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Above that level of poverty according to the un. Today is the United Nations International Day for the eradication of poverty, something Global Leaders committed to do in 2015 that established the uns Sustainable Development goals. So, why is solving global poverty proving so difficult . Joining me now is Luis Felipe Lopez calva, global director for poverty and equity at the world bank. A very warm welcome to the programme. This is such a big issue and we have a few minutes in the world of telev...

Going for donald trump at this point in time. We will have to wait and see we dont know if thats because people dont care about the trial or if they care about other things about the border, they care about the economy, they care about a great many things that unfortunately get swallowed up by this process. Thank you so much. I appreciate you, gentlemen. The next hour of seeing a new central starts right now. These cnn Breaking News im john berman outside the criminal court in Downtown Manhattan...

Half the globe� s total wealth. Now a bri project could be a railway in kenya, he could be a port in sri lanka, a bridge in the maldives, the largest project so far has been the china Pakistan Economy corridor. It goes through kunz or rob, which is a Desert Mountain pass on the china pakistan border. The second thing you need to know is that it has two official names, one for inside china and one for outside china. Now initially was called one belt, one road four which sounds great in chinese,...

Lets start in the eu, where Three Tech Giants the social media platform x, Tiktok Owner Bytedance and the travel website booking. Com, are waiting to find out whether they could face an Antitrust Crackdown under the eus new digital antitrust rulebook. The Eu Commission has until the end of today to decide whether those three companies would qualify as so called gatekeepers under the new Digital Markets act. The aim of the act is to help competition in the Technology Sector and to try to break do...

A more secure future for britons, ahead of an election expected later this year. It comes days after the conservatives� bleak showing in local elections. We can cross live to westminster and our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Its been a difficult time in the last couple of weeks for the government because of those election results. Presumably hell want to change the subject now. Yet another change the subect now. Yet another attem t to change the subject now. Yet another attempt to res...

It has been the wettest 18 months on record since 1836, one of the wettest winters in decades that many farmers can remember. It has had a huge impact on the ability to grow crops and it has been quite sudden. In 2022 we were talking about extreme heat and drought and farmers not being able to get crops out of the ground because it was baked too hard. This winter they have not been able to get them in the ground because it has been too wet, waterlogged and soft, basically. That means that the am...

A reminder of the breaking news this hour. Apologies for the departure of our camera. Israel has told the United Nations that more than a million palestinians must leave the Northern Gaza Strip further blasts have been heard overnight in gaza, as Israeli Forces aim to eradicate the Hamas Militant Group in the wake of saturdays attacks. This is the scene live in gaza where it has just gone 7 30 in the morning. The un said the order by the Israeli Military also applied to all of its staff and thos...

Of duty, candy crush and World Of Warcraft is the biggest in gaming history. The takeover was blocked in april this year by the uks Competition Regulator over concerns the us Computing Giant would secure too strong a foothold in the nations cloud gaming market. The delay has been a setback for microsoft, which at the time called the british decision � bad for britain� and the companys darkest day in its four decades of working in the uk. Well, i think for gamers theres going to be very littl...

That was being shipped . Oh, yeah. And thats because ijust inspect certain areas. So in totality, with all the inspectors, if you total them out, yeah, youd be over the hundreds. Now, you were picking up on these faults, you were highlighting them, you were flagging them up to be repaired. What kind of response did you get from your managers . Did they support you . My managers werent always there. The Production Managers always made a fuss about why i was finding it, why i was looking at it, an...

Let me bring you two new lines coming in in the last few moments. Reuters news agency reporting that alerts are being sounded in more towns in northern israel. Warnings of incoming aircraft, i say aircraft, the thought is we are talking about drones. That is happening in the north, alerts in more towns in northern israel with warnings of incoming aircraft. We are keeping an eye on that, we have been talking to our correspondent on the borders with lebanon so well get the latest on that line. And...