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Hurricane milton has re—strengthened to a category five storm as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of its projected landfall on wednesday night local time. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. You can see this timelapse, here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick, showing how this storm looks from space. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring a destructive storm surge, in whic...

The issues china is facing. Short of these stimulus packages, we dont know a great deal about where the money is being spent. Would you be looking for in order to try and turn these futures around 7 one of the big issues is the banking system is huge in china, it is loaded with bad debts. Its been forced to lend to bad projects for so long so the first thing to do is rescue the banks of this is something that the fed did after the financial crisis. —— system. Instead of giving them more mone...

Fanning the flames. What can the government do? we talked again about the issues china is facing. Short of these stimulus packages, we dont know a great deal about where the money is being spent. Would you be looking for in order to try and turn this future is around? one of the big issues is the banking system is huge in china, it is loaded with bad debts. Its been forced to lend to bad projects for so long so the first thing to do is rescue the banks of this is something that the fed did after...

Out the facts. But more and more and in the world in which we live — but it has always been the way, ever since there has been war — conflicts and wars always unfold on two levels. One is the facts on the ground and the other is the perception of the facts on the ground. And these perceptions now have become an increasingly hostile battlefield. I dont need to tell both of you that it is nothing less than a battle for the truth. So, that its notjust that something happened, its what other peo...

You can see this time lapse here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick — showing how this storm looks from space. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the southeastern us — 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean. President biden has postponed...

Live from london, this is business today. We start with uber, the us Tech Firm that has become a global transport giant. Around The World some 6 Million people work as drivers and couriers through the uber app, and their services are used by 150 Million people at least once a month. Well, the boss of uber, dara khosrowshahi, has been talking to our business editor simonjack, about their plans to make the firm greener and get more of their drivers using Electric Cars. But hes worried that trade t...

After the chinese government chose not to announce any additional measures today. Chinas chief economic planning official, zheng shanjie, told a Press Conference earlier hes � fully confident� the country can hit its 5 Growth Target for the year and had no further policies to reveal to boost chinas struggling economy. For more im joined by Alicia Garcia Herrero chief asia pacific economist at the bank natixis. Has that disappointed investors . Did they expect more . Yes they did because ther...

The worlds biggest Trade Blocs is deepening with china announcing new tariffs on Brandy Imports from the european unIon. It follows last Weeks DecisIon by the eu to push ahead with Import Taxes of its own on Electric Vehicles from china. Last Year China imported about 1. 8bn of brandy from the eu with the vast majority coming from france. From Friday Companies that import will have to pay a tariff of up to 39 to the chinese government after they decided their own producers were being unfairly ha...

A typical temperatures to end the week, will be around 11 or 12 degrees. Over the weekend, temperatures will rise just a little, most of the rain is coming into Western Scotland and northern ireland. Much of england and wales, it should be a dry weekend. Some early mist and but otherwise some sunshine. China slaps new tariffs on brandy from the European Union are two of the worlds biggest Trade Blocs heading for full blown Trade War . More than a dozen Us States say that tiktok is dangerous and ...

Analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes to | analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes to state backed threats, he was accusing russia and iran, rather than anybody else, saying, because we are them in terms of so called diplomats and spies who have nearly all been expelled, because of that, those states are turning to proxy groups, to Criminal Underworld gangs, to do their job for them, he says, and underworld gangs, to do their job forthe...