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Disabled people in work over the next five years, we hear about some of the barriers to employment. questions in beijing, as its confirmed the 15—year—old russian figure skating sensation failed a drugs test before the winter olympics. we can all feel scared sometimes, just like our little owl friend, plop. and we have a sneak preview of the first royal reading of the cbeebies bedtime story. coming up on bbc news channel, britains womens curling team struggle in beijing after a second defeat...

Of today and i said, "well, if they are creating content "content for our devices on their phones," so we have developed an app that goes on any smartphone that allows people to remove the camera and start using their phones. whats really interesting is that once youve cracked the main problem, you can start drawing on other ideas and plugging into other existing technologies — so, of course, this is going to start talking to snapchat and of course youre going to be able to turn me iron man or...

The white house competition council aimed at bringing the prices down. whats the plan? >> we convened the competition county is ill yesterday based op a simple premise which is healthy competition is a hallmark of healthy capitalism because when theres more competition, consumer end up with lower prices and more options and workers get higher wages. were looking across the federal government at ways we can encourage competition, encourage more new and small businesses to get into the game and th...

Hats, none of the people doing the work, making the earnings that go with the good-paying construction jobs, none of them look like theyre from around here. they dont look like me. we have to do something about that. the best way is to focus both on the business owners, making sure that more businesses, black-owned businesses, businesses owned by people who have been historically underrepresented have a seat at the table. but on the work force side. making sure the trades are recruiting more peo...

Perhaps equally important, they require a skilled workforce and the workforce that has been doing these jobs has not been paid adequately, and they dont have the benefits they should have and they are not being recognized for the work they are doing, and in addition we need more of these jobs, we need these jobs to be good-paying jobs and we need to recognize what an opportunity there is in this challenge. so my bill, which i introduced is a new approach to this. it creates millions of new jobs ...

Boston globe" who covered brady for years and years. mike, it seems weve got very different stories from all sides, multiple reports. what in the world is going on. >> well, i think brady is planning to retire. i think he wanted to announce it on his own terms, at his own time, and somebody blabbed, somebody let the cat out of the bag. and now hes trying to push back. he didnt want to upstage the playoffs. he wanted to do it when he wanted to do it. so we now wait for him to officially do it, un...

Demanding additional protections after gunmen opened fire inside of a bronx emergency room in broad daylight. >> weve been asking for safety measures to be place for a while. and these play out in our hospitals and on top of everything else we come to work we are afraid that we are going to get killed? speak to derek retired nypd officer and director of law enforcement for local 237 nypd joining us. reaction to this, okay, asking for protections with barriers, bulletproof barriers here at my fia...

Now there are a number of reasons why were not there yet. one of them has to do with institutional barriers. they make it more difficult for latino candidates to get elected. systems such as at large elections and unfair redistricting which were seeing right noun fold across the country where legislatures and in some cases even commissions are drawing districts in a way that does not give latino voters a fair opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. then we have political reasons. we nee...

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Residents and staff are safe? removing those barriers doesnt feel necessarily to us as if that is the safest thing to do and that ultimately it is not going to be sajid javids neck on the line, it is going to be mine. pare sajid javids neck on the line, it is going to be mine.— sajid javids neck on the line, it is going to be mine. are you minded to kee to is going to be mine. are you minded to keep to the _ is going to be mine. are you minded to keep to the restrictions _ is going to be mine....