution,
secretary, is in tatters. he said, the company had little choice, but to give the seafarers their jobs back. you can see now, protest pictures, we have seen so many protests, up and down the country, from liverpool, to haul, to dover. people, not letting this one go. peter is due to sit in front of committee. the scottish parliament is plenty more questions for him on those mass sackings. just the latest development in this growing saga. thank you. let s take a look at some of the day s other headlines for you now. the queen, and prince andrew, expected to attend a memorial service today, marking the life of her late husband, the duke of edinburgh. the service of thanksgiving, being held at westminster abbey. they original venue for prince philip s funeral, until s move to windsor, due to covid restrictions. my own styling has decided to stay on as host of soccer