he later apologised for what he called rude comments. plenty of people saw the remarks straightaway as racist but it took an age in political terms for rishi sunak to agree. at a rally on friday night in hackney, diane abbott told the crowd to stand firm against racism. this is about the way that black women are disrespected. decade upon decade. the conservative cabinet minister and transport secretary, mark harper, spoke to laura kuennsberg, on her sunday morning programme, she asked him whether frank hester s comments were racist. did you think these comments were racist? yes, look, the prime minister made it very clear at prime minister s questions on wednesday that they were racist. it took him some time to do that. did you think straight they were racist? you said it took an age in political terms but it didn t take long at all, the prime minister said it on wednesday and his spokesperson was clear the day before that they were racist comments and unacceptable. and fra
and stop them claiming asylum here. now on bbc news, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go take a look at what s on the show. what do we want? trans rights! when do we want it? now! transgender people and their struggle in the workplace. as pride month kicks off around the world, we re going to ask why many don t come out, and what happens at work when they do. could including more trans people in the workplace add billions a year to our economies? i m going to be discussing all of that with these two, there they are. jill zucker, author of a landmark report on the issue for mckinsey and company in new york, and caroline farberger, who came out as a transgender woman, and now runs one of europe s leading technology investment companies. also on the show, a story of how one of the world s most powerful businessmen was brought down when a newspaper published details of his private life, outing him
american, to see them game a fight in that way. we need to get back to business and growth. gamify it in that way. growth. gamify it in that wa . , growth. gamify it in that wa . h . ~ growth. gamify it in that wa. h ., way. let s talk about the perception way. let s talk about the perception of way. let s talk about the perception of the - way. let s talk about the perception of the us - way. let s talk about the perception of the us and abroad, how do you feel it is portrayed in terms of its status and power elsewhere? could you imagine the us would want to cast out into the international markets about its stability and debt? i mean, how stupid is that? in today s day and age, when we have rising issues with china, when we have opec meeting this weekend, gamifying this system and the us wants to politicise its own jet and call into question its capacity to meet responsibilities? it is short sighted and i m embarrassed. its own debt. the reality is the uni
price of these items. greetings, j thank you for having me. as you mentioned, the food prices index, the climb compared to it, the decline was modest, around 2% but what is important is that the decline which we observed last march in march 2022 was over 22%. so what is behind it? let s remember that the food price index includes quotations of bulk commodities so on this international level bulk commodities, the markets depending on the specific commodity, remain relatively balanced supply and they are often quite stable. we have noticed a decline in the cereal prices when the maize and wheat prices when the maize and wheat prices decline while on the other hand rice prices increase. so it means the supply generally is quite steady while the demand remains steady. i would like to mention the case of sugar which has been, unlike other commodities, increasing recently. this is because of relatively tight conditions on the global markets and concerns about la nina on production.