Century after that revolution, in 1788, that the same mirabeau defied the king of france and set the will of the people against the king, with the First National assembly, the first parliamentary body, and this was quite simply his ambition, to transpose the british model of constitutional monarchy. In the end, it was the english who almost had the french revolution, but in france developed towards another system and on the 21st Of September exactly 231 years ago to the day, the republic was born. And so our two pupils have been watching one another, influencing one another, have for many years been rivals, but for more than a century have always been allies to defend democracy and human rights. The different commemorations we have recall this and next year, in 2024, we shall be celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale and the 80th Anniversary of the normandy landings. And as vera lynn saying, we shall meet again, we shall meet again to continue to seal this compact of
Breathing a big sigh of relief. Find out more with me after 6 00. Meanwhile in an exclusive gb news poll , half of you, our gb news poll, half of you, our viewers and listeners oppose a ban on petrol and diesel cars. Well bring you all the details in just a moment. The bank of england will decide today whether to raise Interest Rates for a 15th consecutive time. Well bring you all the analysis on what this means for all of us. And well have full coverage on gb news at midday. We can rely on our firm friendship king charles and the french president , Emmanuel Macron , to toast the uk and macron, to toast the uk and French Friendship at a banquet. Well have also the weather updates for you with alex burkill. Good morning. Whilst its going to be a sunnier day for many of us, there is still some showery rain and strong winds around. Ill have more shortly. Have more shortly. And of course, paul coyte will have all the support for us this yes, i will. This morning. Yes, i will. An nana disas
Slight fall in inflation yesterday. The governor of the bank said he expects that trend to continue but cautioned that hes watching to see whether further rises may be needed in the future. With all the details, heres our economics correspondent andrew verity. At this shared workspace in brixton in south london, what higher Interest Rates mean for students like paige is fewer landlords entering the Rental Market and more selling up as their Mortgage Costs jump and rents rise rapidly. After her landlord sold, shes given up finding a decent home to rent and moved back in with her parents. With the competition out there and what you get for your money in london, it just wasnt worth it. You would see a Shoe Box Room or a double mattress literally in a room with no floor space for upwards of, like, £800. Gerald, who runs the workspace, is also a landlord who said he had more than 80 applicants when he tried to let out a local flat for £1500 a month. The trouble for him was the Mortgage Pa
State that looks to move and never rests on its laurels. Its an exciting place to be. Our encore presentation of some of the stops along the cspan cities to or from thispast year continues as we take you to provo utah. Ive been collecting rare books for the past 30 years. I decided to relocate to provo after selling my bookshop in dallas which also sold new books and the past 10 or 15 years bookstores have been sold and bookstores have suffered with the advent of ebooks and everything Going Digital but what i found is the interest in rare books has increased. In my shop right now there are about 1000 books but in my inventory there are about 5000 books. I specialize in four different areas, i specialize in rare bibles, older bibles, bibles over 500 years being in utah i specialize in early mormon books, classics in literature and early american history. One of the items i enjoy collecting our bibles or religious texts that belong to wellknown historical figures and being from utah, one
Thatans, rice, sugar thing. At least now they are part of the program, and i am hopeful i have been hopeful ever since that the fruit and vegetable and would begin to organize and organize more arongly to be a part bigger part of what we might call production agriculture in america. We need more fresh Fruit Farmers in america. We need more greenhouses in places around the country. Thing, but at least now they have their foot in the door. Can yout know reduce some of the other things . Yeah, maybe. It is not as much as it used to be, i will tell you that. It is not as much support as there used to be for peanuts, cotton, rice. Of course, tobacco went out some years ago corns, beans, that kind of thing so it is not so much direct payment as it is just support mechanisms out there. Michael thank you, senator. Sen. Harkin ok. Thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for it