Well, i was familiar with it and i suppose with new changes theres always going to be a problem. But i dont like the way that the new app delivers the news. For me, it doesnt work and as a result, its no longer my first news source. James cox was watching that and got straight in touch with us writing. Susan way vauthier added. Well, we promised you a fortnight ago that we would try and get someone from the bbc to respond to the feedback youve given. So lets discuss that news app upgrade and other matters with naja nielsen, whos the Digital Directorfor bbc news. Thank you so much for coming on newswatch. Youll know there have been lots of complaints about the new news app and many people are saying its actually harder to navigate around the app. You used to be able to select what you wanted from tabs along the top. Now you have to kind of scroll up and down a lot. Why have you made it harder to find the stories people want . So thats an interesting point because you can still navigate
The cpi numbers earlier. While the headline cpi did increase, core cpi which excludes volatile inputs such as food and energy is actually higher. Its at 4. 3 . And thats illustrating that underlying inflation seems to be a lot stickier than anticipated, which, as far as fed policy goes, means that rates likely have to continue to stay higher for longer. The Federal Reserve has been keeping rates high, and that is likely to be the strategy we are expecting to see . Exactly, yeah, and there is other tools that potential they could leverage, such as reducing the size of the balance sheet, through so called quantitative tightening, and that could push yields up and increase Borrowing Costs which, in essence, has similar effects raising interest rates. As far as markets go, they are expecting the fed to raise rates not at this upcoming meeting, i believe, next week but actually more likely in december. Dimitri, how have consumers and businesses really responded to the rising Cost Of Living
Vladimir milov in vilnius, lithuania. Welcome to hardtalk. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. You know as well as i do that this war has now lasted for more than 18 months. It has turned into an attritional fight, which is proving to be terribly, horribly costly on both sides. Would you accept that that suits Vladimir Putin right now better than ukraine . On one hand, yes, because putin wants western patience and ukrainian patience to be exhausted and he still has a lot of resources to fight a lengthy war. On the other hand, there are a lot of bad news for putin. His army and personnel is becoming exhausted and depleted, too. Resources are also not endless. And here is where the western sanctions are working. So in the longer run, i think the odds are that ukraine is set finally to win this battle. But we need patience and we might see a protracted conflict. And patience is the key word here. Just on the question of the levels of s
In recovering bodies, saying he feared the city risked an epidemic of infection from the large number of bodies under the rubble and in the water. The libyan red crescent described the scene as like a bombardment and earthquake at the same time. When the dams collapsed, a wall of water weighing 1. 5 Million Tonnes crashed down the wadi derna river, gouging out huge parts of the city, before reaching the sea. To give you a sense of the power of that tsunami, 20 centimetres of fast moving water, is enough to knock adults off their feet. Here, there was three metres of water sweeping away everything in its path. The human cost is colossal this man hasjust found his son and begs Rescue Workers not to touch him. Desperate scenes repeated again and again, some people have lost 30, 40, 50 members of their extended family. Lets start by hearing from one survivor who describes what he went through. Translation we woke up at around three or 3. 30 in the morning. We heard a large bang. Anyone who
Thats the highest since the launch of the euro more than 20 years ago. And its worth putting into context that as recently as last year, eurozone Interest Rates were negative. The reason is that inflation is proving harder than expected to control. For the 20 countries using the euro, inflation was 5. 3 in august thats half the 10. 6 that it was a year ago. But as the ecb says today, it is still expected to remain too high for too long. Earlier we got the view from The Economist katharine neiss, she explained the background to this latest move. The ecb told us today through their actions they are still concerned with inflation being too high. I think in particular they are concerned that underlying inflation could become embedded in the euro area economy, making it harder for policymakers to get inflation back to their 2 target. Widely perceived this could be the lasting increase, we heard from the banks president that there was, the decision was not unanimous, there were dissenters. T