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Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im ben brown. Were looking at two of the weeks big stories whats happening in russia as men flee the country after president putins call up of reservists to fight in ukraine and his threat to use Nuclear Weapons, and also the british governments announcement of sweeping tax cuts the most far reaching for half a century. Well, im joined to discuss all this with polly toynbee, columnist from the guardian, Stephanie Baker of bl...

legalise same—sex marriage. the new family code which is the culmination of efforts by a coalition of lgbtq activists, would help gay couples adopt children and also allow surrogate pregnancies. now on bbc news, it is time for dateline london. hello and a warm welcome to dateline london. im ben brown. were looking at two of the weeks big stories — whats happening in russia as men flee the country after president putins call—up of reservists to fight in ukraine and his threat to u...

now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london. im ben brown. were looking at two of the weeks big stories — whats happening in russia as men flee the country after president putins call—up of reservists to fight in ukraine and his threat to use nuclear weapons, and also the british governments announcement of sweeping tax cuts — the most far—reaching for half a century. well, im joined to discuss all this with polly toynbee, columnist from the guardian,...

hello and welcome to dateline london. im ben brown. were looking at two of the weeks big stories — whats happening in russia as men flee the country after president putins call—up of reservists to fight in ukraine and his threat to use nuclear weapons, and also the british governments announcement of sweeping tax cuts — the most far—reaching for half a century. well, im joined to discuss all this with polly toynbee, columnist from the guardian, stephanie baker of bloomberg news...

They said markets wont like it and he says, "markets will do what markets do". well, you know, markets trample all over you if youre going to borrow huge sums of money and youre not — you know, it might be sensible to borrow huge sums of money if it was for serious investment. if it was to have a real green energy policy to make sure that we can be self—sufficient in energy, something of that sort that has real yields for the future, instead of which, as stephanie said, its money into the po...

Going to borrow huge sums of money and youre not — you know, it might be sensible to borrow huge sums of money if it was for serious investment. if it was to have a real green energy policy to make sure that we can be self—sufficient in energy, something of that— sort that has real yields for the future, instead of which, as stephanie said, its money into the pockets of the very rich who will use it on extra holidays and buyin- things from abroad. if you give it to people in the middle or ...

Holidays and buying things from abroad. if you give it to people in the middle or lower down, each pound rolls through the economy over and over and over again, through the local economy, and takes much longer before it gets sent abroad. we have a terrible balance of payments as it is. giving lots of money to the rich will only make that worse. 0k. latika bourke of the sydney morning herald, not exactly ringing endorsements from these two. whats your take on this? theres a crazy brave element to...