more than 5,000 athletes from 72 nations and territories will compete over the next 11 days. and the return of the tiger, why nepal kept its promise to double numbers in the last decade. it s 8am in singapore, and eight in the evening in washington, where presidentjoe biden has spent more than two hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. taiwan emerged once again as a key point of tension between the two leaders, this time sparked by a possible visit there by the us house speaker, nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t yet been confirmed, mr biden told xijinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status, or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded to that with on taiwan the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave diplomatic relations? well, with an assessment of that phone call, here s the bbc s barba
of cheer on wall street: amazon shares soar as it racks up sales of $121 billion in the last three months. hello there. we start in the us, with fears of a recession in the world s biggest economy. in the world s biggest economy are rattling people. official figures out on thursday show it shrinking for the second quarter in a row. two quarters of negative growth are what many countries around the world would define as a recession. not so in the us, as we ll show you why in a minute. us gross domestic product declined at an annual rate ofjust under 1% between april and june. that comes after a steeper 1.6% decline in the first three months of the year. but that hasn t hit the labour market yet. us treasury secretary janet yellen said the economy is now at full employment with the unemployment ratejust 3.6%. meanwhile, prices for groceries, petrol and other basics are rising at the fastest pace since 1981. he s what president biden had to say. both chairman powell and many
now, the department, they want to take the muzzle off, of course. and keep in mind, when two former pence aides testified to the federal grand jury, there had been a deal that had already been negotiated in advance to try to steer clear of any of their direct interactions with trump. that happens through the same approach we ve seen used by the house select committee. the fact that the doj is dotting their is and crossing their ts and preparing for a court privilege signals that if information is what you want, negotiation approach, let alone the muzzle, suspect going to cut it. remember, concerns about privilege are believed to be wide. they chose not to pursue any contempt of charges against mark meadows or dani scavino, as opposed to steve bannon and navarro. the department has green lit all of the access to the house select committee s transcripts. that s more than about 1,000 witnesses, i might add. in the word of chairman bennie thompson, no one the committee has talked
holocaust. there s never any upside letting joe biden speak in public. unfortunate for the warehouse sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happen and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy is currently a disaster. therefore joe biden had to talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium to the agency something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest residential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show the gdp has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we are in a recession. that s why joe biden had to hold the briefing. yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time. it was completely bizarre. biden announced there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed about your own country. i repeat there is no recession. thanks to the leadership of joe biden we can announce record potato harvests.
access from other people. we are going to pick it up where you left off. i am laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle. thanks for being with us tonight. redefining failure, that s the focus of tonight s angle. today was one of the worst days of the biden administration has had since its inauguration. two things have become undeniable for everybody but slavish biden apologists. number one trend, americans getting poorer. number 2, america is getting weaker. the white house is trying to spin gold out of goose poop. the gdp number came out and naturally it s worse than expected. two successive quarters of negative economic growth has been deemed a recession and confirmation of that ugly reality came today. looking back on this, we may say that the u.s. descended into a recession starting around the middle of this year. we re going to hear from the president coming out because he knows it s bad news this morning. laura: remember, get a get used to living with less is