Good morning. Welcome to breakfast, with Louise Minchin and dan walker. Our headlines today the go ahead to keep on building the High Speed Rail line hs2 the Prime Minister will give his backing to the entire route linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds. And im live in leeds at the end of the line. Journey times will be cut here by almost an hour. But with surrounding services on their knees, ill be asking, is hs2 the best use of
public money to close the north south divide . The search is on to trace patients treated at a brighton gp surgery where a staff member has tested positive for coronavirus. There seems no end in sight to the divisions in the scotland rugby camp. The stand off between coach Gregor Townsend and his player finn russell continues. Good morning today. Another cold and windy day across scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England. There isa ireland and Northern England. There is a risk of ice. Coming south we still have some showers around but then we
Up next, on booktv after words, the author discusses the personal finance industry and its dark side. His work was featured in the saturday evening post last month. Host i enjoyed your book quite a bit. Guest thank you very much. Host it was very easy to read. I was caught by the subtitle exposing the dark side of the personal finance industry. Which later in the book, you call it a personal finance industry complex, which includes not only investment banks and brokers and planners come but also the Financial Media, newswriter and publishers come and do even include yourself in that book. As a former columnist for the l. A. Times coming you include yourself as part of this and you point out, i think with some guild, you are responsible for giving people an illusion of control. Can you talk about that . What do you mean by illusion of control . Guest i am going to backtrack to personal personalfinance firmament. It is really a spinoff of the 1930s britain 1930s are known for everything
So, were going to play the recordings for you tonight. A clip, heres one, where the voice reported to be sterling, says he wants photos removed from social media. Listen. Do you know that im that mixed . No, i dont know that. You know that im mixed. You told me you were going to remove those. You said, yes, i understand you. You change from day to day. Wow. Youre painful. Wow. People call you and tell you that i have black people on my instagram. And it bothers you. Ya, it bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that youre associated with black people. Do you have to . You associate with black people. Im not you, and youre not me. Youre supposed to be a delicate white or a delicate latina girl. And youre in love with me. And im black and mexican, whether you like it or not. Whether the world accepts it or not. And youre asking me to remove something thats part of me and in my bloodstream because the world thinks different of me and youre afraid of what they are going to think becau
Terror targets in gaza. It is driving the internet crazy. We are sitting in front of Windsor Castle eagerly awaiting to see if they can join the royal family. This is going to be the best day of my life my life usually we have a picture of washington dc or new york in their. I feel very british. In the Center Square today. That is where ainsley ehrhardt is. It is 5 hours later, like, 11 00 am. I woke up and it was daylight. It is so exciting. Behind me, Windsor Castle, where her background, her dad. Her dad got caught staging those paparazzi pictures. Her brother was arrested in january for grabbing a gun and putting up against the head of his girlfriend. Her half sister writing a book called the diary of princess pushys sister. So harry was quoted as saying he is going to give her the family that she never had. So as an american, its pretty cool to drive through windsor and know this other american is coming here to join the royal family. So, were here, lots of other people are here a
A mysterious killer is paving the mighty fail bad dream that dominates seven africas netscape. Im christine window welcome to the program im glad youre tuned in to voters in nigeria have given. Another chance at the helm of africas largest economy and most populous country but turnout was no in the election just thirty five percent and i gerrys Electoral Commission triumph with some fifteen million votes facing hes nearest rival. By eighty four million votes delays and violence maad the run up to said saturdays poll but no independent observer has cited electoral fraud. Dancing to the cheering a victory. Supporters of Muhammadu Buhari celebrated well into the nights. I believe this is the way forward to this country and to my generation if you talk about the president talk about uprightness its about the president its about. Legitimacy by the president to see corruption and it just speaks well of the person. In charge contrast his reveling supporters a seemingly uncharismatic bihari ap