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google, facebook, twitter and amazon — may soon have to pay a digital tax in india. and finally on the bbc website a study just released— in which scientists compare the brian function of late risers and "morning larks", with some very interesting results. more on that later. with me is mark davies who's ceo of strategy consultancy, camberton. you a night out? i am. what am i doing here! we will delve into that later. the lead story on many of the front pages the schoolgirl as she was when she left to go to syria now trying to come back saying that she fears for the welfare and health of her baby, she says she is pregnant. the response from the home secretary saying he will do everything in his
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power to stop her returning. this is political posturing and the reason for it is that this story has hit the headlines because she was the 15—year—old schoolgirl there are will in this category day in and day out. this issue has confronted the country since the start of the war. the rat 2! women and children in her exact ci rcu msta nces the rat 2! women and children in her exact circumstances that have come back. —— there are and many more if you include men. if it is possible to do something to date about the schoolgirl who was 15 when she left wide is it possible to do something about the 325 people who came back having gone out to syria in the past. the reality is, it is not possible, because you cannot deprive someone possible, because you cannot deprive someone of their statehood. you may
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ask why that is the case but it is interesting that this becomes news and something the home secretary is going to pontificate about purely because she was a 15 when she went and you can get into a lot of questions about how was she influenced, was she brainwashed, questions generally not asked of the other people in her position. they have these temporary exclusion orders which can be used and, according to this article, one of those would be drawn up and require her to re—enter with strict conditions. i am sure she would. it is interesting how we have changed oui’ is interesting how we have changed our position on this over the years. during the second world war, if someone during the second world war, if someone had gone away and fought for the germans, and sought to come back to the uk, there would have been did of treason — almost no questions
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asked. today we have moved into a much more liberal approach to these for no obvious reason. the issue is exactly the same but it has become mixed in with a very different issues and, as a result, this happens. in the guardian, of the defeat in the commons for theresa may, another defeat. that has to come a point when the prime minister realises the strategy does not have the backing of the british parliament. she must know that already. for her, she wants to get toa already. for her, she wants to get to a point where there are not three options on the table because, only then, it should go to get a stable majority and that means getting close enough to the 29th of march that realistically only two options are that realistically only two options a re left that realistically only two options are left and at that time it is
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going to be no deal or her deal. those who really fear no deal will ta ke those who really fear no deal will take anything they can get, even if it is only a small distance away from no deal. went she lost a meaningful vote by 230 votes, the matter was very clear. over 100 people in her party voting against it as she had to change the minds of those people. she always had to move left if she was going to secure a majority in the comments and, until she has one of those motions moved, she has one of those motions moved, she is not there to get an overall majority. she is a glass half full kind of person and she might say it was not as big a defeat as last time. a very different vote, of course. when the cooper balls
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amendment comes back that is when it will be interesting. that specifies we push out article 50 and that is probably the last thing she wants because she has to have one of the options come off the table in order to get a majority and if cooper balls pushes out we willjust be talking about the three options for a lot longer. by definition there is a lot longer. by definition there is a majority. plenty more paper reviews that will feature it. in the financial times, amazon saying no to basing itself in new york after this backlash. a backlash against these subsidies that they are getting, more than $2 billion. it raises an interesting question as to why a city like new york needs to hand out
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subsidies. you would think the attraction of going to new york was already inherent in the city. the city is you could think of that are not attractive to go to may require subsidy. but some around the world that would not be an obvious place, but the big cities, new york, london, you expect them to be able to attract businesses without having to attract businesses without having to subsidise. that is obviously not the case and that was the clash. from amazon's point of view, is they have a decent case to make as to why they are good news for the area. the gentrification, the knock—onjobs, the improvement in living standards for the 25,000 people that they employ and therefore football the
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people in the knock—on industry but the minute they were asked a question about the subsidies, they started to retreat and effectively they looked like a kid who had an argument and ran off with his wall. india is perhaps not the place to run to according to the business standard because tech giant like amazon not likely to find love in india because you have got a potential digital tax that will target these tech giants specifically on revenues they make in india, even though they are not headquartered there. it is always a difficulty getting tax from tech giants because they are able to put themselves anywhere, amazon as are proving. those companies have made enormous revenues without paying tax. every country in the world has
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had the same issue. i think the solution has was being quite obvious, create a space of consumption tax. they have been put the rate at 30% — a0%. philip hammond talked about a digital tax of 2% say he was very softly softly, india on the other hand said we would tax you as everybody else. the enforcement mechanism is the place of consumption. i think it is something other countries will welcome. they have been looking for a solution for a long time. this story will be of interest to anyone waking up particularly early, scientists say the brain function does differfrom scientists say the brain function does differ from those who naturally wa ke does differ from those who naturally wake early. i am surprised this is
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news. i have read a book going into great length about this. this study shows the same thing. light hours and larks are different in their approach and that raises imprecation about the working day and particularly about the school day. teenagers have a time schedule that isa teenagers have a time schedule that is a couple of hours different to paddles and the full the argument is that they should start school later andi that they should start school later and i can think of people in my house that would endorse that. and i can think of people in my house that would endorse thatlj and i can think of people in my house that would endorse that. i can think of people in the building that would endorse that! thank you very much. and thank you for watching. plenty more to come. hello. it was not just love in the air on valentine's day, spring in the air too, as the uk recorded its highest valentine's day
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temperature in 21 years. and that was at wales. here's a view from aberystwyth, but it was at bala, the temperatures reached 16.1 celsius, top of the valentine's day shop. you can see the extent of temperatures in double figures elsewhere and how far removed from average they are at this time of year. and there is more mild to very mild weather on the way in the next few days. but we know the nights are quite chilly and actually friday starts on a colder note in scotland and northern ireland compared with thursday morning, and especially in parts of england and wales. there will be a touch of frost around in places and, the further south you are, the chance of seeing some maybe dense fog patches, that could be rather slow to clear. but the last of those should be gone by late morning, lunchtime. but then, for most of us, it is blue skies and sunshine all the way. though cloud will increase in northern ireland, especially to the west, and in western scotland. and into the north—west and the western isles some outbreaks of rains slowly moving in. but the colours indicate just how much temperatures are going to rebound after that chilly start, on towards the midteens again, on again towards 15 or even 16 celsius,
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though it is quite breezy. if anything a touch windier than it was on thursday, especially towards the north—west and the western isles. these are average speeds. there could be some gusts of up to around 50 miles per hour or so. friday night is not going to be as chilly as more cloud moves into the uk, courtesy of these fairly weak weather fronts. another system will come in towards the uk later in the weekend. they are just going to deliver glancing blows but at least giving more cloud in places. but the important thing, the flow of air around these weather systems will maintain a feed coming in from the south and that means it is going go stay mild, with temperatures above average. so this is what we are expecting for the weekend — mild, yes, breezy, also, still. dry for many but these weather systems i've pointed out will bring the threat of seeing a bit of rain. we may welcome that in the garden, especially down towards the west of the uk. but there will be more cloud in southern england, east anglia and the midlands, into wales, on saturday. maybe a bit of drizzle into the far south—west. northern england seeing sunny spells. broken cloud in northern ireland, eastern scotland.
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cloudy in north—west scotland, where there is some patchy rain. early rain clearing from shetland. still breezy, still mild. on then on sunday, more sunshine around at least to start the day. but this weather system comes in from the west, delivering some rather patchy outbreaks of rain, more appreciativley so towards north—west scotland. it is still breezy but it is still mild, especially where you see the best of the sunshine down the eastern side of the uk. bye— bye. good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today: the home secretary says he will do everything in his power to prevent the return of the british teenager who ran away to join the so—called islamic state. a blow to theresa may. her latest proposal to unite parliament on brexit is overwhelmingly voted down. president trump says he'll declare a national emergency to secure funding for a border wall with mexico. good morning. mobile phones are
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