rajan obviously itching for a rematch there in mongolia, back in 2015.n this week's look—back: christa braves the waves as she goes wild—swimming off the scottish coast. and i have trouble picking up the rules when i try my hand at a traditional street game over in new york. let go of the bat! laughs. now, one of the best things about working on the travel show is that you sometimes get to do some of the craziest things in the most unexpected places. that's one of the things i really, really miss at the moment, and this next one is definitely filed under that category. in 2018 mike travelled to kazakhstan to get cleansed by local shaman, as you do, before trying a spot of snowboarding on sand. i was so jealous he got to do that one. the dune stretches for 3km and reaches a height of 150 metres and, let me tell you, it might look placid from a distance, but it is an entirely other story once you're up there. it's a little bit windy today, but we're on the singing sands. and i guess that's always how it is here. for myself, i have gone snowboarding before.

amol rajan, bbc news. sit for a moment on a park bench. well, one man's made himself a viral sensation — doing just that. from parks to high streets, sam wilmot has rated over 200 of them. it started as a bit ofjoke, but now it's become a hit around the world. i started it as something that's just a bit of fun for friends, and over the last sort of 18 months it hasjust become more popular. all the benches are marked out of ten, the final one's ones for a wow factor, but i give sort of up to three marks for the location. there is one mark for armrest, one for curvature in the seat, one for a decent back support. and then obviously the tenth mark is sort ofjust a wow, and something i really enjoy. i remember one time, newport train station, i asked a chap just to take a photo and he had laughed about it, he said his friend reviewed hand driers and it wasn't the weirdest sort of request he had had. there's a bench that looks out across my home town, but as, sort of strictly speaking bench terms go, that is de

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must make time, we will have sportsday for you, but first here on bbc news, the media show‘s amol rajano the editor of the daily mirror, alison phillips. hello. my guest today is one of the most influentialjournalists in the country. alison phillips has been the editor of the daily mirror since 2018. the last time we spoke, you were just the editor of the mirror. since then your remit has broadened, for which congratulations. you're now editor in chief of the daily mirror, the sunday mirror and the sunday people. just tell us what it like running a seven day operation at the moment? it is really exciting, it has been an incredible year for news and i think what has been most interesting is seeing how much readers have come back to news. i think there is always that slight concern in journalism that one day you are going to run out of stories or one day there will be nothing that people want to read and there has been so much doom and gloom, i think, across the industry over recent years about people turning away from news for a whole host of reasons, but this year with the pandemic we h

amol rajan, bbc news.eight — when he was taken to the islamic state stronghold of raqqa, in syria, by his mother and stepfather. he's spoken for the first time about his ordeal, to bbc panorama and front line pbs. film—maker, josh baker, has this report. it's been two years since matthew, who is now 13, was rescued from war—torn syria. he's had counselling and support and is now living back in america with his dad, juan. the first time i saw my dad, i was happy, very happy. did you ever imagine, after all the time, that you'd be back here? no. i'll be honest, i never did. matthew was taken to raqqa in 2015 by his mother, samantha sally and stepfather moussa elhassani. what's it like seeing isis around you ? it's like thinking of someone that basically has your life in their grasp. say one wrong thing, and they could easilyjust kill you. in the summer of 2017, as a us—led coalition attack to raqqa, the terror group used matthew to deliver a message of defiance. this battle is not going to end in raqqa or mo

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our media editor, amal rajan, has more.ve lockdown. but are furloughed and kept on payroll. supplies of facemasks for key health workers could be put at risk. adults who are living alone will be able to mix in their support bubble. language evolves but this year it's grown and changed faster than ever. that's why, for the first time, oxford languages are publishing words of the year — plural — rather than a single word of the year. the main driver of change is the pandemic, of course. words like furlough, staycation and coronavirus are all among the words of the year. usage of the words "remote" and "remotely" are both up by more than 300% since march. and covid is a new word for 2020. the other big reason is that this is the "too much information" age. i know nothing about qanon. with social media spouting words every second of every day, particular words spread and gain currency faster than ever, though, intriguingly, usage of the word brexit is down by 80%. i think the words, really, that have had the most impact have to

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amol rajan, bbc news. we are talking about that later. susie dent will be here.story you might have seen on breakfast yesterday. it's about a nine—year—old boy, freddie, who is running a mile and a quarter every day until christmas. he's doing it to show support for his friend, hughie, who is being treated for leukaemia. here's freddie putting in the miles. look at him! go on! he set out to raise £1,000, and he has already smashed the £10,000 mark. hughie told breakfast how he'd liked to use some the funds to help royal manchester children's hospital, where he's being treated. i wanted to improve the healthiness of the food, so to get fresh fruit up of the food, so to get fresh fruit up on the ward. and upstairs there is like a playground area, an outside playground area. so in six weeks that was where i could get my only bit of fresh air. so i wanted to improve up their bid. —— mike a bit. so many people have been charmed by this tale, including the footballerjames tarkowski. he plays for burnley, the club which both hughie and freddie support. do you know what

that is thereto was a lot of concern from raghuram rajan and others about emerging market debt.is growing concern what this pandemic in the end is going to do to private and public balance sheets in emerging markets. but for advanced economies, they do not think that is a priority. the international monetary fund seems to agree. i look at where we are in central banking and there is so many ways to go. let me give you an open question, what is your outcome for the linkage of fiscal and monetary policy for 2021? is different,tion but what is the view of how central bankers, as the adults in the room, direct fiscal policy? linkage is pretty clear when you just do the numbers. we had economists look at the amount of extra borrowing you have had by governments this year is the result of the pandemic. compare that with what their central banks have done in terms of expanding their balance sheet, quantitative easing. the numbers are similar. every banks as they had their own reasons for doing this, we helping to all of that extra borrowing. that is what you are going to see going forw

underlying theories we will see in the new economy. ,hat panel today, janet yellen lord king and robin rajanentralhe bank. this is bloomberg. ♪ oomberg. ♪ francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance." the focus firmly on how leaders around the world are leading and dealing with coronavirus. belgium's prime minister says intensive care units are pushed past their limits. alexander the crew also told us he believes coronavirus restrictions will be in place for a long time. they spoke at the european business summit in brussels. -- going in a good direction which is the number of confirmed cases we have seen over the last week, the number is going down. which is a good thing. on the other cycle movie see that in our intensive care units, the pressure is still very high. cope with thee to fact that we have many people in hospitals. we have always had a high quality health care system, but it is being pushed to the limits. we are here again showing that while there is a strong link between a strong, healthy and resilient economy and the health care system that is strong. >> at a paris conference, y

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amol rajan, bbc news.ingle conclusion but this year totally impossible, collins dictionary has chosen lockdown, which i understand, the graph of that in usage will have spiked dramatically but there was so much more to the picture. i‘m with oxford, actually. if i had to choose a single one it could almost be 2020 itself because, you know, it is so 2020 has become an automatic refrain for anything that is crazy or ludicrous, or even tragic, because we have never experienced this before. i think unprecedented was another one everyone thought was a slam dunk earlier in the year because it was the word on everyone‘s lips but even that didn‘t seem to do enough justice to the year. coronavirus, covid, bubble, staycation, that‘s why they‘ve had to come up with this list. yes, and in fact, you said 16 or 17 there, but they have done a really fascinating and quite in—depth report which contains many, many more. there is very little light there, unfortunately. normally on our word of the year releases we will see so

our media editor amol rajan has more.r than a single word of the year. the main driver of change is the pandemic, of course. words like furlough, staycation and coronavirus are all among the words of the year. usage of the words "remote" and "remotely" are both up by more than 300% since march. and covid is a new word for 2020. the other big reason is that this is the "too much information" age. i know nothing about qanon. with social media spouting words every second of every day, particular words spread and gain currency faster than ever. though, intriguingly, usage of the word brexit is down by 80%. i think the words, really, that have had the most impact have to probably be, for everybody, the covid—type words, as we are calling them. so either things to do with the pandemic itself and the disease and treatment, or also the ways that we have had to adapt to life. and fascinating for me, certainly, is that these words have gone almost... we probably didn't think we ever used these words before and, suddenly, almost eve