15 million in eight years. In fact we plant less now than we did in the 80s. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. In the last few minutes the Federal Reserve has done something it has not done in more than a decade cut Interest Rates. Its only a quarter of a point but whys it cutting rates at all . Normally a central bank would only lower Interest Rates when an economy is faltering, not something you could say about the us economy right now. Fed officials describe it as an insurance cut, to keep the us economy on track. But the critics suggest the normally independent central bank is caving in to political pressure from the white house. The president has been very critical of the fed chairjerome powell, and has been demanding this cut since the fed put up the rates last december. Id like to see a large cut and id like to see immediately the quantitative tightening stopped. We expect the chair of the Federal Reserve to speak in the next 30 min
Hello and welcome everybody, its 7 30 am here in the iranian capital tehran, youre watching press tvs world news. Our top iran strongly condemns britains meddlesome statement its latest satellite launch saying it reflects the uks anger at the Islamic Republic scientific progress. Foreign Ministry Spokesman aser canani said londons interfering remarks will not weaken the iranian nations determination to break new grounds in the fields of science and technology. He added that achieving scientific and Research Advances including in the field of aerospace is irans inalienable right. Canani said the uk has a long history of taking hostile stances against iranian people. He added that International Laws put no restrictions on irans Scientific Activities and the country is entitled to use peaceful technologies and its march towards scientific development. Iran uh. Successfully launched its new three imaging satellite last week. London announced the move saying it proved terrans disregard for
In august. 6 30 p. M. At erans capital tehran. This is press tv news. Thanks for joining us. Israeli forces have killed two more palestinians in their fresh raids on an area near the occupied west bank town of tulkarum. The victims have been identified as 23yearold Abdul Rahman Atta and 27yearold adnan mahammad faris. The two palestinians were in a car near the village of shufa until karam governor it where the vehicle came under israeli life fire. Separately Israeli Forces have once again rated the tokarm refugee camp. The raid resulted in clashes between Israeli Soldiers and palestinians. According to israeli media, five troopers were injured, three of them critically. Israel has intensified its attacks against palestinians in recent months and its killed nearly 250 people, including children in the west bank this year. A correspondence monacan deil says that israel has imposed curfew a west bank village after the killing of two palestinians spark clashes between locals and regime fo
Of Amazon Studios, roy price, resigns over allegations of sexual harassment. Well find out later how much wages are going up, but with prices now rising at their fastest rate in five years it means were all likely to feel a bit worse off. In sport, the biggest away win for an english club in Champions League history. 7 0 for liverpool. Manchester city win too, while spurs draw with reigning champions real madrid. Andy carroll has the weather. Good morning. Rain today across south Eastern England. For the rest of us, quite a bit of cloud around, but equally there will be sunny spells as well. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The nhs is failing to meet Key Performance targets in hospitals across the uk according to a major analysis of data by the bbc. The research looked at how often Health Organisations achieved targets for Cancer Treatment, accident and emergency, and planned operations. It found that nationally england, wales and Northern Ireland ha
Coming up in the next sixty minutes Roseanne Barr apologizes to colleagues on her show after it was canceled she says shes sorry then jumps off to one of her tweets which of course a bad joke led to the shows consummation. And mexico aims to make the braves after world cup we take a look at how germanys group. Could make history. Conan well welcome to you. Russia has denied any involvement in the murder of a Prominent Russian journalist and critic of president Vladimir Putin in the ukrainian capital kiev a chink o. Had fled into exile following Death Threats ukraine blames russia for the murder moscow has rejected the allegations and demanded a proper investigation of the murder occurred to you bob cenk who was one of the best known walker respondents in russia he was also one of the kremlins fiercest critics the forty one year old Soldier Turned journalist condemned russias annexation of crimea questioned its military involvement in syria and called russia an aggressor. In an intervie