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Our north america business correspondent ritika gupta has the details. The 0. 5 percentage cut brings its key interest rate, the federal funds rate down to between 4. 75 and 5%. It comes amid signs of inflation in america is continuing to fall while thejob market america is continuing to fall while the job market remains strong even as unemployment has risen this year. The strong even as unemployment has risen this year. risen this year. The labour market is _ risen this year. The labour market...

And conflict. And we speak to a professor of japanese history about how accurate the hit series shogun is. We start this hour in the middle east, where at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a new wave of attacks in lebanon this time its walkie talkies that have been detonated. The latest blasts come just 2a hours after pagers used by the armed group hezbollah exploded simultaneously across the country killing at least 12 people and leaving more than 3,000 in hospital. Iran...

the reaction in asia so far has been mixed. Our north america business correspondent ritika gupta has the details. The federal reserve has delivered a supersized interest rate cut aimed at bolstering the us labour market. The 0. 5 percentage cut, the first in over four years, brings its key interest rate, the federal funds rate, down to between 4. 75 and 5%. It comes amid signs inflation in america is continuing to fall, while the job market remains strong, even as unemployment has risen this y...

It was hard to explain to those young men why i was so moved. Was it because they had saved a life? was it because the child had come so close to dying? or was i weeping for those other babies? girls, all of them, who had been thrown away or murdered, in the 30 years i have been following this story. The woman confessing to killing newborn baby girls, dharmi devi, is a midwife. And she was not the only one. I shot this footage nearly 30 years ago. I was a young reporter back then, hungry for sto...

A second day of explosions in lebanon, this time involving walkietalkies used by hezbollah. Lebanons health ministry says at least 20 people were killed in tuesdays walkietalkie explosions. More than 400 others were wounded. Our senior international correspondent, orla guerin, reports from beirut. His polo coming to bury its deadin his polo coming to bury its dead in south beirut today. Casualties of a new chapter in middle east warfare. Killed not by airstrikes but by exploding pages. Apparentl...

Tonight, a major presidential endorsement that both candidates have been angling to lock down for weeks now. And it turns neither one of them is getting it. An election that is marked by an allout fight for blue collar voters. The teamsters silence brings louder than really any endorsement could tonight. The leadership declaring that theyre not backing vice president harris or former president donald trump. So the republican nominee tonight tried to claim otherwise earlier today, i was honored t...

President has laid out. And therefor, we should use all the tools tools that are at our disposal. So im going to look at it. That is all in on this wednesday night. Good evening alex. Thank you my friend as always. Great show. Today started with what should have been bomb shell news. From the wall street journal. Last monday, jd vances team contacted officials in springfield, ohio to fact check claims about haitian immigrants eating pets. The springfield city manager told vances people pointblan...

Outfront next, moving up a new swing state polls tonight show harris in the lead as a major fed interest rate cut could give another big boost to the vice president trump tonight calling foul plus springfield, ohio rocked by new bomb threats tonight. After trumps false claim about haitian migrants eating pets even the editor of the haitian times was targeted. What happened when she answered the door of her home? shes my guest tonight. And the one and only connie chung is outfront she doesnt hold...

Hello, im azadeh moshiri. Welcome to the programme. We start this hour with the latest on the electronic Pager Explosions in lebanon. Multiple reports say that israels mossad Spy Agency placed explosives in thousands of hezbollah pagers, before they detonated across lebanon on tuesday. So far, Israel Hasnt commented. And given the simultaneous explosions, hospitals in lebanon have been overwhelmed with casualties. The Countrys Health ministrys says at least 11 were killed among them an eight yea...

Hello, im azadeh moshiri. We start this hour with the latest on the electronic Pager Explosions in lebanon. Multiple reports say that israels mossad Spy Agency placed explosives in thousands of hezbollah pagers, before they detonated across lebanon on tuesday. So far, Israel Hasnt commented. The united states and the us im have called for calm and the russian Foreign Ministry said the aim of the attack was to provoke a big war, and there was, in the Middle East. 11 people have died and almost 30...