so much for your time time allow now senior political and economic analyst at oxford economics africa joining a staff from tatum human rights groups. and can you say at least a few people have been abducted since anti government protest started in june of last year? 29, remain missing despite the co ordering the government to reveal where they all come from. so it has moved from nairobi to the college brothers. and that beam and demille show us where they were abducted by on demand. would they be leave? were police officers the claim to a blindfolded street naked and tortured for $32.00 days a year to better? which every time that will open the case and the hardwood thing because i will be beaten. i'll think so. that will kill me. there were other people where i was like we have them screaming. so the duck house, painted black all over. with some dim lights on the tests have come. that was inside the else that kids like for adults, every cause our kids get put in a cage, a 100 costs on the floor. the price scoop said people who disappeared appear to be cut to nice social influences. 6

and he is now a senior advisor at oxford economics. thank you forjoining us.omes to the uk economy over the last three months. how much of a surprise were these latest inflation figures?— inflation figures? they were a little bit of — inflation figures? they were a little bit of a _ inflation figures? they were a little bit of a surprise, - little bit of a surprise, slightly lower than expected. you can hear the sighs of relief coming out of downing street, the bank of england and across financial markets as a whole. the previous couple of months inflation had been a little higher than the bank of england expected and that is fed a narrative that inflation might be sticky going forward and hence it would be less scope for interest rates to come down during the course of this year. now inflation is still a bit above the 2% target but is now higher than the bank of england had been expecting a few months ago. with the economy is sluggish i think they should leave them on track to cut interest rates gradually further. ~ ., to cut interest rates gradually further.

oxford economics estimates the total value of tiktok to its american users at 117 billion a year. >>ithout tiktok, we would not be doing what we are today. >> reporter: food critics of the vip list say they make six figures through their tiktoks. >> tiktok has such a broader audience than any other social media platform. >> it's the algorithm. it's so niche. it's where you can be fearlessly authentic. >> reporter: university of colorado professor and tiktoker casey. >> you can try to reconstitute a community on a different platform, but it's always not going to be exactly the same. >> reporter: and sources close to president-elect trump told cbs news today that he's considering a 90-day extension for tiktok's parent company to find a non-chinese buyer. but they say discussions behind the scenes continue. jericka. >> ali bauman for us in new york. thank you. >>> this weekend fire crews in southern california are taking advantage of easing winds to make steady progress against the massive fires that have ravaged for 11 days or raged rather. cbs elise preston is in the hard hit see of a

according to oxford economics, $24.2 billion in contribution to us gdp in 2023, $15 billion generated from small and medium sized businesses. a lot of small businesses using tiktok to drum up support and even online sales. 224,000 jobs supported by tiktok and $5.3 billion generated in taxes. i do want to note that these are stats that tiktok, even though it's from oxford economics, they've been pumping them as well. but look, at the end of the day, if tiktok goes dark, you're already seeing it online. users saying, hey, where am i going to take my content? and these are some of the apps that people have said they've been going to instagram reels, youtube shorts, as you can imagine. but some of these other apps, lemonade and also red note, red note, which is xiaohongshu in chinese. this is another chinese app, and lemonade shares an owner that's connected to bytedance. so this is kind of a part of the protest that we've seen from some tiktok users saying, you know what if the if the government here in the united states is concerned about me using a chinese app, i don't really care. i'm

oxford economics found that 57% of black owned, small and medium sized businesses say that access to tiktok is, quote, critical to their business existence. 47% of asian american and pacific islander smes, 44% of latin hispanic owned, 36% of white owned small and medium business owners. i mean, you've diversified, but for those who haven't, what does this mean for them? >> the economic impact of tiktok leaving is going to be felt. you know, it's a huge loss because you think about so many people and businesses got their start in tiktok. they were able to market, they were able to go ahead and actually bring their goods and their services to people in a way that they weren't able to with other apps. so just being able to see how this is now going to be taken away. i feel for the people who left their careers and went ahead and started, you know, their businesses in tiktok. i don't want to see anyone losing, you know, their money, their livelihood. but the ripple effect is going to be felt large, you know, large and wide. >> yeah. so for people who are not really on tiktok or they're o

oxford economics report last year estimated small medium business drove $15 billion in 2023 revenue inhe ability of those businesses to connect with their customers. now while they eventually find them on instagram or twitter x it would take time. with a new trump administration coming into power next week, there's no need to be half they. you have time andrew. >> okay. but, it's been a long time fair enough to say since the tiktok sale pressure started it's not like time is the issue. >> well,. >> on the other hand the government should shut down tiktok immediately. congress passed it the president signed it. they want to be the tough parent i am going to count to three and if you haven't picked an american buyer. so, it was back in august 2020 that the tiktok ban movement picked up steam. then president trump gave his its parent company 45 days to sell to an acceptable buyer a week later he gave them more time even though he said it posed national security concerns. then the biden administration came in and pulled back from the blanket ban. and congress over the past few months passe

studied philosophy at university, then earned a in philosophy, politics and economics as a marshall scholar at the university of oxford. after graduating from harvard law school, he clerked for supreme court justice goldberg. and during this time he also spent eight years in the united states army reserve, including active duty and the army's strategic intelligence intelligence division. and he received an honorable discharge in 1965 after serving two years in the department of justice's antitrust division, justice breyer joined the harvard law school faculty, where he was a renowned expert in administrative. during nearly 15 years on the harvard faculty, he returned to government service on three occasions as an assistant prosecutor on the watergate prosecution force, as special counsel to the senate judiciary committee subcommittee on administrative practice is and as chief counsel for the judiciary committee. in 1980, breyer was nominated by president jimmy carter to the united states court of appeals for the first circuit. he was the only judicial candidate that president carter nominated after losing the 1980 ele

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oxford university. welcome to you will fill out. it felt like a wild roller coaster at times of what sort of year was 2024 economically was a good, bad, perfectly average. well, you're absolutely right. it was the right. of course. the overall, the depends who you ask. but given that stocks were off overall, given the fact that inflation was falling, gross in general, especially in the us, was from the i would say that 2024 on balance was very, very good. and especially given some of the do politics that we sold over the course of the is the war against inflation. 12024 will be remembered by many people around the will. of course, for the high cost of living, we were all finding it a bit hard to, to, to meet a, you know, on our bills. are we likely to see for the interest rate cuts in 2025, a price is likely to, to, for, or at least not grow as quickly. well, personally, i don't think the inflation dragons has been slain while inflation has folding over the course of 2024. i think it will remain sticky over the course of 2025. not many central banks will continue to cut rates. and i do think that that's in some ways that being behind

economic growth is the number one issue. to deliver on our plan for change. today we announced our next steps. a new oxford-cambridge corridor, redeveloping old trafford, and supporting a runway at heathrow. we are supporting innovation and going further and faster to boost growth. mr. speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. i shall have further such meetings later today. >> mr. speaker, this pension increase by 470 pounds, and over the course of this parliament, 1900 pounds, benefiting millions of pensioners. does the prime minister agree that means testing the state pension would do severe harm, and will you confirm that this government will always protect the state pension and the triple log? p.m. starmer: let me be absolutely clear, mr. speaker. there will be no means testing of the state pension under this labor government. we are committed both to the triple block and the principle that people should receive pension based on the contribution, regardless of their wealth. his right to say 12 million pensioners receiving 470 pound increase in april. when people like

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well, according to a survey by oxford economics, nearly two thirds of those high net worth people, thosepeople, those high net worth individuals, are thinking about upping sticks because the government has changed its non—dom rules. and, you know, let's face it, the overall state of the economy at the moment is not helping, is it? so why does that really matter? because, well, these people at the top, the top earners actually contribute the most in tax receipts to the exchequer by a mile. so if they go, that leaves a huge hole in the treasury's pocket that has to be filled somehow means it comes from everyone else, everyone watching at home, everyone who can't jet off to monaco or switzerland or the uae. so i put this to the panel the uae. so i put this to the panel. guys, has the government botched this is the economy in a death spiral. i'm going to start with you, chi chi. i want you to rate rachel reeves performance as the chancellor of the exchequer out of ten. >> i'll rate the comms as one out of ten. okay, but actually, she's delivering on what labour were promising in the first pl

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economic growth. rachel reeves will also announce measures aimed at creating a european silicon valley by investing in a so—called growth corridor. improving transport links between oxfordd cambridge. theideais between oxford and cambridge. the idea is to boost life sciences and ai businesses, and the number of flights at heathrow, though, could rise to nearly 2000 per day. the announcement, alongside confirmation of the expansion of other london airports, is likely to be met with fierce opposition, including from within her own party. writing in the times today, sir keir starmer has pledged to cut through what he calls the thickets of red tape to clear the way for growth, and has compared his government's drive for growth to margaret thatcher's deregulation of the financial sector in the 1980s. meanwhile, the government is facing a growing cyber security threat, according to the public spending watchdog. the national audit office says the uk has a shortage of cyber skills and a dependence on old it systems, making us more vulnerable to attacks. earlier this week, china's new ai software deepseek triggered a plunge in us tech stocks as a direct competition to openai's c

oxford university. >> you are not allowed. conlon. >> you are not allowed. conlon. >> on my panel tonight is political consultant suzanne evans, the director of the centre for migration and economicsperity, steven wolf, and columnist and broadcaster jj anas sarwar. oh, and as storms batter britain, can you tell me what happens next in this clip? i bet you won't be able to. well, you won't be able to. well, you won't be able to. well, you won't be able to guess anyway. get ready britain, here we go. lock them up and throw away the key. next. >> very good evening. it's just gone. 9:00. your top story. storm ian is sweeping across the uk, bringing record breaking winds and severe weather conditions. i in 5 flights from airports in the uk and ireland have been cancelled today, and millions of people have been urged to stay home. forecasters have flagged a rare red weather warning and over 4 million people across northern ireland and scotland received emergency alerts from the met office last night, with guidance on how to stay safe. more than 240,000 homes and businesses are without power in northern ireland, and a wind speed of ii4mph brought by wind speed of114mph brought by the st