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influenza. and france s education minister announced the country will ban schoolchildren from wearing the abaya a loose fitting, full length robe worn by some muslim women in state run schools when classes begin this month. my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke with us education secretary miguel cardona to discuss his thoughts on the challenges facing students and teachers heading back to school. secretary, thank you for joining us again on bbc news. i want to start with affirmative action because the supreme court s ruling effectively ended race conscious admissions in colleges and universities and if you look at the state of california, the uc system has not actually been able to meet its racial diversity goals, despite having ended race based admissions more than two decades ago, so how do you make sure that schools and universities are diverse at the same time as adhering to the law? . ., , ., same time as adhering to the law? . ., ,., law? yeah, i m glad you brought ....
unofficial israel lebanon border are rising. israel and the lebanese armed group hezbollah trade strikes across the frontier almost every day. andrea tenenti, a spokesperson for the united nations interim force in lebanon, explained more about the investigation. three ogl observers, military observers, unarmed, were in the area together with their language assistants and they were injured. luckily they are stable at the moment, so we have launched an investigation to look into this incident and into the explosions. i know there are a lot of speculations at the moment, but in relation to what we do as an organisation, we need to verify the information through our own investigations. so i hope we will be able to find out more shortly. we have been in touch with everyone, with both sides, and we have been in touch even when we are doing patrolling. we informed the parties that we are going to different locations. and unifil, we are very visible, we have white vehicles with ....
israel denies involvement. tensions along the unofficial israel lebanon border are rising. israel and the lebanese armed group hezbollah trade strikes across the frontier almost every day. andrea tenenti, a spokesperson for the united nations interim force in lebanon, explained more about the investigation. three ogl observers, military observers, unarmed, were in the area together with their language assistants and they were injured. luckily, they are stable at the moment, so we have launched an investigation to look into this incident and into the explosions. i know there are a lot of speculations at the moment, but in relation to what we do as an organisation, we need to verify the information through our own investigations. so i hope we will be able to find out more shortly. we have been in touch with everyone, with both sides, and we have been in touch even when we are doing patrolling. we informed the parties that we are going to different locations. and unifil, w ....
it easier to employ overseas care workers. in 2021, the government agreed. right now, 40% of raj s staff are from abroad. he s filled almost all of his vacancies. if we didn t have international recruitment, we didn t have the staff that we ve got, i think we would probably be closed by now. in england last year, there were around 150,000 job vacancies in adult social care. raj s daughterjasmine now runs an agency helping to find staff for their care homes and others. we started getting asked by other providers, - what are we doing? how are we doing it? and why are we suddenly fully staffed and - they are struggling? professor brian bell is the chair of the independent committee of immigration experts, which advises the government. in december 2021, it recommended allowing more overseas ca re staff. it also said the government should fund higher pay to encourage more british workers. we said the only way to deal with the problem in the long run was to pay care workers p ....
billion medicare beneficiaries use one or more of these ten drugs in the past year and paid a total of 3.4 billene hours out of pocket for those medications. that is on top of the 55.9 billion dollars that the government spends on the safe checks every year. the federal government is the largest buyer of prescription drugs in the united states. now theoretically, in a market system, that would mean it has some measure of influence over the drug prices. power that has been specifically nullified by something called the non interference close. back in 2000, three when congress and president george w. bush passed the prescription drug benefit to medical care, pharmaceutical lobby added something called the non interference clause, which prevented the government and prescription drugs and the country s negotiating drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies. in some cases, that has resulted in americans being double or triple the same amount for the same exact dr ....