welcome to the programme. there are tentative signs that inflation is coming under control, and the recession forecast last year will be shallower and shorter than expected. butjust to make sure, the central banks are raising the interest rates again. yesterday it was the fed, today the bank of england increased the base rate, half a point, to 4% the highest it has been in m years. we think inflation will come down rapidly, and a lot of that is down to energy prices, which have fallen rapidly. but i m afraid there are big risks out there which mean that it may not happen in that way. yet we re still seeing stronger pressure from price and wage setting in the economy in the question is, will that start to ease off? coinciding with the bank s decision came a profit announcement from shell and a rather blunt illustration of why we re all getting poorer. the oil and gas giant has reaped profits of £40 billion last year. the taxman has reaped far less. shell said it paid $1
documents in his former private office. people know i take classified documents, and classified information seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and was surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there, to that office, but i do not know what is in the documents, my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. i ve turned over the boxes, they ve turn over the boxes to the archives, and we are cooperating fully. cooperating fully with the review, which i hope will be finished soon. well, the documents were discovered on wait for it, november 2nd. from joe biden s time as vice president, including u.s. intelligence memos, and briefing materials by ukraine and iran, and the uk. are learning exclusively at cnn that a couple of days later, biden s lawyers handed over everything, in the office some 50 or 55 boxes out of an abundance of caution. and here we go, the house oversight chairman, has already sent letters to the wh
-led congress, and why it really matters for everything from health care to global and national security, to the balance in your 401k. plus, i will talk to yuri salk, the adviser to ukraine defense minister about a very important week for ukraine, and a new evidence that ending roe was not enough for the anti abortion lobby in this country. the war against reproductive rights rages on, and it s worse than you would think. i will call this week s meeting of the velshi banned book club comes together. it is a celebration of mother daughter love and it has been banned. i will talk to the author, graceland, about why the story is so important. ahead. velshi starts now. . good morning, i m ali velshi, it is saturday january 21st. it is two years of the day since president biden s presidential moderation. we begin with a dire warning to the present day, but to do so, let s go back in history to this famous exchange. little did i dream you could be so reckless and so cruel ask
and you congressional class will be sworn in republicans will officially take back control of the health of representatives. let us pause and reflect on that for a moment. less than two years after i violent stormed the capitol in attempt to stop biden from becoming president. we ll be back in control of the lower chamber of commerce. many of the republicans returning to congress or joining it for the first time this week supported the big lie that led to that armed insurrection. granted, republicans only have a slim majority in the house. the roadways that some folks initially warned about never actually happened. but it is remarkable that it barely took one election cycle for the gop to regain power at the seat of our government. in the lead up to this year s election, republicans fixing high gas prices and inflation in the influx of microsoft. they grabbed but all of that for months. and offered real solutions for those, an obvious effort to rile up the base and put de
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