as parts of europe face a drought, the first in a series of hosepipe bans is due to come into force across the south of england to try and tackle water shortages. the american conspiracy theorist alexjones has been ordered to pay more than $4 million in damages after losing a defamation case for falsely claiming the sandy hook shooting was a hoax. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. in the uk, the governor of the bank of england has defended the decision to raise interest rates, saying there s a real risk of soaring prices becoming embedded . yesterday, the bank warned of a recession as it raised interest rates by the largest amount in 27 years. the uk economy is forecast to shrink in the last three months of this year, as the bank predicts a recession that will last well into next year. the bank says that sharp increases in energy prices will push inflation to more than 13% a 42 year high and that the value of people s incomes is falli
The pressure make the trump hurry crack. Thats tonight on news nine good evening. Im abby phillip in new york week one of Donald Trumps historic trial is now etched in the history books, and it ends with a full jury box. When to starts with Opening Statements and we lead into it with a defining question. Can the men and women whove been selected to decide the former president s fate with Stand The Trump High waves that will swallow their entire existence. For the next six to eight weeks the jurors come from all parts of the city, west harlem, hells kitchen, chelsea, upper west and upper east sides. Some work in sales, others in finance. Others are lawyers. And they all say that they can be fair despite what theyve read or said about donald trump in the past, that juror number 11 quipped at one point i dont like some of my coworkers, but i dont try to sabotage their work. Fair enough. And from the minute the judge gambled in on thursday morning to the minute the court adjourned today re
the jury selection. pardon me? could be part of the deliberation where they will make that decision with the rest of that body. to decide the guilt or innocence of the former president. so they play a critical role just as much as all the other jurors of the 12 that were seated. fascinating jeremy standby for us. i want to now bring in seeing an anchor and chief legal analyst, laura coates, also with a senior editor for above the law job, patrice, to break all of this down, joe, we went through just really the today was a really emotional de in that courthouse because i guess things were getting very, very real for some of these jurors standardly is it typical to see that kind of emotion as people go into a case like this, you don t know. and i think that s that s still roiling. i think in a lot of jurors minds, but i think a lot of juries don t vocalize it as much in a lot of ways. i think this was the gravity of it being a former president and being historic is bringing that out. a
when people are already struggling for basics such as energy and food, not luxury items but essentials, and also of course this is going to make people who already have loans and are in debt have to pay more. so, is this affecting the people who can least afford it the most? well, i mean it is obviously very tricky for the bank of england at the moment because, on the one hand, you have very high inflation, and what they don t want is for that high inflation to remain high for very long. we are all expecting inflation to go down and to reach the target by 2024, which actually a lot of that is not to do with the bank of england. it is standardly generated. it s nothing to do with the state of the economy here. but the worry is that those higher inflation expectations will be ingrained and therefore will be persistent. and that could be a big part of what the bank of england is trying to do,
the duchess of cornwall is self isolating, after testing positive for covid 19. in a statement, clarence house said, we continue to follow government guidelines . the duchesses husband, the prince of wales, cancelled an event, after testing positive for the virus on thursday. now it s time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. two named storms. packing a punch, standardly, all the warning details on the website. as for the rest of the day, we have a weather front meandering south, quite a cello northerly wind following behind with some showers but actually temperatures a smidgen above where they should be. they will fall like, through the evening and overnight under a brief ridge of high pressure, not long as you can see towards midnight when we get the next band of rain and hill snow