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for our entertainment and putting them in danger? moments after the race started after an almost 15 minute delay, hill sixteen fell at the first hurdle and died the third horse across the three day festival. his trainer says the protests made him hyper. didn t make it easy for any old horses, and we saw what happened. the rspca says we must review the circumstances of each of the sad deaths at aintree, so that we never again exit a festival of racing with three dead horses. but lucinda russell, the trainer of the race s winning horse told five live that the safest place for a horse to be is on the racecourse. your thoughts on this please do the protesters have a point or were they wrong? we re on five live, bbc news, bbc two, iplayer and bbc sounds. and here is the news. the trainer of a horse that died during the grand national has blamed the incident on delays caused by protesters. the start of the race was held back for m minutes after activists got on the track. the ....
there was a time, before the war in ukraine, when europe thought about its place in the world, and how it could become less dependent on the united states. as washington turned inwards, and administrations refocused us foreign policy towards asia, france and germany talked about the need for strategic autonomy . but today in warsaw, at a meeting of the bucharest 9, it was the american president sat at the head of the table. all nine members of this group were part of the former soviet union or the defunct warsaw pact. the commitment of the united states to nato, i ve said it too many times, i ll say it again, is absolutely clear. article five is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. and this is an important moment. i look forward to the discussion, the next steps we can take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deter aggression. because what literally is at stake is notjust uk ....
brand-new fox power rankings are out, republicans holding the advantage and retaking the house. the senate is still up in the air. hello, well come, welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. mike: mike emanuel in washington. republicans are supposed to keep the advantage from the last power rankings but different side in the senate. toss-up races in arizona, georgia, nevada and pennsylvania will decide which party takes control. sandra: tight as ever, we approach the final weeks to election day, all of this as pocket book issues are likely to determine the outcome of many of these key races. recent polls show the economy, inflation, surging gas prices are top of mind for american voters. especially independents. mike: jackie and james in moments, but first alexandria, the election is likely to be decided by independent voters. that is exactly right, often hold the decisionmaking power and we are seeing the area of independent concern aligning more with republican ....
are struggling around the globe and russia is already getting a billion dollars every few days in oil and gas revenues, why did opec slash production? everything has a price. we will explain. but first, here s my take. one of the few issues on which there is a consensus in washington, d.c. is that american policy toward china was built on an intellectual tariff. liberals and conservatives both believe that beijing s embrace of free markets and integration with the global market would fundamentally change china. but they didn t, so the consensus goes, we should recognize this was a naive belief. in fact, viewing china on the eve of the 20th party congress, i m struck by how little that line of analysis captures what has happened in china over the last decade. china has gone through profound economic and social changes. its per capita gdp has gone up almost 30 fold since the start of economic liberalization in 1978. mass education and urbanization have changed the f ....