That simply wasnt made to last. Raac was a postwar solution, now causing a headache for 21st century britain. More than 100 schools in britain have been told they need to close. Labour has announced it will force the government to reveal a complete list of affected schools, and now calls for transparency on the scale of the problem and for fast solutions. Its been known for a while and what we have also known for a while is there is a squeeze on school funding, and my committee has highlighted that repeatedly, and my committee has highlighted that and when you dont invest in maintenance and improvements in schools you get these problems arising but with raac its a systemic failure of the actual material used to build them. Hospital buildings and Court Buildings among those impacted and internal documents obtained by The Sunday Times suggest hospitals could be at risk of catastrophic collapse. The concerns about this have been swirling around for so long. Trusts have been trying to cope
And is expected to meet National Security adviserjake sullivan. Blinken told the Un Security Council on tuesday that he would work with the Chinese Foreign minister to prevent the middle east conflict from spreading. But talks with china are also expected to focus on trying to resolve disagreements on other issues, including trade. Earlier this week, beijing restricted the exports of graphite, of which it produces 90 of the worlds supply. Graphite is a Critical Metal used in many products including electric cars. The us responded by advising its top tech firms which included nvidia to stop exporting some of their latest ai products to china. Soaring demand for its chips has driven nvidias share price up by more than 200 over the past year, with china being its leading buyer. Joining me now is rory green, chief china economist, and head of asia research, at ts lombard. Thanks for being with us today. What you expect to come out of these talks . ,. ,. , you expect to come out of these ta
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9,000 workers to walk out at fords largest plant in mid october. The tactic has been to play the auto makers against each other and, in this instance, the uaw may try to pressure stellantis to match an offer on the table. Well get a glimpse into what this means when gm and Ford Report Currently Earnings this week. In the past, the union have used pay and reports to fuel the argument that the companies can afford concessions to workers. Gm reports tuesday. Given wall street verse look at the impact of the strikes. Ford follows on thursday. Staying in the us, rumblings in the market appear to have concerned investors. The snp closing at its lowest since may, that has led to higher demand for government bonds, also called treasuries. Often viewed as a safe haven investment. Leading to a fall in the yield. A boost in demand pushes up prices leading to a fall in the yield, but that has bounced back amid concerns that the fed will continue to hike rates. I spoke to tim murray about the impli