The start of equity trading. Here in europe, but as ever, our coverage is global. Lets check in with what we need to be watching for. We are live in hong kong and paris to give a rundown of the stories you need to focus in on. We have Global Coverage coming in from the team as we focus in on the weekend events in hong kong. A budget to talk about in saudi arabia. An protest activity in france that matt was just referencing. Lets go first to stephen engle, who joins us with the latest protest activity. Give us a rundown of what has been happening. Question is how long will these protests continue . Ongoingeen six months with violence over the weekend and late yesterday we had the first major march again from the ch rf, the organizers of those large million plus person marches back in june. They have had their applications for marches denied by the police up until this weekend. It has basically been carried off without incident. There was some vandalism at the high court and some graffit
We start with the gender pay gap because campaigners here in the uk are calling today equal pay day. They calculate that from today, because of the pay gap with men, women are effectively working for free for the rest of the year. The Fawcett Society which does the calculations each year says there has been a slight improvement on 2018. But female full time workers earn on average 13 less than their male counterparts. There is high level support for change. A group of 100 top uk businesswomen including former royal mail boss dame moya greene, Dame Minouche shafik the favourite to take over at the bank of england and glaxosmithkline boss Emma Walmsley want a change in the law to give women the right to see how much male colleagues are earning. The gender pay gap is a lot worse in many other parts of the world women are paid 32 less than men on average according to pay data gathered by the World Economic forum across 149 countries. But campaigners here in the uk have long argued there ne
And said how hes going to pay for it but it gets him halfway there. Every study done shows medicare for all is the most Cost Effective approach to providing health care to every man, woman and child in this country. I, who wrote the damn bill, if i may say so, intend to eliminate all outofpocket expenses. While bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. And on page eight on page eight of the bill it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. I dont think thats a bold idea. I think its a bad idea. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist kim strassel, Kyle Peterson and James Freeman. So james, who do you think got the better of that very Important Health Care Exchange . I think klobuchar and biden raised the right questions for which sanders and warren dont have an answer. This plan as senator klobuchar pointed out is going to get rid of private insurance in america. Its also going to get rid of most of the othe insurance, the government insurance, and he rep
And the senator has come forward and said how hes going to pay for it but it gets him halfway there. Every study done shows medicare for all is the most Cost Effective approach to providing health care to every man, woman and child in this country. I, who wrote the damn bill, if i may say so, intend to eliminate all outofpocket expenses. While bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. And on page eight on page eight of the bill it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. I dont think thats a bold idea. I think its a bad idea. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist kim strassel, Kyle Peterson and James Freeman. So james, who do you think got the better of that very Important Health Care Exchange . I think klobuchar and biden raised the right questions for which sanders and warren dont have an answer. This plan as senator klobuchar pointed out is going to get rid of private insurance in america. Its also going to get rid of most of the othe insurance, the
Adverts with a new tool to report scammers. The man in charge of fixing britains railways said it should be independent of government and should have more input from city authorities. Ill be finding out what it means for passengers. The celebrations continue for englands cricketers, with a trip to downing street following their world cup win. A dry and pleasantly warm day across much of the uk today. One or two showers, but will they be coming your way . Ill tell you with the full forecast on breakfast. Good morning and thanks forjoining us. Its tuesday, the 16th ofjuly. Our top story figures out this morning are expected to show a significant rise in the number of deaths from drug abuse in scotland. Its thought more than 1,000 people died last year. Scotland already has the highest number of drug deaths in any european country. 0ur correspondent james shaw reports. When i think of all the drugs ive taken over the years, theres no crying left. I run out of tears. An open mic event for