little chance of escaping poverty now for more on the story let's bring in a melinda from lancaster university good morning i'm lendu good to have you on the program still had long been labeled as an economic success story yet there is this widespread inequality that was talked about tell us more about the root of this problem that we have at the moment. when the constitution disadvantage is a massive force one of the country's population and that has been going on for the last almost quarter to century what we have seen is that the problem of the middle class it is a nasty there's no middle class imagine going to something more imagine being surrounded by a fancy restaurant but you don't have the money in your wallet to go and buy things or to have a lunch there in the sense you just run that is exactly what is happening in chile although you have the middle class it simply doesn't have the purchasing power and as you rightly put it in your report alia the country's richest one percent receive 20 percent of the country's income so they have access to all the goodies whereas the rest of the po

because it's been suggested by the brother of web inventor who has done a look into, he is a lancaster universitylooked into the amount of energy that is utilised every time we send e—mails, and this is all of us, wherever we are worldwide, and just those messages that say thank you or lol or whatever, if we cut back on those, we could actually save a lot of energy use and help the planet. many of you have been in touch. 0ne of you saying, how many unsent e—mails would save enough energy to power one electric car for a mile. there is some signs in this article and we will talk about that in the news briefing with lawrence a little later. do stay with us. hello there, the weather is going to look very different by the end of this week md, and that comes with more wind and rain, some heavy rain and perhaps some gales in places with the west of the weather for england and wales threatening some localised flooding stopping the reason for the wet and windy weather is this area of low pressure again coming up from the south—west, this one has a bit of tropical air and it, this one has the remnants of e

brother of tim berners—lee who created the world wide web, his brother mike is a professor at lancaster universityils. the impact of us sending out e-mails. on the environment. that's right, mike has contributed to it, did he sent his brother congratulatory e—mail, 64 million pointless e—mails get sent every day, that's the point of this research so on the one hand, all these e—mails that we need not be sending because they waste time and stress us, but what professor mike has worked out as this has an environmental cost as well, had we ever thought of that, not sure? he has weighed up the cost. tabulated 23 tonnes of carbon every year could be saved through not sending those extra e—mails. has he got too much time on his hands, that's a separate matter. but it's an interesting thought. what does it actually cost? and what does that mean, useless e—mail? the e—mail that you sent to me, sally? that's very necessary. you need to hear that. it's having a go, these e—mails saying thank you, have a nice weekend, some people would say they bring joy to work and live so we need to be careful what we scra

now simon my bunnies director of the richardson institute at lancaster university in the u.k. he joins us live from there thanks very much for being with us so what do you think is likely to figure into those disgusted me in washington. i think these are going to be really significant discussions for a number of reasons but 1st of all there's the issue of the u.s. withdrawal from syria albeit leaving 50500 military personnel there but also how to recalibrate the fight against diet after the group has lost its leader so there's a real strategic rationale that needs to be figured out here not only in terms of the members of the coalition how they relate to one another how they can maintain trust after this this quite significant withdrawal for the coalition but also how do you then continue to fight against a group that doesn't have a leader but the conditions that gave rise to diet in the 1st place remain and are perhaps even getting worse and what about the whole issue of how to deal with the united states and the diner this is a criticism that's been brought up before with u.

associate at the ecosystems lab at the university of oxford and a visiting research associate at lancaster university she joins us by skype from santorum in brazil nice to have you with us just remarkable numbers when you look at the at the level of deforestation i want to get to the causes in just a moment but what is the impact of this we've already seen fires at record levels more broadly what's the impact of this deforestation. this impacts that we're losing the most rich eco system on the arts they are losing their system to have the largest amount of biodiversity and that the store is a large amount of carbon and once we've barn and forest if there is all this current event back to that much here footing has been climate change so this is that. and when it comes to the reasons here are some of course this is all because of the expansionist economic policies of job also narrow others though there are illegal logging illegal land seizures and so on that also contribute to this where does the balance in this fall. well we have a government the right now the heads of all county have a meeting with

at lancaster university.ring you that as soon as it starts. 0ur poltiical correspondent nick eardley is at that event and can speak to us now.. i think we will get a broad pitch from jeremy corbyn and his team. why they think this is worth it. they think this will bring —— they will bring £20 billion in for this project, to part nationalised broad bt. this will see that three full fibre broadband across the uk. mr corbyn will be arriving any minute to tell us how he sees that panning out. we will hear from shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell. this is hard—nosed economics. if we do not get on and do this, we will —— we are already falling behind our competitors. future generations will not forgive us. it is visionary, i acce pt not forgive us. it is visionary, i accept that. but other countries are having these visions, and we are not. we are being held back. that is labour‘s pitch. we will hear more that any minute. there big questions about the cost and the viability. we have had suggestions that labour's estima

for more we're joined by harry hoster he's a professor at the university of lancaster and an expert on battery technology why did just not really choose germany it's worth noting that the right the engineering reputation has taken kind of a hit with the botched building of the airport with the diesel gate scandal so what's going on there so i think there's 3 important points to be made here one is it's so technically very clever to have a foothold in the one of the largest automotive markets in europe which at the same time is host also many of the strongest automotive mass produced within europe and that will certainly help to to increase their share in the european market as well as similar moves help the german companies extending their presence in the united states the 2nd point is there is a lot of embedded knowledge in the german common effect during industry about how to mess manufacture cars and this is exactly the thing tesla does not get to a 3rd maybe at a minor point is that germany office barrier free access to the products from the chemical industry which are key ingredie

help the overall ecosystem nothing to worry about thank you very much harvey hoster from the university of lancaster you're welcome. for the past several months a china has been grappling with an outbreak of african swine flu after the country's pig herds have been wiped out the price of pork has surged as a result for a country that consumes more pork than any other the impact has been enormous. you might assume that searching pork prices would be good news for chinese butchers but for a time who young they're nothing but a curse. do you know. the price of pork has increased and there are certainly fewer people than eating it to be honest we don't want the prices to be high we sell more when the price is lower because the cost is high profits. china is both the world's biggest producer and consumer of pork meaning the impact of the epidemic has been felt on international markets producers in brazil us trade and europe are pedophiles just specially from the fall in chinese outposts. the decline has prompted several local governments in china to tap into the country's frozen pork reserves the existen

have access to high quality broadband and therefore the proposal i announced last week at lancaster universityment, moving into the cities and so on the access generally tends to be better. and i think it seems to mea be better. and i think it seems to me a good proposal. you accept the principle there should be universal supplies of electricity, universal supplies of electricity, universal supplies of electricity, universal supplies of water and universal delivery of postal systems, that is a norm for every industrial society, these days modern communication is actually by computer, intranet, therefore, broadband is absolutely central to this and i put forward his proposals and i think they are sensible, affordable and doable and so we would take over bt open reach is part of the broadband network. on your point about big business and what they do, and where they have social good or social not so good in their work, yes, most companies do have social impact funds, most companies do give a great deal of support to community enterprises. my concerns are sometimes about the behaviour of very big