16/01/2017
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Trust in governments, companies and the media fell last year, with the majority of people now believing the economic and political system is failing them. The figures are from the annual Edelman Trust Barometer.Μύ Ed Williams is CEO of Edelman UK and Ireland.
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Solidarnost is publishing a new report,Μύ 'The Kremlin's Hybrid Aggression', examining how Putin's Russia is trying to return Ukraine to the orbit of its influence and the bearing this will have on the future of other ex-USSR countries and the West, if successful. ΜύIlya Yashin is a Russian opposition MP, from the liberal RPR-PARNAS party and co-founder of political movement Solidarnost.Μύ
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100 of Britain's leading climate scientists have written a letter to the PM asking her to stand up for global climate research in the face of what they see as Trump's impending assault on the field. Corinne Le QuΓ©rΓ© is a professor of climate change science and policy at the University of East Anglia and director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. She is a signatory of the letter.
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Donald Trump has expressed hope and confidence in Brexit in an interview with Michael Gove in the Times, a day ahead of the Prime Minister's much anticipated speech on Brexit. Professor Theodore Malloch is widely tipped to be the next US Ambassador to the EU.
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MPs on the Women and Equalities Select Committee are launching an inquiry as new research reveals fathers don’t feel supported in the workplace to care for their children. Adrienne Burgess is chief executive of the Fatherhood Institute.
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This week the bosses of some of the world's top companies gather in Davos for the annual world economic forum. Today’s Katie Prescott reports.
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The Military Covenant says Britain has a duty of care to its armed forces. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Sima Kotecha reports and Neil Greenberg is a professor of Defence Mental Health at King’s College London.
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Barack Obama has announced that three sites significant in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s will be designated US national monuments. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’sΜύ North America correspondent, Aleem Maqbool, reports.
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In Northern Ireland the power-sharing executive is expected to collapse and new elections to be called. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Belfast correspondent, Chris Page, reports.
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Donald Trump has expressed hope and confidence in Brexit in an interview with Michael Gove in the Times, a day ahead of the Prime Ministers much anticipated speech on Brexit. Michael Gove is a Conservative MP and Times columnist.
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The fourth series of Sherlock concluded last night on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One, but a Russian version of the last instalment, titled The Final Problem, was illegally uploaded to the internet prior to it airing on television. Emma Bullimore is a TV critic for the TV Times and Caroline Frost is entertainment editor at the Huffington Post.
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Save the Children has published new figures looking at the Sustainable Development Goals pledge to end extreme child poverty by 2030. Helle Thorning Schmidt is former Danish Prime Minister and CEO of Save Children International.
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Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen is in London this week. Tonight he is in a discussion at the LSE with Mark Carney on monetary policy. Amartya Sen is a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University.
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Donald Trump has expressed hope and confidence in Brexit in an interview with Michael Gove in the Times, a day ahead of the Prime Ministers much anticipated speech on Brexit. Laura Kuenssberg is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s political editor and Alex Barker is the Brussels bureau chief for the Financial Times.Μύ
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