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tom shakespeare, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, it s great to be here. great to have you. in your personal life and professional life everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. i just wonder whether you ever, for a moment, considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances such as accountancy, law, geology? there are short people, restricted growth people in all of those professions. there are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything. but i did not go that way. so as a social scientist i have always been interested in what i ve experienced and disability has to be top of the list. let me ask you about growing up. your family has its own history which is important to talk about, i think. your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a genetic mutation. my father. he was born in 1927. william shakespeare, unfortunate name. and his father, geoffrey, who was a junior minister in the ....
rishi sunak pays tribute to the three british aid workers killed in the attack describing the deaths as an awful, awful tragedy as politicians in the uk call for an arms embargo. dozens remain trapped in road tunnels in taiwan after the biggest earthquake there in 25 years. at least nine people have died, with more than 800 injured. and the president of botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to germany in a dispute over conservation. time for a look at the business news now. good afternoon, a quick look at our top stories. energy leaders are faced with multiple diverse challenges on the path to net zero. amongst them are ensuring energy security, affordability and delivering wider economic goals right around the world. in particular, global energy systems are showing signs of deficiencies and strains everywhere. these are the findings of the 2024 world energy issues monitor , a major international survey by the world energy council . dr angela wilkinson is s ....
basquiat, rita moreno puerto rican. cardi b dominican. supreme court justice sotomayor, nuyorican from the bx. even the very first non-indigenous person to live and work in the island of manhattan in the 1600s was juan rodriguez, a dominicano. mira eso, right from the start, we ve been here making this city great. now, i don t know what new york would be without latinos, but it sure as hell wouldn t smell as good, it wouldn t taste as good, and it definitely wouldn t sound as good. that s right, cause salsa music was invented here in new york, that s right. [vocalizing along to salsa music] you re welcome. i wanna retrace my steps from queens, where i grew up, all the way to the bright lights of broadway and show you how latinos have contributed to the culture of the greatest city on earf. that s right, i said earf. and you can t tell latino stories without plenty of good food, music, and dancing. so come on, let s go, let s go. come on. [upbeat music] welcome to ....
the labour run council is still struggling to pay off a huge equal pay claim that dates back more than a decade ago. it has also had major issues with a new it system. our midlands correspondent navteonhal is there. the pressure on the city s finances has been rising and rising. europe s biggest local authority is now in biggest local authority is now in big trouble. its problems began more than a decade ago, when a landmark case was brought against the council, which led to it having to pay out more than £1 billion so far in equal pay claims to mostly female staff. but with the authority s revenue budget, the money it spends on recurrent costs like wages, at £750 million, the announcement of this summer but it had up to £760 million still to find to settle the equal pay claims was a huge blow. and that is on top of the botched roll out of a new it system which has set up back and about £100 million. the city council leader who is currently abroad, he says, is part ....
connected to alarm systems to protect themselves as stores lost $86 billion from retail thefts last year. it was pretty bad. rained two days. escape routes opened up as tens of thousands stuck in the wake of burning man. getting out was a nightmare. all my years of football i have never been a part of a game like that. waters make a house call exclamation point on this one. down goes clemens, the devils win it 28-7 i can in the believe clemens lost to duke. the nation s top auto workers union, they are vowing to strike if they don t reach a contract agreement with the big three automakers. we knew that but president biden out of nowhere yesterday down played the threat which could cost our billions of dollars in a father of days. griff: alexandria hoff in washington to kick things off for us. vehicle prices inflated with just about everything else right now, the consequences of a potential strike are very real. the united auto workers strike suspect in j ....