portuguese record goal scorer cristiano ronaldo has been unveiled by his new team, the saudi football club al nasser. it s reported he will be earning a whopping 212 million dollars a year, making him the highest paid footballer in history. the five time ballon d or winner says he is excited to break new records in saudi arabia now his work in europe is done. we worked out how much she will earned by the end of this programme in an hour and that is $25,000. in a serious note, didn t you just a month ago tell piers morgan that he
court documents show francesco had a long running dispute with the condo board. police say three of the victims were on that panel. prime minister of the netherlands is apologizing for his country s historical role in slavery. mark ruta says the government is now offering is not offering compensation to grandchildren or great grandchildren of slaves it is however establishing a $212 million fund for initiatives to help tackle the legacy of slavery in the netherlands and his former cyclones to boost education about the issue. and the celebration is on in argentina following that country s winning of the world cup. did you see that sunday? unbelievable. argentina defeated france in a penalty shootout after dramatic 3-3 draw over 120 minutes in sunday s final. really the best final in the world cup anybody can remember. it is argentina s first world cup trophy since 1986. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight.
more than 212 million print books were sold in the uk in 2021 the highest figure of the last decade. the sales were worth over £1.8 billon pounds a 3% increase on 2020 according to nielsen bookscan. joining me now is hazel broadfoot, president of the booksellers association. good morning. let sjust start with the rich and famous coming out with books about themselves. why are they not so popular this year? t’m themselves. why are they not so popular this year? popular this year? i m not so sure, it probably popular this year? i m not so sure, it probably depends . popular this year? i m not so i sure, it probably depends who the person is who s written the book on how good the book is. we are selling lots of books by famous people so for example, hugh bonneville who is extremely famous has a book out thatis extremely famous has a book out that is well written. irate extremely famous has a book out that is well written. that is well written. we can see here. that is well wr
a more expensive thanksgiving, christine. consumer prices up 17% in september from a year ago and then you look at the prices that retailers are paying producers, the wholesale prices for 8 to 16 pound hens that s the most popular bird come thanksgiving. those prices have jumped to $1.80 per pound up from $1.40. it means you will pay more for your turkey. what s driving it? it s not just higher inflation. there was a bout of bird flu that killed more than 6 million birds so that means producers have fewer birds to supply to stores. they raised 212 million turkeys this year, that s one of the lowest numbers in years. wow. so there s tight supply, high demand and then the producers are facing higher costs for labor, transportation fertilizer. feed and fertilizer. what about the rest of the meal? there s going to be no escaping inflation at
last year, compared to workers wages up 4.7%. that s important because last year the rate of inflation was 7.1%. so you see that nearly double digit pace from the rate of inflation for ceos, but for workers it s a lot lower. now, the company that had the biggest pay disparity between the ceo and it s workers was amazon. so andy jassy, the ceo, took home $212 million in 2021, compare that to the average worker which took home about $33,000 if you round up there and that is a pay ratio disparity of 6,471-1. that is astounding. amazon says that s because andy jassy has a lot of stock in the company. so that boosts his compensation. but the point of this report is really to just look at this disparity and the numbers tell