Time for a look at the Business News now with marc ashdown. Hello, this is World Business report, im marc ashdown. We start in the us, where the all important Inflation Data is just out. Prices inched up injuly, but less than expected. The Consumer Price index, a key inflation figure, rose 3. 2 compared to a year ago. It was running at 3 injune, so on the face of it, the pace of price rises has ticked up again. But the markets had expected a bigger increase, so could todays figure be good news . And could it be enough to persuade the Federal Reserve to leave Interest Rates unchanged next month . Lets bring in our north America Business correspondent michelle fleury. Firstly, talk us through the reasons behind this uptick. Inflation had been easing gradually, why has it gone up . Some of this has to do with comparisons of where we were last year and the way the data is compiled but some of it is things like rising Housing Costs and stuff like rising Housing Costs and stuff like that. I
Trump. Georgias republican governor shutting down trumps latest tirade after he was indicted by a grand jury. Lawyer ty cobb is my guest. Why he says these charges pack a real punch. Ten days to surrender. The to being clicking for trump and his closest allies to turn himself in. How did trump allegedly get so many people to do his bidding. One of his former executives for many years is my guest. Russia ramping up its attacks, targeting Apartment Buildings and a kindergarten far from the front lines. Lets go outfrunt. Ten days to turn himself in. As trump Slams Fani Willis as failed, forcing georgias conservative republican Governor Brian Kemp who, by the way, supported trump and says he voted for him prompted him to say, quote, the 2020 election in georgia was not stolen. For nearly three years now anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward and provide anything in a court of law. Our elections in georgia are secure, access bld and fair and will continue to be as long as
Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. More details are emerging of an explosion at a Un Relief Agency warehouse in rafah in southern gaza. At least five people were killed, with more wounded. This includes unrwa staff member. These pictures have been verified by the bbc filmed at a nearby hospital, where casualties were taken. Israel has not yet commented on the incident. The us and others continue to urge israel not to launch a full scale assault on rafah, where more than a million palestinians have taken shelter in recent weeks. Let me show you pictures of the warehouse itself that were talking about, these taken in the immediate aftermath. This, the scene inside. Some of the images are too graphic to broadcast. Unrwas Director Of Communications isjuliette touma. She told me the location of the warehouse had been shared with israeli authorities. Its yet another very sad day for unrwa. What we do
Call starting with the claims from the former president about suitcases full of ballots. Mr trump also made claims about so called dead voters. Mr raffensperger did push back against mr trump in the call. And in the most pointed exchange,of the call trump spelled out how many voters he needed. Stephen loosley an analyst in us politics at the United States studies centre in sydney laid out the legal dilemmas mr trump now faces. It isa it is a very serious indictment for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a Racketeering Charge under Georgia State law, Racketeering Legislation is modelled on the originalfederal legislation designed to bring down the mafia. The problem that donald trump faces is generally a conviction under legislation in georgia leads to a prison sentence, Thatis Georgia leads to a prison sentence, that is not certain, but that is the probability, secondly, mark meadows, the former chief of staff in the Trump White House is amongst the
Military intervention. News being reported by afp news agency, dozens of Coup Supporters have gathered near french basis in niger, you might remember at the start of the coup the French Embassy was attacked by supporters of the coup which will be of concern, thousands of supporters gathering near the french base in niger. Russia seeing Military Intervention would quote destabilisation, quote. Interesting, their take on it. Russia prepared to take maximum advantage, and the wagner group, all the worries about them in the whole region. A lot of new is dropping in on the last while, we are keeping an eye on the constantly moving story and will return to it. The government are calling the hawaii fire is the states largest ever natural disaster. My gosh the scale of what has happened on the Island Of Maui has stunned all those living here. Unbelievable. And the thousands of tourists who were on holiday. The wildfire is fanned by destroying almost everything in their path. And taking many li