Universities write to the uk education secretary calling for more money to help with the cost of taking in extra students following a government u turn on a level grades. And coming up this hour, the three victorian forts originally built to defend england against the french going up for sale. Hello and welcome. If you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The number of people being randomly tested in the community to track the prevalence of covid 19 is to be incased up in england. From october, 150,000 people will be tested every fortnight as part of the office for National Statistics programme which is separate from the Mass Testing Programme of people who have symptoms. The figure is up from the 28,000 in england who are currently sent a home testing kit. Testing will also be expanded in scotland, wales and northern ireland. The health secretary, matt hancock, says the expansion of testing in the
This is the w. Business im joined on in berlin thanks for joining us we start with the European Commission which has approved plans to set up a 500000000000 euro support fun for businesses affected by the Coronavirus Crisis the plan had been introduced by germany and is set to rescue the hardest hit economies in the block earlier this week that lowered its Economic Outlook and is now expecting a contraction of 8. 7 percent. Now speaking of the e. U. French train maker alice though is waiting for an e. U. Approval so that it can buy brigades rail union at state of course is the creation of a european champion to counter chinese dominance in the Railway Industry heres a look at the sectors key players. European Rolling Stock manufacturers face serious competition from china c. R. C. As the world leader with a turnover of over 20900000000 euro as the Chinese State owned john does business in more than 100 countries ill still was way behind in 2nd place number 3 is germany siemens the e. U
People from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important. They believed they were not incompatible but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally adding tension. Throughout class today, think about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is, what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressivism which aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing that this era existed but quivering about what counted as progressivism. When it ended, when it started, who counted in it . Some people limit only to the Political Party it was named for. Others to find it much more broadly. So for me in this class, this is how i will define progressivism. And the broadest sense, it was the way a whole generation of americans defined themselves politically and how they addressed the problems of the new century and what i think we can a
Traveling again. And the layers of pakistans a rapid transport project has many blaming the Prime Ministers provincial government for corruption. And im peter some of these sports as you heard the 2020 Olympic Games in tokyo or later this news of a look at what it means for the athletes who will now have to wait until 2021. Well we begin this hour with breaking news out of torture the 2020 and then fix have been perspire and the announcement was made just in the past alibi Prime Minister shinzo he says he has asked the i. O. C. For an up to one year postponement of the tokyo island fix and now appears likely that theyll be held in 2021 nowadays are vassal followers weeks of insisting it would go ahead in july as planned its like you know the whole. First of all once again i confirmed with the i. O. C. President back that there will be no cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics or paralympics furthermore as the host of the tokyo lympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the
Stories. We begin with ongoing protests in hong kong. President trump signed a bill backing protesters. This pump to china to threaten retaliation against the u. S. As it nears a phase one trade deal. The chinese spokesman saying u. S. Stopsuggest the sticking obstinately to its course or china will take resolute countermeasures. Where does this leave them in that phase one trade deal . Reporter it is very interesting because for several days, weve had the chutneys threatening nonspecific countermeasures, but there havent really got into any detail. The most weve had is the suggestion they might put a ban on those who drafted the bill from entering china or hong kong, which is a pretty lowkey response. The fact that we had several days of this without any suggestions without any specifics suggests beijing is grappling with how to handle this. It is clear the u. S. Once a trade deal done very soon. The chinese want a trade deal done as soon as possible. They dont want to bring in tensio