England says he will take whatever action is necessary to prop up the sagging british economy. The first step, cut the benchmark Interest Rate to the lowest level in its 300 year history. And a german winemaking region crowns its new queen, a refugee from syria becomes the local goodwill ambassador. Im brent goff. Its good to have you with us. One day to go until the biggest event in the world of sports, the Olympic Games in rio de janeiro. The excitement is mounting but the russian doping scandal just wont go away. Now the president of the ioc says a final ruling will be announced soon on how many russian athletes will be allowed to compete. Meanwhile some sporting fans have already been enjoying olympic competition. The Olympic Party has started early. The first competition kicked off on wednesday, two days before the Opening Ceremony. A good start after so much uncertainty about the venues being ready in time. Its great to see all the changes and the organization thats gone into thi
Them are just going to say, i dont believe that. You know, maria, theres a certain paradox about this. There are about, to the best of our calculation, about 27 Million People in the world in slavery. And youre right, thats double the number that were taken out of africa in the entire 350 years of the transatlantic slave trade. But the paradox is that 27 million in todays global population is the tiniest, the smallest fraction, of the global population to ever be in slavery. So its large raw number, but its actually a very tiny fraction of the global population. Hinojosa but does it still mean that there are more now . Its pretty easy to say, because were at 27 million, that we have possibly more now than weve ever had in history. Hinojosa and you say that slaves now are cheaper . Thats all about this global population growth. Because as the population went from two billion up to almost seven billion today, just in the last 50 years, its glutted the market in the developing world for s
Workers Party Broadcast on state run tv. Kim also called on the country to boost prosperity while focused on Defense Nuclear weapons. And he assured the country will have Sustainable Growth by launching a fiveyear Economic Strategy this year. Regarding relations with south korea kim called for unification under a federal system. His grandfather north korean founder kim ilsung proposed such a policy at the last Party Congress in 1980. Kim also demanded that japan apologize for its past sins and not disrupt the unification of the two koreas. He did not say anything about the japanese abducted by north korea decades ago. The bbc says north korean authorities expelled a reporter and his crew after they were detained over their reporting. Tokyo based correspondent rupert wingfieldhayes, a producer and a cameraman were stopped friday. They were at the Pyongyang Airport about to leave the country. The officials held them for three days and they questioned wingfieldhayes for about eight hours
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In davos, discussing the freeze in relations between russia and the west with Russias Deputy Prime Minister. He accuses the u. S. Of faking images of russian aggression in ukraine. Asias only grand slam singles champion le li na and news shes pregnant. And talking about davos as well and in particular security. Absolutely. President obama says no foreign nation or hacker should be able to shut down our networks intrude our trade secrets. Can you fight cyber~ crime while at the same time keeping the trust of all of us who use the internet . Hello. Its midday in london. 1 00 in the afternoon in davos, 7 00 a. M. In washington. Where a defiant president obama has declared an end to the financial crisis. In his annual state of the union he called for a new chapter in u. S. History that ushers in a fairer economy. The widening gap between rich and poor is one of the key talking points at this years gathering of politicians and Business Leaders at davos. We will bring you there in a moment.