Raising against the clock to uncover residents. Hong kongs embattled leader democracy. This hour, a vote of confidence in hong kong as the Global Financial hub. In the business update, we will tell you how alibaba traded on its first day. Police in germany on the hunt for thieves who stole priceless jewelry after breaking into one of the worlds oldest museums in the city of drdresden. Stay w with us great we are live from paris. First, the french president announced 13 sololdiers killed n a hehelicopter collision in n mi on monday. The troops were on in operation against j jihadists in the regi. Emmanuel macron expressing sadness saying the soldiers died for france. Lets go to james andre at the French Defense ministry. What details do we have on the circumstances of this crash . We will have more details later. A press conference is planned p. M. Today. 2 the chief of staff and the Ministry Administrator will be addressing press. Yesterday in in mali, there was an opportunity at the D
I hope everyone in the room has a chance to visit tuesdays at the library showing off cool games and activities. I am so excited to welcome you to the doubleheader. Im hoping many of you might be returning after a couple of years while weve been remodeling this space and for many more you dismiss this type of thing that we exist to do. We love all of our programs and political talks with the arts programming a great opportunity for the special homecoming festival so i am so pleased to see everyone here tonight and thanks especially to our partners. The format is unusual if youve been to other talks because it is a doubleheader. We are going to open with a presentation from david could then take a switch debate could break while we switch over after rich peoplrich before they joina so keep questions in mind from both talks. There is a beautiful residence tonight where we talk about mathematical thinking in its urgent present political dynamic and then we take a broad historical view of
The Charity Samaritans is being criticised for entering into a year Long Partnership with a gambling company. Staff at Paddy Power Betfair, chose samaritans as their charity of the year and are supporting it through fundraising, corporate donations and volunteering. Critics say samaritans shouldnt work with the gambling industry. Dan whitworth, from radio 4s money box programme, has more. If you are sat in the pub, you can tell a guy who is an alcoholic. Lets be honest, you can tell if a guy is on drugs. The man sat in the corner on his phone is gambling his life away and nobody knows because it is such a hidden thing. Critics, including relatives of people with gambling problems who took their own lives, say samaritans is risking its well earned reputation by working with Paddy Power Betfair, adding it should stop taking the compa nys money. The mp, carolyn harris, who chairs the all Party Parliamentary group on gambling related harm, says she is shocked by the deal. She calls it dist
At the vatican this morning that hed been stuck in an elevator for 25 minutes and had to freed by firefighters. Apparently there had been a power outage as he was making his way up in the lift. Now its time for a look at the weather with ben. Hello. It is the first day of september. The first day of autumn as far as meteorologists are concerned and so it seems apt that there is quite a cool fail that there is quite a cool feel to our weather today. Sunshine at times, but also some showers, some of which will be heavy and thundery. The showers most plentiful across scotland, Northern Ireland, the north of england, in fact, a band of cloud will bring more general showery rain into Northern Ireland later in the afternoon. Further south, not as many showers, more dry weather as well, some sunshine with highs of 13 20d. Through this evening and tonight we see the showers crossing Northern Ireland, passing into scotland on the north of england. Showers elsewhere tending to fade away and with
On any other day, wednesdays spending plan would have been the big story at westminster. The chancellor, sajid javid said hes turning the page on austerity as he promised to raise public spending by more than £13 billion next year. Extra funding has been announced for schools, defence, and preparing for britains exit from the european union. Our economics correspondent andy verity has been looking at the numbers. The last time spending rose this fast, by more than 4 , was back here in 2004, and the government was in a lot less debt back then. These red bars here show the spending reviews since the financial crisis, when the governments debt shot up. Sajid javid argues the Interest Rates are cheap now, so he can afford to borrow more for extra spending. Every single Government Department has had its budget for day to day spending increased at least in line with inflation. Thats what i mean by the end of austerity, mr speaker britains hard work paying off, a Country Living within its me