An estimated 620,000 people in the uk have a faulty gene that puts them at risk of sudden death, the British Heart Foundation has warned. Mps will vote tonight on legislation that would allow the Prime Minster to formally start the process of leaving the European Union. The government is expected to win the vote quite comfortably, despite opposition from some labour rebels. Well be looking to see exactly how many. Plus the Liberal Democrats and the snp. Yesterday saw impassioned speeches for and against the bill in the House Of Commons. The debate went on right up till midnight and will continue today with a vote around 7pm tonight. If the bill is passed, it will continue its passage through parliament and ultimately allow theresa may to trigger article 50 of the lisbon treaty. 0ur Political Correspondent chris mason reports. Heading home into the winters night after nearly 12 hours of debate. Midnight in westminster with another afternoon of discussion to follow today. This is a debat
The people of east germany. The new strands for commerce for german unity journalist peter borg was about to see. 30 years leaders who looks back on the time interest or. Stretch to summer 90 g. W. The. Last sundays election in hong kong may have been strictly local but it sent a signal straight to the heart of made lunch china in the face of an increasingly violent standoff between 12 democracy protesters and hong kong to beijing back to government a Record Number of voters turned out for the poll and handed a Landslide Victory to prodemocracy candidates for the citys local District Councils the resulting defeat took hong kongs beleaguered government by surprise and up the pressure on beaching will that make a crackdown on the protesters more difficult or
a more likely cause Hong Kong Elections wake up call for a big change thats our topic. On. Welcome to to the point weve invited 3 highly knowledgeable guests to exchange views on what the Hong Kong Election result could mean hunch wh
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my my big concern is that a lot of these job cuts have been at the development centre here in the uk and that means less research and development here going forward. at the moment, ford is piggybacking on the moment, ford is piggybacking on the back of volkswagen technology because they were so far behind. so research and development is being done at volkswagen with ford putting bodies on it. long turn what they are saying a lot of the technology will come from the us and then will be adopted for europe so they will be doing less in europe in general. you remember as well that president biden is putting huge resources into supporting us manufacturing through the inflation reduction act in order to try and re industrialize and develop new technologies. the eu looking at doing something similar. kind of leads the uk outside of that looking at this on the sidelines and perhaps not doing enough to support the transition electric vehicles.
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