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Activists have been staging disruptive protests in london for weeks. on monday police had to shut down a major bridge because protesters were scaling it. they blocked traffic by laying in the road. at least one activist spray painted an aston martin showroom. they say protests like these drain police resources and says she's bringing forward a public order bill that will bring authorities more power to disrupt these actions that are favored by some groups. extinction rebellion placed in london. while there was no soup or milk spilled here, the crowd had a similar message, about the urgent need...

Who's chief executive of surfers against sewage. sewage has definitely been in the news agenda recently because of the pollution at a number of beaches. when liz truss was environment secretary, during that time she oversaw what turned out to be millions of pounds worth of cuts in money that was meant to be spent on dealing with pollution, so do you have hopes that as prime minister she might do something to help? figs she might do something to help? is environment she might do something to help? sis environment secretary she slashed funding for environmental regulation, regulation that would...

Crafted the measure, a package that includes parts of biden's "build back better." jasmine wright is joining us from washington. so let's talk about the politics of all this. what is next for this bill? >> well, next step is trying to get all 50 senate democrats on board here. we know that there will be intense republican opposition which means that any one democrat could really derail the process. and who doubt the white house and president biden will be directly involved in this effort trying to corral his party to vote for this surprise package before the august recess giving them months to...

Better," et cetera. now this. how much of a diveriver of inflation would the climate issue but mainly the tax proposal have been by pushing more money into the economy? >> so i think probably overall it would have been a wash. when republicans claim that this kind of spending bill would increase inflation or manchin says that for that matter when democrat dems claim that it wou decrease inflation, probably a negligible effect. there were pieces that would drive prices up, pieces that would drive pieces down. maybe you could say this one comes before that one. so whatever. i think mostly it was...

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