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Graphic on that one so lets move on to the guardian. They have an interesting story about pets. Apparently in the uk, our cramped housing means less of us have pets and that could have sad consequences for us. So lets begin. With me is liam booth smith, ceo of the independent, non profit think tank localis which promotes neo localist ideas in the uk through research, events and commentary. Welcome. Again. You have been busy reading all these stories since i last saw you. Lets begin with the new york times. What is they take on this earthquake, the deadliest we have seen this year. Obviously with any tragedy like this it is escalating situation in terms of understanding. We start with a few hundred people who have lost their lives. But we can not we do not yet know how me people have been affected by the loss of a home. We can lose something important if we focus just on topline figures. There have been concerns raised about the response of the iranian government. It has worrying echoes ....
Host richard, congratulations on your book tickets not only the most thoughtful but its very timely and i think we do show that there on the screen. Very timely in discussing a world of disarray. Let me ask you right off the bat why did you write it . Guest i didnt know paula when i rode it who was going to be the president. I simply knew that this was going to be the inbox that would greet whoever was the president of United States but a lot of these trends have been long in the making. Some of the more recent but the bottom line was that whoever wins an election will choose just about everything, theyre running mate, their policies. The only thing they can choose is their inbox and what i wanted to do was talk about the next president and just as important how we got from the optimism of 25 years ago to something that shall we say its decidedly other than optimistic in the last part of the book i talk about what is it we should a ....
That has been seeing some pretty wild swings. Analysts saying we are seeing a little bit of profit taking when it comes to japanese markets. Uncertainty over how long this rally can last. Having said that, malaysia is in the green after early declines. Kong stocks extending gains as trading gets underway, up by 6 10 of 1 . Singapore in the red. The disappointing numbers, domestic exports dropping close to 10 , far worse than what we expected. The oil and gas space is suffering the most today. One andtor is down by 7 10 of 1 . The asiapacific gauge down by 3 10 of 1 . We spoke about some of the biggest movers today. Softbank is moving up for a second day. Exuberance,of that the Share Buyback plan. We talked about woodside. Dominos pizza, better than expected results. That is one of the movers to the upside in sydney. The peoples bank of china weakening by the most since january 7, so we are seeing some weakness when it comes to grow ....
Been workforce right now. I will jump in here on that. Am i on . Great. I will hold it up. I think its a great first question. Im excited about and i will tell you why. Theres problems with the immigration system. There are bad actors in our immigration system. Whether they are people who are taking advantage the people with immigration fraud, or whether theyre paying, forcing people to work for 5 an hour. I get up every single day and what we hear from our opponent is they find a problem with immigration system and they say, you guys just want more immigrants. Hold on a second. We are trying to fix the broken immigration system so let me explain what i mean. They are are people who in the Construction Industry and paying 4 an hour with no benefits. The people theyre paying for dollars an hour to are often put into position of do i call the police or do i worked for 4 an hour . I work in this space, you know, im a jew who g ....