But the irish pm warns there might not be time. Where there will be able to conclude a revised withdrawal agreement, which after all is an International Treaty, in time for the summit on thursday, that is as of now unclear. The number of hate crimes reported to police in england and wales reaches a record high. Former bosses at thomas cook are told to do the right thing and hand back their bonuses, as they face mps over the travel firm collapse. Snp leader Nicola Sturgeon tells her Party Conference that a second referendum on Scottish Independence must happen next year. The duke and duchess of cambridge meet pakistans Prime Minister imran khan, during theirfive day visit to the country. Hello, it is five oclock. Its 5pm our main story is that the head of bulgarias Football Union has resigned in the wake of racist chants from home fans directed at england players in last nights game in sofia. In a statement, the president of european footballs governing body, uefa, aleksander ceferin, b
Hardtalk with zeinab badawi. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. President widodo of indonesia was recently re elected to a second term in office. He says he has big ambitions to raise the standards of living for his people. Indonesia is the most populous country in Southeast Asia and has its biggest economy, but it faces a series of challenges, from poor infrastructure to corruption and extreme income inequality. My guest is indonesias minister for National Development planning, bambang brodjonegoro, who is here in londodn trying to attract investors. But is the government doing enough to tackle its problems . Minister bambang brodjonegoro, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. So, here you are in london trying to attract investors to your country. What message are you giving them . I think the first one must be the size of our economy and the population as well. 216 million population, with gdp more than us 1 trillion currently. But in 2045, 100 years of independence, it w
Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. President widodo of indonesia was recently re elected to a second term in office, and he says he has big ambitions to raise the standards of living for his people. Indonesia is the most populous country in Southeast Asia and has its biggest economy, but it faces a series of challenges, from poor infrastructure to corruption and extreme income inequality. My guest is indonesias minister for National Development planning, bambang brodjonegoro, who is here in londodn trying to attract investors. But is the government doing enough to tackle its problems . Minister bambang brodjonegoro, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. So, here you are in london trying to attract investors to your country. What message are you giving them . I think the first one must be the size of our economy and the population as well. 216 million population, with gdp more than us i trillion currently. But in 2045, 100 years of independence, it will be 320 million, with
Training or in need of repair. Frank kendall defended the plan to gradually phase out reliance on Russian Rocket engines for u. S. Space launches. Testifying, kendall argued the base needs tomorrow for look for alternatives. Some leaders argued that an immediate end to the use of Russian Rockets is appropriate. They could replace the rd180 engines by 2020 at the earliest. Here to speak to that topic is beauchammp, gutt undersecretary for air space. Thanks for having me. There is a lot of talk on the use of russian engines, and actually development of alternatives to those russian engines for the space launches. Can you talk to me a little bit about the potential of the alternatives that are under development right now . Sure. This is an exciting time in the space the air force requires two launch services to be ability to launch the full range of payloads into orbit. We dont have that today. To incentivize those developments, we will let contracts that will fund the development of new
Weather appears to be the new norm. Events like superstorm saturday which came to my shores and our shears in the mid atlantic a year or so ago, recent wildfires in ore parts of the country other parts of the country, dangerous tornadoes, historic droughts. They may well be just the tip of the iceberg of whats to come. And even today the east coast is preparing for yet another snowstorm while the west coast is experiencing a historic drought. And increased fire danger with no end in sight. I have a friend of mine who is from australia, and he tells me theyve had the hottest weather in their history, so go figure. Its just sort of a crazy world that we live in right now. For years, ive been working with a number of my colleagues, our colleagues to address the root causes and unfolding effects of what i believe is one of the Biggest Challenges of our generation. Thats Climate Change. According to the u. S. Global change research program, extreme weather events have increased in frequency