America. Plus, in sports, looking to regain composure after two poor results in a row. Facing a difficult trip on saturday and i have Bayern Munich on their tail. Sarah im sarah kelly. Welcome to the program. Thank you for joining us. German chancellor Angela Merkel has had her first full round of talks to piece together an unprecedented multiparty National Government coalition. 50 politicians from her conservative cdu, the fdp and the greens met today to see if they can Work Together on topics ranging from the european union, to finance, to foreign policy. Their political differences are significant, but so is the pressure to succeed. Correspondent more than 50 negotiators, four parties and one common goal rming an unprecedented coalitn that does n really fi together. After two days of amicable preliminary talks, they are finally getting down to business. Chancellor merkel i am happy that we are Getting Started today. There will be definitely a number of differing opinions , but i hav
Iam in i am in florida iam in florida in i am in florida in the United States, the power of Hurricane Irma has had devastating consequences. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The government says it is considering ways of making buying and selling houses faster, cheaper and selling houses faster, cheaper and less stressful. It is launching and less stressful. It is launching a consultation in england and wales which will look at whether its possible to reduce moving costs and end practices like gazumping. Community secretary sergey javad says the government has planned a massive House Building programme. Our business correspondentjoe lynam reports. Moving home is often compared to getting divorced in terms of stress and worry. Picking your new home is the easy part of the process, before venders, surveyors, solicitors, banks, agents and removal vans get involved. Currently, it can take three months on average to move home. Getting the mortgage offer from your bank alone takes around
The roll out of the welfare benefit universal credit. A senior cabinet minister has told the bbc that the government should consider borrowing more money to invest in building hundreds of thousands of new homes. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the communities secretary sajid javid said up to three hundred thousand new homes a year are needed a level of construction not seen since the 1960s. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. What are the government may be prepared to borrow money to pay fred. We are looking at new investments. What i want to do is make sure that we are using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis. Where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in infrastructure that leads to more housing, and take advantage of the record low Interest Rates that we have, we should absolutely be considering. As the how many, and he said that up to 300,000 new homes are needed annually. That is double the number bought i
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