By spf, has testified in his own defence. Faces several charges including defrauding his customers as much as 10 billion. Charges that he has denied. My colleague erin delmore has the latest. It was a stunning beginning. This is the most eagerly awaited moment in this trial. We expect that he would take their trial in front of a jury today. That was surprise number one. Judge lewis kaplan dismissed the jury, saying there is something they need to work out. He then told the rest of us that there were topic areas that the defence wanted to introduce. He admitted it was an unconventional way to move forward. He said his solution was to hear it for his ears only, so they did put Sam Bankman Fried on the stand. He answered questions from his own defence lawyers, but the jury wasnt in the room. A lot focused on what advice from lawyers made mr bankman fried think his companys actions were legal. They got to the research of Customer Funds and the loans that Alameda Research doled out to mr ba
Has died. His Economic Policy was aimed at staring the chinese economy towards stability but as Economic Leadership weakened at the time sidelined by president xi jinping. But hoffman has more on his economic policies. He was vice premier in the globalfinancial he was vice premier in the Global Financial crisis happened so he carried the baton through that crisis and china did very well in reacting to that crisis and then he set p to that crisis and then he set up a Reform Programme that as premier he was supposed to implement more market reforms, and more innovative china, a more productive to china, and a range of reforms were put in place. I think since then, the Reform Programme got diverted a little bit, xijinping took the upper hand in economics and emphasised more the stability and the National Security seven the last couple of years, horribly li keqiang has less of a influence but in his early years he was very influential. Bankman fried has testified in his own defence in cour
Labour. Our Political Editor chris mason reports. Cheering placards and cheers, and babies getting attention from politicians. Keir starmer is quite the fan of visiting Lower League Football grounds in places he hopes labour can win. He was in gillingham, in kent this morning his deputy with him, too. Thank you. Whatever Service People try and access these days, they find its like wading through treacle. Red cards arent usually welcome for folk on a football pitch, but expect to see plenty of these in the next month or so, spelling out labours core message. Weve had 14 years of going round and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. Chaos and Division Feeding Chaos and division. If you want change, you have to vote for it. And if you vote labour, its a vote to stop the chaos. Its a vote to turn the page, and its a vote to rebuild our country together. Thank you very much, thank you a general election is about winning seats and staying in them. Rishi sunakjust about managed that i
Cheering and applause. Placards and cheers and babies getting attention from politicians. Keir starmer is quite the fan of visiting Lower League Football grounds in places he hopes labour can win. He was in gillingham in kent this morning, his deputy with him, too. Thank you. Whatever Service People try and access these days, they find its like wading through treacle. Applause. Red cards arent usually welcome for folk on a Football Pitch but expect to see plenty of these in the next month or so, spelling out labours core message. Weve had 1a years of going round and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. Chaos and Division Feeding Chaos and division. If you want change, you have to vote for it and if you vote labour, its a vote to stop the chaos. Its a vote to turn the page and its a vote to rebuild our country together. Thank you very much. Cheering and applause. Thank you a general election is about winning seats and staying in them. Rishi sunakjust about managed that in ilkes
Condemned the chinese drills as irrational provocations, and released these images of mr lai inspecting the troops for the first time as taiwan president. Mr lai called on china to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy. What is the difference between this exercise and previous drills . You can see they ratcheted up a little bit. Overall it is still about posturing. If you look at it, the overall land over two days compared to last time when nancy pelosi the us Congressional Leader who went and visited taiwan triggered nearly a week of self by the chinese in terms of military drill. This time it is still more of posturing. We will seak more of posturing. We will speak to. More of posturing. We will speak to, joining more of posturing. We will speak to, joining us more of posturing. We will speak to, joining us now. More of posturing. We will. Speak to, joining us now from taipei. He said on social media this round of Military Drills feels like a prelude t