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Supported at the peak. at its peak, nearly a third of the entire workforce, £68.5 billion claimed. it is the single most expensive economic support during the pandemic. 1.6 million still reliant on support. the number of people on furlough has fallen as restrictions are lifted. big questions. i have been speaking to a lot of businesses this week about how they will make some tough decisions about the future, in the hope they can get staff back to work. if the business and custom is not there to support it, that is the problem but it is worth remembering there are many who felt excluded from t...

Additional support offered to keep people in employment and protect jobs also long. to give it its official name, it is the job support scheme. it has kept many millions of people in work during the depths of the downturn and the lockdown is have meant many people could not go to work and their businesses could not operate as normal. let me remind you of some of those numbers. they are pretty staggering. it is hard to get your head around the extent and scale of it. at its peak 8.9 million people were having theirjob artificially supported by taxpayer money, by the government. that is a third ...

He intends to ramp up the training of syria's so-called moderate opposition after resisting calls to do are so foe here toees. secretary of state john kerry flew to saudi arabia where he met with the head of the syrian opposition, day after the white house requested $500 million from congress to start the large-scale training by u.s. special forces. the request was larger than expected, and came as part of the administration's request for $68.5 billion in overseas contingency operations. pentagon officials indicated the training would not begin until next year. the training would last six to e...

Would properly vet members of the syrian opposition to insure the weapons we provide do not fall into the wrong hands. jennifer griffin live in our d.c. bureau with more on that controversial proposal. jennifer. >> reporter: jon, in a near about face president obama signaled he now intend to ramp up training of syria's so-called moderate opposition after resisting calls to do so for three years since the syrian civil war began. secretary of state john kerry flew to saudi arabia where he met today with the head of the syrian opposition a day after the white house requested $500 million from con...

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