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Neighborhoods. theyve been told if you come into a low-income neighborhood, youre not going to make money. the fact of the matter, if you look at per capita, people are willing to pay for food, people are willing to pay for good food if you give them food good. >> you use the term, food apartheid. what is that? >> i wanted people to talk about the food system and the systemic changes that has to happen, that we need to talk about the influence of race, economics, and demographics, start having t...

But the time now is 6.28. now lets get the weather with carol, who is at an urban allotment in south london. good morning. good morning. good morning. good morning everyone. i am good morning. good morning everyone. iam in beckenham this morning on the dorset road allotments. a very tranquil here. we have got potatoes waiting to be harvested, some have already gone. you can see apples beside me. there are beings, the works going on. temperatures in about 22 degrees. last night, in fact in the la...

Control over much of the area — which you can see here in blue. 430,000 israelis live in a number of settlements and outposts built under israels occupation. but they are regarded as illegal under international law. and in orange are the areas under varying degrees of palestinian control. as you can see — its complicated. and who better to help explain it than our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. it could be a rural idyll, a farmer and his family working the fields, and his family working t...

A farmer and his family working the fields his grandfather bought, refreshed by tea, laced with wild sage, a palestinian delicacy. but persam halil jaba has a misfortune. his land is next to gush etzion, one of the settlement blocs that israel wants to annex. ten days ago, persam saw a notice pinned up. it was, he says, from the israeli army, telling him to vacate his property. translation: annexation is a dangerous thing, and establishing a palestinian state will become impossible. this will ca...

Ever—deeper depression. perhaps as dark as it sounds, even suicide. because theres no way out. those are the thoughts ive had in the past, when i was there and i couldnt get out. there was no escape. im just grateful, i really am, to be here today. extra funding is being allocated by the uk government to enable charities in england to offer more refuge places. however, in addition to meeting immediate demand, there is a fear that the impact for many families could be felt for generations to co...

The state i am in, lots of schools have been converted into temporary shelters, to house these migrants. they will also be given food. in a country which often does disaster management really well, this is something that i have seen after floods and earthquakes, nobody goes hungry, at least. there has been great criticism about why there was not enough planning in place for something which many saw as inevitable. yogita limaye, good to talk to you. thank you for that update from them by. —— ...

Of moving towards a police state, but actually he laid the blame for that knot at the foot of the police as it were about at the foot of the public because he said in these times it is the public who demand that the police take action and in a way they had called for tougher restrictions, clamp—downs, and were seeking the police to enforce a much tighter regime, so yes it is critical of the police but he was saying they are only doing it because we want them to do that. thank you very much, no...

Freelancer selena from london can get is £94 a week, if she claims through universal credit. id been taking a much, much... like, a massive hit on my income, if i was to go on to universal credit. its not even going to hit, like, 40% of what i am normally earning in one month. thats in stark contrast to the help for direct employees, those affected by shop, pub and restaurant closures, who will see 80% of their wages covered by the government. but even those who can get financial support are fi...

Like, a massive hit on my income if i were to go on to universal credit. it will not even hit, like, 40% of what i normally earn in one month. that is in stark contrast to the help for direct employees, those affected by shop, pub and restaurant closures, who will see 80% of their wages covered by the government. but even those who can get financial support are finding it difficult to access. damien shut his restaurant in cambridgeshire and is now doing a takeaway bread service, but says the lac...

Financial support are finding it difficult to access. damien shut his restaurant in cambridgeshire and is now doing a takeaway bread service, but says the lack of information is frustrating. im not going to call hmrc or anything like that. ijust make bread and i donate the supply to the community and wait until i get more information and until somebody gives me some clues. there is growing confusion over whether construction workers can safely go to work. photos of crowded building sites have an...