always good to get your perspective, simon french, | your perspective, simon french, chief economist.is happening in the middle east and the impact it has around the world. european finance ministers are meeting today in luxembourg. soaring energy prices has had a major impact on the bloc, particularly in manufacturing—heavy countries like germany, and this has been a big risk to the eu since russia invaded ukraine in february of 2022. let's speak to our next guest now. charlotte de montpellier, senior economist, ing economic research. for the eu finance ministers, they have their official agenda but they will all be discussing the significance of today and what impact it has had on the eu. , ., ., what impact it has had on the eu. , a, a, , what impact it has had on the eu. , a, a, eu. yes, once again, they are auoin eu. yes, once again, they are going to _ eu. yes, once again, they are going to discuss _ eu. yes, once again, they are going to discuss the _ eu. yes, once again, they are going to discuss the risk, - going to discuss the risk, which again, looking at the down sides, me

for more, i'mjoined by simon french, chief economist at panmure liberum. running on the website. lovely to see you, simon. here we are at last. i feel like we have been talking about this budget since labour were elected in july. budget since labour were elected injuly. your thoughts? i think that report was the right context. 0nly i think that report was the right context. only the third change of administration budget in my lifetime, since 1979. you have 2010, 1997, when the uk government changed colour. and therefore, the context is the unveiling of a vision for the uk economy and the size of the public sector, how the public sector is going to support growth, which parts of the economy are going to be taxed. you operably going to do that in yourfirst you operably going to do that in your first fiscal event because you recognise politics get ever harder the longer you are in office. —— you are probably going to do that. the anticipation _ probably going to do that. the anticipation of _ probably going to do that. the anticipation of what rachel reeves w

them and frank and her sister mancha, as well as the full and yacht club, but through a french politician simone they because of the health situation, the can boast and was one of the few concentration camps in germany. the ss didn't evacuate the pacific state of savannah, i found a gap escalator, sales gallery. we assume that the world was over, because people who are arriving from all over the place they wouldn't have lasted much longer. typhus if you see hunger exhaustion, nor to if the people are will to live had been broken with them of salted them while they clogged the waste out. so degraded for me with the black and beard. for now, we still have the will to survive levels and we fall to survive off of a piece. but now we said to ourselves, men, so even if we get out of here, we'll never have a normal life again. in mid february 1945, the russians close. the odor in the east of the western allies, across the rhine in the west, entire regiments of the van mocked, were taken prisoner. germany's defeat was now only a matter of weeks away for months submit the death throes of nazi germany. hi

. >> joining us now we have the new york times opinion columnist david french and host of "the weekend" on msnbc, simone townsend. dave, i will start with you. it's so important what just happened in the interview last night that we just showed followed by the real clip. what the vice president did when she called out brett and fox news of showing a misleading clip, she gave americans an extremely valuable insight, and extremely valuable lesson. there's a whole ecosystem in the world of fox news and their viewers that feeds information to the viewers this way, in a misleading way. either leaving out key points, avoiding key parts of the story , trying to protect donald trump in their narrative. and she pulled the mask off in real time and said, look at what you are doing. you are misleading the american people. you showed a clip that had nothing to do with what we were talking about. and he did address it in that town hall and you chose not to show the information that would be valuable to your viewers. it was a service. it was an incredible, real-time explanation of what happens with misleading informa

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french. critics are upset that the timber from france is being used on such a symbol of british naval supremacy. yes. >> the project manager, simon, to his credit, did acknowledge the irony. but he stated that french forests are better managed and provide the high quality wood necessary for the restoration, so even our words aren't good enough. now our forests. >> despite the backlash , project >> despite the backlash, project leaders argue that using french oak is a practical solution to preserve the ship's historic integrity. >> okay. well, joining us now is historian doctor luke blaxill. is this where we are now? we have to use french oak for hms victory . victory. >> well, it's rather ironic, isn't >> well

simon jack, bbc news. gisele pelicot, the french woman whose former husband is on trial for drugging herand inviting more thand for the first time. the 72—year—old arrived at court earlier today, to give evidence against him and the other men on trial. she said, "i want all women who have been raped to say, "madame pelicot did it, i can too." i don't want them to be ashamed any longer. madame pelicot�*s former husband is charged with recruiting men online to attack his wife while she was under the effect of heavy sedatives and sleeping pills, that he administered to her in secret for a decade. all the men on trial deny the accusations. addressing herformer husband as mr pelicot, and saying she could no longer bear to use his first name, she said, "i am trying to understand how this man, who to me was perfect, could have done this. how can he have betrayed me at this point? how could he let these strangers into my bedroom? the trial continues. two manchester arena attack survivors have won a landmark case against a conspiracy theorist who claimed the bombing was staged. martin hibbert and his daughter eve both