whilst there isa and dfs come out good.es that ultimately dfs, its scale and its integration of its outlets and so on, means it is capable of weathering any downturn for a long time. i suppose, much of the bad news was already known, but the bad news was already known, but the share price has taken a hit. why do you think investors reacted like that? well, i think probably the market maybe expected there might be some good news in the results. whilst we knew the bad news as they updated us about this over the summer, there wasn't really an awful lot for investors to really see as positive and i think really we have seen positive and i think really we have seen the share price rise a little bit over the last few months as it came back a little bit. people probably thinking that it is maybe, it has got some more challenges ahead and it is not out of the woods just yet. if anyone watching this is thinking at the moment of buying a sofa, do you think maybe if they hold off, they might see dfs slash their prices? that's always t

yes, dfs warned 's in june about this.sures in terms of increasing operational efficiency —— they warned us. and also trying to drive growth going forward because customers are coming through its doors. what has prompted the decline? phil us in on the detail. two main things have been factors behind this. one is a weakening of stirling, particularly against the dollar, and that has affected the cost of the supplies that dfs itself as it had paid —— a weakening of sterling. a slowdown in consumer demand is another thing, because we have a challenging consumer environment. two things, won the rise of inflation and also weak wage growth. big—ticket items like sofas the first thing to go when it comes to your household budget, not things like groceries, and we have seen that in things like declining car sales as well and dfs are expecting that trend to continue for the foreseeable future. an interesting one and a lot of other retailers in a similar position. thank you for talking to us, laith khalaf from bristol. you have the

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right passed the dfs defense. but not enough. 40-12. washington township hosting cherokee.howing off some speed. heading down the side loin. untouched into theened zone. cherokee wins 31-16. over brook calling his own number here. playing a catch me if you can. and they can't. over brook wins 44-22. timber creek. leery tosses the rock over the top to jordan gnash. the go ahead score. timber creek 36 had the 19. in the air now. s skylights. punting to mor ris town. keep your eye on stewart. look at this. finds a hole. bounces around a few defenders. nobody is going to bring him down. 56 yards for the touch down. 31-0. still in the air. undefeated cam den catholic. faking it, then fires. touch down. but all cam den catholic after that. they win 34-7. chelsea visiting eastern. mason max well connecting with a wide open. fighting into the end zone. with the shut out. still in jersey. looking to get on the board here. i'll take that. there he goes. filgting off a defender. he's brought down just shy of the end zone. but no problem. they score on the next play. 41-6. castle rock

, and that the country's tattered health and sanitation systems could pave the wayay for the spread df otother diseases. this is alalexandre faite,e, hef ththe icrc delegegation in yeme. >> the situation from a humanitarian standpoint is a catastrophe. we have something which is close to one million cases of suspected cholera, maybe by the end of the year. but this is, as i told you, is only d does an externanal illustration of something more serious. amy: the ongoing u.s.-backed, saudi-led bombing campaign hasas destroyed yemen's hehealth, watr and sanitationon systems, with e u.n. warning less than half of yemen's health facilities are opererational. in syryria, a pair of suicide bombers struck a police station in damascus monday, killing 11 people and wounding 20 others. there was no claim off respononsibilityty for the atta, whicich was the largrgest to rok the capital city since a car bomb attack killed 20 people in july. in kenya's capital nairobi, police fired tear gas monday to cash at protesters blockading roads and burning tires, as opposition leader raila odinga demanded the

two shares i've picked out for you — sofa firm dfs is down. thank you.ling himself. they have not elaborated on what has led them to that conclusion but they have suggested he had been living a secret life and had spent years building up his arsenal. we can now speak to elliot atkins, a forensic psychologist who has worked on both criminaland psychologist who has worked on both criminal and civil cases and joins us criminal and civil cases and joins us live now from newjersey. thank you very much for being with us, elliott atkins. from everything we have read and heard about this man, what kind of profile do you think stephen paddock vitz? the first thing we noticed when we listen to the commentary is that all the people who know him, and this is not unusual, they are all saying, this is so out of character. this isn't the person that i knew. theirfirst thought is that i can't imagine that they could possibly do this thing, it's just not they could possibly do this thing, it'sjust not him. they could possibly do this thing, it's just not him. but myjob a

and right before that -- before that david stockman was convincing president reagan that df sits were no concern and should not get in the way of tax cuts for the wealthy. we have seen this before and now once again it sounds like the present rhymes with the past and we come back to the central erroneous premise of the republican party, which they continue to try to sell to the american people, that it's possible, simultaneously to have massive tax breaks for the wealthiest 1%, to increase defense spending simultaneously and massively and to balance the budget at the same time. it's not possible. the american people know it. they've seen it in the past. they are trying to run the same old movie past the american people, but it's all, in the immortal words of david stockman, toward the goal of a trojan horse to bring down the rates to the wealthiest people in american. that's the choice the american people are going to have to make. this budget is a. mr. moran: ral -- is a moral disgrace to be considered out here. mr. markey: medicare and medicaid, this is shameful. madam president, i