would expend the political capital here. washington lost its collective mind on this yesterday. the chinese do spy on us. this goes back to maybe some cold war worry about something tangible looking up at us. the joke i had in my household is that they are getting a preview of the next season of yellowstone. laura: yellowstone? what a riot sent around the comedy circuit. the chinese are laughing at us, that s for sure. the role of the pentagon under biden seems clear. unless we are talking about sending billions in weapons to ukraine, of the american aerospace defense command continues to monitor it closely. who s controlling this balloon right now? is the chinese government controlling the movement of the balloon or is it just loading with air strengths. we are monitoring the situation closely. we ll continue to monitor. will continue to review our options and provide information and updates. since we are in the observation and monitoring business, norad i
emergency has been declared. meteorologists say approximately an entire summer s worth of rain fell injust a few hours and the uk chancellor has set out his long term plan for boosting the economy. in a speech in london, jeremy hunt ruled out tax cuts saying that the best tax cut for the public would be to halve inflation. he called for patience, discipline and optimism and promised help to encourage more people back into work. our economics editor faisal islam has all the details. whether it s robots that can sort your waste, bots that can author human sounding script, essay, poems even, or programmable versions of yourself. every aspect of the common, even farming and medicine is being rbs formed thanks to the use of ai and the world s most powerful computing. at this leading technology business in london, they use computing power to simulate anyone saying anything in any accent even tv reporters. they think there s a massive opportunity for them. it will change how
show, trump versus desantis. fascism versus fascism. is this what the grand old party has been reduced to in 2024? really? but, congressman jamal bowman, one of the lone defenders of tiktok, will be with me to argue against congress trying to ban it. and filmmaker an activist michael also join me on the show tonight. 20 years off from his famous anti-iraq war oscar speech. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. as we read the tea leaves ahead of the next election, the 2024 presidential election, the week we ve just enjoyed have proven to be most clarifying. well the democratic presidential nominee is almost certainly gonna be joe biden, not a lot of internal party infighting for him incite the republican nominee will be certainly one of two men. donald john trump golf club slash wedding venue mar-a-lago, and ron desantis out of tallahassee. that s it. that s the choice. forget about nikki haley, mike pence, its former president trump versus ron desantis. this week has ser
of the racing world. hello and welcome to bbc news. police video showing five officers in memphis, tennessee viciously beating a black motorist has been released. tyre nichols died three days later and the officers, who are all black, each face multiple charges including murder. his family say the video shows him being kicked like a football. the bbc is reviewing the footage. some of it is very graphic and too distressing for broadcast. this is what we will show you the first few seconds of the initial footage. we won t show any more than this clip at this time as we still continue to review it. two deputy sherriffs have been put on leave pending an investigation after the video was released. in a statement released on twitter, the sheriff of shelby county in memphis, floyd bonnerjr, said: president biden has appealed for calm in the city and beyond, amid fears the video could spark protests. he said america s image around the world was on the line. what s at stake is, fi