we begin in the united states, where florida governor, ron desantis, has dropped out from the republican presidential race and endorsed donald trump. the surprise video announcement comes ahead of this week s republican primary in new hampshire where mr desantis was polling in the single digits. his departure leaves nikki haley as mr trump s only significant rival. let s take a listen to what he had to say. if there was anything i could do to produce a favourable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i can t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don t have a clear path to victory. accordingly i am today suspending my campaign. i m proud to have delivered on 100% of my promises. i will not stop now. it s clear to me that the majority of majority republican primary voters want to give donald trump another chance. they watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance and they see democrats using law
first, though, iwant first, though, i want to focus on ukraine and specifically on kramatorsk. we have been getting these reports in and we can see these reports in and we can see these pictures here. these are the aftermath, effectively, of a russian attack on an area of the city popular with restaurants and, just to warn you, we are getting some distressing details in about what people there are reporting. officially, two people have been killed, 22 injured. that is from ukrainian officials, but as you can see from some of the pictures there, the extent of the damage, rescue efforts still ongoing, it is a restaurant and shopping area, city centre, basically, so as you can imagine, pretty busy, and are reports of people being trapped under the rubble and the debris there. so, this detail coming through in the last couple of hours. we will be keeping across exactly anti development from ukraine. meanwhile, though, iwant anti development from ukraine. meanwhile, though, i want
the chancellor says we ve turned a corner, but is the uk now in a cul de sac? i now call the chancellor to make the autumn statement, jeremy hunt. jeremy hunt trumpets a two percentage point cut in national insurance, and an almost 2% rise in the living wage, but the uk tax burden is still the heaviest since world war ii, and growth forecasts are down, so will the cost of living crisis still be a cost of living crisis next year and the year after? nick s been out gauging reaction injeremy hunt s patch. ijust i just worry that this is a government that is running out of good ideas. government that is running out of good ideas- government that is running out of aood ideas. , ., ., , , good ideas. they are doing the best the can good ideas. they are doing the best they can under good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the circumstances. l they can under the circumstances. they they can under the circumstanc
Teacher is question mark how do we define teacher is . How do we define test scores, etc. . How do we give every child access to a quality education, states most constitutions, these are questions we have to address. Host joyce is calling from cleveland. You are a teacher. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wanted to just say i think this is a very helpful program and discussion you are having because you are considering so many of the subtleties involved in teacher evaluation, and education in general. It should not be just a Blank Program with onesizefitsall, especially in teacher evaluation. I think it is important to remember that accountability is important, sometimes it becomes a political football, and some groups just feel they need to have their needs addressed and ignore other aspects of curriculum. I think it is important to have some curriculum standardization but not necessarily the same for. Very state and every area regional differences need to be considered and indivi
Feierstein. He is with the middle east institute and former Principal Deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs in the obama white house. Thank you for being with us. We appreciate it. Guest pleasure being with you. Host let me begin with something from the weekly secretary ofording state Rex Tillerson and what he called the economic blockade in the persian gulf, the nation of qatar, saying theyre argumentative in consequence of the blockade, something that he says can be resolved. There is a resolution possible. Explain what happened, why there is a blockade, and what is the implications what the implications have been. Guest well, fundamentally this is an issue its a dispute that has been going on for a number of years. We have had flareups before. 2014, there was also a break in diplomatic relations between saudi arabia and emirates on one side and qatar on the other. It is about support for political islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as positions on iran and