and late yesterday, the chancellor announced the minimum wage is to go up by more than a pound, to £11.44 per hour, from april next year. and jeremy hunt decided the rate would also apply to 21 and 22 year olds for the first time. here s our econmics corrrespondent, andy verity. ona cold, on a cold, damp day at the south london market, ask what they want the government to do something about and you will hear two big concerns that haven t gone away. energy and food. , ., , ., , food. used to get six or seven oran . es food. used to get six or seven oranges for food. used to get six or seven oranges for a food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, - food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, now - food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, now it i food. used to get six or seven i oranges for a pound, now it has five. lemons, ten for a pound, now 87 for a pound. it is hard for the customer, it is hard for the customer, it is hard for us as well.
Talk congressman john bishop rob bishop. Then, journalists discuss the leak of the panama papers. 12 50 p. M. , president obama gives the commencement speech to the graduating class of rutgers university. ,st this week on newsmakers the chairman of the Natural Resources committee, Representative Rob Bishop republican of utah, thank you for being with us, sir. We also have with us Nick Timiraos, economics correspondent for the wall street journal, and Mary Clare Jalonick, congressional reporter with the Associated Press. Lets begin with what the financial situation is in puerto rico and how do you view it, sir . Rep. Bishop the financial situation is horrible for them. They have not had audits in the last two years. No one knows what is assets and what is not. We know they have about a 70 billion bonded indebtedness, and about a 44 billion asset deficit in their pension fund, and they dont have the resources to pay that. Something has to put this financial house back in order. Host and
Standard system. Its just absolutely critical as they trade in broader Economic Strategy in asia. We will go to julian and howard. Thanks, julie pace with me. I want to follow up on something or he said about g being less accommodating. Can you give us any ideas why any ideas why that is an administration thinking on this given they invested a lot of time and emphasis on having obama and biden in particular build a personal relationship with him . One of the fundamental conceptual flaws of the pivot has been a failure to assess the nature of chinas behavior in asia. I think there have been different views within the administration. Until recently there was a strong view that much of chinas assertive behavior in the East China Sea and South China Sea were driven by domestic pressures and nationalism by japan and vietnam provoking china. There has been another view by the pentagon which is that this is in fact part of a chinese strategy if you will to steadily assert more and more contro
Emanuel. Also, Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro are among the other World Leaders who were already infected by the coronavirus. What can we learn from their experiences . And one leader has kept himself in a veritable bubble. Guess who . And 30 days from the American Election with one contender currently in the hospital, what is the state of the race right now . Nate cohen of the New York Times will tell us. First, here is my take. Let me begin by saying i wish President Trump and the first lady a safe and speedy recovery. I also hope that others who have been infected along the way who work with the president or attended an event with him have a mild case of the disease and a return to normalcy as soon as possible. The news out of the white house is sad, but perhaps it can remind us of all of the sad news around. We might have covid fatigue, but the virus does not. The number of people known to have died from covid19 has crossed 1 million worldwide, and that is probably a low figure.
Promoting gatorade to fronting for a fancy swiss watch company. All part of a carefully cultivated public image williams may be leaving the court, but she will be part of Popular Culture and commerce for years to come. Rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. Oh, this is al jazeera and they said the top stories. The salad russians are paying their respects to the last soviet union leader ahead of his burial and moscow mechanical which if will be laid to rest in the coming alice, the kremlin, says president platinum if potent will not attend. Nina cru, chava, the grand daughter of soviet laden, Nikita Khrushchev says, gorbachevs legacy has been buried in some ways, i am quite pleased the way the kremlin has handled it. And also of course, this time for those of us, critical of the war, critical of the crammed. And thats it all. So at quite momentous, momentous time because gorbachev opened the world. He gave peace. He was it noble piece, price. And now all of this. So basically, his death i