officers are being scrutinised. welcome to newsnight for your weeknightly interviews and insight. let me introduce you to our political panel for this evening claire ainsley, former head of policy for sir keir starmer, and henry hill, who is the acting editor of the tory website conservative home, plus dal babu, a former chief superintendent in the metropolitan police, and nick is here as always. nick, the betting scandal has widened today and here at newsnight we have new revelations to bring to our audience this evening. i have been looking at this. well, i have been looking into this and have learnt of a series or developments covering the conservative party, and the labour party. in my investigation i have found out that. up to 15 conservative party candidates and officials are being scrutinised for alleged betting on the timing of the election. also craig williams is expected to be interviewed this week by gambling commission officials. and the labour party made a mi
khalil. we know that julian we know thatjulian assange change of the courtjust over an hour ago, change of the courtjust over an hourago, can change of the courtjust over an hour ago, can you get us up to speed with the latest? that s right. julian sanchez is in the courthouse behind me, where the final steps of the legal proceedings for his guilty plea are under way one felony illegally obtaining an national security because as the deal agreed by the us justice department, he will get credit for time served in the uk. he is here because crucially this is continental usa, he refused to go to mainland us because he deeply distrusts the us government. he in the past had accused them of plotting to kill him, something that washington has denied. this picturesque island way remote in the pacific, us territory is going to be the place for that last chapter is playing out. if you look at the some of the courthouse itself is overlooking a beautiful beach. we are surrounded by lush g
thanks for your company have a good night. live from london. this is bbc news the general election betting controversy deepens a fifth conservative figure is investigtated two conservative candidates lose their party s support and a labour candidate has been suspended the wikileaks founderjulian assange lands in a remote us territory in the pacific, where he ll face a final court hearing and then should be free we re there live. and, a england draw 0 0 with slovenia but they re still through to the last 16 at the euros. hello i m kasia madera. a fifth conservative figure is now being investigated by the gambling commission over alleged bets on the timing of the general election. the conservative party has withdrawn its support for two candidates craig williams and laura saunders. now russell george a conservative member of the welsh parliament is being looked into as well. and labour has suspended one of its candidates kevin craig who admitted he had bet again
Us to prevent iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon is through principle diplomacy and agreement thats structured exactly like this one, that requires iran to take some significant steps to curtail their Nuclear Program and to agree to have those steps be rigorously verified by the International Community. Ash carter is going to be in israel next week. Hes going to be asking sort of what the israelis need. What if the israelis ask for these bunkerbusting bombs and equipment that would allow them to do this bombing grade on their own. How would the u. S. Respond to those requests . I dont want to preview those conversations at this point. As a general matter, i can tell you that part of the message that secretary carter will be delivering when he travels to israel, and i believe this will be his first trip as secretary of defense to israel, that the message hell be delivering is that the United States and president obama himself is committed to strengthening the Security Cooperation rela
Ahead of the. Connell the story has been there for years and the effect of the Federal Reserve easing money policy. You would think on the economy and the Federal Reserve is able to prop up and help our economy here over the last few years, some would argue our economy should have been strong or you wont get the argument that the stock market should have been stronger, no doubt the Federal Reserve has helped stockmarket. Submitted into evidence, the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet compared to the Dow Jones Industrial average and the two charts basically track each other. What does that mean, the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet is the fed pumping money into the economy, what has been known as quantitative easing, buy bonds, keep Interest Rates low, stocks have gone up. The theory here and the evidence and the chart is here to support it that the fed who you think would be there to support the economy and help the economy for years has been helping the stock market so what will happen to the