And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of their contract. The strikes will halt trade in a wide range of goods and disrupt the Countrys Economy just as we enter the final weeks before the president ial election. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupt the two major sticking points between international longshoreman s association and the us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation for the workers are unhappy with the current contract which spanned the pandemic and dockworkers st
it s an effort to ease the global food crisis, that is affecting millions of people around the world. now on bbc news, the media show. welcome to the addition of the media show stopping the conservative party leadership races down to two candidates, rishi sunak and liz truss. there have been two debates between them and some of the other candidates already, one got cancelled after some of the candidates declined to take part and then the bbc is planning another with just the final two and the whole process and the way the debates have played out have raised broader questions about how they run. we are going to be speaking to jonathan from sky news, julie etching as well, but first of all let s bring in faisal islam because faisal, you are going to be part of the on air team for this bbc debate, tell us more. . for this bbc debate, tell us more. . , ., for this bbc debate, tell us more. ~ . , ., for this bbc debate, tell us more. ., more. an awful lot has been done, more.
of the candidates declined to take part. the bbc is planning another with just the final two. and the whole process and the way the debates have played out has raised broader questions about how they re organised, how they serve voters and the country as a whole, and how the broadcasters find the experience, too. well, we re going to be speaking to jonathan from sky news, kristin from channel 4 news, julie for itv news, but first of all, let s bring in faisal islam, because he will be the on air team for this bbc debate. tell us more. an awful lot has been done. a lot of the legwork has been done by. the excellent debates are hosted by two of the other people on this call, really rich in terms of drama, and some interesting and intriguing policy proposals that we re yet to hear detail on. i think another factor here is that we haven t heard as many broadcast interviews with some of the candidates to be prime minister as we may have had in the past. so these really have been t
emergency services say the largest, active blaze in the united states, near yosemite national park, is continuing to spread. now on bbc news: the media show. hello, i am ros atkins. welcome to this edition of the media show. we re going to talk about tv political debates, because the conservative party leadership races down to two candidates, rishi sunak and liz truss. there have been two debates between then and some of the other candidates already. one got cancelled after some of the candidates declined to take part. the bbc is planning another with just the final two. and the whole process and the way the debates have played out has raised broader questions about how they re organised, how they serve voters and the country as a whole, and how the broadcasters find the experience, too. well, we re going to be speaking to jonathan from sky news, kristin from channel 4 news, julie for itv news, but first of all, let s bring in faisal islam, because he will be the on air team
of it, and everything was very good natu red. do you think that s because you didn t have an audience, that they didn t pick up on how people were reacting to them? a bit like the way that big brother contestants emerge from the house and don t realise how the tv audience has reacted to them? well, i hadn t thought of that comparison, necessarily, but i thought, you know, a lot about it since. i think that may well have been a factor. it is so intense when you are in that space, it is so intense, and i am used to doing it with an audience on the other side or behind me, and you can pick up on the vibe in the room, but there wasn t a vibe. it was just this little, sort of, intensity, you know? and krishnan, what about you? did you pick up on dynamics between the candidates which then played out on the tv?