Also on the programme. President Trump Doubles down on his attack against four democratic congresswomen calling them a racist group of troublemakers. Plus, putting a Little Christmas in july. The World Santa Claus Congress is underway and they re gathering in an amusement park, of all places. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london, Laura Trevelyan is in washington. The uk is in a strategic bind. There are eight british flagged ships in the gulf at present, and the depleted royal navy doesnt have the means to guarantee their safe passage through the straits of hormuz. The British Government could call on american strength in the region, President Trump has proposed a us led military convoy but what signal would that send when the uk has such big differences with washington on the future of the Iranian Nuclear deal . Today the british Prime Minister called a cobra meeting to discuss how best to respond to the iranian capture of the british tanker stena impero. And out of that me
Theres been extensive damage done to the building, with portraits of political leaders torn from the walls and furniture smashed. This situation is out of control and this is very dangerous, both for the protesters and for the security guards and the police. Hello and welcome. Im jon sopel in washington, david eades is in london. Hong kong is seeing pro democracy demonstrations like never before. After an hours long siege on one of the key government buildings, protesters managed to force their way into the Central Chamber of the regions parliament. Their dissent took the form of maximum disruption and destruction. Emblems grafittied, political portraits torn from the walls, furniture smashed. The Police Responded in kind, charging towards the building after warning protesters to clear it. Since hong kong was handed back to china in 1997, its been governed under the principle of one country, two systems. But as Rupert Wingfield hayes reports, public anger and the latest violence, is pu
Abramowicz some Jonathan Ferro your equity market on the s p 500 slightly negative this morning fantastic lineup looking ahead retail sales just around the corner. Earnings from home depot dropping across the bloomberg tomorrow. Numbers from target results from walmart on thursday. But once again this morning, we have to begin in china. Rate cuts bramo and the data not great at all. The biggest rate cuts going back to 2020. The data coming weaker across the board. Whether it has to do with retail sales, whether it has to do with industrial production. They scrapped their youth unemployment metric, which is not exactly encouraging. And now the question is, are they preparing a big enough stimulus to really stave off weakness that is much deeper than people expected . This is the right signal. The big question, youve alluded to it, whats next . Heres the commentary this morning from standard chartered. The cut has been aggressive from sogdian. This is unlikely to be the last measure. So,
if you re sticking with, us we re thankful for that. the u.s. military becoming a political football for the house gop as they unleashed their anti-abortion rights, anti-trans, anti-woke agenda on a spending bill flooding americas fighting forces. instead of focusing on killing people employee stuff up, and having we are focused on dividing people up by race. i don t want someone who doesn t know if they are a man or a woman with their hand on a missile button. i couldn t help but pull out my pocket constitution, i couldn t seem to find anywhere in here where it says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and children in afghanistan. and one house republican in particular under fire for a shocking racial comment. we are going to dive into that this hour as well. plus, a defying president biden finding a new way to forgive the student loan debt for nearly 1 million people in this country. and as actors hit the picket line i m gonna be talking to thei
as the fight goes on in ukraine, the result is already decided. there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost that war. and putin getting sharp new criticism from inside his own military ranks. i ll talk to former defense secretary william cohen whether all of this gets us any closer to a possible end game. and a third secretary of state says she s been interviewed by jack smith s investigators about donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that official, michigan s jocelyn benson joining her counterparts in arizona and georgia as key figures in the federal probe. so what s next? but we begin with the brutal weather scorching the earth right now, records shattering across the globe with temperatures hotter than we have ever seen, and forecasts say there s no end in sight. as the washington post put it, it s as if every alarm bell on earth is ringing for a planet on the brink. in the u.s., more than 82 million people are cu