hi is that nigel fishers office? hi there, i'm trying to get through to nigel fisher's office, there doesn't seem to be anybody answering the phone now. >> but it was proving difficult to get hold of him. >> hello, there's still no answer from nigel fisher's office. it doesn't look like it's going to happen. ok well, i guess we'll just do what we can to try and catch up with him. but just as we were about to give up... >> this is nigel fisher, this is the man we've been trying to find all afternoon. it seems he's finally turned up, so we'll see if he's actually going to answer our questions. >> you remember me? sebastian from al jazeera? >> yes, of course, you're very determined! >> nice to see you. sorry to keep, uh... >> that's alright. it's just that it's a horrible day. how long do you need? >> i mean we really needed as much time as possible but it's been kind of difficult to try to get that. can we ask you some questions now? >> sure, sure let me dump this stuff. >> the one thing we've found difficult to talk t

david: nigel, what about consumers?me great reports just moments ago, earnings from microsoft saying demand was increasing. do you see demand increasing, decreasing, staying the same, what? >> i think the consumer has been in a reasonably strong place this year. when you think what happened this year, we had sequester, tax increases, whole debacle the other week about debt ceiling, the consumer has done pretty well. unemployment is steadily going down. we had a little blip with the numbers yesterday but it is steadily going down. what we need is a solution in the washington. we need to stop the stop-go approach we're seeing. i think if we had consistency and a plan for the future which both parties could agree to, you could see the consumer really moving to a very positive mode. and i think that will be great for the u.s. economy. david: well if it was run like a business that probably would happen. unfortunately it is not being run like a business. nigel travis, wonderful to see you. congrats on the earnings. that is t

a bit weaker, down 1.5%. >> let's break down the numbers with the man in charge at dunkin brands, nigel travis. good to have you with us. thanks for the doughnuts and coffee you sent over. what's the hotter item here in the u.s.? is it the coffee or the doughnuts? are either of them hot enough to help you double your store count as i read you intend to over the next few years? >> well, tyler, it's great to be back. and what i would say is it's really down to three things. it's our coffee, and that's not only our hot coffee, but it's our iced coffee as well. our flavored coffee did very well in the quarter. it's doughnuts. we had a great quarter on doughnuts. the thing that most people miss is the middle part. which is our sandwiches. our sandwiches really boomed. both our breakfast sandwiches in the morning, our afternoon sandwiches did really well. and our whole approach to giving you a beverage and food meeting our snacking and breakfast day parts i think was a huge success. >> so are you seeing the consumer spend up these days, nigel? i mean, before we start offering, you know, sort

neil: thin nigel no one is havig anything taken away at this point. reduced. but nothing that strips the stamps from them. let's say, if i had 75-dollars with a food stamps and $70. they are expecting riots over this, should they be? >> well, you know, i don't know they should expect riots this cycle. but if we do not radically change our economy and revamp our economy, so that those 50 million people, nearly 50 million people, are -- have an opportunity to be liberated from food stamps, forget 75 versus $ 70 versus $65, they need economic opportunity and a good job. so they can put food -- their own table. neil, the slaves had food stamps too, it was called scraps from master's table. when you have the three states on west coast on food stamps it the real outrage. neil: about a hundred million morning get some sort of food assistance. i am not begrudging the fact that some genuinely need it, but it is so out of control now, if we keep going at this pace, everyone will be on. that begs the question we have become such a entitlement society or a entitlement exp

and yet as you go through the book you go oh, right, the original show was hosted by a puppet named nigel. >> right. and he called it section violet. >> by few gel that doesn't sound right at all. that didn't really work. >> that didn't really work. >> it took him, that was a really study in stick to itiveness. there aren't a lot of people who would put out a pilot v it fail, and another and it took take hold and does it again and it feenlly catches on. >> and the strange thing is how it much cass on. you know, "saturday night live" which is this incredible counterculture and explosive, satirical new way of looking at things, i mean really created a whole different genre of television and then here is this guy with his puppets. >> yeah, he's on there. and john bell you werei calls them the mucking fup ets, they hated sharing air time ts with a bad dna of the muppet and snl mentality. it turned out okay. the muppet came along the first season and they could wave good-bye nicely. but the team did send a postcard back from london and say whatever happened to the mucking fupet, here we are, b

mentioned labor what about twenty times i think all men are bad but no mention whatsoever of your nigel farage clearly is still doesn't take you keep seriously why should he. well because well the thing into their votes and quite frankly we will cost the conservatives a huge amount of seats in two thousand and fifteen hopefully we're going to go on you know political commentators suggest that we'll go on and win the european elections next year and maybe get somewhere in the region of hundreds of councillors elected on the same day if it was david cameron i'd be very worried the reason why you as a mentioned is because he wants to pretend that we don't exist and quite frankly we're on the verge of creating a. british politics next year. great to talk to here and r.t. thanks so much your time live from brussels that's paul not all the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party and also thanks. well now we're going to remind you of all breaking news story this hour here in r.t. armed militants have attempted to break into the russian embassy in the capital of libya reports a gun and gre

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. >> nigel evans. >> prime minister, with the disappearance of the minimum practice income guarantee, many doctors surgeries serving remote rural areas like the one in my constituency faced death by one guy. this are a lot of elderly residents and, indeed, a number of children who don't have access to great public care, transport to go into neighboring areas. will investigate this issue and ensure that my constituents will not be isolated and less they will continue to receive the excellent services they do from their doctor a surgery? >> i will look carefully of the case that he makes. i represent a large role constituency whether are still small practices. i think it is the case many more doctors surgeries are offering many more services with practice nurses and other assistance given to patients and we want to see a growth of that, not least make sure people can go to gp surgeries rather than emergency units if it's a gp they need but i will look at the specific point that he makes. >> mr. ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, i join the prime minister and send my condolences to

we are also having the ceo later on the fox business channel "after the bell," nigel travis will be on they continue to expand their offerings to their customers and baskin-robbins is also under their umbrella and both chains have seen growth. cheryl: thank you very much. dennis: what is bugging me is the detroit bankruptcy. an american tragedy, a great old city devastated by decades of decline in manufacturing but before it also is a self-inflicteds involving selfish and shortsighted politicians and people who want to sacrifice from everyone but themselves. they troy those $8 billion in obligations it can't pay but one city-owned property owns more than $10 billion in precious assets that can be sold, assets that are held in storage and rarely ever gets seen. the default institute of art evans masterpieces by van gogh, diego rivera, displays 350 works at any one time but its collection spans 66,000 pieces worth $10 billion or more but city leaders refuse to sell any of it. museum director telling the new york times, quote, i would do anything i could for pension holders and their prob