Hes a big fan of the Rolling Stones. Some of his fans and critics alike have described him as cr azy but who is the real javier milei . President milei, thank you so much for speaking with bbc news today. Id like to start this interview firstly by talking about the economy, which youve made a priority. You have got inflation down, but you promised that the political class, not the people, would pay. I spoke to a pensioner here who told me that in tears that this, in her words, was a lie, that with cuts to pensions, salaries, the value of peoples money, its people like her who are paying. What would you say to her . Translation well, | actually, that is false. The largest adjustment is being paid by the political corporation. When we took office, argentinas economy had twin deficits amounting to 17 of gdp. Besides, the previous administration, during the last year, had printed about 13 of gdp to finance fiscal deficit. And when we took office, inflation was at 7,500 a year. And in decem
Despite israel not fully cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. It has been a difficult week for us israel relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion into rafah, a densley populated area where over one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our state Department Correspondent tom bateman has this report. This report has been three months in the making. It was ordered by the white house back in february with President Biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from part of his democratic base, over the way that american weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. And what we have so far are the key findings that the state department here have released, and there is a key line in this report and it