slim pickings britain s raspberry season gets under way, but will there be enough workers to harvest them? if you have just joined if you havejustjoined us, you are very welcome and you re in time to heard about the travel industry because the uk is set to review its rules on foreign travel later after a desperate plea from industry buses for the green list of destinations to be widened. the transport secretary will face members of parliament later this morning with an update expected in the afternoon. on wednesday, hundreds of airline crew, helpers, held protests across the uk to talk about the current restrictions. travel bosses want to see fully vaccinated people exempt from quarantine rules, but in another potential setback, the german chancellor has a suggested that all eu countries should make british travellers quarantine on arrival to slow the spread in europe. the travel industry is frustrated, and nervous, protesting yesterday around the country, people whose jobs
elevates as russian invasion could be nearing. welcome everyone, this is your world. resident biden hooding call wit you crazy and president vladimi wilensky. what are we learning about that? and what did come from it? let s talk to mark meredith who is life in washington with the latest details from that call. once ago, ukraine president thought it tweeted out his thoughts on the call yesterday. the president saying he think the u.s. for its ongoing military assistance and that th two leaders also discussed the potential for more financial support. we are waiting for the official readout to come from the white house, but earlier today we heard from the russians who had said there is little ground for optimism despite all of the continued diplomatic efforts fo everyone involved. unless you hours it can seem a continued buildup of russian forces near ukraine that s afte u.s. officials send russia a formal response of rejecting it request to be an ukraine from joining nato. r
the global economy is set to grow more slowly next year than previously forecast, according to the international monetary fund. the imf now expects global growth to go from 5.9% in 2021 to 4.4% in 2022. the organisation also sharply downgraded its forecasts for the world s two biggest global economies, the us and china. speaking to our economics editor faisal islam, the imf s deputy managing director, gita gopinath, explained why. omicron led to a downgrade for the first quarter of this year, but for the annual growth rate as a whole, we are looking at affecting growth by 1 percentage point. in the case of the us, it is because of a smaller fiscal package in the sense that built to get back better is no longer our baseline build back better. in the case of china, consumption is not recovering as quickly as we thought it would. ~ , ., , as quickly as we thought it would. ~ ,, , ., ., would. when you see inflation rates of 7% would. when you see inflation rates of 7% of
and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the january 6th select committee raising the stakes. asking the house minority leader to meet with them. offering up two specific dates for his testimony, and here is their letter tonight to the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. they write, quote, we request we write to request your voluntary cooperation on a range of critical topics, including your conversations with president trump. so, it s about five and a quarter pages here and the committee lays out, in excruciating detail, mccarthy s central role in their investigation. here on page four, the letter notes that the committee has obtained, quote, contemporaneous text messages from multiple witnesses identifying significant concerns following january 6th held by white house staff regarding president trump s state of mind and his ongoing conduct. and the letter says, it appears that mccarthy and trump, during that time, had one or more conversations one of whic
i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. susan li has more on what s driving the inflation surge. susan? charles, that s right, get used to the higher prices. they ll be here for a while. you re paying the highest price jump in 40 years in december. consumer prices as you mentioned rising 7% last month. that is the highest year over year increase since the summer of 1982. prices rising almost twice as much as wages were last month. so there s still sticker shock at the stores. food prices were up 6%. filling up your gas tanks cost more than a year ago and used cars are fetching premium pricing. the white house is sticking to the promise of eating pricing. the president said the report underscores that we still have more work to do with price increases still too high and squeezing family budgets. the white house trying to calm household concerns. the latest fox business poll shows a third of americans are worried about higher prices. in fact, it s the overwhelming top issue