reporter: the federal reserve just made history announcing that they re raising interest rates by 3/4 of a percentage point for the second meeting in a row. we haven t seen anything like that in back to back meetings in modern fed history, but we re not in nor times. we re dealing with the worst inflation inflation prices in 40 years. inflation remains elevated due in part to russia s invasion of ukraine and very high food and energy prices. so the fed is stepping in and acting like the firefighter. they re trying to put this inflation fire out. the goal here is to raise borrowing costs and try to cool off red hot demand, and that should hopefully allow supply a chance to catch up. but you know, officials also signaled that they re not nearly done with rate hikes. they said it would, quote, will be appropriate to continue raising interest rates. and here s the problem. they re raising rates into an economy that is already showing cracks here. in the new statement today, the
clarifying another key detail of what happened that day. a teacher say he did close the door that the killer used to get inside the school but the door was not locked. this contradicts an earlier claim by police that the teacher had left the door propped open. the town of uvalde is also continuing to honor more of the victims today. funerals today for a teacher who died protecting her students and also one of the young students killed. let s begin with cnn s shimon prokupecz who is live in uvalde. shimon, you spoke with the police chief. what more did he say about all of these questions that are swirling? reporter: well, he s not answering the key questions as to why he made the decision not to send officers in to take the gunmen down, right, the dps, head of the dps, the department of public safety who was running this investigation told us on friday that he was the on-site commander, that he was the one making decisions, and he was the one who ultimately decided that the
There, going back to i think its called celtx secular normalization im all for a secular gang. Thank you all for being here and thank you for spending part of your day with us. Lets see it right back here next week hello everyone and welcome to the amanpour, hour. Heres where were headed this week the clandestine conflict between iran and israel erupts into the open could it get any worse my intel briefing from britains former spy chief said john sores, we need to recognize that this shadow war between israel, iran has going on for a good number of years now. Also this out, this looks like something youd see out of hitlers germany why are maga Republicans Parroting plutons propaganda . Its so outlandish. Its so wrong. And in many ways, then check president petra pawel wounds the United States that are lost for ukraine means a loss for the whole of europe and us assistance who has helped to Ukraine Cannot be replaced. Also this hour, the ukrainian maestro at the met on unity through mus
to six and then five and then four. we know who we re dealing with. we re dealing with a ruthless - and fanatical terror organisation. we saw the sort of violence - that they committed against innocent civilians on october 7th. and just tonight in the people | released i ve received the list, there are two three year old twins. yes? who kidnaps three year olds? only a brutal, ruthless terrorist organisation. | so we have few illusions - about who we re dealing with. but as president biden| said on friday, he said, hamas understands one thing and that s pressure. - thank you for coming on the programme. external pressure building from the us and un for a longer extension. mark expects ten hostages for everyday letters but i wonder the longer this goes on the harder it becomes for the israeli government. it’s harder it becomes for the israeli government- harder it becomes for the israeli covernment. , . , , government. it s a pretty impossible situation. good government
to discuss, not least the ongoing disputes over trade, technology, taiwan, and fentanyl. the bbc s james clayton is in san francisco and he s filed this report. apec has started here and it is a huge moment for the city of san francisco, the biggest summit to be held here since the united nations charter was signed here in 1916. this is a huge economic summit. you are talking about more than 50% of all of the world s trade belongs to the 21 nations who will be attending here this week. and we are talking about 40% of the world s population. so it is a big economic conference, but by far the biggest ticket item here is the meeting between president biden and his counterpart in china, president xijinping. relations between those two nations have not been good as late. they last met last year in indonesia and since then you have had that moment where the american government shot down the chinese spy balloon and flaming tensions in the south china sea and also joe biden ramping u