disaster off the greek coast. a bbc investigation has found evidence that casts doubt on the greek coastguard s account of its response to the migrant ship, which sank last week with the loss of hundreds of lives. the ship sank about 50 miles off the southern coast of greece and survivors were taken to kalamata. an analysis of the movements of other ships in the area suggests the overcrowded fishing vessel wasn t moving for seven hours before it capsized. the greek coastguard claims that during this time, the vessel was on its way to italy and didn t need to be rescued. the greek authorities have not yet responded to the bbc s findings. our europe correspondent nick beake is in kalamata in greece. the greek coastguard has faced heavy criticism for not doing more to help those people on board. its main justification has been that they did not want their help and that, crucially, the boat was moving in a steady direction towards italy. now, what we ve tried to do is piece toget
off the greek coast. a bbc investigation has found evidence that casts doubt on the greek coastguard s account of its response to the migrant ship, which sank last week with the loss of hundreds of lives. the ship sank about 50 miles off the southern coast of greece and survivors were taken to kalamata. an analysis of the movements of other ships in the area suggests the overcrowded fishing vessel wasn t moving for seven hours before it capsized. the greek coastguard claims that during this time, the vessel was on its way to italy and didn t need to be rescued. the greek authorities have not yet responded to the bbc s findings. our europe correspondent nick beake is in kalamata in greece. the greek coastguard has faced heavy criticism for not doing more to help those people on board. its main justification has been that they did not want their help and that, crucially, the boat was moving in a steady direction towards italy. now, what we ve tried to do is piece together a pic
series of spring meetings with the world bank in washington this week stop it is also downgraded its overgrowth forecast for this year and exciting weaker performances in some leijer economies. our business reporter has been looking into this story for us and joins us now. always go to get you on the show. you have been sifting through the report, what are the projections?- report, what are the projections? they are predicting projections? they are predicting that - projections? they are i predicting that economic projections? they are predicting that economic growth this year maybe to next year 3%, that is a downgrade on what they had said injanuary about one tenth of a percentage point, in the medium term they have given the weakest forecast in more than 30 years. they say there is potentially a perilous combination of factors and that those far as could lead to economic crisis and they are calling there for for central bank around the world to keep tight monetary polic
on sunday when you had president biden, he went to the southern border for the first time during his during his entire tour of el paso, he did not see any migrants at all. and if you look at the numbers, we have had in 2022 the better part of 2.5 plus million encounters at the southern border. our cameras have been down there every single day and every single day we have seen dozens, sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands of migrants cross the rio grande on a daily basis. the president didn t see any of those migrants. did not meet with any of those migrants. you can see the leaders are now kind of up on a balcony about to make their way down. what this whole conference is primarily about is the crisis at the southern border. they are talking about some trades, some kind of, you know, semiconductor business with chips and so forth as they walk down to the microphones. but this has primarily been about the crisis of the southern border how these three countries appear and wil
it s backed off a bit, but if you look at the tech heavy nasdaq, it is off 4% and plunging. john: debbie dingle standing by with her thoughts on how this could affect her party s midterm chances. but first, to jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn this hour and rather ironic the president has a celebration of the economy this afternoon. how are they reacting to the cpi report? either the white house expected numbers a whole lot better than this or someone in the scheduling office had an unfortunate oversight and getting an earful. it is ironic they are hosting a bunch of democratic lawmakers here today to mark the signing, last month s signing of the inflation reduction act just as those new numbers come out showing inflation, core inflation shot up last month 6.3% in august, up from 5.9% in july. and that is a key metric that the fed watches very closely and these numbers are more than the 6.1% that economists predicted, the next set of rate hikes will likely be quite a