Four days of losses is about to become five. Are down 7. 5 over the previous four days. Cross assets, we look like this. A bid into the bond market briefly in treasuries. It did not stick. It was a treasury market selloff. This morning, it is about yen strength. Dollaryen coming down on 0. 3 . Again. Rude is down 0. 9 mark wheret is that you have these massive producing countries like russia and saudi starting to worry. These are very hard prices to deal with when you try to balance your books. It all comes back to demand. Everything is about demand right now. When you have france and germany going into lockdown, that does not bode well. Euroyen is striking me this morning. I feel that for the first time it is acting like a haven. It is her membrane what it is supposed to do. Jonathan a bit of yen strength. Chancellor merkel giving a wakeup call to her fellow eu leaders. They failed to act quickly stop the pandemic. For more, our western europe managing editor joins us. Walk us through
She also learned the law. She learned to use the law library, and she tried to be her own person in prison, and theres this wonderful anecdote which i think Ken Armstrong captured for the marshall report that said she wouldnt eat in the cafeteria. She wanted her food to be brought to her because she thought eating in the cafeteria were like pigs in a trough so she demanded her food be brought to her and she had a very specific diet because again, she very much wanted to be her own person. She had aer is the tud about her. That is how she left prison. She returned to queens and she was involved in an Organization Called the volunteer Attorney Service team where they provided legal advice to inmates. She had a number of business ventures, real estate. She was a seamstress so she was engaged a little bit in that trade and she was always looking for ways to improve herself. She left prison the same way she entered prison and the same way she acted the way, as you see in the clip, i live my
Made up your mind yet . Where ever you live, whoever you vote for, one of these two men will be Prime Minister, in a weeks time. Tonight, for the next hour borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn will debate the future of our country. Neither mrjonasson or of our country. Neither mrjonasson oer of our country. Neither mrjonasson or mr corbyn will know the questions they are going to face. They have been chosen by the pollsters, who invited people who support both of their parties and others who have yet to decide how to vote. People from all backgrounds, people from all walks of life. They are here to ask their questions to listen to the a nswe is , ask their questions to listen to the answers, to listen to the debate, not to cheer on a team, let alone to boo their opponent, myjob then, is to try and make sure their questions do get answered and this debate is as free and fair as possible. So, apologies gentlemen if i have to interrupt you occasionally, just to make sure this debate is fair, an
In person classes this week due to a rise in illnesses among staff and students. School officials said the drop off in attendance was due to a mixture of viruses including covid 19 and influenza. And frances Education Minister announced the Country Will Ban Schoolchildren from wearing the abaya, a loose fitting full length robe worn by some muslim women, in state run schools when classes begin this month. My colleague Sumi Somaskanda spoke this week with us education secretary Miguel Cardona to discuss the challenges facing students and teachers heading Back To School. Secretary, thank you very much forjoining us again on bbc news. I want to start with affirmative action, because the Supreme Courts ruling effectively ended race conscious admissions in colleges and universities. And if you look at the state of california, the uc system hasnt been able to meet its racial diversity goals despite having ended race based admissions more than two decades ago. So how do you make sure that sch
winning doris kearnes goodwin. she has appeared on c-span and book tv over 60 times. she s well-known for her work on abraham lincoln. her book was inspiration for steven spielberg s film in 2012. she earned her ph.d. in harvard. coming up, we ll reair her indepth appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. we ll show you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times and bully pulpit, but we ll start with her january 1st, 1995 appearance on the c-span series book notes. in this hour long interview, she discussed franklin and eleanor roosevelt in the home front during world war ii, her book no ordinary time won the pulitzer prize for history. here is historian doris kearnes goodwin. doris kearnes goodwin author of no ordinary time if you could ask franklin roosevelt or elino eleanor roosevelt any questions, what would it be? i would ask her why she was unable during the war where he asked her to be his wife again and stop tr