so in a very short time the poverty rate in venezuela doubled. by 1995, 66% of all venezuelans were impoverished. getting poorer tends to make motors radical so inevitably venezuela got radical politics. you know what happened next, venezuela is now rated one of the most miserable places on planet earth. a few years ago, citizens in caracas were reduced to eating zoo animals. there was no food, for that matter there was no electricity. seven just half a lifetime, an advanced society had returned to the stone age. united states is not in danger of becoming venezuela next week but we are moving closer to it. inflation is a big part of the reason. of all the economic crises a country can face, inflation is the most dangerous. inflation doesn t just make people poorer, it totally destroys their confidence in their leaders, the authorities who issue the now worthless currency they are using for toilet paper. inflation is not an act of god like a drug or hurricane, it is an active
The uk will pay double what it offered the eu just two months ago in the hope it will pave the way to trade talks. Get in touch with us using the hashtag beyond100days. Hello, i am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london and donald trump is causing outrage on both sides of the atlantic. We dont know why the president of america chose to retweet incendiary, unverified, anti Muslim Videos posted by the convicted leader of a far right British Group but we do know that doing so has incensed americas closest ally. The videos are from the account of the british fascist jayda fransen, the deputy leader of the group, britain first. She was convicted last year of a hate crime on a muslim woman. Currently, she is on bailfacing four charges of religiously aggravated harassment. Membership that often endades to raise its profile. Early this morning, it received a huge propaganda gift from donald trump, the America First president. On his twitter feed, he retweeting three inflammator
Real substantive dialogue on the issue of race in america. Lets get further into the subject on dialogue. I see a sign in the audience right there on the front row. It says black lives matter. Very plain and reasonable thats that the clarion call of all the arches in rallies and protests that have taken place ever since Michael Brown was killed this summer and yet just this morning i watched a Major Network interview a police chief and that police chief kept saying black people still want us in their neighborhoods. They keep calling us and they want us there. They dont seem to get the point that its not that black people dont want them there its just that they dont want them shooting unarmed black man. Question what can the media do to finally get that and report that . Anybody . Thats something that the white house had to deal with because here you have a black president who has taken the forefront talking about trayvon and things of that nature. When the situations have happened with
Nearly six months on from the first covid cases in yemen, the bbc has become the First International broadcaster to reach the country to gauge the impact of the virus. Yemen is divided between the houthi group based in the north and an internationally recognised government in the south. Even amid the pandemic fighting between the two sides has continued. Bbc arabics special correspondent, Nawal Al Maghafi reports from sanaa in northern yemen. Here in sanaa there is a sense of hopelessness. As we arrive, another victim of covid 19 is being buried. The people here are faced with the evidence of what this virus does. But this is a country already battling the worlds biggest humanitarian crisis. Years of war and starvation have made people indifferent to the threat that is a deadly pandemic. We are the First International broadcaster to get to yemen since coronavirus arrived here. And this is what we have found. There is no social distancing, and no one is taking any precautions. I go to a
In the world is also in china. It is shanghai. London and new york come third and fourth respectively. Thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. I will see you next week. Stay tuned for reliable sources. There were plenty of predictions after the tragedy of newtown that the media would lose interest, that the subject of guns would quickly fade. That hasnt happened. When joe biden weighing in this week and some Television Commentators pushing the issue. Such as when cnn piers morgan invited a controversial talk show host who wants him deported for his views on gun control. 1776 will commence, again, if you try to take our firearms alex, i get accused when i get you guys on of talking over you and trying to be rude. Im trying to be civil. Are the media conducting a serious debate or an incendiary one . Lance armstrong after a decade of denial is heading to oprahs couch to confess to doping. But does she still have the cultural clout to save him . In other sports news,