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On digital and online I'm Raj Shah and we're up all night scientists stone as a rule like using megaphones they study report and leave it to us as time it might be a little different 11000 scientists from 150 different countries declare they have a moral obligation to tell him out of of any catastrophic threat and tell it like it is a headline on their report in the American academic publication bio science couldn't be any more explicitly depressing world scientists warning of a global climate emergency calls this time they don't stop at the indicators we're all familiar with it's not just by the extent to which the climate's warming there's a lot more going on. 11000 scientists all put their name to this document which warns of untold human suffering unless we make some deep in last changes the poor in the us astray and South Africa draws on 40 years of data and Clare's the world is in the middle of an accelerating climate imagine say one of the lead authors Professor William ripple of Oregon State University told the b.b.c. Why they're issuing the warning now we're just starting to see storms becoming more intense all frequency where hurricanes and cycle owns and droughts tornadoes and rising seas and storm surges so we're concerned. That this is just starting in there's not has not been enough action. To stop this type of runaway climate change. A study takes on examples of human climate impact including population growth increasing air travel and the global loss of tree cover Professor repl explain what in their opinion needs to be done rather than just talk about the carbon dioxide emissions like is typically done we think it's important to address this problem holistically So we're thinking about a 6 interrelated steps that look at all aspects of society rather than just for example fossil fuel emissions so we want to include issues that are around the economy and around population increases and around how to preserve nature to see Questor carbon especially in trees and we want to talk about the importance of eating low on the food chain because when we eat a lot of meat the greenhouse gas emissions increase. Professor ripples world he hopes real change will start soon we're putting out our consensus statement and now it's going to be up to humanity to decide what to do next but I must say that I think we are at the point of a social tipping point where where there's so many different activities going on in discussions around climate change that I think we're going to see the policies start to change it more rapidly now. Well a study has say Professor report said it actually got 6 videos heads of recommendations including calling for an end to g.d.p. Being a measure of economic success and ing lamb clearance and population control but the one that we're going to 0 in on here is what he talked about eating low on the food chain Professor Walter Willett from Harvard's th Chan School of Public Health is one of the authors of food and the Anthropocene that's where we are no by the way the age when mankind has a biggest impact on the planet and the subtitle of the study they eate he Lancet commission on healthy diets from sustainable food system so let's focus in on that with Professor will it not Hello Professor Well it could evening or whatever time it is as airily early morning we call it but it's it's not a good time we don't we don't think about that too much tell me. This is this a huge study isn't it and one of the the things a biotech is it doesn't just look at c o 2 emissions does it I mean it goes through the whole thing and I mean one of the big deals is is the head of the head kind of ruminant livestock which has gone zooming up over the last few years. Yes. Professor ripple mentioned we can look at just one or 2 pieces of this big picture that our environment is changing in many ways climate change and global warming is one of the sim one of the areas but basically converting natural land uses such as forests and parries into grazing areas or cultivating for crops that reduces the buffering capacity of trees to capture coming back side. We're using more fertilizer and polluting our environment in Vic celebrating rate where water is being consumed in large amounts and many areas are greatly stressed the extinction of species of different species is going on at an unprecedented rate so all of these things are happening and we continue to do this. Living on a finite planet and we can't continue to increase the destruction of our environment and still be able to pass on to our children our grandchildren a viable planet the way we understand it to be can I suggest to you that part of the problem is that a lot more people are reaching our standard of living and knowledge office says the world is producing far more meat than it did before. Yes that not surprisingly if countries who have been poor look around and see other people behaving in very different ways very high level of consumption of fossil fuels meat other aspects of food that take a lot of energy input they would like to share some of that too and so that part of the world is changing very rapidly the consumption of red meat in China is almost up to what it is in the United States. Amazingly people live to drive cars like Americans and British and when we're also adding 2500000000 people more by 2050 the the changes in lifestyle and top of another 20000000000 people means means that our footprint is. Increasing very rapidly in a way that will destroy the environment that we know so it's talk about your recommendations and that you work in which is food what do you suggest. Well we are committed which involve 35 scientists from 17 different countries. Really took on the challenge of. Feeding the world a healthy diet 1st of all that was our priority because when we look around most the world isn't consuming a healthy diet it's too much of some bad things in other countries and that nearly enough of could things in most countries not nearly enough fruits vegetables whole grains nuts and fish so our goal is to feed people a healthy diet very simple and at the same time be able to do that in a way that is sustainable that we can stay within the limits of the plant as a planet b. Can stay within the limits of greenhouse gas production and. Avoid the huge increase in temperature that is projected if we don't change. And so we. We went through a whole series of analysis and different scenarios with the different diets and we did conclude that there is a double when that's possible we can feed the world's population which will be almost 10000000000 by 2050 a diet that is much healthier than they're consuming today. That would prevent about 20 to 25 percent of premature deaths and at the same time stay within the planetary boundaries and but to do that will mean that we need to do 3 main things I'd opt to more plant based diet and this is not necessary vegetarian or vegan but with limited amounts of red meat dairy products. Increasing amounts of fruits vegetables whole grains nuts seeds and fish. Do this in a way that is more efficient agriculturally and also cut down on food waste so if we do all of those things and that's asking a lot it is a double win solution is possible or not doesn't this also require huge cooperation I mean apart from Moscow's you know here we are at the end of the chain we're the members of the public we are the consumers we are the people who go to the supermarket and do the shopping or grow stuff in our gardens for that matter but you've got to get the cooperation of agribusiness haven't you on the large food co-ops that actually make the stuff available and also I suppose you've got to get governments to buy into it. Well yes we need changes at all levels and some of this is shooting economic leverage that the agricultural system does respond to incentives and disincentives that the reasons why things are the way they are today is to a large extent that producing a lot of grains that we feed mostly to animals and some to convert to ethanol that is. The economics of the situation are stepped up so that that's the logical thing for a farmer to do. Farmers for the most part are getting rich in this process either we need to create a system that they can make a good reasonable living producing healthy food and that should be the way the system works but it's not doing that right now and part of the problem is that the subsidies 3 have burst meant that the tax policies really reinforce the current system that we have so we do need to change most economically diverse but that's not the only thing we don't have to sit back and wait for that happen to happen because it's not going to happen tomorrow and we need to start making changes to now now that every person every family can make changes in the foods we buy the foods we produce and ways that will be actually better for us and that can be produced in wonderfully flavorful ways. And we can drive a lot of that change is all too just in my experience very often that policymakers are the last people to make changes so we we can do this starting from the ground up but in the end we do need to have buy and changes in policy as well as we could go on but thank you for starting us off with us Professor Well that would really appreciate it Ok I hope you enjoy good. Typist backrest some good old meal not so. I'm a total fan of a of porridge as we sow so you know you're preaching to the can that's it they're. Completely with you porridge is a great way to start the day thank you. Thank you bye bye bye. Well. Maybe some more hopeful news to world peace in the access for 2019 according to the World Peace Index the world is a safer place than it was and 2080 Steve killer Lay as the man behind the Global Peace Index is talking about it next week in Coventry at the rising go Peace Forum and he's with us now though Steve hi how are you tonight for a good very good what's the what's the Global Peace Forum tell us a little bit about what what do you know about it. The global case for I'm a little be looking at the issues dealing with clerical place to cover Barrie such which I have climate change more quickly to impact that not the Along with other ecological issues but also bringing in a number. Of prominent national people such as a truly extra prime minister of Australia and it should be a very interesting conference and looking forward to being there for good and were obviously ridging Eunice trillion. When you come to know me I'm actually I'm a New York actually I'm in New York you're reaching me in New York's just the Stratton accent that's for various areas I started doing it yes quite right. Well tell us a little bit about the criteria for measuring peace how do you how do you put a country in on the say and the example talk in a minute about the rankings and you know who made it where. Sure that case of looking at the Global Peace Index consists of 3 different demands so the 1st one is the safety and security so that the internal mission within a country in crisis things like the homicide rate Bolland crime right number of people incarcerated Number Place state sponsored terror on its citizens a bill that is small. Acts of terrorism except the 2nd demand is the ongoing conflict which is so clever trick evident the 3rd to minus militarized ration Keller's things such as the number of troops 200000 population percentage of g.d.p. Been on the military sophistication of the military weapons imports weapons exports 3 come together to create what we see as a holistic measure of place to do that we use a definition called the absence of violence or fear of arms which is pretty self self she would be of the nation which most people can agree to become a better 100 where we did have 163 countries which is bad which is 99.7 percent of the world's population. Well look I really want to know this they want to know where where the u.k. Fits in and that's 45th that's not is neither good nor bad really on your scale is it but it's in the it's certainly in the top half. It's into a spare 25 percent of Senator that's good that's good things which would drag the u.k. Them have got the pictures up top my head something list from memory the things which drag it down South Korea capabilities Paul said Curtis slightly higher homicide rate than other way yet developed Western democracies and its violent crime rate is slightly higher as well and so silent of the number of conflicts. Which also I suppose that There but for the courts not to $25.00 sir it's not today that breastmilk top 25 percent. And I think I think people would expect to be beaten by places like you know the Scandinavian countries the Benelux countries and and so on but it's probably going to go a little bit harder when the u.k. Finds itself below. You know Euro Gras. Croatia Chili Bowl Galia Romania Romania was got a remarkably high rating as and it on the scale here was kind of very very small the level of knowledge or I say should say the U.K.'s kolaches military exports. Go silent gauged a lot more complex now that's not to say well that's good or bad with Nike no moral judgments on what conflicts country should or shouldn't be made from the perspective of the people living in the country conflicts so the cost to the soldiers who was there to take the payments for those people in the country said all those things go into it if we go and look at the Latin American countries they tend to be a lot higher on the violent crime homicide but less than America if you look at the militarization within the with within Latin America for touch with the precinct is tonnage. Son. It's this is the beauty of having an index which sort of takes in the 3 dimensions internal safety and security ongoing conflict and militarization to say oh come back and have an impact on the society in relation to the little surprise on us so one of the other things to Philip Marlowe judgment. Some countries are engaged a more strategic wounded national issues. Others have got really nasty niters need to defend themselves against other countries Big Sur just try to muscle in and. Brings us of course to the United States which any any kind of boosters of the United States could be rather depressed to find that well down your list and behind a Immediately behind South Africa for example and well behind broader Malar El Salvador Algeria places like that. It would think with the u.s. Number of indicators which quality and so it's got the highest incarceration rate in the world after North Korea interest to a lot of Americans and actually really realize. That it's true it's got a high profile ability of small arms. It's got a massive military sophistication particularly its nuclear arsenal. The largest weapon 6 courts in the world it's also involved in many many conflicts around the world and the issue of a lot of those conflicts they just been ongoing for so long particularly let's say I can Afghanistan. Since a whole range of different indicators which pulls it down it's not just one of one of things you've taken and. So I only go. You know you have to look at it from memory and having a particular of the top a bit spare 120 I think on the on the index standards not not not in the bottom quarter was encouraging that's encouraging one of the things you look at is climate change as a factor in this climate is important because if you have to leave your home and you go to some other person's home then that's a potential source of conflict. Yes I think in the ph itself we look at the impact of climate change to see which estimator imperialist station school was saying it like look at the skies in California a lot of experts say. The fires raging down there a lot of experts put that to the underlying issue being climate change so what we did is we looked at the number of 30 people who live in the world who are likely to be affected by climate change between 20 to 50 what we found of. 7000000000 people on the planet 970000000 are likely to be affected. The most a going to go I think with the 400000000000 of us with what we'd call the locus countries or countries which are Preciado and what happens is you can measure the resilience of different countries by using other measures of place. But the ones which are in the low place countries will spread to project place countries they are the ones which us will likely to adapt from impacts from climate changes that countries would say like the u.k. a Strong us 2. Countries with the. High levels of depth ability within their societies and also with the money to be able to adapt to a more lot more likely to be able to make the changes when they actually see it but if you're looking at a lot of the low base countries and they're likely to implode met by quick because Mark ration issues which would flow into other parts of the world yes my goodness well. We're sure better news Steve though thank you very much for joining us. Yeah look at my pleasure. Now to San Francisco. Which is having to deal with the impact of too much money the tech boom has resulted in a massive pressure on San Francisco's limited housing stock and people have been priced out of the homes in November last year voters in the city pos the largest corporate tax increase in San Francisco history and one tech c.e.o. Of cues to other business leaders who oppose the measure of not giving back enough to the city and Paul has done something pretty innovative and I don't see a huge package for housing affordable housing as joint Facebook and Google and doing this but it's even richer their package is worth 2 and a half $1000000000.00 It includes a 1000000000 in mortgage assistance for 1st time home buyers a sort of thing you'd expect the government might be doing Google is going to redevelop company land for affordable housing so as a sign adequate response toward David as executive director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition Hello Tod Hello how are you Rod thank you thanks for having me on thank you for coming on as I say in another country you might expect the government to be you know putting together a big fund of you know low cost mortgages and so on and really really trying to shift some heavy loads here but why has it been left up to Apple and Google and Facebook Well I'm not sure that I would say that it's been left up to the private sector you know Apple Google and Facebook what I would say is that that we are much like London are like San Francisco we are in this affordability displacement crisis and the kind of spreads out the whole day area and that you know we're looking for . All different parts of the community to do their part and I think that these large employers who happen to be tech happen to be tech companies they're saying like well we have land we have money and so those are 2 of the 3 things that you need to get you know affordable housing built and so I think that they're like we can do this part but in no way are I think anyone thinks that this is replacing this should be additive to what the government is doing and should not make it you know an exchange and replace it with the government stepping in can you give us a sense of affordability is sort of moving out of the city because in the past the size of San Francisco was pretty affordable you know people could afford to live between the airport sure you know the kind of glamorous parts of the city is that still the case well I mean this so certainly the area that you're target kind of the southern part of San Francisco and actually the town just south called South South San Francisco it is it is less expensive then as you say the glamorous parts of the set a however it's becoming more it's becoming more expensive and that is because fundamentally our fundamental problem in San Francisco and the Bay Area is we have underproduced housing for 30 years and so we just people are desperate for housing anywhere and so when people are desperate for housing anywhere they will bid up the price of housing everywhere so teachers firefighters police officers 1st responders and maybe used to live in kind of the outskirts of the city or South San Francisco they're now living 2 hours away and having to do the super commutes to come and work in the city and so in that once again I want to get back to this is the the fundamental problem is we simply have not. Built enough housing for 30 years we under-produced it and just the the working class the blue collar people are pushed further and further away from the city from city centers to find out where to to find housing that they can afford. Can you give us some idea of prices I have in mind a very colorful hillside of of little houses which you see some of the used to see on your way into San Francisco from the airport and in Daly City it was made famous by Pete Seeger in the song Little boxes because store people if you will all of them little boxes and they all look just the same very humble Hoess How much would one of these questionnaires you know probably one of those houses that you were talking about north of a $1000000.00 Now maybe $1.00 maybe $1200000.00 Right around there. And that's right I mean that's is a very basic home isn't it it's not a big pool motto you know we're talking you know probably 2 bedrooms maybe 3 bedrooms 2 baths you know about $2200.00 square feet you know we're not it's certainly not a sign that it's not an extravagant Lee large house but it once you don't gets back to that old supply and demand car right we just we don't have it when you have that limited supply and you have so much demand it is just going to drive up the prices of everything you want what will Apple's onshore be that how can they create affordable housing is it all going to be built on or a landfill you know that they're going to implode when the next big earthquake commission right now a very good question so so it's my understanding that Apple and Google and Facebook they're actually talking about building housing down and sell it convert alley right so it's about on a let's just call it 60 miles south of San Francisco and some of them on their campuses they have actual land available on their campuses so you know so they're going to be looking to build and we call it's like the our equivalent of social housing is what they're talking about building and wall that is incredibly important and we should be. Be very pleased that these companies are doing the right things like we have to build a lot of additional housing besides just the social housing and so but that land that they will be building on will be you know find real estate they're not they're not looking they're not doing landfill marshland housing I kind of thing is it going to attract any of their own employees the people who get on these buses at the moment and go home to the city to their their other nice little pad in the city you know it's a really good question I think it really depends on kind of what are the targeted income levels for you know that housing that is being built I mean certainly like maybe some of the you know some of the people who. More of the service work at the at those businesses I think they will specifically be kind of targeted for for that type of housing but kind of the more the more white collar workers I don't believe that we're necessarily building in this is the housing they're building for them now the down payment mortgage assistance for 1st time for 1st time homeowners that could certainly be targeted to kind of you know their younger their younger workers who are you know just kind of getting a foothold in the Bay Area. Todd David there we shall leave you thank you very much thank you to buy here but I thought David is executive director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition just after half past 1 home digital b.b.c. Sound smart street m m this is b.b.c. Radio 5 live here at the new says Claire Freeman Labor M.P.'s are calling for Jacob Reese moped to resign as leader of the Commons after he suggested victims of the Grunfeld tower fire should have use common sense and left the burning building he's since profoundly apologized governments across the world off failing to address the climate change crisis according to thousands of scientists in new research a report drawing on 40 years of data says without deep and lasting changes the world will face untold human suffering riot police were called to a major disturbance in Leeds early this evening officers were attacked with fireworks a missiles in the round Hey part of the city there's been a number of arrests and plans to ban diesel vehicles from driving into Bristol City Center have moved a step closer if the government gives the final go ahead to the city will be the 1st in the u.k. To enforce such measures with a round up of the support he's Katie Smith Well it was another Champions League classic Chelsea came from $41.00 down to drill full 4 at home with i.x. And grab a crucial point but I axes central defenders was sent off in the 2nd half allowing Chelsea to fight back and they almost won Ses as public says when I was ruled out by v.a.r. For one bowl boss Frank Lampard despite all the drama says he's pleased with what he saw I'm delighted to take care of it and the red card except I want to think about is us and the spirit we showed in the character was something that I loved and I think our fans loved and we need to talk not to show but we. That spirit we can we can go places Meanwhile champions Liverpool were drawing one want to have time before when a from Alex Oxley Chamberlain helped them began 21 and put them top of the group of not play in club insist being ahead now means nothing now we are 1st and table but we only want to be for our story different to be 1st off the last match and them so we have to play too tough games to important ones and each of them become decided with a win but that sounds easy as it is because both games were really tricky the f.l. Have confirmed that Liverpool's care about Cup quarter final at Aston Villa will be played on the 17th of December as originally scheduled that's despite competing in the Club World Cup the day off to it means Liverpool will be using to playing squad similar Taney slate elsewhere you know I am a has confirmed has been stripped of the all small captaincy it follows his angry confrontation with his own fans last month Obama will step up as captain instead took them forward son he remains red card against Everton has been overturned by the f.a. Some was sent off after challenge which left Everton midfielder Andre Gomes with a broken and dislocated ankle in Sunday's 11 draw as a push Tino says it's the right call as it is for the Muslim Brothers for what we cannot change no this is the rest of the course in the moment that this additional Cup and was one need for us to play with 10 men to more than 50 in 20 minutes I seen was the Q 22 draw the game we've got commentry of spurs is Champions League match against Belgrade and that's the big news down under a Football Federation Australia on professional football as Australia have details of a landmark collective bargaining agreement that closes the pay gap between Australia's national teams the Socceroos and Matilda's in rugby extra chief executive Tony Rose says Premiership champions Sarrasin should be relegated for breaching salary cap rules salaries face a 35 point deduction on a 5300000 pound fine extra loss to them in the past 2 premierships finals as far as I'm concerned the main you know. 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Tunnel 29 the podcast about a remarkable true escape underneath the Berlin wall download the free b.b.c. Sound to listen this is b.b.c. Radio 5 live over at the on the b.b.c. Sounds at night with rock shop Well let's take a look in the pages of The Daily Express as we join deputy editor Michael Booker Well good news we think there's going to be a lifesaving d.n.a. Test which predicts a birth which children will get devastating diseases and it's going to be launched on the n.h.s. Now these diseases in the past to lead to lifelong problems for people reckon that if they get in early diagnosed before the age of 5 then we can do something about it they reckon thousands of children can avoid disease and disability if treated from the moment they're born what is genomic. Sequencing the d.n.a. Test will be offered alongside the current heel prick test to predict conditions which have simple treatments make them less severe reckon it could help around $3000.00 children born every year with these diseases it's initially going to be given 220000 newborns to identify who are going to be highly likely to develop these before the 5th birthday I say it's a pilot it's going to be rolled out on the n.h.s. Nationwide in as little as 3 years now the chief scientist Professor Mark Cole Field these are very excited about this and he says what we want to show is there's a new opportunity for children in our nation to have something to stop some of the worst diseases one 3rd of children with a red disease will die before their 5th birthday that's why we've chosen the age 5 because we want to change doesn't change forever now the heel prick of the moment which is a test of 5 years old can only identify about 9 conditions whereas this new testing can identify scores more of these diseases. And hopefully change people's lives forever and he points out again some forms of epilepsy for instance can be tackled to prevent permanent brain damage and you can tackle it with just a 6 p. Vitamin pill he says a form of epilepsy Epsy is responsive to them and b 6 you talking about a life altering thing it could alter the course of life and obviously this is being welcomed far and wide in particular the health secretary. Said that Britain is now thanks to things like this on the cost of a health care revolution predictive preventative personalized health care that's the future for the n.h.s. This could save thousands of lives but just a thing. Well a Conservative Party are getting off their campaign and they're going after big start according to The Express Yeah well they've had a bit of a bad day yesterday in the run up to the launch there was going to be the prime minister is going to be launching in the West Midlands with a speech after he goes to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the queen and initially and officially kick start the election they say yesterday it was they had a very poor day particularly docked by controversy from Jacob Reese Mark Foley's comments about the victims of the Grenfell fire and suggesting that the lack common sense for not just ignoring the staple advice from the fire brigade the this was the reason there was more controversy when his colleague Andrew Bridge and tried to defend him and again put his 4 in there only made matters worse and they got quite a lot of opposition particularly led by the pop star storms the who demanded more be sacked so not a great day yesterday as a say they're trying to kickstart things today and Boris Johnson will say in this speech in the West Midlands that there's only one way to get bricks it don't and I'm afraid the answer is to ask the people to change this blockading parliament it's time to change the dismal pattern of the last 3 years and get out of our route we also understand that it's going to attack Jeremy Corbin's labor fairly strongly and they say that to make comments that the party hates profit viscerally in a way not seen since Tallinn's Russia so it's quite strong words there for their part germy Corbin's going to hit back and that they're going to be in Telford in Shropshire level it is going to use a speech there to insist that the party will deliver real change and he says the politics I stand for is about sharing power and wealth with people who don't have a lot of money and do our friends in high places I think we know who is talking about their. Well the expression is looking at the winter that's coming and the weather gets kind of gloomy hot abettors and yes or labor in. Another passage of a slave to work another or not so much strike action a look at going to grandparents who hope this Christmas and throw much of the country into a little bit of chaos railway University and postal workers all planning walkouts yesterday from the commuters and Christmas shoppers in another bit of trouble travelling over the festive period particular southwestern railway workers going to go on strike the 27 days members of the real maritime a chance for you know walking out between December the 2nd and generally 2nd at the moment the plan is in a long running dispute over the odds on trains the are empty said have been left with no choice after the company refused to give assurances they would be they wouldn't be moving over to a new system where drivers operate Trento was unnecessary is imminent strikes from the Royal Mail We've also got strikes planned 60 universities across the U.K.'s work is complain about paying pensions so yes not only have we got an election to deal with we've got strikes as well. And the queen has been our look at our wardrobe she has indeed and good news for animal welfare groups have praised her after it's been confirmed that from now on she's going to be going further free or new outfits we understand. That she has made will only ever have fake fur on it rather than the real for which she has had in the past now this was initially revealed by Angela Kelley person though dressed in actual extracts from her new book is been published in Vogue magazine and these were confirmed. By booking a palace yesterday who said as new outfits the design for the Queen any further used will be fake now as a Sates new outfits they're very careful to say. We're not quite sure whether it's going to happen to the old ones or what they've got real fur on but we do understand if there's going to be inclement weather for the queen when she's out in public from 2019 onwards it will be fake fur as I say animal rights activists very very happy that she's done this Claire Bass who is the executive director of the Humane Society International said we are thrilled that her majesty's officially come for free but she's called for more action and they want a top ban on 1st sales now from the British government also pet people for the Ethical Treatment of Animals they welcome the news and their spokeswoman said that the staff are raising a glass of gin and Dubonnet to the Queen's compassionate decision to go for free but again they want more action from the royal household in particular the Queen's Guard who they say still wearing the fur of bears going down in Canada on their caps and they want fake fur there as well so it's something she is a bit of a trendsetter the Queen so we could see a lot more people diction the real fur and what happened when they started clearing out this bungalow. Yes Very fascinating story in the paper that a cache of jewelry worth 100000 pounds has been discovered in an old freezer at a grandmother's ramshackle home in coffins and it will show quite a rundown house the woman's grandchildren out of state anonymous because the money that. Now sloshing around the family now the Hyatt Oconee is to hometown antiques that they believed were hidden in this little old bungalow and they were stunned when they open the chest freezer and to find these Renascence jewels alongside a frozen joint of lamb includes a renaissance in animal and gems that had been worth 30000 pounds and a 17th century Italian sapphire a ruby pendant tipped to sell for about 15000 pounds as well it's thought that this woman amass the items many of which to back to the 16th century in the 160 s. She was fairly well to do but then she saw disappeared down into well and just hid away for many years now discovered all this but it gives a very is the very definition of frozen assets that. Michael Booker at the Express Well someone that we've heard of before in the impeachment inquiry that's been going on in the House of Representatives and Washington changed his story today gardens the Us ambassador to the European Union has declared that he has no remembered something that he didn't remember before it's really quite important our correspondent Peter boors joins us from the u.s. Where Peter how Rod So what is garden Simon changed his mind about. Well he's changed his mind about something very very significant and what we've heard over the last few hours is the transcript of the testimony that he gave to congressional investigators last month when he said that he didn't know whether the aid to Ukraine was delayed because there was a request from Donald Trump which we heard all about her in that conversation he had with the president who crying for help to investigate Joe Biden a possible rival at the next presidential election he said he didn't know anything about that well that's what he's changed his mind about and that's why this is so significant because he now says he's has had his memory jogged and he believes that that military aid likely hinged on a political inquiry that Mr Trump was seeking and he remembers telling a Ukraine official just not that there was clearly a link between the 2 this quid pro quo that we hear all about he is essentially confirming that that was the situation in terms of the relationship between the trump of ministration and Ukraine which is something that course that Donald Trump has continually denied How important as a. Person I said that's because we have heard this from other people haven't we have heard it from from several others it's hugely significant that Mr Song is saying this because he is a trump man he was a fundraiser he was a political appointee getting the job of u.s. Ambassador to the European Union a lot of people simply saw that as a reward for being a loyal Trump supporter and helping to raise a lot of money for the president so he isn't someone you would think with an obvious axe to grind against the president and there's been lots of speculation about the whistleblower whether that might be a Democrat who simply wants to see the president for all in this case we see someone who is clearly has been at least up until this point very close to the president saying something that could potentially be so damaging to the president and what does he have to say about the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Well what's becoming clear from the testimony that he gave and also the testimony of Kurt Volker who is a special envoy to Ukraine it is becoming clear that Rudy Giuliani played a very significant central role in terms of u.s. Foreign policy specifically towards Ukraine that he was a key figure that he was an intermediary if you like and an important figure at that and that is surprising and that is raising eyebrows because as we know Rudy Giuliani is the president's personal lawyer he isn't a member of the government so it does quite a president to get someone in that position would appear to be taking such a significant role in foreign policy and of course all the more damaging if down the road as this investigation continues there is further proof that supports the view that this was an attempt to put in place ambassadors who were sympathetic with the president who would get that an investigation that corruption investigation going in Ukraine specifically looking at Joe Biden and his son and his role at the time and other Democrats saying that this helps them make their case when the impeachment inquiry moves towards public fish yes they are they are saying this is a very significant development that I mean a lot of them are saying that quite bluntly this is proof that there was something very serious wrong with what the president was doing and supports their impeachment investigation of course what it doesn't change what is the political makeup the Democrats clearly are going to win the day in the House of Representatives as far as this investigation is concerned but the trial would take place in the Senate where there is a significant majority for the Republicans and at this time that doesn't seem to be any significant movement by those Republicans not to support the president clearly as events move that that could change but it's certainly I think why is that the 100 little heavier in favor of the Democrats in that case at the moment. He said thank you while I was showing the sconce here in Oregon Washington Post to the desk Um hello how well we've got we've Arab obviously Peter's report there on the on Ambassador saw in London and what he had to say the one thing I didn't ask him but I could ask you is what do the Republicans have to say about this because they can't be silence can the people you know there's a Republican so slightly change their strategy on it about few days ago they started admitting that Ok Now we admit there has been some kind of a quid pro quo but this say it is improper but certainly still not impeachable So they're trying to say Oh he said I will not give you a Unless you say certain things or are are an investigation again the Bidens But the statement which they expected from the president of Ukraine didn't happen no it . Is occasion to the Bidens audit and the and the money was any given to the Ukrainian So they said nothing went wrong and it was it ended happily ever after so there is nothing that needs to be impeached but very interestingly. It goes to the Senate it has to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee because it's going to be a kind of a jury trial that's going to happen that. And the man heading Senate Judiciary Committee is. A person very close to Trump who's Lindsey Graham from South Carolina who plays golf with him all the time he has been very supportive of trump all through and he says today he said I'm not reading all those transcripts I mean out they're all b.s. And I don't care about that and I think is the whole thing is just an unnecessary show I'm not worried about it so which means it's going to be take a long time and lot more really damaging thing to come out to the really change his mind and relieve him more the needle under Senate floor when they actually bring the thing we know that the House is going to bring the impeachment vote and they're going to impeach him but the final trial in the Senate is still love it because the Republicans are still trying to say it's not impeachable not today is actually an election they're the United States it means that in some tones and in some states the voting on different things are voting for a governor in Kentucky for one Mississippi and in Mississippi and in a year from now of course it's going to be election day for a new president or maybe Mr Trump 2nd term what we then 5 of our supporters doing a little bit of polling and what have you been asking people. This is very interesting we did a poll today it find one on one between who could be Democratic candidate and dark and find the top 5 people who are actually leading that in a Democratic race starting with Joe Biden and then you have Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders from Vermont and also less known coming to Harris from California and the shift from Indiana we've had all this 5 or. I mean Bush is just a mayor of a small town in Indiana and even he will beat Trump by about 9 percentage point and Joe Biden limited by 17 percent so it looks like overall Trump's popularity is low and his whatever support he gets is all from the Republican base he's been pandering to every time he just goes to the same crowds and he says the same thing and here's the same thing back so 95 percent of these people say they will vote for trump the Republicans from his base 25 percent are Democrats bottom but many go to independents and others find that they are more open towards the Democratic candidates it's we be earlier thought maybe the 1st top 3 candidates which come to about 14 or 15 percent for Warren and sanders but even the other 2 coming to beat him at this stage State year before election shows maybe Trump will have to really get out of his base and a comfort level and try to get some more support it was going to difficult for him but of course estimate the polls are very tight in the battleground states if we go to May Well that was what I was going to ask you to scan because is this a national poll this is a theory or this is a national poll that you're right and we must remember no matter which doesn't turn one in national polling last time around I mean shed 3000000 more than he has Yeah later the New York Times did some their own polling in some of those battleground states in the fall Trumper actually kind of a better position this year that he was in 26 Stansel bats not very reassuring for the Democrats they find his base of the white people white men without college education they're still continuing to support him and in some some working class neighborhoods of those states it's going to the people who lost jobs to all of actuaries we thought Ok maybe they'll change their mind and try to go with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who have been very pro-union a leftist but looks like he's holding on to their support so they will have the Democrats will have to change their strategy in those states. I know you've got a big story on the Trumps of tell some of the trumpet tells not doing so well. Give us one example about the Chicago. You know this because it had a you had a fundraiser last weekend as I walked in and you said Oh what a beautiful ball drop it was kind of molding it down to pay $100000.00 for the dinner and we found that they're losing 8 percent since 2013 in their profits because people don't want Trump name to be associated with any window they want and pushes businesses to is not downs but I doesn't really going to as much that's kind of a sad thing they have to deal with that thing. Thank you. But. This c.b.c. Radio. With the news a. Story called Jacob response to step down after insulting Grenfell comments installing a cult in the Champions League as Chelsea draw with i.x. . And his new Senate to talk labor is calling on Jacob Reese Mark to quit the cabinet for suggesting victims of the Grenfell tower fall use common sense and leave the burning building the advice from the Forest Service was to stay put 72 people died John Trickett is the shadow minister for the Cabinet Office Jacob Riis mall today since we're suggesting the victims were responsible for their own injuries and deaths is appalling I don't think a an apology is good enough either he should stand down all the prime minister should remove him immediately Mr Rhys says he profoundly apologizes for the comments a number of youths have been arrested after a major disturbance in Leeds police use riot gear to deal with gangs throwing bricks and far works in the round hay area. The House of Commons as it's look since June 27th tain is no more parliament is officially dissolved ahead of the general election 5 weeks tomorrow the Tories and greens launched their campaigns today Political Correspondent Chris Mason even though there is no longer a House of Commons there is always a government there are always ministers they continue in their posts until the morning after the election but let me tell you to everyone here feels a long way off government ads about universal credit have been banned for being misleading one fail to mention advance payments were alone the Department for Work and Pensions says it worked with the regulator on the 225000 pound campaign a climate study endorsed 511000 scientists warns there will be untold human suffering without deep and lasting changes the report draws on 40 years of data one of the lead authors is Professor William ripple we're just starting to see pretty Quincey of or hurricanes and cycle owns and droughts tornadoes so we're concerned that this is just starting in there is not has not been enough action to stop this type of runaway climate change a cruise ship has run aground on the Galapagos Islands west of Ecuador the $46.00 passengers and crew on the celebrity expedition have been moved to another vessel no one's been hurts and southwestern railway says it's extremely disappointed about forthcoming strikes they are empty is planning $27.00 days of industrial action in December and on New Year's Day in the continuing row about the role of God There's a sport now with Katie Smith when it was 2 penalties for Chelsea to read cards for i.x. Then 8 goals between them in a Champions League classic Chelsea game from full one down to drill full with 9 men i.x. Chelsea startling reversal in revised testimony from u.s. Ambassador Gordon Sunderland as part of the impeachment probe he's now acknowledged that us a deal crane was being withheld until it promised to investigate career. Action although he did not mention the Bidens c.b.s. Is Nancy Cordes Funland had to change his original testimony because so many of the other witnesses had disputed it so in this new 3 page he says that reading those other witness statements quote refresh his recollection about his role in the president's quid pro quo it is Election Day And in Virginia Democrats are hoping to shake things up c.b.s. Is Ed O'Keefe voters in Virginia today had the option to do something they haven't done in a generation to give total control of state government to Democrats Republicans control both chambers of the legislature by slim margins and Democrats are in striking distance despite scandals that rocked the state's top leaders the president's unpopular here and Paul did everything he does and that's made the contests a bellwether for 2020 and Democrats also hoping to win gubernatorial races in red states Mississippi and consumption f.c.c. Has joy.
And were up all night scientists don't as a rule like using megaphone say study report and leave it to us a statement might be a little different 11000 scientists from 150 different countries declare they have a moral obligation to tell him out of any catastrophic threat and tell it like it is a headline on their report in the American academic publication by a science couldn't be any more explicitly depressing world scientists warning of a global climate emergency calls this time they don't stop at the indicators we're all familiar with it's not just by the extent to which the climates warming there's a lot more going on. 11000 scientists all put their name to this document which warns of untold human suffering unless we make some deep in last changes the poor by researchers in the us astray and South Africa draws on 40 years of data and Clare's the world is in the middle of an accelerating climate imagine say one of the lead authors Professor William ripple of Oregon State University told the b.b.c. Why they are issuing the warning now we're just starting to see storms becoming more intense all ears prick when see where hurricanes and cycle owns and droughts tornadoes and rising seas and storm surges so we're concerned. That this is just starting in there's not has not been enough action. To stop this type of runaway climate change. A study takes on examples of human climate impact including population growth increasing air travel and the global loss of tree cover Professor ripple explain what in their opinion needs to be done rather than just talk about the carbon dioxide emissions like is typically done we think it's important to address this problem holistically So we're thinking about 6 interrelated steps that look at all aspects of society rather than just for example fossil fuel emissions so we want to include issues that are around the economy and around population increases and around how to preserve nature to see Questor carbon especially in trees and we want to talk about the importance of eating low on the food chain because when we eat a lot of meat the greenhouse gas emissions increase. Professor ripples world he hopes real change will start soon we're putting out our consensus statement and now it's going to be up to humanity to decide what to do next but I must say that I think we are at the point of a social tipping point where where there's so many different activities going on in discussions around climate change that I think we're going to see the policies start to change it more rapidly now. Well a study has say Professor report said it actually got 6 videos heads of recommendations including calling for an end to g.d.p. Being a measure of economic success and ing lamb clearance and population control but the one that we're going to 0 in on here is what he talked about eating low on the food chain Professor Walter Willett from Harvard's th Chan School of Public Health is one of the authors of food and the Anthropocene that's where we are no by the way the age when mankind has a biggest impact on the planet and the subtitle of the study they eate he Lancet commission on healthy diets from sustainable food system so let's focus in on that with Professor will it not Hello Professor Willett good evening or whatever time it is as airily early morning we call it but it's it's not a good time we don't we don't think about that to us tell me that. This is there's a huge study isn't it and one of the the things a biotech is it doesn't just look at c o 2 emissions does it I mean it goes through the whole thing and I mean one of the big deals is is the head of the head kind of ruminant livestock which has gone zooming up over the last few years. Yes. Professor ripple mentioned we can look at just one or 2 pieces of this big picture that our environment is changing in many ways climate change and global warming is one of the Sims one of the areas but basically converting natural land uses such as forests and parries into grazing areas or cultivating for crops that reduces the buffering capacity of trees to capture coming back. We're using more fertilizer and polluting our environment and Excel are adding rate where water is being consumed in large amounts and. Greatly stressed the extinction of because speed of different species is going on at an unprecedented rate so all of these things are happening and we continue to do this . Living on a finite planet and we can't continue to increase the destruction of our environment and still be able to pass on to our children our grandchildren a viable planet the way we understand them to be can I suggest to you that part of the problem is a lot more people are reaching our standard of living and knowledge office says the world is producing far more meat than it did before. Yes that not surprisingly if countries who have been poor look around and see other people behaving in very different ways very high level of consumption of fossil fuels meat other aspects of food that take a lot of energy input they would like to share some of that too and so that part of the world is changing very rapidly the consumption of red meat in China is almost up to what it is in the United States. Amazingly people live to drive cars like Americans and British and when we're also adding 2500000000 people more by 2050 the the changes in lifestyle and top of another 20000000000 people means means that our footprint is. Increasing very rapidly in a way that will destroy the environment that we know so it's talk about your recommendations and that you work in which is food what do you suggest. Well we are committees which involve 35 scientists from 17 different countries. Really took on the challenge of. Feeding the world a healthy diet 1st of all that was our priority because when we look around most the world isn't consuming a healthy diet it's too much of some bad things in other countries and that nearly enough of could things in most countries not nearly enough fruits vegetables whole grains nuts and fish so our goal is to feed people a healthy diet very simple and at the same time be able to do that in a way that is sustainable that we can stay within the limits of the plant as a planet b. Can stay within the limits of greenhouse gas production and avoid the huge increase in temperature that is projected if we don't change. And so we. We went through a whole series of analysis and different scenarios with the different diets and we did conclude that there is a double when that's possible we can feed the world's population which will be almost 10000000000 by 2050 a diet that is much healthier than they're consuming today. That would prevent about 20 to 25 percent of premature deaths and at the same time stay within the planetary boundaries and but to do that will mean that we need to do 3 main things after more plant based diet and this is not nationally vegetarian or vegan but with limited amounts of red meat dairy products. Increasing amounts of fruits vegetables whole grains not seats and fish. Do this in a way that is more efficient agriculturally and also cut down on food waste so if we do one of those things and that's asking a lot it is a doubling solution is possible not Doesn't this also require huge cooperation I mean apart from Moscow's you know here we are at the end of the chain where the members of the public we are the consumers we are the people who go to the supermarket and do the shopping or grow stuff in our gardens for that matter but you've got to get the cooperation of agribusiness haven't you on the large food co-ops that actually make the stuff available and also I suppose you've got to get governments to buy into it. Well yes we need changes at all levels and some of this is shooting economic levers that the agricultural system does respond to incentives and disincentives that the reasons why things are the way they are today is to a large extent that producing a lot of grains that we feed mostly to animals and some to convert to ethanol that is. The economics of the situation are stepped up so that that's the logical thing for a farmer to do. Farmer for most by not getting rich in this process either we need to create a system that they can make a good reasonable living producing healthy food that should be the way the system works but it's not doing that right now and part of the problem is that the subsidies 3 have burst meant that the tax policies really reinforce the current system that we have so we do need to change most economically diverse but that's not the only thing we don't have to sit back and wait for that happen to happen because it's not going to happen tomorrow and we need to start making changes to now now that every person every family can make changes in the food 3 by the fruits we produce. And ways that will be actually better for us and that can be produced in wonderfully flavorful ways. And we can drive a lot of that change is all too just in my experience very often that policymakers are the last people to make changes so we we can do this starting from the ground up but in the end we do need to have buy and changes in policy as well as we could go on but thank you for starting us off with us Professor Well that would really appreciate it Ok I hope you enjoy a good. Typist breakfast some good old meal not so. I'm a total fan of a of porridge as we sow so you know you're preaching to the can that's it they're. Completely with you porridge is a great way to start the day thank you. Thank you bye bye bye. Well. Maybe some more hopeful news to world peace in the access for 2019 according to the World Peace Index the world is a safer place than it was and 2080 Steve killer Lay as the man behind the Global Peace Index is talking about it next week in Coventry at the rising global peace forum and he's with us now so Steve hi how are you tonight for a good very good what's the what's the Global Peace Forum tell us a little bit about what what do you know about it will the global case for I'm a little be looking at the issues dealing with clerical place will cover be areas such which climate change must be clear to impact that much along with other ecological issues but also bringing in a number. Of prominent national people to such a situation to Latics to Prime Minister of Australia and it should be a very interesting conference and looking forward to being there for good and were obviously ridging Eunice trillion. When you come to know me I'm actually a man you're your actually all in New York you're reaching me in New York's just the Stratton accent that's for various areas I thought doing it yes quite right. Well tell us a little bit about the criteria for measuring peace how do you how do you put a country in on the say and the example talk in a minute about the rankings and you know who made it where. Sure that case of looking at the Global Peace Index consists of 3 different demands so the 1st one is safety and security so that internal missions within the country in clever things like the homicide rate bombing crime right number of people incarcerated Number Place state sponsored terror on its citizens a bill that is small. Acts of terrorism except the 2nd demand is the ongoing conflict which is self-evident truth evident the 3rd to minus militarization tell us things such as the number of troops the 100000 population percentage achieved a trace been on the military's sophistication military weapons imports weapons exports 3 come together to create what we see is a holistic measure of place to do that we use a definition called the absence of violence or fear of arms which is pretty self self. Definition which most people can agree to become a better 100 where we did have 163 countries which is bad which is 99.7 percent of the world's population. Well everybody wants to know this they want to know where where the u.k. Fits in and that's 45th that's not is neither good nor bad really on your scale is it but it's in the it's certainly in the top half. It's into a spare 25 percent on that Senator that's good that's good things which would drag the u.k. Them have got the pictures up top my head something list from memory things which Dragon Dance others nuclear capabilities also. Skirted slightly higher homicide right than other way yet developed Western democracies and it's violent crime I dislike rehire as well and sort of the number of conflicts. Which also I suppose. But for the courts not to $25.00 Sorry it's not today that's a brief small top 25 percent. And I think I think people would expect to be beaten by places like you know the Scandinavian countries the Benelux countries and and so on but it's probably going to go a little bit harder when the u.k. Finds itself below. You know you're a quiet. Croatia Chili Bowl Galia Rumania Romania's got remarkably high rating as and on the scale. You know it's kind of very very small the level of knowledge or I say I should say that the case can lodge military exports. Go silent gauged in a lot more conflicts now that's not to say well that's good or bad with Nike no moral judgments on what conflicts countries should or shouldn't be but from the perspective of the people living in the country conflicts so the cost to the soldiers who was there to take the payments for those people in the country said all those things go into it if we go and look at the Latin American countries they tend to be a lot higher on the violent crime homicide but less than America if you look at the militarization within the with within Latin America for touch with the precinct is turn this on. It's this is the beauty of having an index which sort of takes in the 3 dimensions internal safety and security ongoing conflict and militarization to say oh come back and have an impact on the society in relation to the levels of placed on us so one of the other things to Philip Marlowe judgment. Some countries reengage the most treating wounded national issues. Others have got a really nasty neighbors need to defend themselves and I guess other countries Big Sur just try to muscle in and. Brings us of course to the United States which any any kind of boosters of the United States could be rather depressed to find that well done your list and behind a Immediately behind South Africa for example in well behind was a mile off El Salvador Algeria places like that. It would think with the u.s. Number of indicators which portends it's got the highest incarceration rate in the world after North Korea interest to a lot of Americans and actually really realize. That it's true it's got a high profile ability of small arms. It's got a massive military sophistication particularly its nuclear arsenal. The largest weapon 6 courts in the world it's also involved in many many conflicts around the world and the issue of a lot of those conflicts they just been ongoing for so long particularly let's say at Cal Afghanistan. Since a whole range of different indicators which pulls it down it's not just one of one of things you've taken and. So I only go. You know you have to look at it from memory and having a particular of the top 8 it's better 120 I think on the on the index standards not not not in the bottom quarter by larger encouraging that's encouraging one of the things you look at is climate change as a factor in this climate is important because if you have to leave your home and and you go to some other passions home then that's a potential source of conflict. Yes I think in the ph itself we look at the impact of climate change to see which just in the glory Perea early stages was saying it like look at the skies in California a lot of experts say. The fires raging down there a lot of experts put that into the underlying issue being climate change so what we did is we looked at the number of 30 people who live in the world who are likely to be affected by climate change between 20 to 50 what we found of. 7000000000 people on the planet 970000000 are likely to be affected. But the most a going to go I think with the 400000000000 is with what we'd call the low cost countries or countries which are fragile and what happens is you can measure the resilience of different countries by using other measures in place. But the ones which are in the low place countries will fight prejudice countries they're the ones which us will likely to adapt from impacts from climate changes that countries would say like the u.k. a Strong us 2. Countries with the. High levels of depth ability within the societies and also with the money to be able to adapt a more lot more likely to be able to make the changes when they actually hit but if you're looking at a lot of the low base countries and they're likely to implode met by quick because Mark ration issues which flow into other parts of the world my goodness well. We're sure better news Steve though thank you very much for joining us. Yeah look my pleasure. Now to San Francisco. Which is having to deal with the impact of too much money the tech boom has resulted in a massive pressure on San Francisco's limited housing stock and people have been priced out of the homes in November last year voters in the city pos the largest corporate tax increase in San Francisco history and one tech C.E.O.'s accused other business leaders who oppose the measure of not giving back enough to the city and poll has done something pretty innovative and I don't see a huge package for housing affordable housing as joint Facebook and Google and doing this but it's even richer their package is worth 2 and a half $1000000000.00 that includes a 1000000000 in mortgage assistance for 1st time home buyers a sort of thing you'd expect the government might be doing Google is going to redevelop company land for affordable housing so as a sign adequate response toward David as executive director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition Hello Tod Hello how are you Rod thank you thanks for having me on thank you for coming on as I say in another country you might expect the government to be you know putting together a big fund of you know low cost mortgages and so on and really really trying to shift some heavy loads here but why has it been left up to Apple and Google and Facebook Well I'm not sure that I would say that it's been left up to the private sector you know Apple Google and Facebook what I would say is that that we are much like London are like San Francisco we are in this affordability displacement crisis and the kind of spreads out the whole Bay Area and that you know we're looking for . All different parts of the community to do their part and I think that these large employers who happen to be tech happen to be tech companies they're saying like well we have land we have money and so those are 2 of the 3 things that you need to get you know affordable housing built and so I think that they're like we can do this part but in no way are I think anyone thinks that this is replacing this should be additive to what the government is doing and should not make it you know an exchange and replace it with the government stepping in can you give us a sense of affordability is sort of moving out of the city because in the past the size of San Francisco was pretty affordable you know people could afford to live between the airport. Sure you know the kind of glamorous parts of the city is that still the case well I mean this so certainly the area that you're target kind of the southern part of San Francisco and actually the town just south called South South San Francisco it is it is less expensive then as you say the glamorous parts of the set a however it's becoming more it's becoming more expensive and that is because fundamentally our fundamental problem in San Francisco and the Bay Area is we have underproduced housing for 30 years and so we just people are desperate for housing anywhere and so when people are desperate for housing anywhere they will bid up the price of housing everywhere so teachers firefighters police officers 1st responders and maybe used to live in kind of the outskirts of the city or South San Francisco they're now living 2 hours away and having to do the super commutes to come and work in the city and so in that once again I want to get back to this is the the fundamental problem is we simply have not. Built enough housing for 30 years we under-produced it and just the the working class the blue collar people are pushed further and further away from the city from city centers to find out where to to find housing that they can afford. Can you give us some idea of prices I have in mind a very colorful hillside of of little houses which you see sort of used to see on your way into San Francisco from the airport and in Daly City it was made famous by Pete Seeger in the song Little boxes because store people if you will all live in little boxes and they all look just the same very humble Hoess How much would one of these questionnaires you know probably one of those houses that you were talking about north of a $1000000.00 Now maybe $1.00 maybe $1200000.00 Right around there. And that's right I mean that's a very basic home isn't it it's not a big pool maternal you know we're talking you know probably 2 bedrooms maybe 3 bedrooms 2 baths you know about 2200 square feet you know we're not it's certainly not a sign that it's not an extravagant Lee large house but it once you don't gets back to that old supply and demand car right we just we don't have it when you have that limited supply and you have so much demand it is just going to drive up the prices of everything you want what will Apple's on shore be that how can they create affordable housing is it all going to be built on or in a landfill you know that they're going to implode when the next big earthquake commission right now a very good question so so it's my understanding that Apple and Google and Facebook they're actually talking about building housing down and sell it convert alley right so it's about on a let's just call it 60 miles south of San Francisco and some of them on their campuses they have actual land available on their campuses so you know so they're going to be looking to build and we call it's like the our equivalent of social housing is what they're talking about building and wall that is incredibly important and we should be. Be very pleased that these companies are doing the right things like we have to build a lot of additional housing besides just the social housing and so but that land that they will be building on will be you know find real estate they're not they're not looking they're not doing landfill marshland housing I kind of thing is it going to attract any of their own employees the people who get on these buses at the moment and go home to the city to their their rather nice little pad in the city you know it's a really good question I think it really depends on kind of what are the targeted income levels for you know that housing that is being built I mean certainly like maybe some of the you know some of the people who. More of the service work at the at those businesses I think they will specifically be kind of targeted for for that type of housing but kind of the more the more white collar workers I don't believe that we're necessarily building in know that this is the housing they're building for them now the down payment mortgage assistance for 1st time for 1st time homeowners that could certainly be targeted to kind of you know their younger or their younger workers who are you know just kind of getting a foothold in the Bay Area. Todd David there we shall leave you thank you very much thank you to go here but I thought David is executive director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition just after half past 1 on digital b.b.c. Sound smart speaking of various b.b.c. Radio 5 live here of the news is Claire Freeman Labor M.P.'s are calling for Jacob Reese moped to resign as leader of the Commons after he suggested victims of the Grunfeld tower fire should have use common sense and left the burning building he's since profoundly apologized governments across the world off failing to address the climate change crisis according to thousands of scientists in new research a report drawing on 40 years of data says without deep and lasting changes the world will face untold human suffering riot police were called to a major disturbance in Leeds early this evening officers were attacked with fireworks a missiles in the round hay part of the city have been a number of arrests and plans to ban diesel vehicles from driving into Bristol City Center have moved a step closer if the government gives the final go ahead to the city will be the 1st in the u.k. To enforce such measures with a round up of the support has Katie Smith Well it was another Champions League classic Chelsea came from $41.00 down to drill full 4 at home with i.x. And grab a crucial point but I axes central defenders was sent off in the 2nd half allowing Chelsea to fight back and they almost one say is as public as when I was ruled out by v.a.r. For one bowl boss Frank Lampard despite all the drama says he's pleased with what he saw I'm delighted to take care of it and the red card except I want to think about is us and the spirit we showed in the character was something that I loved and I think our fans loved and we need to talk it out for sure but. That spirit we can we can govern I said Meanwhile champions Liverpool were drawing one want to have time before when a from Alex Oxley Chamberlain helped them began 21 and put them top of the group of not play in club insist being ahead now means nothing now we are 1st and table but we only want to be for our story different to be 1st off the last match there and them so we have to play too tough games too important ones and each of them began decided with a win but that sounds easy as it is because both games were really tricky the f.l. Have confirmed that Liverpool's care about Cup quarter final at Aston Villa will be played on the 17th of December as originally scheduled that's despite competing in the Club World Cup the day off to it means Liverpool will be using to playing squad similar Taney slate elsewhere you know I am a has confirmed to have been stripped of the all small captaincy it follows his angry confrontation with his own fans last month Obama will step up as captain instead took them forward son he remains red card against Everton has been overturned by the f.a. Some was sent off after challenge which left Everton midfielder Andre Gomes with a broken and dislocated ankle in Sunday's 11 draw as a push Siena says it's the right call as it is for the Muslim Brothers for what we cannot change no this is the rest of the course in the moment that this additional Cup and was one need for us to play with 10 men to more than 50 in 20 minutes I seen was the Q 22 draw the game we've got commentry of spurs is Champions League match against Belgrade and there's some big news down under a Football Federation Australia on professional football as Australia have details of a landmark collective bargaining agreement that closes the pay gap between Australia's national teams the Socceroos and Matilda's in rugby extra chief executive Tony Roche says Premiership champions Sarrasin should be relegated for breaching salary cap rules sorry's face a 35 point deduction on a 5300000 pound fine next to last of them in the past 2 premierships finals as far as I'm concerned the main you know. 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Test will be offered alongside the current heel prick test to predict conditions which have simple treatments make them less severe reckon it could help around $3000.00 children born every year with these diseases it's initially going to be given 220000 newborns to identify who are going to be highly likely to develop these before the 5th birthday I say it's a pilot it's going to be rolled out on the n.h.s. Nationwide in as little as 3 years now the chief scientist Professor Mark Cole Field these are very excited about this and he says what we want to show is there's a new opportunity for children in our nation to have something to stop some of the worst diseases one 3rd of children with a red disease will die before their 5th birthday that's why we've chosen the age 5 because we want to change doesn't change forever now the heel prick of the moment which is a test of 5 years old can only identify about 9 conditions whereas this new testing can identify scores more of these diseases. And hopefully change people's lives forever and he points out again some forms of epilepsy for instance can be tackled to prevent permanent brain damage and you can tackle it with just a 6 p. Vitamin pill he says a form of epilepsy Epsy is responsive to them and basics you talking about a life altering thing it could alter the course of life and obviously this is being welcomed far and wide in particular the health secretary. Said that Britain is now thanks to things like this on the cost of a health care revolution predictive preventative personalized health care that's the future for the n.h.s. This could save thousands of lives but just a thing. Well a Conservative Party are getting off their campaign and they're going after big start according to The Express Yeah well they've had a bit of a bad day yesterday in the run up to the launch there was going to be the prime minister is going to be launching in the West Midlands with a speech after he goes to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the queen and initially and officially kick start the election they say yesterday it was they had a very poor particularly docked by controversy from Jacob Reese Mark Foley's comments about the victims of the Grenfell fire and suggesting that the lack common sense for not just ignoring the staple advice from the fire brigade the this was the reason there was more controversy when his colleague Andrew Bridge and tried to defend him and again put his 4 in there only made matters worse and they got quite a lot of opposition particularly led by the pop star storms he who demanded more be sacked so not a great day yesterday as a say they're trying to kickstart things today and Boris Johnson will say in this speech in the West Midlands that there's only one way to get bricks it don't and I'm afraid the answer is to ask the people to change this blockading parliament it's time to change the dismal pattern of the last 3 years and get out of our route we also understand that it's going to attack journey Corbin's labor fairly strongly and they say that to make comments that the party hates profit viscerally in a way not seen since Tallinn's Russia so it's quite strong words there for their part Germany Corbin's going to hit back and that they're going to be in Telford in Shropshire the labor leaders going to use a speech there to insist that the party will deliver real change and he says the politics I stand for is about sharing power and wealth with people who don't have a lot of money and do our friends in high places I think we know who is talking about their. Well the expression is looking at the winter that's coming and wearing it's kind of gloomy heart abettors and yes or labor in. Another passage of a slave to work another or not so much strike action a look at going to grandparent to how this Christmas and throw much of the country into a little bit of chaos is going to have railway University and postal workers all planning walkouts yesterday from the commuters and Christmas shoppers in another bit of trouble travelling over the festive period particular southwestern railway workers going to go on strike the 27 days members of the real maritime a chance but you know walking out between December the 2nd and generally the 2nd at the moment the plan is in a long running dispute over the odds on trains the are empty said have been left with no choice after the company refused to give assurances they would be they wouldn't be moving over to a new system where drivers operate Trento was another said is imminent strikes from the Royal Mail We've also got strikes planned 60 universities across the u.k. As well as complain about payin pensions so yes not only have we got an election to deal with we've got strikes as well. And the Queen's been a real look at our wardrobe she has indeed and good news for animal welfare groups have praised her after it's been confirmed that from now on she's going to be going further free or new outfits we understand. That she has made will only ever have fake fur on it rather than the real for which she has had in the past now this was initially revealed by Angela Kelley personal dresser in actually extracts from her new book is been published in Vogue magazine and these were confirmed. By booking a palace yesterday who said as new outfits the design for the Queen any further used will be fake now as a Sates new outfits the very careful to say. We're not quite sure whether it's going to happen to the old ones or what they've got real fur on but we do understand if there's going to be inclement weather for the queen when she's out in public from 2019 onwards it will be fake fur as I say animal rights activists very very happy that she's done this Claire Bass who is the executive director of the Humane Society International said we are thrilled that her majesty's officially come for free but she's called for more action and they want a top ban on 1st sales now from the British government also pet people for the Ethical Treatment of Animals they welcome the news and their spokeswoman said that the staff are raising a glass of gin and Dubonnet to the Queen's compassionate decision to go for free but again they want more action from the royal household in particular the Queen's Guard who they say still wearing the fur of bears going down in Canada on their caps and they want fake fur there as well so it's something she is a bit of a trend said the Queen so we could see a lot more people diction the real fur and what happened when they started clearing out this bungalow. Yes Very fascinating story in the paper that a cache of jewelry worth 100000 pounds has been discovered in an old freezer at a grandmother's ramshackle home in offering to and it will show quite a rundown house the woman's grandchildren out of state anonymous because the money that. Now sloshing around the family now the they're hired auctioneers to hometown antiques that they believed were hidden in this little old bungalow and they were stunned when they open the chest freezer and to find things Renascence jewels alongside a frozen joint of lamb includes a renaissance in animal and gems that had been worth 30000 pounds and a 17th century Italian sapphire a ruby pendant tipped to sell for about 15000 pounds as well it's thought that this woman amass the items many of which to back to the 16th century in the 160 s. She was fairly well to do but then she saw disappeared down into well and just hid away for many years now discovered all this but it gives a very is the very definition of frozen assets so that. Michael Booker at the Express will someone that we've heard of before in the impeachment inquiry that's been going on in the House of Representatives and Washington changed the story today Gordon Sandland the Us ambassador to the European Union has declared that he has no remembered something that he didn't remember before it's really quite important our correspondent Peter boors joins us from the u.s. Where Peter how Rod so words garden charm and change his mind about. Well he's changed his mind about something very very significant and what we've heard over the last few hours is the transcript of the testimony that he gave to congressional investigators last month when he said that he didn't know whether the aid to Ukraine was delayed because there was a request from Donald Trump which we heard all about her in that conversation he had with the president here crying for help to investigate Joe Biden a possible rival at the next presidential election he said he didn't know anything about that well that's what he's changed his mind about and that's why this is so significant because he now says he's has had his memory jogged and he believes that that military aid likely hinged on a political inquiry that Mr Trump was seeking and he remembers telling a Ukraine official just not that there was clearly a link between the 2 this quid pro quo that we hear all about he is essentially confirming that that was the situation in terms of the relationship between the trump of ministration and Ukraine which is something that course that Donald Trump has continually denied How important as a. Person I said that's because we have heard this from other people haven't we have heard it from from several others it's hugely significant that Mr Song is saying this because he is a trump man he was a fundraiser he was a political appointee getting the job of u.s. Ambassador to the European Union lot of people simply saw that as a reward for being a loyal Trump supporter and helping to raise a lot of money for the president so he isn't someone you would think with an obvious axe to grind against the president and there's been lots of speculation about the whistleblower whether that might be a Democrat who simply wants to see the president for all in this case we see someone who is clearly has been at least up until this point very close to the president saying something that could potentially be so damaging to the president and what does he have to say about the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Well what's becoming clear from the testimony that he gave and also the testimony of Kurt Volker who is a special envoy to Ukraine it is becoming clear that Rudy Giuliani played a very significant central role in terms of u.s. Foreign policy specifically towards Ukraine that he was a key figure that he was an intermediary if you like and an important figure at that and that is surprising and that is raising eyebrows because as we know Rudy Giuliani is the president's personal lawyer he isn't a member of the government so it does quite a president in that someone in that position would appear to be taking such a significant role in foreign policy and of course all the more damaging if down the road as this investigation continues there is further proof that supports the view that this was an attempt to put in place ambassadors who were sympathetic with the president who would get that an investigation that corruption investigation going in Ukraine specifically looking at Joe Biden and his son and his role at the time and other Democrats saying that this helps them make their case when the impeachment inquiry moves towards public fish yes they are they are saying this is a very significant development that I mean a lot of them are saying that quite bluntly this is proof that there was something very serious wrong with what the president was doing and supports their impeachment investigation of course what it doesn't change what is the political makeup the Democrats clearly are going to win the day in the House of Representatives as far as this investigation is concerned but the trial would take place in the Senate where there is a significant majority for the Republicans and at this time that doesn't seem to be any significant movement by those Republicans not to support the president clearly as events move that that could change but it's certainly I think why is that the 100 little heavier in favor of the Democrats in that case at the moment. Peter thank you well I was joined as counselor and Oregon Washington Post Hello desk Um hello how well we've got we've arid obviously Peter's report there on the on Ambassador saw in London and what he had to say the one thing I didn't ask him but I could ask you is what do the Republicans have to say about this because they can't be silenced can they the people you know those Republicans have slightly changed their strategy on it about few days ago they started at mit think that Ok now we have met there's been some kind of a quid pro quo but this say it is improper but certainly still not impeachable So they're trying to say Oh he said I will not give you a Unless you say certain things or are are an investigation again the Bidens But the statement which they expected from the president of Ukraine didn't happen no it . Is occasion to the Bidens audit and the and the money was any given to the Ukrainian So they said nothing went wrong and it was it ended happily ever after so there is nothing that needs to be impeached but very interestingly of it goes to the Senate it has to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee because it's going to be a kind of a jury trial that's going after that. And the man heading Senate Judiciary Committee is. A person very close to Trump who's Lindsey Graham from South Carolina who plays golf with him all the time he has been very supportive of trump all through and he says today he said I'm not reading all those transcripts I mean out they're all b.s. And I don't care about that and I think it's the whole thing is just and this ratio I'm not worried about it so which means it's going to be take a long time and lot more really damaging thing to come out to the really change his mind and relieve him more the needle under Senate floor when they actually bring the thing we know that the House is going to bring the impeachment vote and they're going to impeach him but the final trial in the Senate is still not of it because the Republicans are still trying to say it's not impeachable it's not today is actually an election they're the United States it means that in some tones and in some states the voting on different things are voting for a governor in Kentucky for one Mississippi and in Mississippi and in a year from now of course it's going to be election day for a new president or maybe Mr Trump 2nd term what we then 5 in this push doing a little bit of polling and what have you been asking people. This is very interesting we did a poll today it fine one on one between who could be Democratic candidate and dark and find the top 5 people who are actually leading that in a Democratic race starting with Joe Biden and then you have Elizabeth Warren from last 2 sets and Bernie Sanders from Vermont and also less known kind of a Harris from California at the shift from Indiana we've had all this 5 or. I mean Bush is just a mayor of a small town in Indiana and even he will beat Trump by about 9 percentage point and Joe Biden will meet him by 17 percent so it looks like overall Trump's popularity is low and his whatever support he gets is all from the Republican base he's been pandering to every time he just goes to the same crowds and he says the same thing and here's the same thing back so 95 percent of these people say they will vote for trump the Republicans from his base 25 percent are Democrats potent but many go to independents and others find that there are more open towards the Democratic candidates it's we be earlier thought maybe the 1st top 3 candidates which come to about 14 or 15 percent for Warren and sanders but even the other 2 coming to beat him at this stage State year before election shows may be trouble have to really get out of his base and a comfort level and try to get some more support it was going to difficult for it but of course as to what the polls are very tight in the battleground states if you go to me Well that was what I was going to ask you to ask on because it is this a national poll this is a career this is a national poll that you're right and we must remember no matter which doesn't turn one in national polling last time around I mean shed 3000000 more than he has yet later the New York Times did some their own polling in some of those battleground states in the fall Trumper actually kind of a better position this year that he was in 26 Stansel bats not very reassuring for the Democrats they find his base of the white people white men without college education they're still continuing to support him and in some some working class neighborhoods of those states it's going to the people who lost jobs to all of actuaries we thought Ok maybe they'll change their mind and try to go with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who have been very pro-union a leftist but looks like he's holding on to their support so they will have the Democrats will have to change their strategy in those states. I know you've got a big story on the Trumps of tell some of the trumpet tells not doing so well. Give us one example about the Chicago. You know this because it had a you had a fundraiser last weekend as I walked in and you said Oh what a beautiful ball drop it was kind of molding it down to pay $100000.00 for the dinner and we found that they're losing 8 percent since 2013 in their profits because people don't want Trump name to be associated with any window they want and it pushes businesses to is not downs but I doesn't really clean that as much that's kind of a sad thing they have to deal with that thing. Thank you. But. This c.b.c. Radio. With a news. Story called Jacob response to step down after insulting Grenfell comments installing a cult in the Champions League as Chelsea draw with i.x. . And his new Senate to vote Labor is calling on Jacob Rhys Mark to quit the cabinet for suggesting victims of the Grenfell tower fall use common sense and leave the burning building the advice from the Forest Service was to stay put 72 people died John Trickett is the shadow minister for the Cabinet Office Jacob Riis mall today since you are suggesting the victims were responsible for their own injuries and deaths is appalling I don't think a an apology is good enough either he should stand down all the prime minister should remove him immediately Mr Rhys says he profoundly apologizes for the comments a number of youths have been arrested after a major disturbance in Leeds police use riot gear to deal with gangs throwing bricks and far works in the round hay area. The House of Commons as it's look since June 27th teen is no more parliament is officially dissolved ahead of the general election 5 weeks tomorrow the Tories and greens launched their campaigns today Political Correspondent Chris Mason even though there is no longer a House of Commons there is always a government there are always ministers they continue in their posts until the morning after the election but let me tell you to everyone here feels a long way off government ads about universal credit have been banned for being misleading one fail to mention advance payments were alone the Department for Work and Pensions says it worked with the regulator on the 225000 pound campaign a climate study endorsed 511000 scientists warns there will be untold human suffering without deep and lasting changes the report draws on 40 years of data one of the lead authors is Professor William ripple we're just starting to see pretty Quincy or hurricanes and side call ins and droughts tornadoes so we're concerned that this is just starting in there is not has not been enough action to stop this type of runaway climate change a cruise ship has run aground on the Galapagos Islands west of Ecuador the $46.00 passengers and crew on the celebrity expedition have been moved to another vessel no one's been hurts and southwestern railway says it's extremely disappointed about forthcoming strikes they are empty is planning $27.00 days of industrial action in December and on New Year's Day in the continuing row about the role of God There's a sport now with Katie Smith when it was 2 penalties for Chelsea 2 red cards for i.x. Then 8 goals between them in a Champions League classic Chelsea game from full one down to drill full with 9 men i.x. Chelsea thought they'd grabbed a win at Stamford Bridge when says that as police tire gunman little bit with so many bullets the car exploded and caught on fire and President Trump outraged over the attack offer. Military help to fight Mexico's drug gangs Mexico's president has so far declined that offer a startling reversal in revised testimony from u.s. Ambassador Gordon Sunland as part of the impeachment probe he's now acknowledged that u.s. Aid to Ukraine was being withheld until it promised to investigate corruption although he did not mention the Bidens c.b.s. Is Nancy Cordes Funland had to change his original testimony because so many of the other witnesses had disputed it so in this new 3 page he says that reading those other witness statements quote refresh his recollection about his role in the president's quid pro quo it is Election Day And in Virginia Democrats are hoping to shake things up c.b.s. Is Ed O'Keefe voters in Virginia today had the option to do something they haven't done in a generation give total control of state government to Democrats Republicans control both chambers of the legislature by slim margins and Democrats are in striking distance despite scandals that rocked the state's top leaders the president's unpopular here and Paul did everything he does and that's made the contests a bellwether for 2020 and Democrats also hoping to win gubernatorial races in red states Mississippi and can somebody.