hello and welcome. president biden has described as unacceptable the sentencing of us basketball star brittney griner to nine years in a russian prison for possessing and smuggling drugs. she admitted to having cannabis oil when she was detained in moscow in february, but maintained she hadn t intended to break the law. washington has offered a prisoner swap, but it hasn t been taken up. azadeh moshiri reports. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the rest of the population. i never meant to break any laws here. it population. i never meant to break any laws here.- population. i never meant to break any laws here. it was her final plea break any laws here. it was her final plea to break any laws here. it was her final plea to a break any laws here. it was her final plea to a russian - break any laws here. it was her final plea to a russian court - final plea to a russian court as
we start here in the uk where the bank of england has given its bleakest forecast in recent memory a prolonged recession is on the way, starting this autumn and continuing all of next year and into 202a. if accurate, it would be the longest downturn for the uk economy since the financial criss in 2008. inflation is predicted to hit more than 13%, driven by the sharp rise in energy bills. and in an effort to rein in soaring prices, the bank has raised interest rates by the most in 27 years, piling more pressure on households. 0ur economics editor faisal islam reports. as the essentials, from fuel to food, continue to surge in price, with little sign of an end, hitting every household in the country, eventually the entire economy too will actually begin to shrink, a recession now predicted for britain. at the bank of england the governor presented the grim news with troubling charts, almost all heading in the wrong direction. gdp growth in the uk has slowed and the economy is
policy since the fall of saigon in april of 1975. there are a lot of ways to pull out of afghanistan. biden chose a path that seemed designed to inflict maximum damage to the interests of the united states . he did that kind of no debating ,but biden is not ashamed of it. he was ashamed of it then. he s not ashamed of it now. tonight, biden gave a speech boasting that he s killed an al-qaida figure in afghanistan. great. feel safer? of course you don t. nobody does. and the reason nobody feels safer is biden s response to the disaster in afghanistan. rather than pause and learn from it, maybe fire the people responsible for not simply a self-destructive withdrawal from afghanistan but also the pointless 20 year war there rather than do any of that like a normal person would do, biden immediately set off in another direction, provoking yet another conflict, this one in eastern europe, and he provoked it. they lie about it. but it s true. the facts are out there and it s very