toward zero. we begin with the big issue, struggling to get a read on the global economy. china, europe. the eurozone. china forming a bumpy bottom. close to a recovery. data is encouraging. encouraging. europe has many existential issues. structural hurdles. structural problems in europe. too many to name. this year worse than people expected. so awful over recent months. the u.s. economy is doing well. a strong u.s. economy. the u.s. is not doing poorly. the u.s. economy may be stuck here. it is a sequencing, the u.s. was stable last year. there is a pass off to china and improvement occurring in china. europe is also stabilizing at the moment. jonathan: a big week for economic data worldwide and to discuss is priya misra, gorshon distenfeld, and victoria fernandez. victoria, your take, we have had u.s. retail sales, data out of china, and eurozone pmi. what is your conclusion this week? victoria: i think we did get a mixed bag as the peo
a very well planned attack. given your your background knowledge of terrorism and the kind of attacks there are does this look like this could this could be more than just one cell or one group of individuals. that s what police have to work with because they were worried about a second stage attacker it was the case that the and even in this trailer yes but on the face of it this. meeting that sort nine six people shot back in january twenty seventh st or in the like the un was very brave to get back in a way. when there was a youth camp and they people in whole lot of them so within and in both cases which were about low neck their tax break attacked was very sophisticated and he paid for months and months and months but he was just one guy by himself mind you even posting a manifesto so he was concerned about an online community who supported him same thing here and manifesto and online community it s important it s very lucky they re still in there. and not getting anothe
yes, brenda. we are heading fora third vote and maybe even a fourth vote. also on the programme today: should you be worrying about gaming addiction? the where things got with my family, the more i went into that online world of gaming and it consumed my life to the point i lost myjob and my consumed my life to the point i lost my job and my family, consumed my life to the point i lost myjob and my family, my home and everything. one of the largest addiction treatment firms in this country addiction treatment firms in this cou ntry tells addiction treatment firms in this country tells us that although the figures are still small, the number of people they have seen with addiction to gaming has tripled in the last four years. we will talk to an addiction therapist. what is his advice for making sure people do not become addicted to screens? hello and welcome to the programme. we are alive until 11 o clock this morning. i have a question for you. as you know, the eu is due to l
malpractice. they re just as addicted to the likes from wall street and from their audiences as the audience are to the likes they get from sharing things that make them angry or afraid. good tuesday morning i am jon fortt, morgan brennan and wilfred frost. carl is on assignment. also with us the entire hour, elevation partners co-founder, early facebook investor roger mcnamee out with a new book today, zucked, waking up to the facebook catastrophe on the early days of the social network, the extension threat to society. wow. that s a provocative title what is that referring to? you know, you get to decide my wife came up with the name, since it is kind of a new word, people can decide whatever it means to them. in your book among other things, roger, you say, quote, facebook remains a threat to democracy and that it continues to prioritize its business model over civic responsibility. i ll also note facebook s official statement to us on your book, they say take crit
it s saturday the 12th of january. our top story: prison sentences of less than six months could be abolished under plans being considered by the ministry ofjustice. it s argued that community penalties are better than short jail sentences at cutting re offending rates. in england and wales it s thought the move would mean about 40,000 offenders avoiding jail every year, including burglars and shoplifters. this report from ben ando. at any one time, around 3,500 people are behind bars in england and wales, serving sentences of six months or less for crimes like burglary or shoplifting. but almost two thirds of those released will re offend within a year. the prisons minister rory stewart has described these short sentences in a newspaper interview as long enough to damage you and not long enough to heal you, adding that those jailed even for a few weeks can lose their home, theirjob and their family and be set on a course to more crime. the ministry ofjustice says that prison