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You re watching bbc news. i m mark lobel. microsoft has submitted a new deal to buy the gaming giant activision blizzard, best known for games like call of duty, skylanders and candy crush saga. the original bid of £59 billion was rejected by the competition and markets authority earlier this year. in a blog posted today, microsoft s uk boss, brad smith, said the new offer was substa ntially different and he expected it to be approved. under the revised deal, microsoft, which makes the xbox console, has agreed to transfer the rights to stream activision games from the cloud to ubisoft, a video games publisher, for 15 years. let s get more on this first from our gaming correspondent stefan powell. what fears for users have been aired about data gathering? ....
martha: we also republicans have already called for three things that will increase the deficit. get rid of the irs investigations on well off corporations and individuals, that is 114 billion. they will increase medicare spending by 159 billion martha: the questions i asked you, which is why doesn t the president talk about fiscal responsibility he did talk about fiscal responsibly martha: he cut spending in order to get the debt limit. we are not little sheet and on the debt limit, as democrats did not do with president trump. they agreed, we all should agree, you don t hide your budget priorities to a threat, to salvage the economy martha: spending i didn t say that. i said we are not doing a negotiation tied to the debt limit. they have an obligation to raise that. we are willing to talk with them about fiscal policy and what we can do, and i think when the president puts out his plan, you will see 2 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ....
Oil companies were making more money than they ever have before. exxonmobil, chevron and shell posted annual record profits. if you think they re going to use the money to make your trip to the pump less painful, think again. cnn s matt egan is at the magic wall to help us understand that. how much money are we talking about here, and what exactly are they planning to do with it, since it doesn t seem to be give the rest of us a break? big oil is minting money right now. check out these eye-popping numbers. shell, exxon, chevron, all of them have doubled their profits over the past year. exxon alone, $59 billion. if you add all this up, you get a mountain of money. $135.5 billion to be exact. that is enough money to basically buy the nfl. forbes pegs the evaluation of the 32 nfl franchises at ....
Not buying what he is selling, brooke singman, good morning. senator joe manchin asking americans to trust him with $759 billion bill will not lead to more inflation, even though that s exactly what happened with the american rescue plan passed last year. listen to this. use of the american rescue plan, the covid relief bill would not cause inflation. most believe, senator, that spinning, that bill did spark the skyrocketing inflation. why should americans believe you now? i want to make sure to not make that mistake again, bottom line. carley: jumper also is slimming and said this is democrats trying to pass wish list item before the midterms and november, watch. what joe manchin and the democrats are proposing are the two cardinal sins that you don t want to do when the economy is in such a dire situation. ....
To the residents of glasgow north, my constituency staff, local party members, family, friends and anyone else who has been affected by my behaviour in any way. job vacancies have hit a new high as employers struggle to find enough staff to meet demand. here is our economics correspondent. this occupation was on the front line of the pandemic, but like much of the rest of the economy, the £59 billion a year cleaning industry is going through an acute recruitment crisis. when you are doing this, you need to have a cloth that you fold into sections. you don t take a cloth, screw it into a ball and just rub the surface around, transferring soil. you fold it delicately so you have at least eight surfaces and then ....