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children's mental health. it says the study of 10,000 children found checking facebook, instagram and snapchat weekly means the risk of suffering "psychological distress" is up to 20%. not checking weekly. i would say they are checking minute by minute. with me is james hughes, chief market analyst at the brokerage firm axitrader. let's get started. the market rally, the relief rally following trump's announcement that they would delay tariffs, they would go on the first of september, now mid december. this is so the christmas shopping spree is so the christmas shopping spree is not hampered. yes, according to donald trump, he is helping our shoppers by delaying this. but he says this of course comes after a very good call with china, where his words, yesterday. when everything that we hear around the us—china
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trade discussion, which of course has been rumbling on for years now, and everything that we hear about that talks of global economic slowdown, it is no surprise when we hear some good news news of progress that we markets rally, and that is what we have seen yesterday. markets rally pretty strongly, but they have been under real pressure the last few days as well, so this week has been particularly ugly for a lot of stocks in the back end of last week. we have seen a bit of relief rally. there is renewed optimism, this is what this brings. we are going to see some kind of deal. but the problem with this is we have seen this all before from donald trump. he has delay tariffs before, and if the past is anything to go on, what will happen with this as there will be talks, we will see more talks, we will get two december 15 and these tariffs, plus more will be added straight back on because there is no more ground that has been laid between the two. that is a
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pessimistic view of course. prior to that, people might have brought —— bought the device that will have come through from china or maybe other parts of asia, tariff free, they would have got them in the stocking and ready to go over thanksgiving and everything else. 0f course, he has an election year next year, 2020, which is probably first and foremost in his thinking. when it comes to his negotiations with china. absolutely. the key thing about this is when people in america see the headlines about the markets, it is the dow up 300 points of the s&p up 500 points and it is things like a breakthrough like this or when donald trump starts pushing the fed to cut interest rates, which is another thing that stimulates the stock market. it is no surprise that we are seeing these sorts of moves that create those sorts of headlines. we have to remember august and trading is pretty thin. it doesn't take much to see a big sharp spike or the reverse, does it
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at this time of year? absolutely, it doesn't take much at all. the key thing about this is, yes, donald trump is saying there is progress made, but it doesn't, by a long shot, mean that we are at the end of this. it is interesting to read the south china morning post's interpretation of what happened at the airport yesterday in hong kong. i talked tojoshua earlier about how the tactics on the part of protesters seems to have changed, they have been more aggressive, much more violent, and this article really portrays that. he was obviously, joshua wong, defending the rights of protesters, talking about the violence on the part of the police in handling them while doing these protests. the stock about the fact that a person in the airport who was mistaken as perhaps coming from mainland china who is mistaken as perhaps someone who is not, who is opposing the processes. he was held by protesters for ages,
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his hands were tied, paramedics couldn't get to him, he couldn't get away from this airport, and this article is very anti— protester, isn't it? yes, and this is a situation, when you get the media reporting of this. and anything that has protesters involved. this has such a big story that there is that side that really does push back against the protesters. the key thing about this, it is the picture. the picture is being put around, is ona the picture is being put around, is on a lot of front pages today because it actually shows one of the police brandishing his gun. this is the first time that a gun has been brandished towards protesters, but it goes along the same lines of the protest are getting more violent. but i think what one of the key things about this is that of course one of —— china, their patience is wearing thin with this whole process now. we don't know what that means, but of course what it would
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insinuate is that we are looking at china potentially cracking down a lot harder on these protesters, and of course losing an airport to protesters is enormous, because there is the economic hit, the global pr story that this takes, because if you have protests in hong kong, yes, from a global story, that is one thing. if it shuts the airport and causes delay, that is another thing. china is really keen now to try and put an end to this, but this has been going on for a long time. that photo is the one that everybody has honed in on, the front page of the telegraph. the moment hong kong held its breath as at least officer points a gun ——as a police officer points are gonna protesters. ozone pollution is bad for lungs as a pack of cigarettes a day, so says this study. people that live in london or other cities, beijing, shanghai, they would say yes, absolutely, i agree and i get it. there is twofold to this story.
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there is the climate change angle to this and bring down emissions and making the air cleaner. the fact is that these cities are at crucial, crucial points now, so we talk about bringing down emissions and we have come in london, we have the congestion charge that started a long time ago to try and get people stopping from driving in the big cities, but it is at critical points, and to say that the ozone pollution is as bad for lungs as a pack of cigarettes a day, i mean, is enormous. immediately, as a reader and a viewer, a listener, you immediately get how bad this is, how intense it is, and for children in schools within the cities, in central london or the centre of a city where they have terrible pollution levels, it is a real worry. for commuters, priced out by new hike in railfares. this is a rails are expected to be confirmed
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today, an increase of 2.9%. it will come into effect injanuary. january one, railfares always come into effect injanuary. january one, rail fares always go come into effect injanuary. january one, railfares always go up in the uk, year after year, despite whatever chaos... exactly right. train fare timetable changes that have gone wrong and all the drama that commuters face, and yet they seem to just be paying more and that commuters face, and yet they seem tojust be paying more and more and more. i am one of these commuters, i commute into london every single day and my season ticket, 30 miles outside of london straight into a major station and it cost me £4000 a year to travel into london. a 2.9% increase cost me £4000 a year to travel into london. a 2.996 increase for you would be a lot of money. it is a lot of money. and of course we hear this all the time, but it is true. you are on trains, which are absolutely packed out. you can't get a seat. can't sit down. you are paying £4000 a year, the trains don't necessarily
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run on time all the time, of course happens, but we are continuing we told and commuters are continuously told and commuters are continuously told that this money is being put back into the railways, it is being made to improve the service, improve the trains and improve everything, but of course what people will say is more delays, more carnage when there are timetable changes. two weeks ago with saw 39 degrees here in london. train tracks buckled, we couldn't travel, the train companies are now going to increase these fa res by are now going to increase these fares by 2.9%, they told you not to travel on a certain day even though you travel on a certain day even though y°u pay travel on a certain day even though you pay £4000 a year for your ticket. and this continuously happens year after year. the one stunning statistic here is that since 2009 train fares have gone up 46%. since 2009 train fares have gone up 4696. and you not only too well. only too well. mental health alert over
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apps. it is a familiar story that comes up apps. it is a familiar story that comes up again and again. more evidence, another study to show that actually social media is having a very harmful impact on young people. yeah, for sure. this is something thatis yeah, for sure. this is something that is going to go on and on because we know that this is having a long lasting effect. this study talks about... it doesn'tjust talk about the mental health side, but it talks about why there is mental health issues and it is because checking instagram, facebook, whatever it might be... it is interacting sleep patterns. we are told sleep is the one thing, when i was a teenager, sleep was not an issue for me, whatever time till the middle of the day, this is really, really having an effect now. indeed. they are a social experiment, this young generation. thank you for coming in. and thank you for your company. i hope you have a really good day. see you
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soon. pretty cloudy day ahead of us on wednesday. rain on and off pretty much anywhere in the uk. there might even be one or two rumbles of thunder across the midlands, east anglia, lincolnshire as well. by thursday, the weather will improve. but this is what it looks like right now. so, this is the weather system, this is all the cloud that's basically been heading our way through the course of the night. clearer skies for a time in the east, but i think from the morning onwards, it's looking pretty damp, if not wet across the south—west of england, wales, just about lancashire, the lake district. northern ireland getting a few spots of rain too, as well as the western isles. but it's not cold, it's quite mild in fact. these are south—westerly winds bringing some humid air, so temperatures early in the morning in plymouth around 14. we'll match that in cardiff. but nippy in western and eastern scotland that is, in rural spots temperatures first thing could be two or three
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degrees above freezing. but quickly it's going to cloud over. so look at all that — all of that cloud across the uk on wednesday. on and off rain. it's not one solid area of rain that will be sweeping across the country, it's sort of like bits of rain, so it will come and go, hit and miss, really, through the afternoon. and then actually later in the day, it looks as though some of these western areas could brighten up and that's because the weather front will be pulling away towards the east. then come thursday, we are inbetween weather systems, one out there in the atlantic ready for the weekend, but on thursday, before it arrives, the weather's looking absolutely fine. so after a cloudy, damp wednesday, thursday, more sunshine on the way. temperatures will get up to 23 degrees because there'll be more sun around, obviously, even nudging up to 20 or so just about across northern england. i think for stornoway, no more than around 15. now, here's the low pressure that swings in off the atlantic on friday. a lot of isobars there, so, you guessed it, the winds will be pretty strong as well, gusting to around 40mph around these western and southern coasts. now, the rain probably won't reach the east of the country until a lot later in the day, so that means that places
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like say brighton, london, norwich, hull, may actually get away with a fairly decent first half to friday. the rain may not reach london until friday night, for example. but for wales and the south—west, it's looking pretty wet on friday and the temperatures only around, say, 17—19 degrees at least for most of us. then friday night, that low pressure continues to make its journey towards the east and come saturday and sunday, it's going to turn very blustery in the uk. gusts of wind in some areas could be approaching 50mph. so, another very windy weekend potentially on the way. bye— bye.
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good morning. welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: the family of nora quoirin pay tribute to their most precious girl as they desperately seek answers in malaysia over her death. former chancellor philip hammond launches an attack on the prime minister, accusing him of wrecking the uk's chances of getting a deal with the eu. a nervous wait for vocational students. nearly 80,000 find out their btec level 3 qualifications today, the biggest single results day for vocational courses.
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