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china has launched several ballistic missiles into waters around taiwan in response to a us senators divisive visit to the island. and how disposable facemasks are blighting birdlife in 23 countries around the world. the bank of england has predicted that the uk is set to enter a recession this autumn lasting more than a year. the bank says inflation is likely to peak at 13% by december, and today it has announced the largest rise in interest rates for 27 years. the 0.5% hike means tha...

wondering what will the front pages say in another 49 years? will we be in the same conversation? one difference between 1973 and today is real time data. searches for abortion were especially high this week in areas like madison, wisconsin, kansas city, missouri, and salt lake city, utah. areas where the procedure is now banned. this weekend google searches for the question, can i get an abortion are over indexing in those states where it is now illegal. missouri, wisconsin, kentucky,...

jeopardising a deal to allow grain to leave the city. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to dateline. bringing together leading british commentators with foreign correspondent. this week, british conservative mps completed their colleague cull in the hunt for that new leader and the countrys next prime minister, and they also called the economic consensus with which governments of left and right have operated for the last 20 years. and as the world waits...

at risk. >> the people have won a victory. the right to life has been vindicated. the voiceless will finally have a voice. >> today starts an era of very, very, very big government where government that decides if youre going to have a baby or not. >> some days you get to celebrate and give thanks that you were alive when our prayers were finally answered, and the united states of america finally did the right thing. today is one of those days. >> its unbelievable. i go between despair...

your show, alex jones on the stand today, when he found out, he was like, do you know how we got your text messages? and he was, like what? >> man -- >> that was some you know what. >> if this script scripted, i would have been like, thats not gonna happen. but then you look back to the lawyers who were sort of like chewing on a thumb nail at that moment. i want to know what that conversation was like after, but not because im sympathetic in some way to somebody who would torture those...

this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trumps possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handl...

some companies — including southeastern and crosscountry — arent running any services at all. its been revealed the search warrant for donald trumps florida home was partly based on suspicion of violations of the us espionage act. court documents show that 20 boxes of items were removed — including some documents marked �*top secret�*. now on bbc news, its time for dateline london with shaun ley. hello, and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading uk commentato...

planted on his car — but he escaped assassination after switching vehicles, following an event outside moscow. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur and this is riga, the capital of the small baltic state of latvia, which was liberated from moscows rule some three decades ago and which is now braced for a new era of confrontation with russia. vladimir putins invasion of ukraine reminded latvians of the russian threat. it also stoked internal tensions becau...

told cnn, that a witness has no corroborated details of a story, first related by cassidy hutchinson about a confrontation between the former president and his security detail the day of the attack. heres how cassidy hutchinson retired recounted the details to the committee. >> the president said something to the effect of, i am the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. to which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up towards the f...

mutton. >> maybe you have to lie about the smell of someones new cologne. >> called six panther by owed i odion,illegal in nine countries. >> formidable scent, stipulation the nostrils in a good way. >> you dont want to rock the boat. one day something happens and you just burst. >> i am not like my mother. >> you are and you are like my father. you are also like my mother. you are all the bad things about all of those people but mostly your mother. when we would lie in bed together so...