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March 17, 2021
Americans are already starting to see their stimulus checks hit their bank accounts after president biden signed it into plan last week. it gives 85% of households at least $4100. off can go to irs.gov click on get my payment. which is a great link. on thursday, president biden got 100 million payments into peoples pockets in just ten days. and i have to say, the speed and the scope of the way theyre going about this is really unlike anything i have seen in
March 16, 2021
Colder winter temperatures make for a higher quality sake. the head brewer, or koji, still completes much of the project by hand. so this smells just like rice. so its been washed, then its been dried, and now its in here? im assuming theres yeast inside here to ferment? yes. the rice mash stays in the vat for a week. 0h! 0k. its not as easy as it looks, actually. its quite heavy. groans. its like sweeping treacle. the whole process is incredibly labour—intensive. ten years ago, the brewery wa...
March 15, 2021
Attempt to prevent the united states army to get hold of their key supplies. >> so lincoln decides hes going to go to richmond with his son tad on his son tads 12th birthday. >> quite a birthday present. >> with his youngest son by his side, lincoln makes his way to the fallen enemy capitol. now soldiers and in ruins. >> they are basically unaccompanied. a trip that would never be okayed by the secret service today. and they begin to walk up into the city, which has been dedicated to his destruc...
March 15, 2021
Up to four years of devastating civil war, you lis cease s. grants cuts a supply line to the capitol. general robert e. lee has no choice but to abandon richmond. >> richmond will fall on april 2nd of 1865. lee sends a letter that hes going to retreat, that they need to evacuate the city. confederates actually set their capitol city on fire in an
March 15, 2021
The senate just made history confirming the first native american secretary of the interior. wemented to give you that news update. returning now to another new cabinet member. merrick garlands first full weeken the job. the justice department he
March 14, 2021
People is not to rock the boat. karl connor has worked as a senior manager in the communications team at sellafield for the past 13 years. he resigned injanuary after a breakdown caused in part, he says, by bullying at work. i suffered a mental health breakdown, and what i found was there was no tolerance room for me to get better. we have all the slogans, and as a comms person i wrote some of the slogans about, talking about mental health and how positive can you know, we should be about people...
March 14, 2021
So i have heard things that have never heard at another organisation. routine use of the word... of the n—word, use of the word, you know, i cant say these words but, you know, vile racist terms being used. really, really offensive comments, and homophobia as well. and it worries me sick because i think sellafield is a ticking time bomb because of the cultural issues, and no one seems to be holding them to account. allison mcdermott�*s contract was terminated days after she submitted an inte...
March 14, 2021
The material for britains first atomic bombs was produced here. now, this huge site takes spent nuclearfuel, and re—processes it. storing it insecure concrete warehouses. this site behind me employs more than 10,000 people working with some of the most hazardous material in existence. sellafield is the largest nuclear site in europe, and home to the largest stockpile of plutonium in the world. the bbc, though, has spoken to people worried about working conditions here. we have seen and letter ...
March 14, 2021
Now on bbc news. reporterjim reed investigates allegations of a culture of bullying and harassment at the sellafield nuclear site in cumbria. i think theres massive problems with bullying at sellafield, and its always seen as, lets keep this quiet, lets sweep this under the carpet. young women saying there in tears after work because of the way they have been sexually harassed. theres lots of sexism, theres racism. if theres a major incident, all of us will be exposed. you got toxic materials an...
March 14, 2021
Japan held memorials this weem to remember people who are dead or missing from the fukushima nuclear meltdown. cnns melissa bell explains. >> in france the future was not meant to be nuclear. the industry supported and promoted by governments in the name of energy dependence and carbon neutrality. france is now the second biggest