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
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coverage continues now. with laura coats and allison camerota. hey guys, i m not gonna jocularly wood right now. we can tell. what a nice tribute, jake and, what a nice experience you had to have a professor that you had such a connection with. that s really nights to hear. about thanks for honoring him. that was sweet. thank you, jake have, goodnight. good evening everyone, i m alison camerota, and i m laura coats. this is cnn tonight and we are 13 days away from the midterms and now a second woman, this time of jane doe, is now claiming that herschel walker was involved in her abortion. so the clinic and waited in the parking lot for hours and also cause the that s part of how the biology works tonight is well. and having an abortion and for herschel walker, alison alisyn camerota, he said it s all a lie, and that he didn t kill jfk either and he is seeing more time, but what will all of this mean to voters? also tonight, we are going to talk about the fallo
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scientists hope to stem an expanding population. hello and welcome. we begin in sri lanka. president gotobaya rajapaksa of sri lanka has confirmed he will resign after having fled when crowds stormed his palace. it s not clear whether, as suggested, he will return to the country this week to formally quit. hundreds of protesters furious about corruption and economic mismanagement are still in the presidential house and grounds. they say they won t leave until mr rajapaska has gone. our south asia correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan, reports from colombo. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heavily fortified, now a free for all. at president rajapaksa s private pool, we meet carpenter ruan chiminda, who s taking a dip, a mo