waving flags and chanting slogans. the palestinian red cross said more than 70 people were injured in clashes. now on bbc news, dateline london, with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together columnists from uk newspapers with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their home country from the dateline london. this was the week when sue gray delivered her report into whether there were downing street parties during the covid lockdown. did the report itself deliver? we learnt the likely impact of surging energy prices and a doubling of the numbers in fuel poverty in the uk. the government s answer to it? throw money at the problem. is it proportionate or inflationary? and what about those other sharply rising bills? is inflation stalking the globe? to discuss all that, we have the american journalist stephanie baker, a senior writer with bloomberg markets, steve richards, a political commentator who presents the podcast
will face off in the first presidential debate of 2024. this has the potential to reshape what has been a remarkably stable race in the polls, at least for the white house in the lead up to this critical showdown, the two now let s are taking their own unique approaches in preparation. president biden has hunkered down at camp david. all weekend holding were told intensive prep work and mock debates with a team of advisors behind closed doors meanwhile, donald trump is spent his weekend out on the campaign trail holding a rally in the swing state of pennsylvania and revving up his dates today, trump s supporters hit the sunday political talk shows to give their advice on what he should focus on. it, it ll be a great opportunity for president trump to talk about his policies and how his policies when he served as president of this country, we re good for every single family that lived here. they had more money in their pockets. the grocery prices were down, gas prices were d
Hit lists. Among the Two Hundred Billion dollars worth of chinese goods the u. S. Is planning to tax next are babies car seats and bicycles. As a Hearing Taking place inside this building in washington american businesses had a chance to express their opinion of their governments trade spat with china. Weve encouraged them strongly encourage them to negotiate with china not to just you know throw a tariff walls going to for tat. Some american businesses even fear theyll be affected by both chinese and u. S. Tariffs. We have some members that are finding out that the yarns in fabrics that shipped to china are going to be subject to a twenty five percent tariff and then the finished products they shipped from china back United States are going to be subject to twenty five percent or so theyre
getting taxed twice and thats not good not good also describes the chances of a breakthrough a trade talks set to take place between china and the us from thursday u. S. President donald trump says
but that moment is here is fascinating, i think. can we talk about the economics of it? because stephanie, where you sit at the bloomberg market picture of these things, rather than from a domestic political perspective, what are the what are the markets making of thejudgement the chancellor s made? what are other policymakers faced with similar problems, how are they react into exactly the same not the same problems, similar problems inflation seems to be stalking the globe. right, so i mean, ithink. that there is a feeling that if he hadn-t acted, the risk of a recession would have been higher- because you re taking so much money out of the economy- because those people wouldn t be able to spend money on other things. - anything else. so, broadly speaking, . we re in this, you know, big debate right now are we for stagflationl a la the 1970s? you know. which is where you get high inflation, little growth. high inflation, low- growth, orare we heading for a recession? and, y
so they have to be a priority in the turkey. ordinary turks are already feeling the pain prices are rising rapidly and there are fears that a slowdown in business could trigger massive job cuts. in germany some politicians have raised the prospect of offering turkey financial aid but economists say such a move wouldn t get to the core of turkey s problems. it would be a really bad idea to make direct payments in order to support turkish economy i mean turkey s problem is not liquidity problem there are structural problems inflation is too high that interest rates are off the central bank are too low. for now the turkish president appears to to. herman to stick to his existing economic policy mean while two major credit ration agencies have downgraded the country without a concrete plan of action turkey could be on course for an economic disaster.