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Job for controversial billionaire elon musk. Heres ritika gupta with the details. The main highlight of donald trumps address was a push to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% for companies that make their products here in the us. This would be a big reduction from the current rate of 21%. A key policy victory from trumps own 2017 tax law set to expire in 2025. Now, while a 15% corporate rate would be a big win for large us companies, it would also contribute to rising deficits. It means big compa...

Top diplomat is part of washingtons latest effort to help caribbean leaders navigate mmp help caribbean leaders navigate ramp and gang violence threatens to overtake haiti. A meeting with the new haitian prime minister, secretary blinken announce m5 million in new monetary and aid. Patient authorities have expanded a state of emergency order across the entire country, the military situation that is rapidly deteriorating since the former prime minister resigned backin former prime minister resign...

Offenders whove served 40% of their prison terms will be eligible for early release. Its necessary, says the government, because of severe overcrowding in jails. There are fewer than 500 spaces left in mens prisons in england and wales, a crisis made worse by the convictions of hundreds of people involved in riots last month. Our senior uk correspondent sima kotecha was given full and rare access to hmp pentonville in london and this is what she found. Siren blares. Chaos in hmp pentonville. Sho...

Fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a great pleasure to have you in the hardtalk studio. It is now three years since taliban rule was restored in afghanistan. They have just passed a raft of new socalled vice and virtue measures in kabul. Tell me about the impact of those measures, as you see it. You have put it very rightly after the, you know, three years since the taliban regime was restored. This is the right way to put it, because many people think, say, um, thre...

Caribbean leaders navigate rampant gang violence that threatens to overtake haiti. In a meeting with the new prime minister, secretary blinken announced m5 million worth of new monetary and aid. Haitian authorities have expanded state of emergency order right across the entire country, the military situation that is rapidly deteriorating since the former prime minister resigned backin former prime minister resigned back in march. Eight agencies reported that nearly 580,000 people have been inter...

But a defeat for scotland. Steve clarke had said his side were about evolution after their early exit from the euros in the summer, but they began their campaign with a 32 defeat to poland in group a at hampden. Poland went ahead early through sebastian szymanski. Scotland had a goal ruled out, then gave away a penalty, which robert lewandowski took to make it 20. Billy gilmour struck back for scotland straight after the break. The comeback gathered steam and scott mctominay got his side back on...

On wednesday following a report the White House is preparing to formally block Nippon Steels 14 Billion takeover bid. People familiar with the matter say a decision could be made as soon as this week. The move would be highly controversial and critics say it would lead to Job Losses and could chill foreign investment in the us. For more, heres our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupta in new york. Nippon steels 14 Billion bid to acquire united States Steel has been caught in the cros...

A teenager accused of killing four people at his High School in georgia was interviewed last year by police about anonymous online threats. At the time, local schools had reportedly been told to continue monitoring him. Four people were killed in the incident, two fourteen year old pupils and two teachers at the apalachee High School in the city of winder. Nine others were taken to hospital. The boy, named as Colt Gray, was arrested on campus and will be prosecuted as an adult. People came toget...

Hello and welcome once again to date to the shadow of Grenfell Tower, that familiar green heart and that phrase forever in our hearts on the top of the tower behind me. And if yesterday was a day in the words of some survivors of the forensic detail from the public inquiry, a Day Forfirst inquiry, a day for first reaction inquiry, a Day Forfirst Reaction and lots of emotion, of course, then today is about a further looking into that 1700 page report, its recommendations, and those calls for just...

Officials have imposed sanctions on the two top editors of the russian state funded Broadcaster Rt accusing them of interfering with her than Thes President ial election. Eric garland said the goal was to secure moscows preferred outcome in the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. These websites were designed to appear to american readers as if they were major us news sites, like the Washington Post or fox news, but in fact, they were fake sites. They were filled with russian Government ...