The office of speaker of the house of the United States house of the United States house of the United States House Of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. Mccarthys cardinal sin, say his critics, was working with President Biden and the democrats on a last minute Budget Agreement to avoid a Goernment Shutdown last weekend. Lets take a closer look at the lawmakers who want to take his place. Jim jordan of ohio was first elected to congress in 2007. On friday morning, his bid got a major boost. Former President Donald Trump wrote on truth social jordan is one of trumps biggest congressional allies, receiving the president ial medal of freedom from trump in a closed door ceremonyjust days afterjanuary sixth capitol riot in 2021. Jordan currently chairs the housejudiciary committee, where he launched several investigations into President Biden, his son hunter and the fbi. He is also a founder and former chairman of the ultraconservative House Freedom caucus and was among more than 1
Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than 1. 5 years of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Healthcare while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And, also, they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i was n
Minister Fumio Kishida and a range of other topics in boston, democratic strategist mary anne marsh. And from london, former conservative mpjustine greening. First the latest headlines. Israel has confirmed its killed three adult sons of the hamas leader, ismail haniyeh, with an air strike in gaza. It described them as military operatives on their way to carry out terrorist activities. Mr haniyeh, whos based in qatar, said his Family Gathering for the final day of ramadan. Israel has confirmed its killed three adult sons the European Parliament has approved a contentious reform of its migration and asylum rules. It will speed up requests from irregular migrants, and repatriation if their deemed inadmissible. Poland says it wontjoin the mechanism to share hosting of migrants. The worst flooding in almost a hundred years has hit russia and kaza kstan. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the water has reached dangerou
Its high Interest Rates. North America Business correspondent Erin Delmorejoins Me now. Good to see you. Put a bit of contact around the numbers for us. Sure, so this is not the Inflation Report a lot of people were looking for because remember, we saw hotter than expected Inflation Injanuary and february today we see that data again in march. And not only is it higher than expected, but we are seeing this trend upwards. And thats not what the fed wants to see when they talk about Cutting Confederates Interest Rates this year. The expectation when wrapping up year. The expectation when wrapping up 2023 was we could see as many as three Interest Rates cuts this year, as soon asjune. But when you see inflation is sticky and persistent as we see in the data, that becomes harder to envision, and indeed when this came out at 8 30am est today, you saw the expectations for that june Interest Rates cut drop. find june Interest Rates cut drop. And how does that june Interest Rates cut drop. An
Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than a year and a half of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i