Good evening. 41 people have died after their small boat capsized as they were trying to make the crossing from tunisia to italy, the latest in a string of tragic incidents in the mediterranean. Also on the programme, joe biden is expected to issue an Executive Order banning Private Equity and Venture Capital investments in some Chinese Technology companies, well get reaction from two congressmen that sit on the select committee on china. Meanwhile, china has fallen into deflation, with global Cost Of Living issues impacting the demand for products across the economy. And if you are the type of person struggling to get in your 10,000 steps a day, youll be pleased to hear a new study has found that fewer than 5,000 may be enough to see a health benefit. But first to the mediteranean where 41 migrants have drowned off the italian island of lampedusa after their boat capsized. 45 people, including three children, had been aboard the vessel, which set off from the tunisian city of sfax las
lost ground. during the pandemic lots of factories, lots of shipping lines and transportation, cargo shipments and so on, lots of things were shut down and were not used and people were furloughed or laid off. so there was a huge demand and supply mismatch coming out of the pandemic which pushed prices. and of course the ukraine war and energy prices on top. china has not really had any of that. the problem that china has is that demand in the economy is chronically weak. that is why prices are so weak as well. so what does beijing have added is special to remedy the problem? that is the ga special to remedy the problem? that is the 64 trillion special to remedy the problem? trisgt is the ga trillion yuan question. is the 6a trillion yuan question. everyone expects the government is going to do something and will not do this in the future because it keeps telling us it will. they keep
think it s a win for the united states. what about the fact as the president as recently in yesterday was expressing doubts it was just russia alone, it could have been anybody who hacked the election and demeaning the intelligence community by bringing up the faulty, you know, tragically faulty assessment 15 some years ago on wmd in iraq. why does this president have such a problem criticizing vladmir putin? well, that s the $64 trillion question. i agree with jeremy, russia is an adversary of the united states. what we know about putin is that he is rational. and he s brutal and cynical but he also responds to power and strength. and so jeremy s right. i would hope that what president trump did in this meeting, in addition to getting to know him was to say we re not moving an inch on the sanctions, we re going to keep them on you until you withdraw your forces and we re certainly now going to put additional sanctions on you because you interfered in our
those prove indications are weighing of buying himself credibility with the pla, with the chinese army, and similarly he s i think he s just shown is tom freidman wrote do not ban numbs and bloomberg reporters, because you need a free pres what does he do? the next day he says i can investigate my own corruption. i think the $64 trillion or billion dollar question here is, is chinese aggression in its neighborhood a sign of weakness and insecurity by the leadership? or is it a sign of confidence and strength? i suspect it s weakness. let s get zanny in. you can talk about china, but i want to ask a simple question is the fear of the collapse of the euro off of the table. it is off the or collapse is off the table.
what do you make of the delay today if anything? i think he is taking care of whatever he is taking care of. there is building of suspension maybe the fact that this is not the most fun thing that presidents ever do. can i submit what the next best question would be? i think the best question is this, if you would have told the truth about if you like it you can keep it would you have won the election and that is the massive question that hangs over everything for this presidency now. if you would have told the truth in 2012, would you have won the election? and see what he thinks about that. that i think is the $64 trillion question and there are 100 questions as a follow up to that. you have to wonder whether or not he was in on the advicers coming up with these lines and whether or not he actually