and all eyes on the georgia primaries, it s a big night for the gop and for donald trump. what will it tell about his power to shape the republican party? tonight with the context former eu foreign policy adviser nathalie tocci, and bryan lanza, a former trump communications director. hello, welcome to the programme. we don t yet have sue grey s full report into the parties held in downing street during lockdown, but we do have new and damning evidence of what went on. for the first time, insiders who attended these gatherings have told the bbc that parties were routine. they say staff sat on each other s laps at a leaving do in november 2020, the same party at which the prime minister is seen raising a glass, and that security guards were laughed at when they tried to stop one party from taking place. laura keunssberg has spoken to three people who worked in whitehall, for the bbc s panorama programme, one of whom had attended one of these parties. their voices are spoke
Its high Interest Rates. North America Business correspondent Erin Delmorejoins Me now. Good to see you. Put a bit of contact around the numbers for us. Sure, so this is not the Inflation Report a lot of people were looking for because remember, we saw hotter than expected Inflation Injanuary and february today we see that data again in march. And not only is it higher than expected, but we are seeing this trend upwards. And thats not what the fed wants to see when they talk about Cutting Confederates Interest Rates this year. The expectation when wrapping up year. The expectation when wrapping up 2023 was we could see as many as three Interest Rates cuts this year, as soon asjune. But when you see inflation is sticky and persistent as we see in the data, that becomes harder to envision, and indeed when this came out at 8 30am est today, you saw the expectations for that june Interest Rates cut drop. find june Interest Rates cut drop. And how does that june Interest Rates cut drop. An
and in his first comment since harry and meghan s bombshell interview prince william insists the britsh royal family is not racist. reporter: have you spoken - to your brother since the interview? no, i haven t spoken to him yet, but i will do. can you just let me know, is the royal family a racist family, sir? we re very much not a racist family. the oxford astrazeneca vaccine, one of the most widely used covid 19 vaccines in the world, has been suspended in three european countries amid reports that some people who ve had the jab have developed blood clots. each country s health authority have stressed the move was precautionary, and that evidence of the vaccine s safety and efficacy was good. norway and iceland announced their decision to pause its use, after denmark stopped its rollout for m days. astrazeneca says the safety of the vaccine has been extensively studied in clinical trials. here s denmark s prime minister. denmark will suspend the use of the astrazenec
home secretary, in his look at the leadership of the party. not the right the guardian, not the right time, johnson out of race to leave the tories. the mirror, rishi sunak set for power, prime minister s the race, leaving and penny leaving rishi sunak and penny those 100 the bait? a big four page 42, telegraph, a big four page 42, rishi sunak set become prime rishi sunak set to become prime minister isjohnson pulls out. the daily mail, rishi sunak set for number ten as borisjohnson bellsouth. rishi sunakfirmly on course to become the new prime minister of britain. much more on that story on the bbc news website. in east africa, at least 9 people have been killed and about 50 injured in an attack on a hotel in southern somalia. heavy gunfire was heard in the port city of kismayo.
conservative party and the country. that s pretty serious, and this comes on the back of the peppa pig fiasco speech, which had reminiscent of the theresa may conference speech. the wording behind her falling down in the middle of it. sometimes events take care of themselves, and an organisation can never get back its control of the agenda, and you start to wonder now that thisjohnson government is in this moment, which is the tipping point. it gets a grip back or it never gets up grip again. it s a crisis that has enveloped a government. it should be able to do whatever it wants to force through