Notice, blaming the stand off over the debt ceiling which was ultimately lifted any last minute bipartisan deal. The feud was cited by fitch is one of the reasons for the downgrade. Make no mistake, this is a major black eye for america. The us treasury, essentially government ious are seen as the bedrock of the Global Financial system. Fitch is essentially pointing out there is an erosion of trust in american leadership. Given the death and perceived safety of us treasuries, this downgrade is not likely to change its role in the financial system. Likely to change its role in the financialsystem. It likely to change its role in the financial system. It could, likely to change its role in the financialsystem. It could, however, make it potentially harder and more expensive for the government to borrow in the future. Right now the Us Government owes 30 trillion in debt. Fitch is highlighting that the Us Government has too much debt doesnt have a way to bring it down. And at washington at
as further allegations against the presenter emerge tonight, we ll ask where this crisis goes next. and there are further questions for the sun including why will no one from the newspaper talk to us? today, the bbc s director general did speak. clearly these are damaging to the bbc. it is not a good situation. also tonight. the government faced down mps who wanted to dilute its illegal migration bill. but could there be more challenges to come? we ll talk to a conservative former minister who wants downing street to compromise. and in the last few minutes the government has said the g7 s going to announce, quote, a significant international framework for ukraine s long term security arrangements at the nato summit tomorrow. will president zelensky be satisifed with that for now? we ll talk to his former defence minister. good evening. as we came on air last night we tried to be really clear with everyone watching about the limits to what we actually know as fact in t
we begin in the us where a congressional committee has released six years of tax returns for the former president donald trump. mr trump battled for years to keep the documents secret until the supreme court approved their disclosure last month. the returns show that in two years covered by the release, he and his wife paid just 15 hundred dollars in federal income taxes. the former president has released a video statement, condemning the release of the documents. although these tax returns contain relatively little information and not information that almost anybody would understand they are extremely complex, the radical democrats behaviour is a shame upon the us congress. joining me now is adam davidson, a contributing writer to the new yorker. he has long covered trump s finances for the magazine. thank you very much indeed for joining us. if i could start by picking up on the point made there by donald trump, a lot of people will neither be able to make head or tail of
to return to the front line. the price paid is already too high to give up. we will have more in the next hour of our programme here on bbc news. the singer lizzo, her production company and her dance captain shirlene quigley are being sued by three former dancers. they have been accused of sexual and racial harassment, disability discrimination, false imprisonment and creating a hostile work environment. two of the dancers were sacked, the third resigned over what she described as the appalling behaviour of her bosses. representatives for lizzo have been approached for comment. here is our cultural reporter with a summary of the allegations. i here is our cultural reporter with a summary of the allegations. i have a comlaint summary of the allegations. i have a complaint in summary of the allegations. i have a complaint in front summary of the allegations. i have a complaint in front of summary of the allegations. i have a complaint in front of me,
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