You know, an iphone sold in the us or europe might be designed in california and built in india using Semiconductors Made in taiwan from Raw Materials provided by china. So if any link in that supply chain breaks, it sets up big problems for the rest of the chain. And thats true for smartphones, as it is for pcs, and especially in Battery Production for those Electric Vehicles were buying more and more of. So what if one country decides to make it harderfor others to get hold of some of those critical Raw Materials . Well, thats what china announced just last month. Translation the Chinese Government implements i Export Controls on gallium and germanium related items in accordance with the law to ensure that they are used for legitimate purposes in order to safeguard National Security and better fulfil our international obligations. For quite some time now, the us side has been abusing Export Control measures to continuously strengthen its crackdown on chinas semiconductors and artific
a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his
hello and welcome to the programme. tyre nichols, was a 29 year old black man. a father, a fedex employee, a keen skateboarder. three weeks ago, he was pulled over by the memphis police on suspicion of reckless driving. there was a confrontation after which tyre fled. and what happened next defies belief. five memphis police officers, who are also black, chased him down just 80 yards short of his mother s front door, they beat tyre so badly that, three days later, he died from his injuries. i am going to show you a picture of what tyre looked like before he died. just a warning it is hard to look at. the coroner said he had suffered excessive bleeding caused by a severe beating . the family have been shown the body cam footage. while each of the five individuals played a different role in the incident in question, the actions of all of them resulted in the death of tyre nichols, and they are all responsible. reverend al sharpton has spoken with the family and will deliver th
tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards final passage. passage that could come as soon as this weekend. the bill, and the inflation reduction act, the i.r.a., would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history. it will make major health policy by giving medicare the power, for the first time ever, to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. the package is the product of painstaking negotiations, and it would give democrats a chance to achieve major policy objectives. ones that they sought for decades. they could get them ahead of the midterms. vice president, kamala harris, casting the tie breaking vote on the motion to proceed. the senate has, officially, begun debating the legislation. joining me now, norman ornstein, who is an emerita scholar in american enterprise institute. he is also a contributing editor from the atlan
to the senate s efforts for the association bill. plus, the ripple effects of the kansas bill to protect abortion rights. what it could signal for the midterms. and, what goes around, comes around. alex jones has been ordered to pay more than $49 million to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. let s get started. tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards final passage. passage that could come as soon as this weekend. the bill, and the inflation reduction act, the i. r. a., would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history. it will make major health policy by giving medicare the power, for the first time ever, to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. the package is the product of painstaking negotiations, and it would give democrats a chance to achieve major policy objectives. ones that they sought for decades. they c