Show a delight to have your company today broadcasting from my oil patch here in paddington. Loads to talk about. You will not believe some of the facts and figures and stats were about to come out of this report called taking back control, written by Robert Jenrick , the written by Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, former immigration minister who resigned in principle over what were about to reveal simply shocking stuff. And also today, its turned out that some of our most favourite insults in the engush most favourite insults in the english language are going out of fashion. My favourite is plonker. What are yours . Send in plonker. What are yours . Send in your favourite very british insults. Please keep them clean. Insults. Please keep them clean. I dont want to lose my job. Its been a great week and ill read out a few before the end of the show. Now get in touch the usual ways gb news. Com forward slash your save. Lets now kick off with your headlines and its tatiana sanch
On their ashes tour. Its just been revealed why batsman ben duckett was been dropped from englands ashes tour match today it follows an incident in a perth bar. In sharp contrast here more snow and ice are on the way with freezing temperatures likely to cause travel disruption. Stav will have the latest for us. A few snow showers and the potential of some significant snow. Join me laterfor the details. Good morning. First, our main story. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has arrived in iran shortly, where he will express what he describes as grave concerns over the imprisonment of the british iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe. The aid worker has been held prisoner in the country since april 2016, accused of trying to overthrow the iranian government a charge she denies. Mrjohnson is also expected to discuss britains wider relations with iran. Heres our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins. Boris johnsons first visit to iran could hardly be more sensitive. Last month he was
Francine welcome to the pulse or call the pulse. Super thursday has been dubbed the thursday of the year. The bank of england is said to publish a slew of data. The boe decision minute of it meeting are being released at lunchtime as the governor mark carney works to improve transparency. In this torrent of data, how many members are we expecting to call for an Interest Rate hike . That is the big question. The majority of economists do expect a split in the vote. There are nine members. 19 of the 20 economists surveyed by bloomberg expect if it expect a split. More than half expect to members to vote for decision. We have seen some vote for tighter policy, they dropped that in january when they all inflation fall. They will be closely watching to see of any others vote. Francine the strength of the currency is also compensating things for the governor. Absolutely. This is a tight rope he will have to walk as he delivers his press conference. The pound in the past month has been streng
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Working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide; the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build measurably better lives; the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. The tabloid media and the political media converge for the first time, and you suddenly have the camera scrums of people shoving each other aside, elbowing. The tabloid reporters are jumping over bushes. Could we not push the crowd . This is not just big political news, it was gossip. I officially announce my candidacy for the office of president of the United States of america. Bold leadership. All four Television Networks covered jackson. It was called the body watch. They were assuming that he was going to get shot. [dramatic hiphop music] the 1980s was a time of big ideas and even bigger personalities. Gary hart originally Gary Hartpence was a handsome senator from colorado who vaulted onto the National Stage i