A budget that will define the next Half Decade under labour begins to take shape with more investment in big projects, more borrowing, and perhaps less of a Tax Rise than expected. And devastating israeli strikes on beirut actively targeting hezbollah s leadership, as Benjamin Netanyahu dashes back from the Un And Tehran holds emergency meetings. Where will this escalation take the region and the world . Good evening. This is newsnight, home to Insight And Analysis from home and abroad. Well discuss the emerging situation in the Middle East a little later, matters could develop as we are on air. Breaking news is that they hezbollah it senior leadership is unreachable following the israel strikes on the Beirut Southern Suburbs on thursday. We will discuss that later. But first a domestic Mid Conference political and economic stock take with our top panel. Anushka asthana, Itv News deputy political editor, author of taken as red, an Insider Account of Labours Ascent to power, zing tseng,
in the manufacturing of semiconductors. the move by the chinese ministry of commerce targets the metals gallium and germanium which china is a major producer of. from next month exports of these metals will require a license. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellin is heading to beijing and hers is heading to beijing and hers is the second trip i a cabinet official to china since ties between the worlds to top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to study the relationship but she has her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit beijing said it was exposing imposing export controls on two rare metals essential for making semiconductor essentialfor making semiconductor is. this is seen as a tit for tat response after the us, the netherlands and japan recently wrist directed chip exports to china. some say the move is aimed at giving china more leverage in future trade discussions. gallium and germanium, the two medals in question will be
kevin mccarthy in california. and an early morning statement the spokesperson for the chinese ministry accused washington of colluding with taiwan especially over the issue of arms sales. earlier mr mccarthy said they must strengthen economic cooperation with the island that china has claimed as its own. claimed as its own. whether it s out deep claimed as its own. whether it s out deep commercial - claimed as its own. whether. it s out deep commercial ties, strong people to people relationships or shared values, our cooperation with the people of taiwan continue to expand through dialogue and exchange. mr mccarthy is the most senior us figure to meet with a taiwanese leader on american soil since 1979, taiwanese leader on american soilsince 1979, despite taiwanese leader on american soil since 1979, despite the rhetoric, though, taiwanese firms do big business with both china and the united states in fact china is taiwan s largest trading partner. earlieri spoke with the
we ll be speaking to a nuclear expert. ongoing rail strikes affect train services in england, scotland and wales with more disruption expected in the coming days. the prime minister of finland sanna marin has agreed to a drug test after a celebrity party video leaked on social media. welcome to abc news. the uk is facing a public health emergency, because people are having to choose between heating and eating this winter, due to soaring energy prices. that s according to the nhs confederation, which represents employers in the health service. ministers say millions of the most vulnerable households are being given £1,200 to help with higher energy bills. but it comes at a time when nhs services are already under intense strain. for category two reponse times for emergency calls in england which includes strokes and heart attacks there s been a sharp increaase this year to nearly one hour on average last month. the target, as you can see here, is 18 minutes. the nhs confedera
company board. nearly all of their workers are threatening to quit if the board does not resign and reinstate the former leadership. for members fired mr altman friday saying in a statement he was not consistently candid in his communications with them. the company also announced greg brockman, the president and co founder of openai, would step down as chairman of the board. but he quit. the company has named emmett shear, the co founder of livestreaming platform twitch as its interim ceo. two prominent open ai had to have signed on to the letter and chief technology officer and chief technology officer and the firm s chief scientist. on monday morning there was a tweet seeing there was a deep regret on the board s actions. the openai has been the dominant force in a development with its chatgpt chat port. this episode highlights a split in the field of ai between those pushing for progress and those pushing for progress and those urging caution. meanwhile microsoft has inves