will eventually get to where mommy and systems up to where i can start seeing people hug the heck margaret time left with family. a gift denied to some 700 people with de who continue to die of cove. it in the us and it's not just in louisiana there. we're seeing these dire scenes in other states like alabama, the hospital association, their reports just to i see you beds available for the entire state. in florida, there are more than 5000 children who are either in quarantine or isolation, dude. exposure in the school system and across the country. emily, we're still seeing new average number of cases per day as over a 140000 high, frightening statistics. thank you. for that update, heidi drug castro in baton rouge. louisiana for new cases of corona virus have been confirmed in new zealand as the country begins as snaps rate locked down. it brings the total number of cases to 5, all confirmed to be the delta vary and the case that triggered the lockdown was detected in oakland. and the government is working to trace its origins. you zealand has closed its borders to travelers. its last lock do

eventually get to where mommy and systems up to where i can start seeing people and hugged a heck i'm margaret time left with family. a gift denied to some 700 people were day who continue to die of cove. it in the us. hydrogen castro al jazeera, baton rouge, louisiana 11 on fuel shortages, endangering patients is hospital struggle to cope. businesses have been forced to scale back or shut down as the country goes through its worst economic crisis in recent years. then that has more from beirut. there is bread only when there is fuel, a resource that is now scarce. lebanon's economic crisis is getting worse. the state barely provides electricity. many bakeries that can't afford the rising cost to power generators have have to close. lack of lesbians in them as there is no bread, few diesel electricity, no medicine. but the officials who are fighting for their interests live in homes that are lead their generators are working. they have humiliated to people. a lack of fuel means there are difficulties pumping water and distributing it. every aspect of life is affected by what is being described as l

eventually get to where mommy and systems up to where i can start seeing people and hugged a heck i'm margaret time left with family. a gift denied to some 700 people were day who continue to die of cove. it in the u. s. heidi's, jo, castro, al jazeera, baton rouge, louisiana. well, after months of being virus free and other to new cases of code, 1900 have been confirmed in new zealand. it brings a total this week to 7. the 1st triggered a 3 day snap lockdown starting tuesday. the government says that infection is linked to an outbreak in australia. new zealand has closed its borders to travelers and its last lockdown was more than a year ago. the government has for the 1st time in our plans to cut the water. it's supplies to the arid west, the state of arizona and nevada, or receive less water in the coming months from shrinking reservoirs along colorado river or rental chas reports from the hoover dam on the arizona and nevada border. this is hoover dam, built on the colorado river in the 1900 thirty's. it created the country's largest reservoir lake need water, and hydro electric power from here

margaret: we could talk a long time about that. philip: when they said, were becoming less violent as l a species. i'm skeptical about this myself. but i will say i lived in small children so violence is not my life. if he'she right, but we turn to drones and intelligence as a way of hiding violence or will be actually pacifists. margaret: is very hard to predict i think the distinction that you made between they talk about how societies in particular have developed part of the world is become less willing to tolerate things like public institution or spectacles and were less willing to tolerate violence even when i was young it s was not unusual o see people fighting in the streets.dn in ways that you wouldn't perhaps now. whether that means you're less likely to go to work, i think with the individual feels like pretty much willing to commit is not warmaking. i think one of the things military does is working on how to turn ordinary people into civilians into those who fight. leather summa training preparation. i training are val

time for flushing. meadows. 3, no, 1040. next month is just one grand slam single title, short of record, hold up margaret court, but time is running out for williams to reach the mark hand. she has one of major titles and the australian opened back in 2017. since then, she struggled with her health and fitness, suffering a pulmonary embolism after the birth of her daughter, as well as injuries to her ankle, shoulder, and achilles tendon, at wimbledon. earlier this year she fell hard twice and limped out of her 1st round match with that tune hamstring. but she's not the only big name who's missing from this year's tournament lineup. roger federal $2.40 earlier this month and rap on the bell also out through injury. the last time none of those players were in the draw, believe it or not, was back in 1997. defending champion me a sako will plato and it seems that us up and organizes have taken campaign to raise awareness of mental health issues around athletes to heart. they've launched a mental health initiative to help players like soccer, who admitted to suffering with anxiety and depression, as well as providing quiet roo

so i think that could be a dumont, which in odin time, some margaret sinus supported, but that's all gone now. israel itself because the state run by these really far. right. and still they gave it so much leeway. so the war, the situation goes all the way to the next town. you know, the baton will probably be the same. i mean the 1st in the 30 one which lasted 3 years forced these re lease to negotiate, but they picked and chose who they negotiated with the leadership in killing this not the leadership of being in the occupied last. i'm in the israel itself. and this is been a problem which we don't discuss often enough in my opinion, is that the collaboration of the palestinian authority and the leadership has been a disaster story. even recently, i was told as these horrific things were going on in jerusalem and garza and other parts of the country. the p l. o. leaders in a number of places were using security forces to dump and down demonstrations on the west back. this is beam that out. well, the p a obviously denies that says it's all part of the resistance, but certainly what

and that's what i'd recommend to start there and visit a v a hospital, maybe margaret, thank you for the time today and everyone in our audience. thank you. i'll see you next time. ah, madagascar, a breathtaking tropical paradise where its former protectors are now wanting to very we follow their journey as they put their lives on the line. breaking. it's all medical on out of the euro. the us is always of interest, the people around the world. this is been going on for a number of what's being used to push the price by report. so just wanted to perspective to try to explain your mobile audience and why it's important that could impact their life at the height of the storm. water was still high, it would have been a pop by hey, this is an important part of the world. people pay attention to go out to do this very good at bringing the news to the world from bulgaria, the poorest nation, the european union dropped by allegations of corruption, seemingly linked to the upper echelons of the countries. political in the aim of our earlier class was to get access to repeal money to europe in front o

and that's what i'd recommend to start there and visit a v a hospital, maybe margaret, thank you for the time today and everyone in our audience. thank you. i'll see you next time. ah, me on counting because europe pete fun to find terrorism and counter china and russia in africa. activists say they'll provide weapons to dictate the climate emergency costing billions. placing millions, counting the call on al jazeera, with more than 200000000 cases, the curve of 19 worldwide government attaching to fight fresh wave of the virus a new barrier. there has been a 3rd and the number of people working vaccination appointment from the human cost to the political and economic pool out. i'll just bring you the latest on the pen demik. this'll have vaccinated more than 1100 people here. all of them migrant farm workers, people on home testing because they think that there is a risk to demography special coverage and i'll just 0 through a shared passion for elephant conservation. colleagues have become friends but with civil war defending famous now protect themselves. escaping deep into the rain forest

often times it's very useful. >> host: margaret? >> guest: i agree with john. i don't think the case is going to go anywhere but it's not about the legal issues necessarily. i think that this is part of the broad message that we are going to be hearing more and more about which is these big tech companies all based in silicon valley and west coast are bias against conservatives and i think that republicans see that as motivating to their base so even if the case it doesn't go anywhere it still might accomplish the former president's goals. >> host: do conservatives have a case that there has been some bias? >> guest: i don't think that there has been any solid evidence that shows that these companies are bias against conservatives. i think that the companies are trying to moderate content among hate speech and inciting violence and where they draw the line is something i think people on both sides tend to question. >> host: >> guest: i completely agree. there hasn't been strong evidence. the party sees this as a winning issue we saw after trump's lawsuit there

times over. with inconsistent and fundamentallylawed strategies that artificially lengthened the war and made it more costly. i believe, margaret, we have won. we had a relatively small number of troops there enabling the afghans to bear the brunt of the fight and it's true, afghanistan was not denmark but afghanistan didn't need to be denmark. it just needed to be afghanistan. probably still needed to be a violent place but compare what we're seeing today to the sustained commitment we had to the 2020 capitulation agreement with the taliban. and i think most people would choose prior to 2020 than the horrors we're witnessing today. >> general hr mcmaster, thank you for your service to our country and our asesment. >> thank you, a pleasure to be with you. >>> the day before thettack on the kabul airport, i spoke to david petraeus, already expressing concerns about the threat of isis-k and what american withdrawal would mean for security in the united states and around the world. geral david petraeus, welcome back to "firing line" and thank you for your service. >> great to be with you again, margaret, thanks. >> you served as t

. >> ari -- >> margaret, i am running over on time. i want to give you the final word with one minute. i want to give in a jab with the pillow guy. it had nothing to do with figuring out who won an election. final thought to margaret, please. >> he probably spent half his fortune or if not more on those soft pillows trying to prove the election is stolen and he's expecting trump to move back in. you and i are off for the dayings he's got six more hours for trump, those moving trucks to pull up from florida. you know trump goes back in there. that's how you know gullible some people are. you know he's like one of those students who went to trump university and spent their savings came out of a lousy picture of donald trump. he was taken in by the conspiracy so deeply that he changed his life over it. i have a little bit sympathy for him. he's not a liar like rudy giuliani who says he was just faking it. remember the fbi interview? he was just faking it, he knew he was lying. he's gullible and taken in. i have some sort of sympathy for h

so he'll number of margaret seems to be increasing all the time. yeah, absolutely. lauren, and that was not a one off, you know, june was a high number as well. 888000 e to figures that we've not seen here for more than 20 years. in fact, the average now every day, some 1800 migrants making that crossing. so the whole non secretary was here. he was speaking in brown, which is about an hour north of where we are the moment he was trying to lay out his vision of what's going to happen his way out the site. our efforts will uphold our laws and will uphold our values. that includes the laws of humanitarian relief, as well as the laws of enforcement. we will work relentlessly toward illegal immigration and to adjudicate asylum claims fairly and efficiently. both are embedded in the law and we are committed to upholding vote. this was a busy day, wasn't a big policy it out. many was kind of checking in on the situation and trying to reassure people because the democrats have come under a huge amount of criticism. for more conservatively, the members of s

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for the 1st time, the european commission decided to attack the company, margaret vest, hagar, european commissioner for competition sanctioned amazon french tax arrangements. the commission has today adopted a decision that i'm a tax benefits illegal on the you state aid rooms. a tax routing granted by luxembourg has reduced the tax bill in more than 8. yes. between may 2006 and june 2014. it was not justified amazon now has to repay the tax benefit worth around. $250000000.00 euros plus interest. amazon paid the 250000000 luxembourg appeal. the decision? not all states endorsed the commissioner's approach, nor do they all support other measures that promote tax fairness and the thing with with emerson, and we know that from the tax case is that you don't necessarily make profits, but you create value. so you create value on the stock exchange, but you don't make profit in your business. so people make money by buying and selling stocks instead of making money by having a profits coming out of the business in itself. and one of the reasons why we're so eager also to have a sort of broa

time. we are pleased to welcome margaret mcmillan professor of history at the university of toronto and emeritus professor of international history at the university of oxford doctor mcmillan previously before going on at provost at university college and saint anthony college at the university of oxford and the author that was published this past fall in including paris 1919 nixon and now. joining us as moderator this evening professor of jurisprudence at columbia law school. a leading constitutional theorist who has an extensive history of government service serving in all three branches of government joining six administrations republican and democratic including most recently the intelligence program for critical infrastructure for strategic planning at the national security council. the presentation will last for an hour and your questions could be submitted on your zoom screen. will ask as many questions as time allows. >> you say war is the most organized of human activities. as a constitutional lawyer like me it is said that governments are the most organized that relationship between mo

century, and are still being attacked by farmers miners in margaret big farming groups and the countries right, when leader said there should be a time limit for with the look of also not president valuable from the powerful farm lobby site. only those who are living on the land before the 1988 constitution was approved. have a right to turn them into protected reservations, but we say that's unconstitutional. many additional people were expelled violently from their homes. they should be able to return to their lands without fear for their lives. indigenous leader and the sound a little cool says she's had several death threats from people wanting to mine gold and her village does not in for me classical, mig i stood up to the men who threatened me because that's what we must do. we cannot give up our right jesse. if we do, the amazon rain forest will be destroyed and our people as well. we will continue to defend our right. protesters were hoping their case would be moved on earlier this week. regardless, the wednesday postponement was received with prayers and a peaceful walk back home. back at the camp activities continued throug

time. now for a quick break for all we come back. chinese margaret said in a roller coaster as the nation has ramped up its efforts to crash down on big stack . well, the latest developments net and as we go to break, here are the numbers at the close. me. i lose me. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk military mission again, stay will conclude on august 31st. i want to phone for who did a good, who would have thought the quote unquote a young girl. and i really need proof for my. you got to be a subtle company or something. you cut the cut over the day that i'm on the 7th. not to get a quote to ship a minute. this was the right weapon against the local. no, no, no bought it from but it was filled out through z o o z the, the signing of the us taliban agreement and laid the groundwork for the road ahead toward a lasting peace in afghanistan. and i know we s

times a week, they hit the st. visit wash of center's bus stations and margaret soliciting donations to help be the medical bills of children was cbs element was, conditions cannot be treated by local hospitals. the project is co founded by a former child soldier for fort jordan several years civil war is a condition that requires a minimum of $15000.00 united fit dollars in a country where the average income, you know, honest, very, very low, less than a $100.00 a lot of my colleagues was for less than $100.00. and so you can imagine if you have to raise a $150000000.00 in the union amount, which is $10000.00, it will require a very long time. he admits that raising trans for the children was hard and at personal cost for many volunteers. here his team is trying to re $16000.00 to fly out 9 year old janet coloma. janet is suffering from many gilmer, a slow growing tumor that threatening to cover her face and head. the child's mother is delighted, but how for her daughter could just be month away after so many years. good mother, good to go. although her siblings go to school, janet doesn't. we pulled her out becau

time allows. and now i turn it over to today's speakers. >> welcome margaret it's good to see you. >> thank you. so as a constitutional lawyer like me it is said that governments is the most organized of human activities. so that relationship is one of thet great strengths of this book. then need to make more for government organization and just to expand on that a bit. >> it's a pleasure to be here. i have various happy memories of the us historical society. i think we might have to argue a bit because war and government are intertwined. but what i mean not just of people but of resources and the control of those and the discipline the direction of large numbers of people takes tremendous organization and as you pointed out to be driven ahead the organization and then to acquire greater power the most successfully run wars so i have always thought it's very difficult of which comes first war or the high level of organize states? we are intertwined. >> that is excellent put in that iser persistent in peacetime to monetize resources and create structures but these do not disappear with the end of

wimbledon and says she needs more time to hail the 6 times when they're at flushing. meadows is just one that may just be too short of record. hold up. margaret courts and american golf is bryson to shambler and brooks kept that promise to be on their best behavior at next month. right across the state has been taking digs at each other throughout the season. they have a should u. s. captain, the sticker that their food won't affect the teams chemistry, whistling straight. and that is all your fault for me. thank you very much. jemma will that is it for me? need barker for this news hour, but i'll be back in a moment with more of the days news. stay with us here on out of the are i me me ah, ah ah, ah, they wanted 43000000 pounds worth of weaponry. that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. there was no hope of any more because there's always a small cobble people for really, really good lives. in athens, we in the united states have privatize the ultimate public function. war shadow on al jazeera to know where the fires are and where they are going. greeks look to the skies worrying, sign helicopters have been getting closer to major towns an

because the injury is not healed completely in time for flushing. meadows. 31040 next month is just one grand slam single title, short of record, hold it. margaret caught baton is running after williams to reach the mark. she has not won a major title since the australian opened back in 2017 when she beat us as the venus in the final. since then. she struggled with her health and fitness, suffering a pulmonary embolism after the birth of her daughter. as well as injuries to her ankle, shoulder and achilles tendon at wimbledon. earlier this year she fell hard twice and limped out of a 1st round match with that torn hamstring. but she's not the only big name who's missing from this use a tournament line up. roger federer who turned 40 earlier this month, as one of the ref on the dell are also both out through injury the last time none of these plays were in the draw was all the way back in 1997. meanwhile, former will number one and the murray has been knocked out of the last tournament before the u. s. ok, by american from to cfo at the winston salem open. murray, who was a wildcard for this event, has been battling injuries in the last few years

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margaret fuller. i didn't need to make anybody up. so i kind of let the work guide me each time.>> i love how comfortable you bothng are with being able to voice these legends. some people would be so intimidated. it's a very uncomfortable process was it intimidating at first or something that comes withid now i feel a lot of peope would be scared to even go? >> it's always intimidating. in writing america's first daughter, we had a deal with jefferson who people either love nor hate. you have to respect both of those feelings. hamilton is a founding father. you have to tread carefully. and lafayette is also in american founding father. so i did want to tread a little bit carefully although he was the most fun of the founding fathers. but then when you are dealing with someone who is more modern, i desperately want to please them into dealing with world war ii is even more harrowing because it is a recent history, and it's still w very emotional for so many people. i don't think i ever stop being scared. >> never. every book as a whole new world that you have to go into. with vir

times, the 1770's. what was happening here in north america, and also-- >> all right, margaret, i think we've got the point. anette gordon-reed? >> well, there were people who wanted to protect slavery in 1776. this comes through, i think, looking at constitution and the debate over the constitution, lays this out more clearly. you see south carolina and southern states who are adamant about coming to an arrangement that would protect the institution of slavery. 1776, the american revolution didn't get started in boston, it started in new england. and there were certainly people who were interested in protecting slavery. i think they wanted to, you know, they basically were trying at first to get a change in their r relations, the situation in great britain. great britain was not just picking on the 13 colonies. it was in the process of reforming the empire in general, not just in the united states, but in the caribbean and other places where they had holdings and it was american colonists were the ones who said we want to go. and i mean, the caribbean, people in the caribbean don't do it, they've got slav

time allows. i know it's my great pleasure to turn our virtual stage over too tonight speaker, thank you. >> thank you louisa welcome margaret lovely to see you. >> thank you. >> you say war is the most organized of human activities. constitutional lawyer like me might have said governance is the most organized human activities. that's because the relationship between war and the emergence of state is one of the great strengths of this wonderful book. you had ao need to make wars when the driver of every organization. i wish you just expand on that a bit. >> it's a pleasure to be here. i wish it was not virtual i have very happy memories are of the new york historical society part we may have to argue a bit the most organized of human activities because i think were in government are so closely intertwined. but what i mean by anything youe think about what is needed to make war, mobilization of not just people but resources. the control of the resources of the people to disciplining, the direction of often very large numbers of people seem to take tremendous organization. as you pointed out this is driven ahead or drove ahea

margaret cooler, i didn't need to make anybody up, it was so well documented so i let the work guide mees each time whenever it calls for. >> i love how comfortable you both are being able to voice these legends. i feel some people would be so intimidated, including me, he wrote so comfortably and so well, kindpe of need that bravey to write the way you do. i'm glad you're comfortable, is a very uncomfortable process. >> you have to make it look smooth so every bone in your body doesn't hurt. [laughter] >> wasn't intimidating at first? is a a something that comes with rest and now -- i feel like a lot of people would be scared to go there. >> it's always intimidating. i don't think it's less intimidating for me. writing america's first daughter, we had jefferson who people either loved or hate you have to respect those feelings. the same thing, hamilton is a founding father. you have to tread carefully and with lafayette, even though he's a frenchman, he's an american founding fathers cited want to try carefully although give too much difficulty and generally the most fun of the founding fathers bu

margaret fuller, i didn't need to make anybody up, it was so well documented so i let the work guide me into time> i love how comfortable you both are being able to voice these legends. i feel like some people would be so intimidated, including me, intimidated by that but you do it so comfortably and so well, you need that bravery to write the books the h way you do. >> i'm glad it looks comfortable, it's a very uncomfortable process. >> you have to make it look smooth, every bone in your body doesn't hurt. >> is this something that comes with rest that now you feel like -- i think a lot of people would be scared to even go there. >> i don't think it gets any less intimidating for me. writing america's first daughter, we had to deal with jefferson who people either love or hate and you have to respect those feelings in the same thing, hamilton is a founding father. tread carefully. with lafayette even though he's a a frenchman, he's also an american founding father so i did want to tread carefully although he didn't give me too much difficulty generally the most fun of the founding fathers but wh

bugger time has your deed. red up running on of runners done relies heavily on the supply line from bucket onto that relationship, which was improving in the early wrench. saw off the board, margaret on phase boilers, ordained spanner didn't do the work. started for deciding the buckets on the support for the dollar bond. despite the fact that focused on not supported the dollar bond and that dollar bond had gained debt on momentum bug, it sounded raging to see what happens. it keeps length read, all are gone. faction and it admitted quite clear that no matter who comes to rule and god, but whoever has the support of the people that focus on go along with dad focused on god's being stretching on. and i've gone late. i've gone over and solution to this problem. so it will be important to see what kind of relationship read level is, how many countries really recognize the dollar bond if they aren't able to succeed and getting control over the car. and that, of course, is going to be crucial because try not a dollar to indicated russia not pulling out the stop and up i guess i need really have to continue to was what no matter who didn't follow next door in call. but i can, i'll than

and other things, the times, the 1770s what was happening here t happening here in north america. >> host: margaret gordon reed? >> guest: the people who wanted to protect slavery i think looking at the constitution and that ratification of the constitution lays this out much more clearly. youol see south carolina and southern states who are adamant about coming to an arrangement that protect the institution of slavery. the american revolution really get started in boston and new england. there were certainly people interested in perfecting slavery they're basically trying at first to get a change in their relations, the situation and great britain. great britain was not just picking on the 13 colonies it was in the process of reforming the empire but in the caribbean and other places they have holdings. they are the ones that said we want to go. people in the caribbean don't do it they've got slavery down there but they also have a majority of black people in the caribbean. that is the reason they didha not want to go out for they were mixed motives. i don't think it was just about slavery. somers

was so restless emerson, thoreau, alcott, margaret fuller print i did not need to make anybody up was also well documented. i kind of let the work guide me each timeatever calls for. >> i love like just how comfortable you both are with being able to voice these legends. : : : >> it's always intimidating. i don't think it gets any less intimidating for me. in writing america's first daughter, we had to deal with jefferson, who people either love or hate, and you have to respect both feelings, and the same thing with hamilton. hamilton is a founding father. have to tread carefully and with lafayette, he is a frenchman, he is also an american founding father, and so i did want to tread also carefully but the didn't give be too much difficulty. the most fun of the founding fathers. but then when you're dealing with someone who is more modern, like beatrice chandler, who -- i talk with her family. i desperately want to please them. i want to write a story that makes them happy, and while also reflecting the truth, and dealing with figures in world war ii, it's even more harrowing because it's such recent history, and it's still very emotional for so m

. >> margaret, it kind of seems like now president biden's big win that he started the week out with is really in hindsight given everything that's going on. >> this is the big timeu're president, your honeymoon only lasts as long as the rest of the world and life allows it to. it is pretty stunning reversal of fortunes for biden. and i think now that what's happened is particularly in afghanistan is going to complicate that push for $3.5 trillion. i think it gives republicans an alternative narrative to say, why are we talking about this when this is what we should be talking about? i think that combined with the consumer confidence concerns, you know, inflation concerns, that it's just going to put real pressure on the $3.5 trillion part of the infrastructure push. >> yes. how serious are moderates here? are they actually going to tank this if they do not get their way here? >> time will tell. i think the big test will be when lawmakers return the week of august 23rd. that is when we expected a vote to happen on this budget resolution. nine moderates signed on. there are many more moderates who have concerns about the price tag, about the fact that they aren't

my name is margaret [inaudible] and i'm a merchant on the embarcadero? and i really don't want to waste any more of your time by repeating what everyone else has said, but i'm completely in agreement. i'm very, very bike friendly, and i'm thrilled that san francisco is becoming more bike friendly, but one lane doesn't work. one lane for cars on the embarcadero just doesn't work, so please reconsider, and i respectfully ask you to reject the proposal and study further. thank you for your time, thank you for what you're about to do and the project. it's very worthy, but we have to do it another way. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. jennifer, are there any other callers? >> clerk: president brandon, are there any other members of the public wishing to make public comment? [inaudible] >> president brandon: commissioner burton? you're on mute. >> commissioner burton: no comment. >> president brandon: okay. [inaudible] >> commissioner gilman: yes. could we have the m.t.a. top line please remind us why they're going to use a traffic study at broadway because this was a study to see what the impacts would

time to look at what's happening in our regions from across the uk. comments by the prime minister about the closure of coal mines by margaret thatcher have been condemned reports. margaret thatcher's decision to close 20 pits in 198a led to the year—long miners�* strike, causing bitter division in communities. nowhere more so than in nottinghamshire. closing mines had devastating economic consequences too. the way the prime minister made his comments has irked opponents. it's just not funny, is it? so many of our communities around here were absolutely devastated by the closure of the mines and it was nothing to do with the environment, as he suggests. it was about ideology, because we still burn coal locally and we could have invested money in greenjobs and green technology instead. the former nottinghamshire conservative mp anna soubry has said there is nothing funny about closing down pits, and asked what will it take for sensible tories to stand up to this "buffoon"? 0ther conservatives, though, say, didn't the prime minister have a point? because, they say, the dismantling of the domestic coal industry probably has hastened the ending of our relia