things for ourselves. what do you think? is limiting foreign labour about embracing opportunities and spirit as brexit, as the home secretary will say? that brexit enables us to build a high skilled economy that is less dependent on foreign labour, or is this cutting is on the national nose to spite the national face? does the uk need to reduce its reliance on foreign workers? are british workers ready and willing to fill the gap? our british workersjust our british workers just as good? do we need foreign labour? get in touch. here is the news. the uk is set to give more monetary support to ukraine, including air defence missiles and drones. downing street made the announcement as president zelensky arrived for talks with rishi sunak. senior doctors in england are voting on whether to strike. their union, the british medical association, said pay talks with the government ended on saturday, with the final offer it called unacceptable. the government urged to bma to consider
To the kremlin s coffers . Well be getting the view from our man in moscow. There he is, steve rosenberg. And ill also be discussing all of this with a sanctions specialist. There she is, Agathe Demarais from the Economist Intelligence unit. Also on the show, its all about your people from taking on coca cola to flying on board your own spaceship. Im going to be getting the lowdown from self proclaimed Trouble Maker and Global Business magnate sir richard branson. Wherever yourejoining me from around the world. Once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. This was a year when the World Economy went to war as russias military invaded ukraine, bringing death and destruction and misery in its wake, the western allies responded not just with military assistance, but by turning the power of their economies to isolate russia as much as possible. Heres the us President Joe Biden back in april of this year. Theres nothing less happening than major war crimes. Responsible nations hav
it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in washington where a powerful house committee is debating wether to allow president biden to completely ban the chinese owned app, tiktok, which is used by more than 100 million americans. the white house has already ordered government agencies to wipe tiktok off federal devices within 30 days. and it s notjust the us. the european parliament has also banned the video sharing app from staff phones citing security reasons, following canada which imposed a similar ban. but china has hit out at the us and this is what a government spokesperson had to say. translation: the united states, the world number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application that young people like so much that they completely lack any self confidence. we firmly oppose the us s wrong approach to overstretching the concept of national security, abusing national power, and unreasonably suppressing the companies of other countries. earlier, i a
to the women in film headquarters, where i m joined by keri putnam and stephanie allain, two women who are working to reshape the industry. they are both part of an initiative founded and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo. she is also the cofounder of reframe. welcome. thank you, it s great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected co president of the producers guild of america the first woman of colour to hold the position. stephanie served nine years as vice president in women in film. she runs her own company, homegrown pictures, which focuses on creating content by and about women and people of colour. keri and stephani