So the focus has to be getting to net zero carbon by 2050, and anything that distracts that that will just make it more and more difficult, but if we have big arguments about policy and ownership structures, all we do is slow everything down, and that is the worst thing we could do right now. Right now we need to be speeding up. Labour plans to nationalise the Big Six Energy suppliers and divide their assets, workforce and customers into m regional agencies. Along with energy, the rail industry, water, the royal mail and bts broadband business would also be nationalised. How much would it cost . Tricky one. Labour Say Parliament would decide how much to pay the current owners, which include Workers Pension funds, but the independent ifs estimate it would add at least £200 billion to government debt, but the government would collect the revenue, apart from broadband, which it eventually wants to give away for free. Arguments about whether the government or the private sector is better
For years over Pension Reforms. In moscow, we report on the Major International investigation involving two russian nationals, in one of the largest cases of cyber theft. And anthonyjoshua tells the bbc just whats at stake in saturdays rematch, in saudi arabia, against andy ruiz. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news everton have sacked manager marco silva after 18 months in charge, with the club the premier League Relegation zone. Good evening. In a weeks time next thursday night the polls will have closed, the ballot boxes will be on their way to the counting centres and the first indications will emerge of the likely outcome of this election campaign. No surprise then that the parties have stepped up their campaigning today. Borisjohnson was promising to pass his brexit deal and hold a budget within a hundred days if elected to raise money for schools and the nhs. Those plans are pure fantasty according to the lib dems, while labour promised to recruit 20,000 extra teachers to make
About the violence against women act. And i speak to this body not just as a senator, but i speak to this body as a survivor of rape. And as the survivor of Domestic Violence. For months for months, the senior senator from california and i worked together on a piece of legislation that would reauthorize the violence against women act, a bipartisan effort, an effort that brought the senator and i together in an effort to reauthorize the bill with as much support in this body as possible. Now, we were working together in good faith. To make our way through the issues that affect so many women in abusive situations, partners in abusive situations, Domestic Violence situations where children are involved to find a common path forward to have this bill reauthorized, again with as much possible support in this body, at a time when america views us as so politically divided. What could bring us together . The issue of violence. Directed at women and children and survivors of Sexual Assault. T
Passed 2020 spending legislation, the funds the federal government passed at tonights midnight deadline to the 20th to avert a shutdown. Votes are expected at 11 a. M. Eastern. They and plan to work on the nomination to the next energy secretary. Live coverage of the senate right here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God, the fountain of every blessing, in this thanksgiving season, we praise your holy name. May the lives of our lawmakers please you. Inspire them to walk in your ways, keeping your precepts with such integrity that they will glorify your name. Incline their hearts to your wisdom and provide them with the understanding they need to accomplish your purposes. Lord god, let your mercy protect our senators from the dangers of this life, as they learn to find delight in receiving your approval. Keep them evermindful of lifes brevity and the greatness of
Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ