as inflation continues to leave us worse off, we speak with the businesses struggling with rising costs and recruitment. how andy s conjured some of that old murray magic in his opening match of the australian open. good morning. once again it is a cold and frosty start. the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. but for many it will be dry with winter sunshine. however, there is snow in the forecast. i will tell you where later. people say, television in the morning? that s disgusting. a disgusting idea! what is happening in this country? people even used the word immoral. but we re still here a0 years later! we re celebrating a special birthday on the programme this morning, good morning. it s tuesday, the 17th january. the metropolitan police force is investigating a thousand allegations of abuse involving around 800 of its officers. it comes after pc david carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including dozens of rapes the worst ever case of a serving police officer. met
Fellow citizens, you have done it. You, the ones who have carried us forward. And you demonstrated that in our country there was no fatalities. You are above face of that rebirth. You are in the face of hope, french hope. In a fortnight, i wa nt hope, french hope. In a fortnight, i want us to win will stop i want us want us to win will stop i want us to win. My my fellow citizens, there are not different france says. Just the one france. It will be an enormous and immense task. I will be actively on your side. The struggle to be able to be the leader of our country starts tonight and we will win that struggle. Long live the republic and long live france. So, there is Emmanuel Macron taking the adoration of his supporters. Talking about the fact he is the candidate of optimism and hope. He said he wants to relaunch the european project. He understands the expectations they have of him. Not much in terms of policy. We will talk about that in a second. He did say he wants to bring new peo
Fellow citizens, you have done it. You, the ones who have carried us forward. And you demonstrated that in our country there was no fatalities. You are above face of that rebirth. You are in the face of hope, french hope. In a fortnight, i wa nt hope, french hope. In a fortnight, i want us to win will stop i want us want us to win will stop i want us to win. My my fellow citizens, there are not different france says. Just the one france. It will be an enormous and immense task. I will be actively on your side. The struggle to be able to be the leader of our country starts tonight and we will win that struggle. Long live the republic and long live france. So, there is Emmanuel Macron taking the adoration of his supporters. Talking about the fact he is the candidate of optimism and hope. He said he wants to relaunch the european project. He understands the expectations they have of him. Not much in terms of policy. We will talk about that in a second. He did say he wants to bring new peo
before. at last slow down in that trend. private sector is carrying things here, no question. but the private sector slowing down a bit too, ali. christine, something that you and i study very carefully, this is a consumer-driven economy, so we study retail sales. the retail sales for the last month came out this week, and they were exceptionally strong. much stronger than economists were expecting. so why did we see losses in retail jobs? it s so interesting, because you saw 33,800 retail jobs lost in the month, and that was a little bit of surprise to people. the only place you saw strength in retail was home and garden centers, surprise, surprise, because of all of the great weather. so even though you ve seen some strength from the consumer lately, this is something, overall, that might be a little bit of a concern. we did see some strength, quickly, i want to show you in manufacturing, ali. 37,000 jobs created in manufacturing. that s a trend we ve seen kind of picki
that actually represents a slowdown in hiring and leaves us wondering why. are there enough jobs out there to sustain our fragile recovery? christine romans, the host of your bottom line, has been studying the numbers. break it down for you. i put it on a chart an graphic to show you the jobs report, ali. you make a good mount. 120,000 jobs created is a big slowdown from the pace we ve seen over the last few months. 8.2% unemployment is a drop but not making people happy. you had people dropping out of the labor market, 164,000 people dropped out of the labor market. that s why the jobs number went down, unemployment went down. focus on the overall job creation. i want to show one of the things you ve been watching also, the public sector jobs. only about 1,000 government jobs were lost. we lost about 6,000 the month before. a slowdown in that trend. private sector carrying things but the private sector slowing down, too. christine some is something we study carefully, co