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Bowlers channelling australian bowlers chanbeling beyonce. Good morning. Its wednesday, 2nd august. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live recent unrest in english and welsh jails is causing grave concern, according to the Prison Governors Association. In an open letter, the president of the organisation said governors were facing unacceptable stress. The letter comes after two days of unrest at the mount establishment in hertfordshire. Mark lobel reports. There have been days of disorder at prisons in wi...

Did not happen, and has resulted in so many houses being destroyed. finally, not enough is being done for climate change, for example fire protection zones, so the economic crisis in 2008, the austerity policy has left the fire department understaffed and without enough equipment. understaffed and without enough ea-uiment. . , ~ , equipment. yeah, the greek prime minister has— equipment. yeah, the greek prime minister has set _ equipment. yeah, the greek prime minister has set the _ equipment....

96,000 with predictions with a number of prisoners going up to 1000 a year going into the 20 20s going forward and im not sure if we have those yet or the 20,000 please promised by the government when they came to power. promised by the government when they came to power-— came to power. which i believe for the 20.000 _ came to power. which i believe for the 20,000 that _ came to power. which i believe for the 20,000 that were _ came to power. which i believe for the 20,000 that were removed i...

Crisis brewing in britain. one that might prove to be even more damaging. eight years ago the united kingdom instituted an austerity policy, deep cuts to spending. the results were the subject of a report released recently by the u.n. special on extreme poverty. he exhaustively catalogs the toll these policies took. homelessness shot up 60% between 2011 and 2017. the number of rough sleepers, literally people who are compelled to sleep-out doors has increased between 2010 and 2016 by 134%. and t...

Brewing in britain. one that might prove even more damaging. eight years ago, the united kingdom instituted an austerity policy, a series of deep cuts to public spending to respond to a large and growing budget deficit. the results were the subject of a report released reasonable by phillip austin, the u.n. special repertoire on extreme poverty. he exhaustively catalogs the toll these policies took and his numbers astound. homelessness shot up 60%. the number of rough sleepers, the people compel...

Seized the day and he tweeted the message in both english and in greek as we can see here. well lets find out of the financial world agrees with that sentiment its over now to our man at the frankfurt stock exchange daniel daniel banks were especially exposed to the greek debt crisis is everyone happy now. well one thing is clear monica this day certainly marks the end of an area and when you talk to investors here on the trading floor you do get the feeling actually that they are rather optimis...

Talks are unknown grounds never before have the free market liberal f.d.p. and the environmental green party and gauged informal negotiations to form a federal government both have to overcome their reservations. right now we need to find out of theres a minimum of trust so that nobody has the impression that we are just bashing pies into each others faces we need to be willing to make compromises that each of us as well as our voters can go along with. for instance on the european union the gre...

Presidency. you look at clinton. it was tarred by monica. bush, tarred by iraq and the financial crisis. so people are saying the first three years -- >> do you know economics? >> of course. >> let me ask you an economic question. i dont know the answer. it is not a rhetorical question. if you had gone with an austerity policy like europe. if he had. i will squeeze everything down, stop spending, tighten the belt. would have worked? based on history right now? >> thats a huge debate to have and ...

Question if it was possible to have a successful second term presidency. you look at clinton. it was tarred by monica. bush, tarred by iraq and the financial crisis. so people are saying the first three years -- >> do you know economics? >> of course. >> let me ask you an economic question. i dont know the answer. it is not a rhetorical question. if you had gone with an austerity policy like europe. if he had. i will squeeze everything down stop spending tighten the belt. would have worked? base...

Shorter working hours you can achieve what you need because you can reabsorb the people who are getting unemployed in the places of the economy that are no longer profitable and capital is fleeing. youve got to do it that way. one of the big problems that we have in this country is that weve had three decades of rising work hours. we had a two 200-hour work increase. its part of our adjustment to the downturn of 2008 has been to have so much more unemployment than in europe where, you know, most...