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you're watching bbc news. now the dark side of direct sales. the world of door—to—door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i'm lora jones and, for the past year, i've been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road...

raising interest rates five times this year to combat inflation. and even with this new report, economists say people should still be bracing for the possibility of a recession in tough times ahead. so let's get to the new report and what it means and what is it doesn't. matt egan is here. and what does this good news say about what is next? >> well, kate, not that much. this is a rearview mirror number. it is a snapshot in time. we know the economy got knocked down in the first half of the year, but it got back on its feet this summer. gdp rising 2.6%. that is solid. consumer spends...

border into a broken turnstile and releasing a record wave of immigrants biden is here to fix it. the president will be traveling to el paso, texas, on sunday, my day off to visit the border for the first time in his 50 year career. making the announcement admitting that there's a problem, but refusing to call it a crisis. >> today i would like to talk to you about how my administrations dealing with the situation in the southwest border. >> greg: biden's big idea to stop the flow of illegals is have them download an app. >> if they are seeking asylum, they can use an app on their ce...

wow! and i don't think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can't afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don't want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your soul. and could direct sales companies be breaking the law? i'm speechless. if they were here right now, . i would ask them what on earth they think they're up to. so, at this point in the day, i'm going to explain what you can expect to be doing in the business, essentially. you're learning the very basic skills... # and a girl like me... ..sales, you get mar...

we want to get to the september jobs report. the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%. what does this mean for future interest rate hikes? meanwhile, the markets are reacting, the dow down around 400 points and it comes as americans face a convergence of economic pressures from rising prices at the gas pump, rent and mortgage rates up, and inflation burning a hole in our wallets. we could hear from president biden as he heads to maryland. we'll watch to see if he stops to comment on this report. with me now brian cheung, josh letterman, also joins us, host of public radio's "full disclo...