To and from london euston, due to Emergency Repairs on downed overhead power lines. And in half an hour here on bbc news, click takes a look at the latest in disability tech including object recognition and sign to text translation. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. All four Board Members of the governments social Mobility Commission have stood down in protest at what they say is a lack of progress towards a fairer britain. Ex labour minister alan milburn, who chairs the commission, said he had little hope the current government could make the necessary progress. The resignations also include the former conservative cabinet anister gillian shephard. Downing street insists it is working to provide opportunities for all. Heres our political correspondent, jonathan blake. Your chances of getting a job, finding a good school for your children, and being able to afford somewhere decent to live issues at the heart of social mobility. And from day one in power, tackling inequality was a
Just a College Degree to get a job and i think that a lot of people dont have the Financial Aid to keep going to Doctoral School or a Higher Learning education or Something Like that. They dont have the money to get the Higher Education in the cant find a job just average College Degree. Weve been fighting common core for seveneight years now and we still have it here in alabama. We find that every single year with the new bill. We want to get rid of it. In the state of alabama i believe is racial inequality and justice form. I think that here in the state we still have frederick in our constitution that is representative of the time that has long passed and i think that having discriminatory language in the document that governs a Diverse Group of people is very outdated and limits peoples power, the disenfranchisement and the way that Law Enforcement interacts with the citizens across the state i think that those things need to be addressed so that we can have the gap within the disp
But they shared one thing. A passion for on the one case writing and the other case collecting but put them in the context of their lives if you would, please. Guest shakespeare was writing around the 16 hundreds. His life 20 years before, 20 years after during the reign of elizabeth and james i and he was a wellknown playwright poet. He was also a businessman and a shareholder in the Theater Company in london. And and hes he is very well known for being a businessman. Henry soldier was the chairman of the board of the company the Largest Corporation in the world and the most reviled corporation as well during the gilded age. Shakespeare wrote these plays after he died his friends decided to create a memorial volume and published 36 of the node node known 38 plays of shakespeare had written and they are connected across time and across the ocean and the book saved the play from obscurity and henry the chairman wanted to own every known copy of the first. Host theres Something Interesti
Ancient temp until syria. We introduce you to these men determined to save these treasures. Will he run in Vice President bidens potential bid to the white house takes a big turn, thanks so some surprising words from the white house. Plus new orleans now. He lead the fight in the days after katrina. Now tens years later, general russell turns to a city forever changed since that storm. We begin with the aftermath of one of the most volatile trading days on wall street in years. Chinas shanghai composite lost more than 8 . That sent shock waves through Financial Markets ash around the world. The dow dropped sharply, and lost nearly 1100 points in minutes. It wasnt enough to stop the dow from losing 588 points for the day. Mary snow is here with more. That size drop was seen as a good thing, since it could have been far worse. There was a sense that this wasnt a flashback to the financial crisis of 2008, because now the u. S. Economy is showing signs of growth, but that didnt stop a gutw
This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. The World Markets seem to be sablessing this morning despite big sell off in asia. Futures here point to a big surge at the open, despite another sell off in shanghai and tokyos nikkei. In china it turned dramatically negative. The country is cutting the Interest Rates to try to stop the bleeding. Trading opened on tuesday across the Asian Pacific and they opened with baited breath wondering how the market would react considering chinas fall was so tract particular on a monday. The markets were shaky, most of them making losses in the early part of trading. They regained some of that ground as the day progressed, and made up in some cases on those losses. Markets that were in profess certainly saw themselves reach the black again, with taiwan, australia, singapore, but the shanghai composite perhaps the market that many global eyes were focused on ended at 7. 63 down on the day, tokyo said market was