Provide hints of whether the Bank Of Japan provide hints of whether the bank ofjapan will continue to remain an outlier and keep Interest Rates ultra low. Earlier, spoke to fidelity international s Catherine Yeung, who told me china is facing a confidence problem. Just this lack of confidence both within the Consumption Sector as well as the corporate sector. So if fact last friday we had julys M2 Money Supply and aggregate Financial Data released and it was marginally weaker than expected. So tomorrow, in fact, we have this element of operations all the expectations are for no cuts in the benchmark, generally speaking, we could see a slight increase in probability of a ten basis point rate cut. So again policy isnt going to outright change, it is going to be this continuing tweaking to be this continuing tweaking to be accommodated. Be this continuing tweaking to be accommodated. Tomorrow we will aet be accommodated. Tomorrow we will get some be accommodated. Tomorrow we will get some
radek sikorski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. hello. good to see you again, stephen. it s great to have you on the programme. let s begin with a simple thought. the portents for ukraine in its grim battle against vladimir putin s forces in ukraine, the portents are really very negative, are they not? the supply of weaponry and of money coming from kyiv supporters is drying up. how concerned are you? that s not quite right. i was in kyiv within days of my appointment in december. my prime minister, the former head of the european council, donald tusk, has just been there, and the ukrainians have achieved a victory that has not been noticed in the western press, namely that, against stiff russian opposition, they have cleared western black sea of russian ships and they have now resumed grain shipments, not under a deal, from odesa via the western black sea to the bosphorus and to africa and beyond. that s a considerable military success. that s not insignificant. and they als
In the gaza strip. Israel will no doubt have some mapped out. Not all of them. Where were standing if and when this Ground Invasion comes, it will probably be worse than ones weve seen before in terms of casualties and the bitterness of fighting that we have in store. Kim . Appreciate it. Elliot in london. Thanks americas top diplomat is in jordan after spending thursday in israel, Antony Blinken is trying to prevent the conflict from spreading and hoping to secure the release of hostage, cnn Beckie Anderson has more. The war between israel and hamas kicking off a flurry of diplomatic activity across the east. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken landed in tel aviv thursday to show washington solidarity with israel. The message that i bring to israel is this. You may be Strong Enough on your own to defend yourself. But as long as america exists, you will never have to. We will always be there. By your side. The Secretary Of State also tried to secure the release of hostages taken by
A reminder of those fixtures later. Barcelona host Paris Saint Germain at the nou camp, while Atletico Madrid are in germany to play borussia dortmund. In the English Premier League where chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has said he was upset after his players argued over who would take a penalty in their 6 0 win over everton. Palmer scored the fastest hat trick for chelsea in the Premier League three goals inside the first 30 minutes. But then a penalty was awarded in the second half and there was a dipute between Nicolas Jackson and noni madueke before captain Conor Gallagher wrestled the ball away and gave it to cole palmer, chelseas regular taker, who scored his fourth goal. Palmer is now the leagues Joint Top Scorer on 20 goals putting him level with erling haaland. 6 0 is everton s biggest loss of the season. But, despite the convincing win, pochettino said he was disappointed in his players behaviour. Its a shame, its a shame that we behave like this. That is the process of a
However, its worth noting that there is no mention of an Israeli Military response, even though israeli officials have promised to retaliate against iran, after it launched a wave of missiles against israeli targets late on saturday. Only a handful of more than 300 missiles and drones got through the israeli air defences. Iran says it was responding to an air strike at the start of this month on the iranian consulate in the syrian capital, damascus which it blamed on israel, although israel has not acknowledged being behind it. Iran is calling for restraint, saying it doesnt want this to escalate into a wider war. We are going to look at the peril in this moment butjust to remind you that this tension takes place in the midst of the ongoing israel gaza war, is the i93rd day of war. Today there are reports of fighting in the gaza strip and particularly in the north east. There are also reports that more aid is now getting into gaza from the north. We are getting reports on the ground an