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person to go into space. what you have given me is the most profound experience i can ever. i m so filled with emotion about what just happened. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s news day. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore and 8:00pm in washington, where president biden has been addressing global supply chain problems. suppliers around the world are struggling to cope with a rise in consumer demand, as countries emerge from pandemic lockdowns. france s finance minister on wednesday told a meeting of the international monetary fund in washington that there were shortages everywhere . and the big worry for consumers across the globe the shortages are causing steep price rises in everthing from food to energy to consumer goods. from washington, here s our economics editor faisal islam. one of the world s biggest parking lots. dozens of cargo ships just waiting in the pacific, full of goods from asia, unable to dock at full terminals in the po ....
and what impact has the internet had on the business of jokes? well, my guest is british writer and stand up comedian david baddiel. has comedy become a casualty in the culture wars? david baddiel, welcome. hello. how are you? i m well, and in fact, i m very well cos i ve just seen your latest stand up show, and it prompts a very simple question. are you in an abusive relationship with your smartphone? probably, yes, i think so. well, i m certainly in an addicted relationship with my smartphone and my laptop and whatever else i access social media with. i am undeniably addicted to social media. but we might all be we might, as a culture, be addicted to social media. and if you want to be in the conversation now, it s very hard to actually exclude yourself from that by not being on social media. so, part of it is whatever else addiction is some kind of weird dopamine hit that you get from it, a narcissistic urge to have an audience and all the things that i know are ....
let s take a look at what s happening and how serious the situation is. property is basically at the heart of everything. for 20 years it boomed, developers borrowed billions, families invested their savings in houses. but now it s in crisis. there are too many houses and not enough people wanting to buy them. it means prices are plummeting. that is basically the biggest reason why we haven t seen the post pandemic spending boom that so many had predicted in china. chinese would slash their savings, to consume like crazy, go to parties, and that hasn t happened. everybody is well aware that the financial wealth is concentrated in housing, it s being hammered. some economists are worried on a deeper level. for the past few decades china s astonishing growth has been powered mainly by building. factories, roads, bridges, houses, you name it, china needed to industrialise and it did. but there comes a point where there is only so much you can build before it starts becomin ....
but it s weakened as it passed through florida, and so far there have been no confirmed fatalities. now downgraded idalia to a tropical storm, no longer a hurricane, although they are still warning of the risk of freshwater flooding and storm surges, as it moves inland with georgia and south carolina next in its path. helena humphrey has been witnessing the aftermath of the storm, in cedar key. thanks forjoining us. not as bad as some had feared still a lot of destruction? inaudible. apologies. i am lot of destruction? inaudible. apologies. iam not lot of destruction? inaudible. apologies. i am not sure whether helena can hear us so let s try and get back to helena shortly. earlier i spoke to a special reporter with a tampa bay times who told us the latest there. inaudible. yes, we are seeing trivialities. neighbours today were taking out a break might ruin furniture and the neighbour industry was watching on unscathed. the flooding during the storm was worse than durin ....
maiden top 10 scalp sending the australian open runner up tumbling out of the us open. tsisipas not blaming anyone else though. everything on court is under my control and under my talents. and the way i can play the sport are shown out on the court. if i m not able to deliver then i m not supposed to be doing well. that s what happened this summer. i was not good enough to deliver. and score good results. he good enough to deliver. and score good results.- score good results. no such issues for score good results. no such issues for world score good results. no such issues for world number - score good results. no such. issues for world number one. no such issues for world number one. world number one novak djokovic has cruised into the 3rd round of the us open with a straight sets win over spains bernabay zapata miralles. djokovic efficient as always, the 23 time major winner only needed the one break in the 1st set before cranking up the gears to take the second ....