max foster here in london. just ahead great likelihood is that we will have a recession. this 40 year high in inflation is having a real impact on the economy. consumers are shifting their spending to more essential categories like food and fuel. our investigation though it is not a criminal investigation certainly has brought some things to light that doj is watching. doj is now inside the white house for the first time. that is a big change. it is a hard grind, that is what ukrainian commanders are predicting to try to push the russian troops back. it is wednesday, july 27. 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the coming hours, the u.s. federal reserve is expected to hike its benchmark interest rate in the latest attempt to cool the economy and tame inflation. the country s gdp will be released tomorrow with analysts waiting to see if the numbers show that the economy has slowed again. add in soaring prices, rising expenses and an ill p
work as one front line commander put it. even after a couple villages are captured, will can sthere can s be deadly ambushes carried out and losses as a result. so it is really a grind to try to push these well entrenched russian forces back by the ukrainian military. christina. yeah, ivan, thanks very much for that update and for that report. that is eivan watson there live. russia is planning to pull out of the international space station after 2024, a move that would end more than two decades of partnership with the u.s. and other countries. some believe it is just a threat while others say it shows the financial toll of western sanctions on moscow. nasa says it hasn t officially been notified by russia but it is already working on contingency plans. all right. just ahead, the pope again acknowledges the suffering of indigenous canadians at schools
russia is raising the stakes in a high level dispute with israel over ukraine, adolf hitler, and anti-semitism. the foreign ministry accuses israel israel now of supporting, quote, the neo-nazi rescheme in kyiv. israeli officials are livid over comments from russia s top diplomat sergey lavrov. on sunday, he claimed hitler and jewish blood and that the most that hitler had jewish blood and that the most ardent anti-semites are usually jews. israel hasn t fully joined western sanctions on moscow. u.s. president joe biden made a trip to alabama on tuesday to thank workers for supporting ukraine s fight against russia. the president spoke to employees at a lockheed martin facility. he told them the javelin an anti-tank missiles they manufacture make it possible for ukraine to defend themselves.
is the bigger thing to woat wor here, president trump has quietly been working to get ukraine to settle with russia to end this war. quote, mr. trump has quietly been urging a deal to reduce tensions between ukraine and russia that would pave the way for a removal of western sanctions on moscow, long a goal of mr. putin s mr. trump hinted that was his goal when asked about president zelensky. president trump told reporters, quote, i think he s going to make a deal with president putin, and he will be invited to the white house. he makes a deal with putin and that gets listen invitation to the white house? the u.s. president is quietly and maybe not so quietly too trying to get ukraine to make a deal with russia. on putin s terms. russia invaded ukraine in 2014. they shouldn t get to settle this on their terms, but that s what president trump is trying
the new york times this weekend published a long excellent rundown about this big change our country has suddenly gone through toward ukraine and how it hasn t been run through any normal policy process. it hasn t been articulated at all. it s been this off the books odd process involving people who were not sure who they worked for and maybe in giuliani s case he s doing energy deals on the side. just this mess in terms of not even knowing who is acting as a lawyer, who is being paid by who. one of the things the times slips in in literally paragraph 75 of this 81-paragraph article is the bigger thing at work here, president trump has quietly been working to get ukraine to settle with russia to end this war. quote, mr. trump has quietly been urging a deal to reduce tensions between ukraine and russia that would pave the way for a removal of western sanctions on moscow, long a goal of mr. putin s.