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montague. the refugee crisis is one of the world s most enormous problems. 60 million people have fled their homes and countries. my guest today says the problem is fixable, and we can do it easily. he is the economist, professor sir paul collier. the solution, he argues, is to give refugees jobs. in doing so he suggests everyone will benefit. but if the answer is so simple, why has it not been done before? professor sir paul collier, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. you have said, of the syrian refugee crisis, that it is entirely manageable, we can do it easily. yet we are talking about millions of desperate people on the move. why do you say it is so fixable? because it is. the reason we have a mess is because of two reasons. one is that we have in international system which is hopelessly broken. we have a system built in 1950 that is com pletely a system built in 1950 that is completely unfit for the 21st century problems. we never changed it. we ve got ....
the refugee crisis is one of the world s most intractable problems. 60 million people have fled their homes, a third of them also fleeing their own country. but my guest today says the problem is fixable and we can do it easily. he s the economist professor sir paul collier. the solution, he argues, is to give refugeesjobs and in doing so, he suggests everyone will benefit. but if the answer is so simple, why hasn t it been done before? paul collier, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for inviting me on. now, you have said of the syrian refugee crisis that it is entirely manageable, it is fixable, we can do it easily, and yet we are talking about millions of desperate people on the move why do you say it is so fixable? because it is. the reason we ve got a mess is two things. one is we ve got an international system which is hopelessly broken. we ve got a system built in 1950 that is completely unfit for 21st century problems. and we ve never changed it. so we ve got a bro ....
enjoying the outdoors, taken by her mother, the duchess of cambridge, has been released ahead of the toddler s second birthday. and organisers of the tour de yorkshire say they re looking at extending the event next year after the three day race pulled in record breaking numbers to the region. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has described reports of a supposedly fractious dinner between her and the european commission president, jean claude juncker, as brussels gossip. a german newspaper reported there were sharp disagreements about how quickly a deal could be done over the rights of british and eu citizens and over how much money the uk owes the european union. our political correspondent ben wright reports. may day means a bikes and barrows festival in this lancashire village. and people seem keen to peddle their politics. the election was not the main concern here in scorton this morning, but it seems brexit will shape how many people vote. ....
be the youngest president since napoleon. he was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town. he wants to shake up french politics. he wants to bring together he says a coalition of the willing which he said would be able to reform france. and he wants an open facing france at the centre of a much more deeply integrated european union. he is the favourite but he is up union. he is the favourite but he is up againsta union. he is the favourite but he is up against a woman who needs very little introduction, marine le pen of the front national, the self proclaimed champion of the forgotten. she was voting in the north where she has been a regional councillor. she has a very different vision. she would restore the borders of france. she would limit immigration, she would bring back the frank, she would give the french people a membership on their european union membership and she tells people at the rallies that she is the only defender of french workers and french fa ....
later in the programme we ll get the inside track on a tech company which aims to tackle the worldwide problem of poor eyesight. a new survey has found that online spending in the uk has fallen for the first time since 2013. today we want to know whether your expectations of the future are affecting your spending decisions? do get in touch just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. so emmanuel macron has won the french presidency, and now the hard work begins. his first challenge will be to form a government with crucial parliamentary elections in june. the outcome of that will determine how much power the new president has to tackle the lengthy list of economic problems. france has had a high unemployment rate for decades: currently around 10% of the workforce or 3 million people. that compares with less than half 4.3% across the border in germany. the problem is worse for young people: 24% of those between the ages of 15 and 2a don t ha ....