Good evening. On a day of Significant Developments for the enviroment and the economy, im in plymouth as we continue to report from different parts of the uk on stories that impact all of us. Tonight the focus is very much on the major changes to the governments green policies announced by the Prime Minister. Rishi sunak said the present approach would impose unacceptable costs on hard pressed families. But the decision has been criticised by some politicians and businesses. The Prime Minister has decided the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the uk will be pushed back from 2030 to 2035. He said there will be far more time to transition from gas boilers to heat pumps and that the Boiler Upgrade Scheme Grants will increase from £5,000 to £7,500, with a new exemption for people in the poorest households, so they never have to switch at all. But rishi sunak said he remains committed to the target of net zero by 2050 thats when the uk would no longer be adding to the total
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profits jump maybe 25%. while at&t ceo randall stephenson praised the bill in a statement, congratulating both congress and the president, at&t is currently being sued by the government to block its takeover of time warner, the parent company of cnn. corporate america will benefit from tax cuts along with other policies of the pro-business trump administration, like cutting regulations. when announcing its bonus, comcast mentioned both the tax cut and the fcc s repeal of net neutrality and boosting military spending. boeing plans to invest $300 million on worker training and updating facilities. you mentioned a lot of companies there. are you surprised by that? i was surprised by how quickly not a lot of ceos raised their hands a few weeks ago. and the assumption would be that much of the savings would go to shareholders and investors. to see them so quickly say they would be giving $1,000 bonuses to their workers i think was really interesting. you know, the critics would sa
released. and so you have to wonder this movement i guess that we are seeing, me too movement is pushing reporters to look for things and then the companies are acting. but they ve known about these inquiries for a long time now at some of these pr departments. why don t they take action before it actually becomes news? that is true of so many things. that is what s so frustrating here. more often than not in politics and business, people are ahead of the people who are in power every single time. and now finally decades too late, frankly, the issue of sexual abuse is being addressed. lot of women the list of women i know who haven t been subjected to this is nonexistent. many careers and lives have been changed because of it. dana: i guess if you re a partisan or you support a party, what should you do if the person
now they are brinacing for workplace visas. intel told the court it believed the issue was unconstitutional. then they stood next to trump to invest in a faculttfactory. intel originally announced to build that factory with that guy in 2011. saying it would pour $5 billion in the site. now a spokesman tells that was just to build a shell of the factory and never completed. now there is so the company says it is building the rest. two bites at the apple. one president. another president. i have to tell you, the pr departments are just spinning in overtime. they have to show the president they are making products in the