To 2. 8 linear meters, the section to the Sverdlovsk Region will be opened before the end of the year, all together this is part of the russia route, which will pass through the entire country from st. Petersburg to vladivostok. Another grandiose project is just at the very beginning of the road the dzhubga, sochi highway. The president announced the decision to begin this construction during messages to the federal assembly. It will reduce travel time from the m4 don highway to sochi by four times. Now the route along the black sea coast is quite exhausting and takes at least 7 hours, with traffic jams you can wait twice as long, and the new project involves only a twohour route, with a preliminary cost of 15 trillion rubles. People need this route, because families with children cannot get to sochi by car, everyone stops somewhere in the gelnezhuk area, but its russian in that. Well, isnt it too daring in general, no, here it is look, we when, if we go back to this road, when i discu
Programme. We will be briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. So, for many, its the biggest shopping day of the year, black friday, and thats what were talking about today. And you can be part of the conversation. Is black friday a big dealfor you . Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. In the next few hours, zimbabwes new president is due to be sworn in. Emmerson mnangagwa has promised to put economic reform at the heart of his policies with a mantra of jobs, jobs, jobs. Under the mugabe regime, the economy nosedived into hyper inflation and mass unemployment. Even graduates find it almost impossible to find work. Our correspondent, ben brown, reports from the capital, harare. Imagine a country where almost no one has a job. In zimbabwe, highly educated graduates become street sellers to make ends meet. Only one in ten has a job. The new president has promised that cutting unemployment and creating work will be one of his top pr
Will have the latest from brussels. Oscar pistorius has had his murder sentence more than doubled by a judge. The South African athlete was jailed last year after being found guilty on appeal of murdering his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp, on valentines day 2013. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until am this morning. Were going to be talking to two Primary Schools headteacher is about the difficulty of the teaching jobs with questions about whether the job is too stressful and worries about funding. We will also have the latest from zimbabwe as the new president is sworn in. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning, use the hashtag victorialive. And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Theresa may will meet the president of the european council, donald tusk, in brussels today, the first such high level encounter since the Prime Minister secured the backing of her cabinet to increase britains divorce payme
To me personally, he remains the father, mentor, comrade in arms and my leader. We must to say thank you to them and trust that our history will grant him his proper place and a chord him his deserved distinction as one of the Founding Fathers and leaders of our nation. Let me also recognise in a very, very special way, the present in our midst of senior statesman of our region and the continent. Led by the president ial candidate of zambia, he remains the only living member of the foundational front line stage party which is anonymous with the decolonisation process in our region. Synonymous. We honour him as indeed we remember all his collea g u es as indeed we remember all his colleagues now departed. The statesman who are with us today show a story of success. May i repeat that. Show a story of succession which speaks well of our continent. It isa which speaks well of our continent. It is a narrative that must to get bolder and bolder. As generations hand over to succeed than once.
Saudi arabia will oncene day sell solar power instead. We are live at the climate summit. Mark welcome to countdown. Coming up, i will speak to two England Rugby champions in the first interviews of the day. That is a conversation you will not want to miss. Anna mark is not looking forward to that. Lets bring you up to speed with what you have missed. U. S. Stocks climbed to record levels after Economic Data added to speculation the fed will not rush to raise interest rates. Crude oil rallied while the dollar weakened. Mark david englishs ingles is in hong kong. David we are up a further 2 . A fourday run. Not an ordinary fourday run. The biggest so far this year. I think we are up 300 points. Just from last tuesday, 400 billion of market cap added. That is for the shanghai composite. Volumes are quite heavy. Double the threemonth average. Take a look at the charts, some of the indicators, they show you at levels which prompted a move down over 12 weeks at these levels. In any case, a