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to balance the books. plus, with the cost of living soaring around the world, global debt has hit a record $300 trillion. so we ll hear from the boss of europe s leading debt collection agency about how it balances the need to recover cash for its clients with people s ability to pay. wherever you rejoining me from around the world. once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. getting old is something that happens to all of us. butjust how are we as individuals and as a society going to pay for it? this year, france has seen high profile and often violent demonstrations about government plans to address exactly that question. but the french aren t alone, across europe as well as in the us and japan and many other countries. our populations are getting older at a time when the global economic system has undergone a series of major shocks. since the second world war global life expectancy has risen steadily, while birth rates fall. in 2019 before the pandemic, ....
hello everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly. let s take a look at what is on the show. can we really afford to get old? ageing populations mean a rise in pensions and health care costs but, with government struggling for cash, who is going to pay? it is the problem at the heart of this year s protests with other countries facing similar challenges. well living standards need to step can change keep us comfortable in our senior years? i am going to discuss all of this with these two. a pensions expert who says we are sitting on a global pensions crisis time bomb that needs to raise retirement ages and from this leading economist who will explain why an ageing population isn t good news for governments trying to balance the books. plus, with the cost of living soaring around the world, global debt has set a record. $300 trillion. so we will hear from the boss of europe s leading debt collection agency about how it balances the need to recover cash for ....
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Code of conduct. Good morning and welcome to bbc newsroom live. More than a0 of Maternity Wards in england closed their doors to expectant mothers at least once in 2016, according to data from the labour party. 42 out of 96 trusts in england that responded to a Freedom Of Information Request said theyd shut Maternity Wards temporarily on 382 occasions. The most common reasons given were too few staff and not enough beds. But the government says the numbers are misleading. Our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes has more. For some years, Maternity Units have been struggling to recruit enough midwives. The Royal College of midwives says th ....
one area includes the capital, mogadishu where an estimated 100,000 people have come looking for aid. the u.n. says nearly half the country is suffering from malnutrition. egypt s ailing former president will next appear in court august 15th as his trial opened. hosni mubarak denied charges of corruption and playing role in the death of more than 800 anti-government demonstrators. the trial of his rmer interior minister is scheduled to get under way at this hour. in eastern australia, a teenage girl is safe but police don t know who strapped a fake bomb around her neck. police say 18-year-old madeline pulver went ten hours after a masked intruder came into her home in sydney. those are the headlines from cnn, the world news leader, i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories ....