A country which is useful at this time might suddenly be a place receiving 20,000 refugees in three days or Something Like that. One of the things that we are already doing and have to do more of is theable to surge staff between posts and also between functions within the Foreign Office in london so that we have a more flexible structure is that can respond to reseissly sh reseissly the reality that priorities can change and change rapidly and we need to respond in a way that is appropriately agile. Can i ask you about another area of your budget. At the present there is still an fco grant to the British Council. Is that one of the areas that you may well be getting rid of, and what are the implications to you do, for the branding of the British Council and the sense of its identity with the soft power of our country. Well the British Council plays a vitally Important Role in projecting the u. K. Soft power. But it has been generating an increasing proportion of the resources it needs
This morning, new revelations behind that jet liner crash in egypt over the weekend. Did isis have something to do with the tragic plane crasas cma n ns country musics biggest night. See which stars walked away winners a look at last nights cma awards. Were enjoying nice weather in siouxland now but as we get deeper into november. What measures you can take to prepare for the cold before it gets here. Those stories and more this morning on abc9 news jessica rae we begin with the very latest on the investigation into the russian plane crash that killed 224 people in egypt. New evidence suggests a bomb may have brought down the plane. And now the British Government is taking an unprecedented stepsuspending all british flights abcs lana zak is following the investigation inwashington. An explosive devicerather than mechanical failurehas investigators taking more seriously the claims of an isis affiliated terrorist group in egypt, according to preliminary new evidence into the cause of the
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