s overseas development aid budget, from .25% to .3%.t also set a clear ambition for defense spending to rise to th 3% of gdp in the next parliament. let's take a look at how the u.k. compares to other nato members when it comes to defense spending, and meeting the country's 2% target. defense spending among some nato members over the last 10 years. you can see the u.k., france, and germany hovering around that 2% of gdp target. the u.s. since way above that mark at around 3.4 percent, however, in recent years, they've been surpassed by poland, which, of course, shares land borders with both ukraine as well as with russia's allied belarus. lastly, leaders met in paris to discuss president trump's proposals for talks to end the war in ukraine, what role they could play to ensure a lasting peace in europe. ursula von der leyen, head of the european union, wrote on social media that "europe's security is at a turning point," and calling for an "urgency mindset." joining us as the european union's commissioner for defense and space, angelo c

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total economic output — by 2027 from the current level of 2.3% of gdp. by a cut in the uk's overseas developmentt by nato of 2 percent of a country's gdp. this graph shows defence spending among some nato members over the last ten years — you can see the uk, france and germany hovering around the 2% of their gdp target. the us sits way above that mark at around 3.4%. however in recent years they've been surpassed by poland — which of course shares land borders with both last week — leaders from around europe met in paris to discuss president trump's proposals for talks to end the war in a lasting peace in europe. ahead of that meeting the head of the european union ursula von der leyen wrote on social media that europe's security for defence and space. thank you very much for us the programme on bbc news. i tof to gef your to get your reaction, want to get your reaction, first of all, to the increase in defence spending by the uk. of course, that is good news, qf sourset that is goodness: fl "flowed”, w we qf sourset that is good-sews , ~ , ~ ~ we hear all over europe, which we hear all over europ

defense ministry conference with the funds taken from the you case for an aide budget and overseas development assistance spending would be reduced by point 2 percent of g d p. shortly before mr. stormers and 9 spent the foreign office said it was pausing some aid to we're wanting to do to it through in the conflict in the neighboring b r. c. the british p. m also said he wants defense spending to increase further to 3 percent by the next parliament in 2029. but that would rely on this party, of course, winning power again. the united spent received mixed reaction by the way in the house of commons, the liberal democrats leader express support for the defense spending high, even suggesting, sending frozen russian assets to key it. but other end piece for the size, the decision a short side. clearly his stipend will have a mass of effect on the forest. people in the forest comes in the world through a cotton overseas. i budgets. but what effect would it have on the poorest people in this country? for example, over the to child benefit can, for example, the housing crisis is how many face he say

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2.5% of gross domestic product — or total economic output — but hadn't set out a timetable. overseas developmentsibility for its own security. here's our deputy poltitical editor, vicki young. unwavering support — that is what keir starmer promised ukraine's president when they met in kyiv last month. providing ukraine with the firepower to repel is peace in ukraine a realistic prospect, sir? for cabinet ministers today, it meant signing off described as having painful consequences. era now demands of us. will begin the biggest sustained increase in income to 2.5, is bad news for the foreign aid budget, which will be cut by billions. that is not an announcement i am happy to make. he said he would look for other savings to protect the spending on aid but... nonetheless, it remains cut, and i will not pretend otherwise. we will do everything we can to return to a world on development, but at times like this, the defence the conservative leader has previously called for defence spending to rise, and welfare and overseas aid to be cut. national interest should always come first, so i'm very pleased

speaker, as i said yesterday, the overseas development is important. i'm proud of what we've done.t wasn't a decision i took lightly or i wanted to take, but it is important at this moment that we put the defense spending, the defense and security of our country and europe uppermost. we will of course make sure that we're able to fulfill our humanitarian obligations in relation to gaza, ukraine, and sudan and other vital work, and i want to be clear that we do of course want to go back and increase that funding as soon as we're able to do so. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i hope the prime minister knows that when he does travel to washington to meet the former leader of the free world, he does so with the hopes and prayers of this house and the country. probably no more serious a meeting could be taking place. now whilst ukraine will clearly dominate, will the prime minister undertake to raise with president trump that canada is a valued, respected, and much loved member of both nato and our commonwealth, and that this childish nonsense of a 51st state should be called out by the prim

policy for international development is and how usaid is a part of that going forward. it is the work that matters. we want to see a presence overseasg vital projects. that promote businesses and economic linkages and market development for americans to tap into overseas. anchor: what do you want americans to know about usaid? >> i think it is important to know that foreign services -- service officers are americans. we are patriots. we come from small towns. we are america. we represent you overseas. that is what i think people do not know. we are really doing this on behalf of you and making these friendships and linkages and making the world a safe place. that benefits everyone in america. anchor: thank you so much for being here. >> anchor: thank you. president trump is also taking aim at another washington institution, the kennedy center for the performing arts. he said he plans to name himself chairman and fire members of the traditionally bipartisan board of trustees. the president took issue with drag events and said they would stop. the kennedy center said it did not receive any official communications from the white house

and developing overseas, pope francis suffers a medical emergency. what we know about his condition tonight. good evening, and thank you so much for joining us. i'm garvin thomas elon musk just sent a message to every federal worker. justify your work or resign. the billionaire posted the ultimatum on x today. it said that all federal employees will receive an email asking them to summarize their work over the past week saying, quote, a failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.ome employees tell nbc news they have already received an email from the office of personnel management. it asked employees to send five bullet points listing what they accomplished this week, but it did not explicitly say that those who did not reply will lose their jobs. new at five, community members in the east bay are rallying behind a san leandro woman who says she was targeted by a racial slur. this is video from today's rally at hillcrest knolls park, where dozens of people came out to support sonia reid and stand up to racism. sonia reid says she recently boug

overseas. two developments show the impact.pe and ukraine, trump picks up the phone and talks directly to putin about peace. that's a breakthrough. trump is negotiating. nebraskas of his team are now flying to saudi arabia to lay the ground work for putin and trump summit. europeans are agassed. why weren't they included? right now europe's leaders are gathering at the palace in paris for a big summit of their own. they're scrambling to address the trump challenge. and vice president vance shocked germany when he criticized their approach to free speech and immigration. could it be the change trump brought to america is just breaking out in europe? looks like it. the second development is in the mideast. the president has already shocked everyone with his plan to turn the rubble of gaza into the riviera of the mideast. now he's piling pressure on iran. national security adviser mike waltz over the weekend repeated trump's statement "iran can never have a nuclear weapon". the president has supplied israel with bonker busting bom

you know, how long it takes to train an operative to be able to go overseas and then develop sources and contacts and the analysts just to get clearances to recruit. recruitment's been up. >> well, would not be the entire workforce eligibility. remember, andrew is not like the entire workforce walking out. >> but it was it was offered to the entire workforce. >> eligibility is not the entire workforce walking out the door. the as we go through these budgetary changes, but also as we go through this issue of making certain that we have agencies. >> departments. >> bureaucracies that are responsive to policy leaderships of groups and organizations in the federal government. it's really important to be able to make these transitions. and i. >> think. >> the cia. >> and i think director ratcliffe is making the right decisions. he's a great leader. he understands certainly what the cia needs to do. he's he's led. >> what about his. >> what about his deputy. >> mike ellis? >> i think mike ellis is going to be listening directly to the director, who's a great, great leader. and i think you'

develop analysts and agents before sending them into the field, or when it comes to these development workers who go overseas a tb or ebola or polio outbreak before it gets to american shores. it impacts america's soft power ability to gain influence, not through force, and it leaves a vacuum for china, which is america's chief adversary, to potentially fill that void. >> maurice: so, margaret, when you say this could be a test case for other agencies, other larger agencies, how might that play out? >> reporter: well, you know, maurice, one of the things that stands out here is the ripple effect, not just in terms of recipients of aid abroad who, you know, can't get their antiviral aids treatments, but here in the united states. a ceo of one of the aid groups told me that between 10,000 to 50,000 american jobs are expected to be cut across the u.s. in the coming weeks -- not government jobs, private sector jobs -- as organizations go bankrupt. and keep in mind, the humanitarian world is not the only industry that is reliant on u.s. government spending. >> maurice: okay, margaret brennan in washington tonight

however, the agency's ability to distribute development assistance overseas has been critically undermined by this administration's effort to shut it down. you sit on the foreign affairs committee. can you explain to americans who might not understand why this agency's work is so valuable, particularly in places like haiti and africa? >> well. >> i think we first have. >> to start off that understanding their budget is less than 1% of our national budget. >> so targeting. >> u.s. aid to say that you're going to save money really is pretextual what we see going on with u.s. aid. we actually use a u.s. aid as soft power. >> what does. >> that mean in a lot of areas, especially in haiti? we found a lot of children who were going to actually work with the gangs and fight with the gangs, and the gangs actually offered them something they couldn't deny or say or decline. they asked. they offered them to give them food and protection, and we were able to come in and prevent a famine in haiti and offer. >> the children and. >> families food so they didn't have to work with the gangs. and we saw a.

. >> now at 630, developing news overseas. a suspected terror attack outside tel aviv.hat we're learning about that, and the new information about the bodies of hostages handed over by hamas. >> plus, state firefighters will no longer respond to emergencies in parts of santa clara county. the shift in resources and the concern from residents. >> then fighting spending cuts at sonoma state. the hearing is scheduled for today, and how students plan to have their voices heard before that meeting. >> a lot to get to. good morning everyone. it's friday, february 21st. >> it's been a week of these beautiful sunrises. today is no exception. >> yeah, it really will be. so that sun's up here in about 20 minutes and we are in store for another mild afternoon. let's go to the beach to santa cruz this morning with a live look. you can see some partly cloudy skies as we see the first hints of daylight as that sun gets up here this morning. current temperatures. you do want to take the jacket with you the next couple of hours, because you can see right now around the bay shoreline. g

overseas markets. we have a lot of software and software development. so the majority of companies and the majority of employees in our state basically are involved in things related to making and growing u.s. products that are shipped to overseas markets. my constituents want to see inflation come down and they want us to lower costs, not increase them. now that president trump is teasing out even more tariffs in the coming days on autos, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors, it's going to drive up costs for consumers. another paper, the spokesman review did a big story about the trade and tariffs and what they put in a headline, trump and inflation. i can tell you this, mr. president, we can't afford inflation. we want prices to come down, whether that's on housing or whether that's on pharmaceuticals or whether that's on food prices, we they that tariffs can increase prices. so the commerce secretary, who is going to be involved in driving and responsible for this tariff impact, is not someone i want to see in this job. the secretary of commerce job is

there's always been this disconnect between what we do in terms of investments, development assistance and humanitarian aid overseas how it benefits americans at home. there have always been this disconnect, and it's not just about aid. i mean, it's also about security assistance. like i travel overseas or i travel domestically. it's like, you know, what does it do to us that we spend billions of dollars, you know, in georgia, ukraine, you name the country, right. so i think what china has done better is i a really putting on display all this effort, even though in terms of monetary value, china administered considerably less aid than the united states like china's aid is a small percentage of what the united states contributed. but it has always been like with this huge pomp, like, you know, everything is like, oh, it's china made, you know, all those photo ops, you know, hands shaking. thank you. thank you so much. and it all gets reflected. so i think it gives the chinese citizens so much more pride, appreciation and sort of it's much more tangible for them and it's more tangible in terms of how they talk about

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there have been reports that some developers, like china overseas, for instance, have been bidding for plots of land in china at 20% premium, thus indicating that perhaps the worst may be over for the chinese real estate sector. frank, it's back to you. >> all right, jp, thank you very much. jp ong, live in singapore. want to turn our attention now back to the us markets and small caps. you can see right here small caps entering correction territory on friday after falling 3%. the high for small caps hit back in november following the election the russell. now more than 10% below its most recent 52 week high. the michigan consumer sentiment report, coming in softer than expected, was one factor. also within that report, the read on five year inflation expectations that came in at 3.5%. you can see right here highest read since 1995, largely fueled by tariff concerns. that's especially troubling for the very interest rate sensitive small caps. it's a trade that's really dominated by cyclical sectors. you see a considerably lower concentration for the financials, industrials and the mate

there's always been this disconnect between what we do in terms of investments, development assistant and humanitarian aid overseas and how it benefits americans at home. there is always been this disconnect. it is not just about aid it is also about security assistance. i travel domestically and what does it do to us that we spend enough dollars in georgia, ukraine, you name the country. i think what china has done better is really putting on display all of these efforts even though in terms of monetary value china administered considerably less aid in the united states. china's aid is a small percentage over the united states contributed. it is always been this huge palm china made, all of the photo ops , handshaking, thank you thank you so much and then it all gets reflected. so i think that it gives the chinese citizens appreciation and sort of, it is much more tangible for them and it is more tangible in terms of how they talk about what the benefits are it goes back to what we do internationally has direct benefit to our development at home. so the narrative, all of the doctors documents, they repeat this na

overseas? is that question you raise with the president? mr. president, you of course the development expert. how do you feel about the cuts in use assistance with the changes in use assistance and how will this change worldwide? >> let me answer the first question. the second question, president because he made an offer. he communicated to the public. religious tenets have something like that could be applied. first question eight. no woodstock, this does ninety-day freeze. to which allows us review program. before we did the freeze you can find anything that some of these programs. usaid overtake of the refused to tell us anything. we what a with the monies going to come with the monies for, cohasset. which contractor in some cases a ghost of four different contractors before reaches into the recipient. it's these are not my number. his usaid numbers in some cases with usaid ten, 13% may, may be less of the money was reaching the recipients and the rest is going in the overhead and bureaucracy. this isn't my money. this is taxpayer money. we are not going to limit for it. we're going to 48

overseas aid goes down. it'll be cut by billions. look for other savings to protect the development budget. but... is not the case and rebuild a capability on development. not everyone here is convinced. labour mps don't either, but others were supportive. national interest should always come first. so i am very pleased to hear the prime minister announce that increase to 2.5% by 2027. assets to pay for extra defence support for ukraine. _ there are, though, plenty of dissenting voices. i've got to say, i am hugely, hugely frustrated at this it's the wrong decision. it's going to impact notjust on the poorest people in the world, but also on us here. preventing conflict makes us safer. aid provides, including through crucial vaccinations, this is then an argument the prime minister needs to win. and so next a slogan, a lectern... good evening. ..a news conference. donald trump is now effectively setting uk government policy? yes, it's true president trump thinks we should do more, and i agree with him. it chimes with my thinking on this. that the united kingdom and its citizens knee grabbing, hand

overseas aid goes down. it'll be cut by billions. look for other savings to protect the development budget.ns a cut, and i will not pretend otherwise. we will do everything we can to return to a world on development. but at times like this, the defence and security of the british people must always come first. some opposition parties don't like it and some labour mps don't either, but others were supportive. we've all wanted to see more spending on defence. we strongly support - the prime minister raising defence spending to 2.5%, - preferably using seized russian people in the world, but also on us here. preventing conflict makes us safer. this means that so many of the world's poorest children aid provides, including through crucial vaccinations, this is then an argument the prime minister needs to win. and so next a slogan, a lectern... and i agree with him. are safe and secure. that is the first duty that i have as prime minister. last night's visitor at the white house was the french president. knee grabbing, hand holding — probably not this announcement, though, part of the diplomatic

always been this disconnect between what do we do in terms of investments, development assistance and she making eight overseas and how it benefits americans at home. there's always been this disconnect. such is the age. it's about security assistance. i travel overseas or travel to messick, like what does this do to us that we spend asked him of dollars in georgia, , ukraine? you name the country, right? what china has done better is really putting on display all this effort even though in terms of money fairly valued. china administered considerable less aid than the united states. it's like china's aid is a small percentage of what the united states contribute. but it's always been like you spoke of everything is like china made, you know, hand shaking, thank you so much and it all gets reflected. it gives the chinese citizens so much more appreciation and sort of its much more tangible for the more tangible in terms of how to talk about what the benefit are. it goes back to unity of thinking. unity think he means what we do internationally has direct benefit to our children at home. so this narrative, like

the order overnight from usaid for all usaid officials and staff overseas to return to washington, d.c. is a stunning development. at this point in time, there is more than 80 missions across the globe. i was talking with somebody familiar with the ukraine mission just a bit ago who said, this is not just a matter of, you know, humanitarian aid and assistance. this is basic about national security. in the case of ukraine, for example, there are more than 200 american usaid personnel that are on the ground that are helping with the energy grid here in the dead of winter, that help with the agricultural industry. if i was talking with another individual who is familiar with the missions in africa, who says that when it comes to the humanitarian assistance in terms of foreign aid, financially, even if waivers are to be granted that allow that money to funnel into countries in africa into specific programs, there's no personnel on the ground to actually implement it, provide oversight and work with the contractors to ensure that in so many situations, life saving food and funding is able to make it to these places.

so what we do overseas, what we've been doing for nearly six decades, is helping develop other nations, increasing the private sector linkages between american companies and foreign companies. that's increasing economic growth, both overseas and at home. we're increasing labor opportunities for americans here in the states, as well as labor opportunities overseas that prevent migration. and then when you come to humanitarian assistance, this is one of the things that usaid and the american government do best. we provide food to people in need, and we provide shelter as well. but that food feeds people who otherwise may die of hunger or be impacted by severe malnutrition. when you take away our ability to implement those programs, you're taking away potential life saving, uh, efforts. >> and lifelines for many people. randy chester, we'll leave it there. thank you. >> a newly discovered bird flu variant in dairy cows is sparking concerns over possible human transmission. still ahead, we'll tell you what you need to know. >> before kick off in. new orleans is brought to you by clearchoic

overseas? is that question you raise with the president? mr. president, you are of course the development expert. how do you feel about the cuts in use assistance with the changes in use assistance and how will this change worldwide? sec. rubio: let me answer the first question. the president made an offer. he communicated to the public. religious tenets have something like that could be applied. the first question on aid. this is a 90 day freeze which allows us to review programs. before we did the freeze, we could not find out anything about some of these programs. usaid in particular refused to tell us anything. these are not my numbers. these are the usaid numbers. 10%, 13% of the money, maybe less was received by the recipient. this is not my money. this is taxpayer money. we are not going to get rid of foreign aid. we will have foreign aid that makes sense, works, forwards national interests, benefits our trusted partners and allies. i am here today because in costa rica we have a trusted partner and ally have taken aid from the united states and used it to fix a problem, to help us

president trump is developed with the technology ceos is paying off and a payoff of development right here on u.s. soil not overseasionships it is tariffs he's basically saying if you don't like tariffs then build an american you want to face any tariffs, they are listening my prediction you will see more and more technology companies say i'll go back home i'm going to build in america because i don't what a deal with the tariffs and i want to do the right thing by president trump. >> that's what's happening is really fascinating in the stock is down because it's a big chunk of change i was looking at on the board. >> we think has another 20% to go it's exciting it's in the right place. maria: what happened last week there were rumors because of microsoft reportedly canceling leases for data center capacity, that raise concerns that we are not seeing the kind of a.i. spending that we expected. use all the high flyers intact and video trade down and selloff on the notion wait a minute maybe we were wrong and a.i. spending is not so significant that could be one of the reasons that we see apple trade lower because th

development 8 and that's effective. but the state department does overseas, and i think the amazing effect of it thus far has been to sign a light on just how much is going on for proceeds as you probably know, the national government for democracy, which is our regime change machine here in the us stop publishing the grants that it gives out in the name of transparency i guess. so we don't know who gets their money, which we need to know. and so stopping all of this when it we just saw. i think, 2 days ago, some of the pop propagandists in ukraine that popped up by america are saying, hold on, our money is not coming anymore. can you guys, you know, spot as a couple of a couple of bucks here in there. so it's really highlighting the destruction of democracy done in the name of promoting democracy. and i hope this is only the beginning. would you think? we'll see the end of the national endowment for democracy. we've talked about it on this show for you, isn't how it works. hand in hand with, uh, well, it has worked and it had with death squads. so absolutely. and it's, it's profoundly anti american, you know, america ha

it may shut down funds for the agency for international development that helps spread diseases overseasnly saves lives overseas, but stops those diseases from spreading here in the united states. when they cut the important programs for the american people they been at the department of education they been over with the medicare files, they have been throughout the government, what they wanted to do is they want to give this big fat tax cut to elon musk in the billionaires. are we going to let them do that hell no we are not going to let them do that. on inauguration day going to be a new golden age of america. he did not mean the people he had said he had campaigned for. he did not mean the forgotten americans, he met elon musk in the titan standing right behind them. this is a great fraud, this is a great betrayal. we are here to blow the whistle and say hell no, we will shut down the elon musk operation. are we going to do that? let's do it together. and now, one of my great heroes, maxine waters. >> look at this crowd. elon musk, where are you? get over here so you can see who is he

know the development business, have great contacts overseas, part of the ambassadorial team at the at the post that in which they're present. so there's still a lot that we just don't know jake. >> so you've been in foreign service since 1991. what's your biggest concern about what happens if usaid just disappears? what happens to the people that usaid tries to help? >> well, these are our members, so we care for them. that's what we do. as the american foreign service association, which has been around for 100 years. so we want to make certain that, you know, they are taken they're they're taken care of, they're looked after. but also more and more than that even is what is what will this mean for our standing, the united states standing in the world. and by the way, you know, you can connect what we do with usaid funding abroad and also jobs in the united states. a lot of our our personal services and things like that are done by by american companies. we usaid buys its wheat, for example, and other grains that it that it donates abroad to to poor countries and people who need it. a

stop, immunization programs will stop programs that support the private sector development and create jobs in countries overseas will stop our partnerships with american companies will stop. and not only that, in addition to the 10,000 u.s. aid employees, the private sector and the nonprofit sector will also face tremendous layoffs as they are forced to reduce their staff because they no longer have funds from the u.s. government. and these are groups like world vision, catholic relief services, save the children, numerous small businesses in america. and lastly, let me just say this. if we stop humanitarian assistance, we buy that food from american farmers close to $2 billion a year is purchasing american produced farm commodities. i'm not sure where those farm commodities are going to get sold if the u.s. government isn't buying it and distributing it overseas to save lives. >> randy chester, thank you for giving us some sense of just how broad of an impact this could make. everything from people not receiving hiv medications to farmers not being able to sell their products, and having to figure out where el

overseas. a big role of governors is economic development, and we want an ally in the federal government. we want we don't want our own federal government working against us and implementing these tariffs that destroy jobs and raise prices. >> so how worried are you about this trade war if it lingers? obviously canada and mexico have the 30 day delay, but there are things right now. i mean, tonight there are these new 10% tariffs in effect on goods from china. china already is retaliating with its own tariffs. so what if this is a sustained trade war. what impact will that have on coloradans. >> you know even the threat of a trade war is dangerous because it discourages investment. i mean, i know companies at this point are saying, hey, do we expand in colorado? do we expand to export to the canadian market? or are we worried that in 30 days this will come back? so look, the business and wages and jobs thrive on stability. and this is the opposite here. i really hope these tariffs don't go in in 30 days. we need to make sure that america and mexico are part of our trading bloc. so we can