Hello I m Valerie Smith member services manager for High Plains Public Radio Wishing you peace and joy this holiday season and throughout the years to come thank you for supporting public radio on the high plains. Insults with the world at home on the high plains This is High Plains Public Radio 91.5 k c x p bushland 89.38 cd 8 start streaming online at h.p. P.r. Dot org You re listening to High Plains Public Radio online right now is made possible in part by the financial support of the community sponsors you hear mentioned on the air please find an occasion to thank them for their support. And when they come on line and they will send for me to show I can see so I m so it s really a speech phenomenon Lauren that some of the strength of the world. I m sure McIntosh with the b.b.c. News hello 3 main opposition parties in Venezuela have been told that they can t field presidential candidates at next year s election because they boycotted Sunday s narrow polls President Nicolas Maduro s
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B.b.c. World Service this is there in Bennett gens with extra one hour on a single topic every week and this week our topic is cryptocurrency is now my economics teacher used to tell me that money is as money does by which he meant I think that you can go into a shop brandishing a worthless piece of pipe up but if the shopkeeper happens to believe that it s worth something then you get to go and you might leave with something rather more useful like an loaf of bread and so it is perhaps with cryptocurrency is like the Bit Coin or is worthless digits on hard drives and yet there is a difference it s not easy to buy bread with a bit coins so why is the price going so high is this just a speculative bubble and if so are the implications for economies around the world and how come the price of electricity is one of the main constraints on but. It s all coming up on news hour extra after the laces world news. This is the b.b.c. News with Nick Kelly in the past half hour the European Commis
Given ground as you can in negotiation move sites had to listen to each other adjust deposition and true reading these 2 compromise this was a difficult negotiation for union as rugged as full United Kingdom. Part the British prime minister Tories amazed said she was happy to move the discussions onto a new stage I very much welcome the prospect of moving ahead to the next phase to talk about trade and security and to discuss the positive future relationship that is in all of our interests I ve consistently said that we want to build a deep and special partnership with the e.u. As we implement the decision of the British people to leave at the end of March 2090 doing so will provide clarity and certainty for businesses in the u.k. And the e.u. And crucially for all our citizens the Israeli authorities have reinforced security in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to deal with more protests today following President Trump s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel from Jerusa
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