Collapsing in england and wales because of mistakes with sharing evidence. 20 years after dolly the sheep, scientists clone monkeys in china. It raises ethical questions about the experiment. The former labour minister Dame Tessa Jowell talks for the first time about her aggressive brain tumour and the way cancer is treated in this country. I am not afraid. I feel very clear about my sense of purpose. Its 5 oclock. Our main story one of the organisers of a Charity Dinner where women were reported to have been groped, propositioned and sexually harassed has stepped down from the department for education. The businessman, david meller, was a non executive board member at the department. Mr meller has also resigned as a trustee of the mayors fund for london. Undercover journalists from the Financial Times say they were harassed and propositioned at the president s club annual Charity Fundraiser in london last week. The organisers of the men only dinner have said theyre appalled by the all
Wrong when one family, the owners of walmart own as much wealth as the bottom 40 of the american people. There is something profoundly wrong when millions of workers are working longer hours for lower wages when we have by far the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world and almost all new wealth and income goes into the hands of the few. Enough is enough. That has got to end. And together, we will end it. This campaign is sending a profound message to the billionaire class. You cant have it all. You cant get huge tax breaks when children in america go hungry. You cannot continue to send our jobs to china when millions of americans are looking for work. You cannot hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and in other tax havens. When there are massive, unmet needs in this country. The greed of the billionaire class has got to end, and we are going to end it for them. But it is not just income and wealth inequality. It is the fact that we have millions of people work
Solution to the Iranian Nuclear issue. One that will provide the necessary assurances on the exclusively peaceful nature of Irans Nuclear program on the one hand, and the list lifting of sanctions on the other. As such, it represents a significant achievement and a tribute to the merits of patient diplomacy from all sides. It is appropriate that this deal was struck in vienna, where all this began 12 years ago when the International Atomic Energy Agency started to look into possible iranian undeclared nuclear activities. Since then, there have been many months and years of at times difficult negotiations. A key milestone in that process was the interim geneva agreement in 2013, the smooth implementation of which provided necessary time and space for the conflict negotiation process which followed. This resulted in the parameters being set for the final deal. The format was especially effective. We feel that the European Union in particular was able to play a crucial or facilitation rol
Lets give them a good round of applause. [applause] its a chock full day. Youll start hearing people give you insight to Social Security and a lot of it in depth of the actuarial perspective which are the lifeblood of the Social Security so youll be hearing but the key to this day, in my view and i hope to be here the whole day, is the last session real have a chance to put together a Social Security long term solvency program. Youll hear a lot of the options discussed and to do it yourself. This is an amazing city. I relocated here last july from new york, you might be surprised to think im from new york and what i love about the city is that everyone is connected. Im taking over this morning and my driver says where can i take you and my driver said i told him the barber center. Barbara jordan, theres a center named after Barbara Jordan and i said yes, did you know who she was. He said not only do i know she was but i had a radio show in washington, 50 years ago on the station it doe
I think a few jaws dropped. Yes, they did. Good morning to you all. Were going to start things off today with hurricane threats increasing in the caribbean and all the way up the east coast. Yeah, and right now millions of people are under a Tropical Storm watch from delaware to massachusetts as hurricane jose closes in. This is a very rare thing for many parts of the northeast and Hurricane Maria is making its way toward the Leeward Islands which includes barbuda and st. Martin, both hit very hard by irma. There have been a number of projections as to where maria will go next, but most forecasts have the system passing over puerto rico, the Dominican Republic and haiti, and the hurricane is also expected to gain strength. Now, in addition to jose and maria, Tropical Storm lee is churning in the atlantic. Busy times now, but maria is causing the most concern. This morning, the caribbean bracing for a new hit. Hurricane maria gathering strength overnight and now watches and warnings pos