contingencies. hello ,welcome to the programme, plenty to look forward to this evening, including joe biden s pending arrival in northern ireland. this was him departing joint base andrews earlier this afternoon. air force one expected just after nine, we will take you to live to that when it lands. elsewhere, we will discuss the latest assessment on the world economy. the imf warning today we are locked into a perilous phase of low economic growth. what does that mean for disposable income and our collective spending power? and what about those leaked us documents? the washington post reporting today that egypt, one of the united states oldest allies in the middle east, had secretly planned to supply rockets to russia. all that to come. but we start in belfast, where a huge security operation is in place tonight forjoe biden s imminent arrival. the main event, a speech tomorrow, at the new, ulster university campus. where it is understood the president will talk about the
Lot more. professor, thank you very much indeed- a new forecast from the international monetary fund predicts a one in four chance of global growth falling below 2% this year. that is tantmount to a global recession, which has only happened five times since 1970. the uk and germany are the most sluggish of the big european economies. the uk has received something of an upgrade to its growth forecast for this year and next, but still, it will be the worst performing economy in the g7 this year, shrinking by 0.3%. total economic output expected to rise to 1% next year. behind all that we can t ignore the higherfood and energy prices caused by the war in ukraine. but the imf says the decline in the long term global growth rate is part what down to the way in which the world has de globalised, with many countries unravelling supply chains and introducing new trade barriers. let s listen to what they had to say earlier. the massive tightening of monetary policy by most banks is starting t
Kensington palace tweeted out the registration form and it lists williams occupation as prince of united kingdom and kate as princess of the united kingdom. great jobs both have. now to a modern family custody battle drawing new discussion about embree i don t ethics. sofia vergara opened up to howard stern about her fight with her exsuing for custody of the former couple s frozen embryos. you say look, i don t want to have a baby with you, not involved with you anymore. you can blame me. i can t blame you. a child needs a mother. and loving more than a mother, a loving relationship of parents. for his part lobe in the new york times op ed says it s view keeping them frozen forever is tantmount to killing them and this is about saving lives and
Spent in randall s island. instead he s going to be with his wife, eating the food he wants, seeing the people he wants, in ran apartment in manhattan. it makes a huge difference in his life. mark, when you re representing a client like this, how time consuming does this become for the client? last night jeff was talking about he needs to dedicate a lot of time focusing on this case moving forward. is that what you found with clients? in this case, given the stakes here, there s no question. he s going to spend 24-7 on this case. there s no way that he would have been able to retain his position, even if released on bail. so this is something where he s going to have to dedicate his life to getting out of this. for all intents and purposes, he s facing a tantmount to a life sentence here. he needs to defend this case and
Is that what you found with clients? in this case, given the stakes here, there s no question. he s going to spend 24-7 on this case. there s no way that he would have been able to retain his position, even if released on bail. so this is something where he s going to have to dedicate his life to getting out of this. for all intents and purposes, he s facing a tantmount to a life sentence here. he needs to defend this case and meet with his lawyers and do everything possible. this is going to be an all consuming case for both him and frankly for the lawyers. what do we know about his visitors? it s interesting, the prosecution was arguing he should only be allowed one visitor aside from immediate family, but the defense lawyer said no, he has a lot of friends that want to see him. one interesting thing, anderson, watching him in court, he seemed much more relaxed when he saw