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with me here is us congressman hines from connecticut. you re a democrat. you re part of a big us delegation here. what is america s message to this conference? well, it s an interesting question. the message certainly from the highest ranking american here, the vice president, when she spoke, was that we are engaged in a battle, a global battle against authoritarianism and on behalf of democracy. and that is certainly the american position. there s an asterisk on that, of course, right now, because in some ways, the message is being delivered to us by our european allies. and that message is very clear, which is we had better get our act, our political act together in order to pass this supplemental, because there just is no substitute for american support. the supplemental is the bill to give ukraine roughly $60 billion of military aid that it is desperately crying out for. it s being held up by donald trump supporters, being held being held up by a minority, interestingly
and a fatty liver. and taking flight, how pigeons are becoming the latest way to tackle air pollution in our cities. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. facebook has been strongly criticised after a bbc investigation found it is still failing to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children. after a series of sexually suggestive pictures and comments were reported to the social networking site, more than 80% of them still remained online. the nspcc described facebook‘s response as appalling . facebook says it takes the matter extremely seriously and is continuing to improve its system of removing such content. our correspondent angus crawford reports. the rules are simple. facebook says it removes nudity or sexually suggestive content. but our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret groups to swap obscene images of children. we informed the police, and this man was sent to prison forfour years. facebook told us it had improved its systems, so
in tomorrow s budget for new school places in england. the money will help meet the costs of setting up more than a 100 schools, some of which could be grammars. labour says the government is failing to address the current funding pressures faced by schools. but theresa may insists it s part of her plan to make a good education accessible to every child. well, of course we have protected the core schools budget. but, crucially, what we re announcing is £500 million of investment in schools, £320 million of which will be new schools. that will create around 70,000 new school places. what this is about is ensuring that people can know that their child will have a good school place, and all the opportunities that that provides for them. well, what do head teachers make of the plans? john tomsett is the head teacher of huntington secondary school in york, which has around 1,500 pupils. he says he welcomes more investment in education, but it needs to be done in the right way. a
meet jake the terrier who chases seagulls by day and sings sea shanties by night. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. £320 million will be set aside in tomorrow s budget for new school places in england. the money will help meet the costs of setting up more than 100 schools, some of which could be grammars. labour says the government is failing to address the current funding pressures faced by schools. but theresa may insists it s part of her plan to make a good education accessible to every child. well, of course we have protected the core schools budget. but, crucially, what we re announcing is £500 million of investment in schools, £320 million of which will be new schools. that will create around 70,000 new school places. what this is about is ensuring that people can know that their child will have a good school place, and all the opportunities that that provides for them. well, what do head teachers make of the plans? john tomsett is the head teacher of huntingto