this is oxford street in london and much quieter than it should be. you rely on footfall for sales. this was the first floor at marble arch this lunchtime, one of the key london stores for marks & spencer and today the company said there had been a material shift in trade and it had to act. these new figures show the challenge. in the two months since reopening, clothing and home sales at its stores down 48% compared to last year but online sales up 39%. this pandemic has driven a rapid change in shopping habits. with more people buying online, fewer workers are needed in stores. marks & spencers was already making big changes before the pandemic and they have been speeding up those changes now. today, 7,000 jobs to go today, the biggest cuts this retailer has ever made. awful news for the people involved but i'm afraid rather inevitable as shops like this are expensive to run, the cost does not go down if fewer people turn up to shop and that is what is happening. sooner or later you have to align your cost with revenue and that is what m&s is doing

percent of pavements in london have chilling gum stuck on with $300000.00 pieces estimated to be on oxford street and. it's up to a small army of workers to clear the one. i'm 70 miles southwest of london in winchester to find out what damage can do. and how you councillor john warneke is in charge of keeping the city streets clean. how much of a problem is common with just they estimate that every year councils in britain are spending more than 60000000 pounds a year just clearing up the will to say take me back over actually that's a huge figure and a war that could be put to well than just being spanked collecting all the waste off the full. of course is really only one way to get a true flavor of the gum problem on our streets. thank you very much council operations manager darren know it is often. show me the right. back yeah i'm going to wrangle me right i see that right that way yeah you do what you want to yeah yeah it's very much like. the coming out to. be quite satisfying job to be honest but. children such tough loss of respect for the guys doing so it's hard to. know. what it's come

percent of pavements in london have chilling gum stuck on with $300000.00 pieces estimated to be on oxford street and. it's up to a small army of workers to clear the one. i'm 70 miles southwest of london in winchester to find out what damage can do. and how do you counsel john warneke is in charge of keeping the city streets clean. how much of a problem is common when just they estimate that every year councils in britain are spending more than 60000000 pounds a year just clearing up the will to say take me back over actually that's a huge figure and i want. to well than just being spanked collecting all the waste off the full. of course is really only one way to get a true flavor of the gum problem on our streets. thanks very much counts to operations manager darren know it is often. show me the right. yeah i'm going to wrangle me right i see that right that way yeah you do what you want to yeah yeah it's very much like. the coming out to. be quite satisfying job to be honest but. children such tough loss of respect for the guys doing so it's hard to. know. what it's come is for me it usually e

this is oxford street in london and much quieter than it should be.sales. this was the first floor at marble arch this lunchtime, one of the key london stores for marks & spencer and today the company said there had been a material shift in trade and it had to act. these new figures show the challenge. in the two months since reopening, clothing and home sales at its stores down 48% compared to last year but online sales up 39%. this pandemic has driven a rapid change in shopping habits. with more people buying online, fewer workers are needed in stores. marks & spencers was already making big changes before the pandemic and they have been speeding up those changes now. today, 7,000 jobs to go today, the biggest cuts this retailer has ever made. awful news for the people involved but i'm afraid rather inevitable as shops like this are expensive to run, the cost does not go down if fewer people turn up to shop and that is what is happening. sooner or later you have to align your cost with revenue and that is what m&s is doing today. they're not the onl

and we usually go through big streets like oxford street or trafalgar square so a lot of people can see and hear us. and another thing that we have done is use social media to push the message and not stop, so that everyone can see that we are still fighting and we haven't kept quiet about it. >> i want to ask you, you know, here in the u.s., since the death of george floyd, we're now embroiled in more protests after yet another black man was shot by police from behind. we're now seeing, you know, these violent clashes between black lives matter protesters and pro trump activists. the country seems more divided. how different is the dynamic there where you are? >> yeah. i do agree that that has happened in the uk as well. i think that i have seen a lot more racism than i've ever seen before, ever since our protests have begun and i think that there have been some anti-blm protests happening all over the uk. i think the divide has been create created and expanded a lot more. >> but i'm curious, has it just revealed sort of the cracks that were already there, or do you think it actually w

they're reporting the vaccine being developed by oxford and astrazeneca is the front runner for possible approval. outside of the pandemic, the wall street journal reporting it was facebook's zuckerberg that stoked fears about tick to be. the chinese owned company does not share facebook's commitment to freedom of expression and represents the risk to technological supremacy. interesting move if true >> let's get down to this. stocks rallied on the close. the s&p 500 ended at another record high. the index posting it's 4th straight week of gains but keep this in mind, the breath of the market, how many stocks are going up versus how many are going down has grown more narrow and more negative as of late in fact, despite the macroheadlines, 70% of the s&p 500 actually declined last week. but does it matter we'll talk more about this and more with the chief market strategist victoria, good to see you on this monday. it is a good question. the headlines say the markets are going up most stocks are actually going down in the last few sessions. what do you make of it >> it's as you mentioned earlier. we have this hand full of stocks driving th

certainly in downing street, such a loathing of continuous assessment and teachers views that they brought in this algorithm and we can see what it has done. what is interesting though, four oxford cambridge is going to go the same way, feel that the only immoral thing they can do is to go by the predicted results and they will take these people is. —— the only immoral thing. other universities are going to do this, but there will still be lots and lots of pupils who predicted... the gap is enormous, and as ever, the privately educated come out on top. this may turn out to be the biggest mistake gavin williamson ever made. you cannot palm it on to quual, like public health england is now being blamed for the failures of covid—i9. they have got to get a grip. 0k, for the failures of covid—i9. they have got to get a grip. ok, so they are talking of a u—turn —— talk of a u—turn, to return to the front page of the daily mail, the? of what is going to happen on thursday. yes, this is the gcses, looking at whether it would make sense to delay gcse results so they can look again at the algorithm and get ahead of these problems rather than, as they have shown this weekend, with guidance

oxford economics warns that biden's 2 trillion-dollar infrastructure plan could further weaken already weak lues dollar. even a wall street market rally will end if biden wins. i want to bring in don luskin. it is good to see the articles, so we start to get some numbers, flesh out the impact of some of their proposals. where is your thinking on this right now, about joe biden and impact to the economy and the stock market? >> well those estimates you just gave are wildly optimistic. you know, sure, raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% that would take five 1/2, 6% off s&p 500 earnings that isn't all biden wants to do with the corporate tax code. he wants to make it harder for companies to do business outside of the united states to pay lower foreign tax rates. he wants to take away the in kind exchange privilege for real estate transactions f the lockdowns for covid haven't already destroyed the office building market in the united states, try taking away in kind exchanges. there won't be anything left. he wants to put taxes on companies like amazon. brilliant. take one thing that is working in this economy and

so it's sort of write up my street and i thought it would be too good an opportunity to miss, so i'm moving over there for a few years. c-span: user at oxfordget your masters or doctorate? >> guest: i get a two-year degree first with politics, political science and then back to history. that is my field and then i get a doctorate in the british in india. c-span: oxford has how many colleges? >> guest: 43 i think. i should know this but i think it's 43. brian macklin is the biggest? >> guest: at it new college which is one of the oldest. c-span: is saint anthony's one of the smallest? >> guest: it is graduate which makes it different from the others. brian macklin d. to start? >> guest: end of june. c-span: will you be able to teach and write? >> guest: i hope so. i hope that they will likely do a bit of teaching which i would love to do and i do want to keep writing. i like writing and i have a few projects in mind so i'm going to keep going. c-span: back to this book on "nixon and mao." what is the first moment that you could remember this was even a book or article? >> guest: my progress both the publishers didn't expect it to do as well

harrison from oxford university he specializes in far tarion regimes social movements and social media he joins us over skype from london and so today we saw people taking to the streets in massive numbers does it mark a turning point. in is there any why were they feeling but emboldened enough to to to mobilize it on this scale well indeed it seems to be a turning point it seems to be that this country has changed and there is no way back and the people changed and they definitely demands are what are those kids in mind there is ignition of a new election. and clearly at least 3 percent of the whole population has joined him on the protests across the country in at least $22.00 locations that was perhaps the largest ever process of this movement indeed. of course outwardly president lukashenko is defiant he says the opposition are traitors he says that foreign interference is to blame for this on rest but privately does he acknowledged that it might be very difficult now for him to to restore the control that he once had. a year perhaps perhaps kubica guys the some changes his position but it doesn't look he's going to step back at the moment. you know the really hug

this is oxford street in london and much quieter than it should be.sales. this was the first floor at marble arch this lunchtime, one of m&s‘ key london stores for marks & spencer and today the company said there had been a material shift in trade and it had to act. these new figures show the challenge. in the two months since reopening, clothing and home sales at its stores down 40% compared to last year but online sales up 39%. this pandemic has driven a rapid change in shopping habits. with more people buying online fewer workers are needed in stores. marks & spencers was already making big changes before the pandemic and they have been speeding up those changes now. 7000 jobs to go today, the biggest cuts this retailer has ever made. awful news for the people involved but i'm afraid rather inevitable as shops like this are expensive to run, the cost don't go down if fewer people turn up to shop and that is what is happening. sooner or later you have to align your cost with revenue and that is what m&s is doing today. they're not the only ones? the