we'll have our exclusive interview with gita gopinath just ahead. i'm steve lai. and welcome to business today. we begin in seattle where boeing workers have just finished voting on a sweetened contract offer which includes a 35% pay raise over four years. remember, they rejected a 30% hike last month, resulting in an ongoing strike which has lasted for almost six weeks. ritika gupta is live in new york with the latest — where are we with the vote? well, as you mentioned, the boeing machinists have voted in the latest contract offer which could potentially end what's been six weeks worth of strikes. the voting closed up 5p and pacific time so we are still waiting for those results, there are still encountered. but on the table was a 35% wage increase for over the next four years, about 33,000 unionised workers, mostly in seattle, have voted on this. the workers previously rejected a 30% increase to wages as a said it wasn't enough to cover the increased cost of in them. the union instead was pursuing 40% gross to way to wages and returning to way to wages and retu

the bbc�*s faisal islam sat down with the imf�*s deputy managing director gita gopinath, and asked herwar, should donald trump get re—elected. if you look at the group of g20 countries, the us is the only country where the level of gdp is higher now than we had predicted before the pandemic. we said, well, in 2024, we had an estimate of what the projection of the level of gdp would be in the us in 2024, it is higher than that. but one of the flip sides of that is high levels of debt, and ongoing deficit into the future, even before the presidential election. are there any concerns about the us and its fiscal position? one of our main messages at these meetings is that the world is sitting on very high levels of debt, and also we are projecting the debt will continue to grow. right now the world is sitting at about $100 trillion of debt, it is the point we have made that given how strong the us economy is, it doesn't really need this level of fiscal, size of fiscal deficit, our recommendation always, this is true for all countries, is that this is the moment to rebuild your fiscal buffe