the met police say they had contact with student nurse owami davies on the day she was reported missing by her family. siren blares. a car bomb in moscow kills the daughter of putin ally alexsandr dugin, a vocal supporter of the war in ukraine. the exam board, pearson, has apologised after some btec students didn t get their results on time, putting their university places in doubt. good evening. welcome to the programme. dock workers at felixstowe, britain s largest container port, have gone on strike, bringing operations to a halt. there are warnings it may cause serious disruption to supply chains providing everything from fresh food to household goods, clothing and parts for industry. almost 2,000 workers are taking part in eight days of action. their union, unite, has rejected a 7% pay offer, saying it is significantly below inflation . the port authority insists it s a fair deal. almost half of britain s container goods pass through the port in suffolk. here s our busi
About this. This goes back to 1971. It kills the university of washington of denying him a chance to get into a law school simply because he wasnt black. He said, now, after nearly a half century, the Us Supreme Court has just cited with him. They have cited with the furnace and all the other students who made the same or given over the last years. The court ruled that if you are applying for college, your race should not be use to get you in or keep you out period. But they seem to me saying, is that the only thing that should really matter is whether youre capable, whether youre intelligent, what are your grades . In other words, there should be no favorites as a for race or anything else. When im meeting students. What have they though . With that decision, really eliminated favoritism, if thats what they were trying to do, to think about it. I have, and the answer is no. They have not. They have not. Because now many are pointing out that theres a different type of favorite does, a
Allowing me to ask you a question. Because this is what really affirmative action is about. Do you think that a minority, for example, a good African American student should be accepted to a University Even have he or she does not have the best grades among the entire group of student candidates. And heres what i mean. So lets suppose theyre only 2 positions for new students left at this university. The one who is not a minority got a 92 percent right to 92 percent. Between the grades and exams. The other, who is a minority, got 91 percent, one percentage less. Which applicant do you give the position to . The one with 92 percent were the one with 91 percent. If you chose the one with 91 percent whos the minority . Ding, ding, ding, you guessed correctly because that is how College Students have been chosen in the United States beginning in the 19 sixtys. Thats when the administrations are present academy in front of the job. The president johnson bush for civil rights laws that brough
Manufacturing are up thanks to a stronger pound but prizes in the shops are expected to go up and we wont get a pay rise to match. Cash prices. Prices. In sport, chelseas winning run comes to an end as the League Leaders are beaten at tottenham. Two goals from delle alli do the damage at White Hart Lane as they win 2 0 and move up to third. I will be live from las vegas as the worlds biggest gadget show gets under way, the big thing this year, intelligent machines, Artificial Intelligence baked into everything from your car to your toothbrush. And carol has the weather. A cold and frosty start to the day, temperatures in some parts have fallen two 7 but there will be a lot of Crisp Winter Sunshine but in the west there will be a bit more clout fallen to. More details in a few minutes. Bit more clout. Cloud. Good morning. Our main story is a warning from the childrens commissioner for england that young people are left to face the dangers of bullying and grooming online alone. Anne long