Marked a rapid escalation marked a rapid escalation of this conflict. Of this conflict. Israel says its air strikes in yemen, targeting power plants and the port of hodeidah, were their response to missile attacks by the iranian backed houthis. The houthi run health ministry says at least 4 people were killed and 29 wounded. Translation: we have no interest in expanding the war. We have no interest in looking for additionalfronts. But if somebody attacks israel, as the houthis have recently done with missiles and throughout the war with cruise missiles and drones, anyone who carries out such an attack, we will settle the account with them, and we know how to do it. Israel is not holding back its air force releasing footage as they set off for the raid. And earlier today, it says it shot down another drone launched from yemen. For the past year, the yemeni houthis have been trying to influence the conflict in the middle east. This is their commandos seizing a british owned ship in the
welcome to the programme. there are tentative signs that inflation is coming under control, and the recession forecast last year will be shallower and shorter than expected. butjust to make sure, the central banks are raising the interest rates again. yesterday it was the fed, today the bank of england increased the base rate, half a point, to 4% the highest it has been in m years. we think inflation will come down rapidly, and a lot of that is down to energy prices, which have fallen rapidly. but i m afraid there are big risks out there which mean that it may not happen in that way. yet we re still seeing stronger pressure from price and wage setting in the economy in the question is, will that start to ease off? coinciding with the bank s decision came a profit announcement from shell and a rather blunt illustration of why we re all getting poorer. the oil and gas giant has reaped profits of £40 billion last year. the taxman has reaped far less. shell said it paid $1
master to oversee the review of the mar-a-lago search. to go through the documents to see if any of them were privileged. the judge says she has a preliminary intent to appoint one. today is the deadline for the government to respond to trump s request in writing. there was supposed to be a 20-page limit for this filing. but the department of justice has asked for up to 40 pages. one might infer they have a lot to say. and this file be will be public. so just in terms of page count this could be more than we ve heard from them yet. all this, as the secret service official at the center of the january 6th hearing steps down. more on tony ornato s departure in just a moment. joining me now, maggie haberman helping to lead the coverage of the mar-a-lago search. i m very interested in the filing today. the subject with the special master, i used to write term papers, i never asked them to double the length of the assignment. you certainly don t do that unless there s stuff they w
after a 20-page limit was not enough. let s begin with what we learned. they clearly think they need double the pages. what will they tell us? this will be the justice department s first response of the legal merits whether a special master or a third-party individual should be appointed in this case. they previously said, given the judge s status report, that they will provide in court more detail today under seal, their forthcoming filing. but the privilege review team identified a limited set of materials that contained attorney/client privilege information. today, they are addressing the legal and the factual information that was raised in trump s request for the special master. they are asking for double the amount of space which is unusual. it must indicate they feel there is a lot in the record they want to address. and get to the issues of executive privilege, which trump is claiming he wants a special master to review this. trump s legal team will have until tomorr