Cancer and the number of teenagers with the disease is rising. The thames riverboat in which 51 people lost their lives. 30 years on, tributes are paid to those killed in the marchioness disaster. The government has reiterated its insistence that there is no prospect of a brexit deal until the eu agrees to scrap the irish backstop from the current Withdrawal Agreement. The backstop is intended to prevent a hard border on the island of ireland. Speaking earlier this evening, the Prime Minister, whos due to meet european and World Leaders this week, said he would try to persuade brussels to renegotiate the exit terms to get an agreement that would be passed by parliament dont forget why we are doing this. The existing agreementjust does not work for the uk. They have rejected it three times and we cannot have this backstop. So im going to go see him ourfriends and then going to germany and france and i am going to germany and france and i am going to make the point that the backstop is g
What is you expectation for Congress Starting in january . Caller one of the biggest things i hope our congress will do is this get rid of waste in washington. The biggest enemy we have in washington is waste. If our government would get together and say, hey, every department, lets look at the waist weve gotten our department and start cutting it. Department, what do they do . It costs millions of dollars to operate and they do exactly nothing. I would like to see our congress get together and get rid of the waste. Eone will have to start stay after this waste. Weve got money. Wasting andis government. Host out of time for calls. Thanks to all of our callers and your thoughts on the expectations of the 115th congress, set to get to work after the first of the year. From dr. Span, remarks debra birks, among those speaking about the role of finance in the global fight against hiv and eight. This recent discussion in washington, d. C. It runs just under 90 minutes. The global fight again
city. this is one hour and 25 minutes. thank you for joining us for what i hope will be a fun our. you know, i had intended this to be a love fest because you are a great hero of mine. but then paul said that i have to ask tough questions, so i want to make it clear whenever i see something that is supportive and warm that s me and whenever i say something that is critical that is me just channelling paul. [laughter] so, to get that of the way. i wanted to start by you are in a very unusual position. you re going to have this big conference in washington this coming weekend were there will be 10,000 people. you have this enormous falling and you are a kind of figure and i was trying to figure out is there any recent historical figure that you think you are analogous to? [laughter] people for what the restaurants of modesty. just like you. to be clear the 10,000 people are coming together because they want to i mean because they are drawn to t
very good. i was on the phone with my dad the other night. i was mentioning i was going to and your book signing. he actually played with bobby fisher at the manhattan chess club. i was asking me about him. he said that at times, bobby would play 15 people at one time. absolutely. and he was always ten steps ahead of everyone. so no one really won, you know, against him. but he did mention that his mother had a lot of influence on him. i just wanted to know if you with elaborate on that. do you think that really protelled him to say the things he said later on in life? his mother was a great influence on him in many ways, she helped his career, she was like a professorial press agent almost. it was not a newspaper, magazine, or anything else in the city that she didn t go to to try to get press for bobby. she encouraged him did they have fighting? of course. just like we all probably have had with our parents when here 16 years old. so yeah they had fights. but that s a