abhorrent and had previously been unaware of the claims. we can speak now to laurie at the international communications and financial world affairs commentator. she s in west london for us this evening. good to see you. a rather strange statement, suspending key activities can i suppose you have to understand what the cbi does to make sense of that. maybe you could explain it to les. the cbi is really one of the bigger lobbying groups that polices between business and government. cbi has had a bit of a reputational hit, even before all of these allegations. we will get to those in a moment. a lot of people were wondering whether the cbi had become, had lost its effectiveness, given the last governments attitude towards business. rehabilitated itself a little bit, couple of the things that cbi had been looking for, like childcare provisions did make it into the last budget, but that seems a different era now. so many company picnic companies have deserted the cbi the last coup
welcome back. the justice secretary and deputy prime minister has gone, but he has not gone willingly. in an unrepentant resignation letter today, mr raab said he wanted to keep his word that he would stand down if the report found against him but he claims the process was flawed and that it sets a dangerous precedent. we will dicuss that further tonight, with our panel the global trade expert rebecca harding and from california, republican, lanhee chen who was policy director for mitt romney s presidential campaign. and we could hardly have a better panel, for our deep dive tonight, into the profound changes we are seeing in world trade. there is new global map that has emerged since february last year, on which countries are dividing into two distinctive trading blocks. what does that mean for you and me. also tonight we are keeping our eye on the us supreme court, a ruling expected in the coming hours on the abortion drug mifepristone, after a court in texas suspende
and my conversation with the secretary of amnesty international has a warning for the world, as the u.s. supreme court does in fact overturn roe v. wade. i m aymon , it s saturday night, let s get started. one week ago, a gunman opened fire at a supermarket in buffalo new york, killing ten black people in what the justice department is now investigating as a hate crime. and an act of racially motivated violent extremism. but what happened in that supermarket is part of a much larger and dangerous trend in united states. according to the anti-defamation league, over the last decade, there have been 443 murders by people or groups identified as political extremists. left wing extremists were responsible for 4% of those murders, islamic extremists accounted for 20%. but the group responsible for the largest percentage, by far, right wing extremists, who carried out 75% of the murders connected to political extremism. so think about this for a moment. while political violence is
president biden said hamas and putin both want to annihilate a neighbouring democracy . he says he is sending an urgent israel and ukraine aid request to congress on friday. let s have a listen to what president biden has been saying. history has taught us that when terrorists do not pay the price for terror, when dictators do not pay a price for aggression they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. they keep going and the cost and the threats to america and the world keep rising. if we were walkway from ukraine or turner backs on israel, it isjust walkway from ukraine or turner backs on israel, it is just not worth it. that is why tomorrow i will send an urgent budget request to congress to fund america s massive security needs to support our critical partners including israel and ukraine. during his address from the oval office, president biden also expressed support for palestinians. the united states remains committed to the palestinian people and their righ