And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of their contract. The strikes will halt trade in a wide range of goods and disrupt the Countrys Economy just as we enter the final weeks before the president ial election. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupt the two major sticking points between international longshoreman s association and the us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation for the workers are unhappy with the current contract which spanned the pandemic and dockworkers st
From the campaign. And i wish them well in their future endeavors. I look forward to announcing new staff roles in the coming days cnn, kfile senior editor andrew kaczynski, who broke this story is joining us now with more details. Andrew, what more are you learning? yeah, that s right. What we are learning that the top campaign staff to lieutenant governor mark robinson, are resigning from his campaign in mass, including the campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, senior adviser, and top consultant to his campaign finance director, deputy finance director, and his direction tour of operations this is a stunning development after our bombshell story that we posted last thursday, his staff are leaving the campaign now, it s unclear where this is going to leave. Robinson were just a month away almost from the election and now he essentially has almost no we ll senior campaign staff now we did speak to robinson ahead of our story on thursday where he denied all the allegations in them.
Pence. Nathan wade is Stepping Down from prosecuting donald trump. Hes out. Does the d. A. , fani willis, still involved . Lets get the latest from atlanta. Jonathan serrie is there live. Jonathan . Hi, neil. The news came down mid afternoon, nathan wade tendering his resignation, Stepping Down from his role as Special Prosecutor in the Georgia Election interference case. In his letter to District Attorney fani willis, wadery writes, even though the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest, im offering my resignation in the interest of democracy in dedication to the American Public and move this case forward as quickly as possible. The das office faced an unpleasant and difficult decision that if nathan wade stayed on, the judges ordered would have required da willis and her entire office to step aside from the case. With wades resignation, willis and the rest of the Prosecution Team can move forward. Theres a Real Advantage in splitting the baby in this case. Because
unspun world withjohn simpson. hello. it s good to see you. we re here in the bbc s central newsroom for another edition of unspun world. in today s programme how is it that russia s economy is doing so well in spite of the ukraine war and western sanctions? a quite extraordinary transformation of the russian economy into a war economy, with massive defence spending, with the reorientation of its industrial base towards its war machine. iran s client groups around the middle east get a hammering from us missiles. but what s the point of having the americans in the region? maintaining counterterrorism efforts against isis, and also, they check iranian influence in syria, in iraq, in lebanon. and, is ethiopia yet again going to be a byword for hunger and despair? this is the moment to try and fix this problem, - not six months down the line l when an awful lot more people have died and it s much harderl to turn the whole thing around. russia invades its neighbour after signin
defeated confederates couldn t accept the verdict of the war. they had lost. so they say they embrace what s known as the lost cause, a self-serving lie the civil war was not about slavery but about state s rights and they call that a noble cause. that was a lie, a lie that had not just a law lie but it had terrible consequences. it wrought on jim crow. president biden yesterday in south carolina condemning white supremacy at the site of a deadly race related mass shooting back in 2015. the president s campaign creating a clear contrast between the words and actions of his potential opponent in 2024. speaking of the former president, we ll get expert legal analysis on a key hearing today for president trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case. also ahead what investigators are learning about that alaska airlines flight that had a section of the plane break loose while mid-flight. good morning and welcome to way too early on this