king charles is to pay tribute to his mother, the late queen elizabeth ii. you are watching bbc news. now it s time for click. rock version of we wish you a merry christmas plays. well, ho. ho! ..hoand. both: merry clickmas! it s the first one from our new glasgow base, so we are here in the middle of pacific quay in the studio. yoo hoo! good, innit? and we ve got all of the latest tech decks. low carbon log fire. ..cgi baubles. ..and sustainable signage. now, this is our last show of 2022 and i think we can all agree it s been a year, hasn t it? it s been a year. here we go. so he s doing the launch sequence now. ten. nine. seven. six. five, four, three, two, one. launching. whoa! i started it with the maddest idea i ve heard of in ages launching satellites into space by throwing them into orbit. right. eating on camera is always very messy. i had some cocoa free chocolate. but is that still chocolate? really good. mmm, lovely. i beg your pardon? you had help from the like
realignment taking shape in response to the disastrous administration has created. the old coalitions are crumbling before our eyes. hispanic voters, african and middle eastern immigrants, huge numbers of american borne young men all running at remarkable speed from joe biden and the anti human corporate neo liberalism he represents. nowhere is this trend more obvious than the rio grande valley in texas, a place for generations has been a democratic party strong hold. as recently as 2018 a democrat called henry cuellar won his district in south texas with 84% of the vote. his district is 80% hispanic and that meant it went democrat. but last cycle that began to chaechlt two years ago cuellar s percentage of the vote plummeted by 26 points. in one cycle. same thing happened to congressman fay la and gonzalez, all representing districts on the border with mexico in texas. both went from huge wins in 2018 to marginal victories in 2020. hispanic voters are no automatically democr
premiums all up. the cost of food consumed at home rose nearly 12%, food away from home, 7.4%. the gasoline index has increased 48.7%. the average national price of a gallon of gas this week, is at $5, highest in california at $6.42. trying to stem inflation, the fed said it will raise interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point, the biggest hike since 1994. new projections show interest rates may hit 3.4% by the end of the year, but because inflation is rising far faster than any of those rates, any money in savings is still being eroded. there s also a spade of layoffs adding to investor fears. cnn reports two u.s. real estate companies that had flourished in the pandemic announced layoffs of 8 and 10%. coin base laid off 18% of its staff. spotify plans to reduce hiring by 25%. elon musk, who already said he wants to lay off 10% of the tesla staff, is now intimating that if he acquires twitter, job cuts could follow. meanwhile, meanwhile, you ve got the january 6
but that actually probably helps the show a little bit. the set staff is pleased because greg and i share the same size booster seat and the same size shoe. all right, look, for anyone battling addictions or lots of big problems if their lives the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem and that s not easy to do. then you have to accept that you have to get up off your did you have and commit to making things better. that s right i said duff and that s the kind of salty language you will get from dana perino after dark. so here s what you do. you make a plan, you tackle the issue, you try to change your circumstances, you get better results and solve your problem. you can t just sit back blame others and expect everything to be okay. or can you? let s see how the leader of the free world is approaching his set of problems. he s setting records all over the place. record inflation, record gas prices, record increases in crime which has led to record low poll num
at the independent tom peck and former communications director for the trump campaign brian lanza. welcome to the programme. donald trump knew he had lost the 2020 election. he had been told repeatedly by those closest to him. his campaign manager, legal council for his campaign, his data analysts and his daughter had all had told him so. but the then attorney general bill barr told the committee in a videotaped session that after the election, he didn t seem to be listening . and that gets to a key issue in any criminal investigation that might follow of mr trump s actions, whether he understood the claims of fraud he was making were false. the vice chair of the committee, the republican liz cheney, believes he did know and that the lie he perpetuated lit the fuse on what followed onjanuary 6th. you will hear first hand testimony that the president s campaign advisers urged him to await the counting of votes and not to declare victory on election night. the president unde