This little device is paired with a pad under the pillow which detects me snoring and moves just enough to stop me without waking me up. Good morning, its thursday, january five, welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A Record Number of cars were registered in the uk last year but as more of us than ever before splashed out on a brand new vehicle, the industry is warning that this could be the peak of sales. There were nearly 2. 7 million new cars on the roads in 2016. This is largely because the way were buying cars is changing with more affordable Finance Deals on offer. In 2015 nearly three quarters of cars were bought using something called a personal Contract Purchase or pcp. Thats when you pay a deposit, make Monthly Payments for three orfour years, and at the end of that you have a choice to buy the car outright or give the car back to the dealer and upgrade. Manufacturers are also predicting a 5 fall in new car sales this year with the weaker pound pushing up prices. One more detail, th
We are spending on education and incarceration more than we are spending on anything else. We are dropping a lot of money on the back and just imagine if some of these programs that you mostly work in or want to start just imagine if you had 50,000 you could buy a house per year that money just poured down the hole because what happens is the about the Political Forces going on in the country to come up and say walking up. Three strikes and youre out and they wonder why they are vagabonds when they come out and cant get a job or student loan. They can barely get access to their own children and then we wonder why. They dont have anybody in their life. You see it. You see how this thing happens. Its a couple of small decisions that become big. That is a short portion of tonights programs on social workers in america. You can watch the entire Program Starting at 8 p. M. And that will be on the companion of work cspan. Now todays edition of washington journal. First up we asked viewers th
Details a lot of Miss Management and at the phoenix v. A. We saw cases where folks had serious are diseases. Still had to wait months h nine weeks. Six months to get any sort of follow up apoints scheduled. I got a class to talk to a deputy second earlier this week. He said it is still bad news report and still an embarrassment for the department. How extensive was the i. G. Investigation . This was a pretty in depth report. They spent months combing through files, not working, they said working with the department of justice and the fbi on possible fraud and case thats could result in criminal cases down the line. But they found widespread problems and investigationings of other facilities turned up the same issues of mismanagement, problems with how scheduling occurs. And really some systemic cultural problems that the va has been struggling to address since the spring. What did they find out about suicide and prevention related to the care they get at v. A. Facilities . Small we hea
Mr. Prime minister, trying to fix the economy is an urgent crisis. In a little more than two months, president ial elections are scheduled. There are reports, rumors of postponing those elections. How confident are that ukraine will be ready to hold elections in two months, and how do you think it will that they will have Credible Elections that everyone will recognize . Starting with the first question, it is not just about ukraine, as i mentioned. It is about the Global Security. Let me remind you that in 1994, a budapest memorandum emerged where signatures guaranteed an independence and tear torle integrity of the ukrainian states. And look what has happened. We abandoned our Nuclear Weapons. Right . We did. We executed this memorandum. And today we asked for the protection. If we dont get this protection, tell me the way how the world is to reinforce or ask another country to stop their Nuclear Progress . Its impossible to convince, in this case, someone to hold uclear proliferatio
It is clear by not voting we are rewarding russia with more power at the International Monetary fund while denying ukraine the opportunity to be more Energy Independent from Russian Energy sources. If members are willing to provide american taxpayer dollars from ukraine to pay russian gas bills, then we should en i would say by passing my amendment, the United States has the ability to be the strategic supplier to our nato allies and ukraine. It is worth noting that my amendment on l. N. G. Exports has strong bipartisan support in the committee. I expect our bipartisan pass an amendment that helps ukraine decrease the helps ukraine. I look forward to traveling to ukraine tomorrow and speaking to them bl buying natural gas from america to help decrease the chair rules the amendment out of order as a topic outside of the jurisdiction. I would be happy to go through those, but i think in the interest of time, we will put that into the record. , theut objections amendment is ruled out of o