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I strongly disagree with fitchs decision, and i believe it is entirely unwarranted. Its flawed assessment is based on outdated data, and fails to reflect improvements across a range of indicators, including those related to governance that weve seen over the past 2. 5 years. Other democrats used the downgrade as an opportunity to point the finger at republicans for their role in the recent debt limit fight. While republicans blame joe biden and democrats for trillions of dollars in new spending. Many economists dismiss the downgrade, including Jp Morgan Chase ceo jamie diamond, who called it ridiculous and said that the decision ultimately didnt really matter. And he may not be wrong. Us treasuries, that is government ious, remain the bedrock of the Global Financial system, despite this latest knock to the reputation. Expectations are high that it will raise rates again. If so, it could take the cost of borrowing up to a 15 year high. Consumer inflation has come down more than expected
as further allegations against the presenter emerge tonight, we ll ask where this crisis goes next. and there are further questions for the sun including why will no one from the newspaper talk to us? today, the bbc s director general did speak. clearly these are damaging to the bbc. it is not a good situation. also tonight. the government faced down mps who wanted to dilute its illegal migration bill. but could there be more challenges to come? we ll talk to a conservative former minister who wants downing street to compromise. and in the last few minutes the government has said the g7 s going to announce, quote, a significant international framework for ukraine s long term security arrangements at the nato summit tomorrow. will president zelensky be satisifed with that for now? we ll talk to his former defence minister. good evening. as we came on air last night we tried to be really clear with everyone watching about the limits to what we actually know as fact in t
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the boss of british gas joins us to talk about that, and to answer your questions. jordan henderson cuts short his stay in saudi arabia. the england midfielder has arrived in amsterdam tojoin struggling dutch giants ajax afterjust 19 games in the middle east. cold today. could it change at the weekend? we are about to go from snow to storms. all the details in breakfast. the indian steel company, tata, will confirm plans today to cut up to 3,000 jobs in the uk. most are expected to be at britain s biggest steelworks in port talbot, at britain s biggest where two coal fired furnaces are set to be closed. unions called it a crushing blow and the worst case scenario. 0ur reporter, lucy vladev, has more. after years of questions about the future of steel making, the answers being provided for workers here are about as bad as they get. both blast furnaces in port talbot will close, as part of major changes to the way tata produces steel. jobs will go across the uk, but south w