308 Billion News Today

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realistic or deluded? akinwumi adesina, welcome to hardtalk. its good to see you, stephen. its great to have you here. you need the world to believe in a bright african future. how is that going right now? its going pretty well. if you take a look at the african economic outlook we had from the african development bank, the gdp growth rate, gdp growth rates last year was 3.1%. this year, its 3.7%. and next year, its going to be 4.3%. now, why that is important is that that is well abov...

voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. of all the worlds continents, africa is the one likely to see the greatest transformation in the course of this century. it will likely be home to almost 40% of all humanity by 2100. if, by then, africans have benefited from sustainable development, their global economic power will be enormous. if they havent, then they...

Who had had their licenses taken away because they couldnt pay the fines and fees. i got funding for $2.2 billion. the bridge tunnel is being expanded between hampden and norfolk. thats a $308 billion package. i know how to get things done. were moving forward and good things are happening in virginia. what were focused on right now, kasie, are these lives that were lost in virginia beach, four that are fighting for their lives and a thousand that lost their lives last year. enough is enough. we...

And this year, they want to raise taxes by 20 billion dollars through the republican budget, doesnt raise taxes. next year they want to raise the taxes by 40 billion dollars, again, the republican budget doesnt raise taxes and then on the deficit this year, the democrat deficit would be 164 billion dollars bigger than the republican deficit. and next year, 308 billion dollars, just to give you a sense of it, by 2015 the republican deficit would be down to 125 billion and the democrat deficit 433...

And this year, they want to raise taxes by 20 billion dollars through the republican budget, doesnt raise taxes. next year they want to raise the taxes by 40 billion dollars, again, the republican budget doesnt raise taxes and then on the deficit this year, the democrat deficit would be 164 billion dollars bigger than the republican deficit. and next year, 308 billion dollars, just to give you a sense of it, by 2015 the republican deficit would be down to 125 billion and the democrat deficit 433...

>> nice to see you. >> dave: are we on the road to recovery? the unemployment numbers looks pretty nice. >> it looks, but-- i dont want to sound like for ris buellers day off, but the unemployment re sid dual. you take the labor force, subtract the number of people working and get the unemployment. but if a whole bunch of people leave the employment force the unemployment number looks better than it and lots of people left the labor force, so we dont have a big recovery going on now. we have som...

Dollar, the japanese yen that been gaining today. pauline? nina, here in asia, japanese markets failed to maintain the gains from tuesday. in fact, its quit a different story. a profit-taking sent tokyos main index lower as investors reacted to new radiation warnings, this time in the tap water in tokyo. after the markets close, japans golf. said that the economic cost from the earthquake and tsunami could total $308 billion. meanwhile, around the rest of the region, lets look at how they fare...

Vote slated today. that issue likely to dominate in the eu summit tomorrow. markets suffering, adding to yesterdays losses albeit not as much. pauline? >> im afraid the asian markets did not give you a good lead-in today. here in asia, japan led the losses. profit taking sent tokyos main index lower as investors reacted to new radiation warnings, this time in tokyos tap water. we heard an update from my colleague a colleague about that. after the markets closed j pans government said the cost of...