u. s. central bankers have been raising interest rates and a bid to cool demand and curb rising prices. or let's go to our financial correspondent in new york. teddy austro teddy. i think we'll see him in just a moment. there is teddy business, are still looking for workers despite an economy that is cooling, which we read into these new figures. well, what they say is that we do have a booming labor market despite the federal interest rate hikes, which have been affecting the economy affecting the housing markets as well as the tech sector, for example, which have rolled out a number of a lay offs, but it's as you said, we're looking at 2 jobs per worker here in the united states, and that is given workers the upper hand. it is easier for them to find jobs to negotiate higher wages where even seeing a number of workplaces try to unionize. now, why is this the case? at least it can be attributed in part, to a decreasing labor participation rate. that means less people are actually participating the

u. s. central bank, the federal starting to high interest rates, and then we have to warrant since the war started. we have uncertainty in europe, and these factors have really made that people and traders, investors withdrawn their investment from europe. and this means we're going to have this all in currency. the strength or weakness of a currency also reflects expectations about the future of the relevant economy, which is not too rosy just now. the economy is heading for recession, lot big cost by the spike in energy and food prices. also, the european central bank is significant. be slow in rating rates that the u. s. federal reserve, as a result of the euro, is trading well below its failed value to the u. s. for the european central bank only started increasing interest rates in the summer. but so far, the effect has been limited to merely slowing down the decline of the euro. the problem for the c b, nothing they can do will produce more energy and we'll make it cheaper, all will make a wa

also, the european central bank is significant, be slow in rating rates, that the u. s. federal reserve, as a result of the euro, is trading well below its failed value to the u. s, for the european central bank only started increasing interest rates in the summer . but so far, the effect has been limited to merely slowing down the decline of the euro. the product for the c, b is nothing they can do, will produce more energy and we'll make it cheaper, all will make a war on saw or will produce more microchips. these are the big problems facing the e u. economy. normally, items exported from the eurozone would benefit from the weak currency, but with high energy prices at home and chips in short supply, european companies have to charge more for their products. another downside of a weak currency is imported inflation. b currency means that imports become more expensive, maybe o point 120.2 percent of the current inflation rate can be attributed to the exchange rate for you have he and consumers high inflation is a growing concerned while for tourists paying in dollars, th

u. s. military says it's carried out to strike near the syrian city of their resort. it says it targeted facilities used by groups affiliated with iran's revolutionary guard. the u. s. central command says the strikes were to protect its forces from attacks carried out by iranian backed groups. newt ukrainians are holding muted celebrations to march 31 years of independence from soviet rule. mass gatherings have been banned in the capital key of curfews have been imposed in some cities. president vladimir zalinski is wanting any russian attack would be met with a powerful response. wednesday, march, 6 months since the beginning of the russian invasion, she's killed. thousands of people and displaced millions. ties about is live for us in give. so theresa muted bought defiant. does that sum up how they're marking independence day? well, as you just said, it's independence day here in the ukraine. 31 years of independence from soviet rule also marks the 6 months since this war began. and all major cities in the country are in high alert, mostly because of risk of, of strikes, of russian strikes in several cities across the country. president of all of the meters highlands. he

u. s. central intelligence agency and its former director microphone payer accusing the c i of illegally recording their conversations and copying data from the devices. the recording of meetings with friends, with the lawyers and the copying of his attorneys and friends. digital information change the criminal prosecution because now the government knows the contents of those communications. there should be sanctions even up to dismissal of those charges or withdrawal of an extradition request. the violations were particularly agreed this. the attorneys, along with 2 journalists who have joined the law there, tell us citizens, they say they say i infringe on their constitutional rights to conduct private discussions with the liquid can the founder who faces espionage charges in the us. and also to la, just at the see i worked with the security firm, hired by the ecuadorian embassy in london, were astonished with living at the time to spy on those who visited him. there. i sondra is being held in l

u. s. central intelligence agency and his former direct and mike pompeiian, accused in the c, i of a legally recording that conversations and copying data from their devices. the recording of meetings with friends, with lawyers and the copying of his attorneys and friends. digital information changed the criminal prosecution because now the government knows the contents of those communications. there should be sanctions even up to dismissal of those charges or withdrawal of an extradition request. the violations were particularly egregious. the attorneys, along with 2 journalists have joined fellow st. are us citizens, they say the cia infringed on their constitutional rights to conduct private discussions with the wicked ex founder who faces espionage charges in the us. the low say to lead just that they see i worked with a security firm, hired by the ecuadorian embassy in london, where a staunch was living at the time to spawn those who visited him there. as long as being held in london's high se

u. s. u. k and, and central eastern european countries are leading the way they are and what is needed now to organize counter at techs and to prevail on the front, on our do not to the refire homage vehicles. and germany has an industrial base. germany has certain types of vehicles available in storage. and i think any, i'm a vehicle that is now used in ukraine to stop the russian aggression is a better contribution to germany, security than the same homage vehicles standing around in germany. and i, i know i've, we've heard that point made numerous times in the last 6 months, and they, i know they are members in the political establishment here in berlin, who would agree with you. i want to ask you one question before we run out of time, germany lost a lot of trust with eastern european partners with its closeness to russia, and particularly with the north stream to pipeline. is that trust now being regained? i think i think it is very important to rig and and if you so look into weapons deliveries that it over the last 2 months to have been known your commitments by european powers such as

u. s. federal reserve seems at least one step ahead of the european central bank in raising interest rates. yes, and there are many reasons why this will continue. so we already have an interest difference between the u. s. and the european, the euro area buy more than 2 percentage points. and financial investors rightly expect that this will even increase in the future. why this, as you just said, the u. s. has, or the sort of reserve bank of the u. s. has already increased interest rates much more already earlier than the european central bank. but there are many reasons why this might continue in the future. why that although we have rather similar inflation levels in this country, so to speak as where 8 percent more than a percent of both countries. i'm, the composition of the inflation is different. i receive this pressure mounting on the euro now and for the foreseeable future. how much does that say about the current economic power of the common currency area? it rather said, that's a, something about how attractive is it to invest in the u. s. into financial assets in the us versus

u. s. a. utility company in central california is hoping to provide relief by installing solar panels over its canal system project. next us in the turlock irrigation district, aims to provide additional renewable energy in the state without taking moreland for solar and prevent water in the canal from evaporating. the $20000000.00 state funded project cons as the state attempt to me attempt to meet its renewable energy goals. it has set a target of 50 percent clean energy generation. by 2025. we're joined by josh wymer. he's the external affairs manager at turlock irrigation district. welcome josh. with respect that seems like such a simple idea. why hasn't anybody come up with it before? you know, that's probably the main question that we get asked in theory. it seems so simple and so obvious. but, you know, in the past, when this has been talked about, there just seems so many obvious barriers for why you wouldn't do it. so many potential hiccups and hurdles you'd have to cross for not really too big of a benefit. at least that's what we thought. and then when the research paper from th

u. s. facilities or citizens. i mean, also, while he was reportedly struck my to hell fire missiles while he was standing on a balcony and central cobble on sunday, u. s. president joe biden approved the dr. strike last week. off to months of planning, confirming the strike biden's had justice had been delivered to the man who help coordinate the 911 attacks which killed almost 3000 people. and yelman's warring parties have agreed to extend a full month truce for further 2 months hours before it was due to expire. the united nations envoy to yemen said the truce between the government and the who feasible. now last until october, 2nd, those are the top stories this hour that we one is coming out from dough hard bit later on wor, hotels, is the program coming out next. se, without his era. on the 9th of august, the kenyans will head to the pole, the country east brain for a closely contested general election will determine if to president i'm a growing political and economic pension, who will be the winner and can vote is expect a free and fair election join us for special coverage on all the 0 ah, caravel, saigon was built durin

u. s. dollar prompting india central bank to step in and sell part of its dollar reserves and a bit to boost to the national currency. the indian currency reached a historical, lo, earlier a chest over 80 rupees to the dollar. analysts say the drop is linked to the u. s. federal reserve maintaining high interest rates longer than expected. the federal chair insists the machine is unnecessary to tackle rising inflation in the us. but the move has already resulted in, i think, global currencies failing and value. when new delhi based economists that cash came on tindles, ethel india is facing a severe economic challenge which is already resulted in outflow of capital from the country. what happened is u. s. d heard what the high inflation, the inflation did or 9 point one percent. so what they did was they kept on increasing industrious, and we expect them to increase that in the us just so that also now there was not a blog capitain invested in india. so what happened was, one day in greece, i said it was natural, walk up, fly back to us. so group live x is what it means is that all of that,

u. s. froze $9000000000.00 of afghan central bank assets depriving the country of much needed foreign reserves and deepening poverty. of the taliban is pointing to improvements made under its watch. the sovereign delayed reports from cobble. the one business still booming in of line is done is transport laden with exports from fruits to minerals. thousands of trucks can still make their way through the narrow passes and border crossings. even this has slowed since the taliban took over them a remote communicable shop in previous years we were transporting and going with our trucks, $8.00 to $9.00 trips a month. but now we can only do once a month. there were no businessman, so there's no one to hire us. marla, more of guns are struggling to feed their families than ever before. after for decades, there is peace, but people are still waiting to benefit from it. the aid reliant economy collapsed when funds were suspended. and $9000000000.00 of, of grand central banks. assets are frozen the you and appealed for $4400000000.00 in aid. but billy half of that has been pledged. hundreds of thousands

he was reportedly struck by 2 hellfire missiles while he was standing on a balcony in central cobble. u. s. official say no one else was killed or wounded. he was one of the key coordinators of the 911 attacks will still ahead on al jazeera clay caching in on the demand for gas. nigeria rushes to fill the void created by sanctions on russia plus ah, iraqi shia leda mac todd. elsa tells us followers to leave parliament. it continued their protest outside. ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to catherine book, your travel package to death. hello, we got a couple of old tropical systems now making the way across the korean peninsula, pushing some wet weather into southern parts of north korea. northern parts of south korea. so central areas of the peninsula, fitness in wet weather, in across the region here. and eventually that will slide across the sea of japan, northern parts of honshu seeing some very heavy rain as we go on 3 weddings day. that rain becoming a little wide spread across western areas of honshu. by the time we come to thirst, they hot and humid, pre

watery was reportedly struck by to hell, find missiles while he was standing on a balcony in central cobble u. s. president job. i didn't approve the precision try and strike last week. after months of planning. official say no one else was killed or wounded in the attack. confirming the strike biden said justice had been delivered to the man who helped coordinate the 911 attacks which killed almost 3000 people. when i ended our military mission of kansas in almost a year ago, i made a decision that after 20 years of war, the united states no longer needed thousands of boots on the ground in afghanistan to protect america from tears to seek to do us harm. cuz i made a promise to the american people that we continue to conduct effective counterterrorism operations in afghanistan and beyond. we've done just that. well, this is where that strike happened just shortly after dawn on sunday. it's at the heart of what was cobble and diplomatic district, a busy neighborhood, where there's several embassies, some suspended operations off the u. s. that coalition withdrew from afghanistan last year. while

u. s. we've got heat ways, not just across the northern and central plains, but also the west coast california in temperatures peak up. now this comes as western areas of the u. s. suffer a 23 year mega drought. this is the worst on record in 1200 years and the heat is going to continue to dominate. we can see temperature continuing to rise, not just on the west coast, but down in the south. now there is some relief for the desert southwest as the storms and showers continue here, southern showers pick up across the mid west, pushing into eastern areas of canada. and we've also got those severe storms continuing to roll their way out east, across the se, in states of the us. now, as we move to central america, it's a very wet picture for the north west of mexico. we have seen some flash flooding in sonora estate. we've also got a weak tropical wave that's moving across the yucatan peninsula, bringing heavy rain here, and that will edge into the bay of cam picture. by the time we get into friday. and i just want to show you this as we move to south america. we've got a cold front bringing a rus

u. s. military abandoned its positions and the war torn central asian country, of course, after 2 decades of occupation, ah logical rational. and right, exactly. one year ago, those were the words joe biden used to justify pulling u. s. troops out of afghanistan. i think that history is going to record. this was the logical rational, right decision to make just wakes before that fateful day biden was riding high on a near 60 percent approval rating, but after a 20 year long, military occupation came crumbling down with the humiliating and chaotic withdrawal . americans were left shocked and odd. it was approvable moment that he hasn't ever really recovered from things were going well in terms of how voters viewed him in terms of bringing stability to the economy. and how the government addressed upon demick issues to the higher priorities to the american electorate than the war. enough galveston. but i've got a stun cracked that image of competency and he hasn't ever really been able to repair it. over $2.00 trillion taxpayer dollars down the drain all for the u. s. backed regime to head

u. s. seemed to show some level of progress in terms of releasing the, you know, the, the central bank reserves that are being held in that u. s. federal reserve in new york. so we, you know, it's showing that there still is, we're back and forth between the tall bond and washington, if you talk is all about leaders, they say that the most of their meetings with these foreign dignitaries are, they're very professional, the very cordial, you know, they speak, i'm almost as peers in a way, not in this weird confrontational way, but then you see actions like this and these kinds of statements. and it just raises more questions about what is exactly going on in this situation. latifah, life was the income ali. thank you. will mama jam june has more now on the man who was al qaeda's 2nd most prominent figure off to osama bin laden, amen. and the war had, he had long been a deputy to osama bin laden, but after the u. s. killing of the vin and car, the leader in 2011. so i had, he took charge of the armed group attempting to expand its reach while never engendering the kind of loyalty afforded his pre

u. s. europe and elsewhere are expecting further hikes from their central banks, making borrowing more expensive. and that could hit the zombies, especially heart, zombie companies. that is, and there is such a thing. it's technically defined as a firm that's been on the market for at least 10 years, but is unable to cover the interest payments on their loans through their operating profits. in other words, zombie companies live from cheap credit, and according to recent study, travel media, technology, and health sectors are have the most such companies coming to one study, their shares tend to underperform market averages. however, for each of those sectors. now, as interest rates rise, the zombies will have to pay more to borrow and that could result in more bankruptcies. and for more on this, i'm joined by news co vine from rob mornow. he's a partner at the consulting for firm kinney, and he's been looking in into a zombie firms. neil's, thanks for joining us. let's start off. i want to ask, can you give me an example of a zombie firm to help our viewers out here understand what these firms

u. s. europe and elsewhere are expecting further hikes from their central banks, making borrowing more expensive. and that could hit the zombies, especially hard zombie companies. that is, and there is such a thing. it's technically defined as a firm that's been on the market for at least 10 years, but is unable to cover the interest payments on their loans through their operating profits. in other words, zombie companies live from cheap credit.

u. s. violated by starvation, by having a drone strike in central cove all in the middle of the city. so really it's showing that there is still this continued impasse over an issue that should have been settled to 3 years ago. ah, and you know, a, it, it got also comes at a time right after there was a conference where the u. s. said that they would be willing to discuss, you know, freeing some of the central bank reserves that they have in the federal reserve in the united states. so it's just to be quite honest. everyone is confused and cobble . no one really knows what's going on and, and no one really understands the dynamics of it. there's so many questions as, as you said earlier, it seemed that the government had denied this attack. you know, just a couple days ago, i and then now the usaa saying that that, that, that was the attack that they apparently, that they claimed that way that they kills our harry. and so literally, everyone is sort of at this impasse, not understanding what's going on at the moment in this country. all right, i'll in the tv life in kabul, ali, thank

u. s. can still do over the horizon strikes. but i think ultimately this is a signal to both china and iran, as well as russia who have close connections with central asia being historic. former soviet republics that the u. s. is still a major player in the region and they can still project power into afghanistan. and i think that that shows ultimately the, the methodology by which the u. s. is conducting the sort of imperial games. it's a great game in the region. and i think they like this is connected with the fact that by didn't just went to the middle east and said that we won't allow a vacuum and specifically targeted china, russia and neurons. so by this attack happening, they are showing that we might have withdrawn all of our troops from i forgot to sun, but like general portray it has recently said in the media form, a general patrol informers, the a directive address. he said that the over the horizon strikes are going to be commonplace for the u. s. to carry out enough that is done. and so this ultimately means that the u. s. will still remain a major part, even though they left the ground, even though they've left the ground, could the