but you look, we had 32,000 acres under in somerset. and there's acres under in somerset.of that land? when the water went, we had wildlife bodies all over the place. and it's so upsetting to see, by not maintaining and dredging 1% of the area which would be the river, you actually james, forgive me, there's a slight delay on the line but that point you raise about the animals bodies afterwards, many people wouldn't even think about that, thanks so much for speaking to us today and explaining that. we can speak to louise hague, she willjoin us in a moment and the former leader of the green party natalie bennett still with us. ranks were staying. am i right in thinking you went to parts of sheffield yesterday?” right in thinking you went to parts of sheffield yesterday? i live in sheffield. i have to say sorry to the people of doncaster because there is a very strong local feeling which is probably correct, flood defences built in sheffield after the 2007 floods pushed water towards doncaster. fishlake was sacrificed to save sheffield? i think what's happening is we have to

somerset will start next season on minus 12 points, while12 points are suspended for two years.obart hurricanes player emily smith will miss the rest of the woemn‘s big bash, she's been suspended for three months for breaching cricket australia's anti—corruption code — she posted a team line up on social media before it was officially released. australia captain tim paine says england all—rounder ben stokes is using david warner to sell his new book. stokes wrote that warner's sledging inspired his match—winning innings in the third ashes test at headingley. and alex marquez will be joining his older brother marc at the repsol honda team next season, replacing jorge lorenzo, who's retired. alex won this year's moto2 championship, while marc clinched his sixth motogp crown. on to tennis with the new look davis cup under way in madrid. rather than the old format of home and away ties through the year, there are i8—nations competing in six groups with the final on sunday, belgium got off to a flying start wining both their singles matches to win their opening tie against colombia.

that was lj, tweeting furiously from somerset house.remember that venice was hit with severe flooding, and we have got similar weather conditions on the way for today. later on, around midday, we will see the high water coming in around 1.6 metres above normal, that makes it one of the highest of the last 90—odd years — perhaps not quite as high as it was on tuesday, but it will still be widespread, big flooding in the city. those flooding conditions are caused by an area of low pressure in the mediterranean, drawing up these strong winds, pushing a bulge of water from the adriatic. there will be some thunderstorms as well fairly widely in italy. that low pressure will get close to us as we will see injust a moment. for the time being over the next few hours, where we have clear spells, we are seeing things turn pretty frosty, particularly in scotland, the odd patch across parts of southern england as well. so for some, a chilly start of the day on sunday. for others, a cloudy start, with fairly persistent but mainly light outbreaks of

that was lj tweeting furiously from somerset house.u do want to get hold of us any time during the week, don't forget we live on social media on facebook, youtube, instagram and twitter. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. hello there. sunshine developing a bit more widely again across parts of scotland and northern ireland, particularly in the west through this afternoon. lots of you, though, sitting under grey skies for the rest of the day, particularly grey through parts of northern england, wales, towards the far south—west. here's where we will see outbreaks of rain or drizzle continue. some showers working eastwards across scotland, and like yesterday, fairly bright towards east anglia and the south east with just a few showers through the english channel, but a chilly day for all. now, as we go through into tonight, clearer skies for scotland, northern ireland, edging a little bit further south, but we're likely to see a widespread frost develop. scotland and northern ireland, though, coldest of all, shown by the blue

that was lj, tweeting furiously from somerset house. weather of the autumn so far but since then things have been turning a little bit milder. most places yesterday had a dry day with a little bit of sunshine coming through. we will see the temperatures continuing to rise a little bit day and night but it is turning milder because the warmer weather is more unsettled with more rain in the forecast. most of the rain today will be near the area of low pressure that has been with us for a while, sitting to the south—west. that is we will see most of the rain. few showers coming in off the north sea threatening towards the north—east of scotland and we have a few showers to come across northern ireland. they should fade away, getting blown away by brisk south—easterly winds. a grey day for the midlands, towards the south—east of england, feeling chilly in the breeze, sunshine further north but the rain will be in the south—west and south wales and this is where we will find the highest temperatures, perhaps double figures. the rain can be h

that was lj tweeting furiously from somerset house.want to get hold of us any time during the week don't forget we live on social media on facebook, youtube, instagram and twitter. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. hello, there, it's been rather cloudy across much of the country today. we've seen some glimmers of sunshine here and there, but as we head through this evening and overnight, we'll hold on to a lot of cloud, this weather front bringing increasing showers, clouds in scotland and northern ireland. so not quite as cold here as it was the previous night. this weak weather front bringing patchy rain to central, northern england and wales and the far south west. where you hold on to the cloud, temperatures no lower than 3 to 6 degrees. sunday, a similar sort of picture and we still have this weather front across parts of northern england and wales and you could see a few heavier bursts of rain across the north—east, quite wet through the day. glimmers of brightness across the midlands and the south and some widespread

that was lj, tweeting furiously from somerset house.or this week, but if you want to get hold of us any time of the week, don't forget we live on social media, on facebook, youtube, instagram and twitter. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. hello. there is a bit more rain in the forecast for this weekend, but hopefully not as much as we had through the week or indeed, as much as we have had through the autumn so far. it looks like some places may well break records, so far this autumn sheffield have recorded over a00 millimetres of rain, just shy of the previous autumn record. provisional figures suggest that nottingham, with sas millimetres of rain mayjust have beaten the previous autumn record rainfall. there is more of autumn to come of course and some showery rain in the forecast for this weekend, but also some spells of sunshine. it's quite a complex weather pattern. low pressure over the near continent, a frontal system putting in from the west, the two staging something of a pincer movement, bringing areas of cloud and

that was lj tweeting furiously from somerset house.live on social media on facebook, youtube, instagram and twitter. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. for many of you a welcome window of dry weather on the way for the start of next week at least. we certainly need it when you consider scenes like these, place across part of england and wales. already broken its banks. a number of flood warnings in force. the heaviest rain is associated has drifted southwards. a weather front decaying across northern england and wales. further patchy rain and drizzle. if you showers in cornwall, east of scotla nd you showers in cornwall, east of scotland and the west of scotland and northern ireland after where we had afine, and northern ireland after where we had a fine, bright and frosty start. much of central and southern england, dry went with us. sunny spells. out to the west and north of wales outbreaks of rain. fairly cloudy in northern england. heavy burst down the coastal strip of eastern scotland. some showers in northern ireland a

roland emmerich starts with the story we all know the somerset of 1941 the japanese attack on pearl harbor. the greatest military defeat in u.s. history and the trigger the broader merica into world war 2 intelligence failures. then he tells a story few people know the build up and battle between the u.s. and japan at the pacific island of midway just 6 months later a fight many historians say decided the war and a story largely forgotten even in hollywood. brings his full arsenal of special effects to recreate the epic scope of the battle in which $300.00 americans annually $4000.00 japanese lost their lives to the receiver. it took the german director who's lived in hollywood for decades more than 20 years to bring midway to the screen the director of science 5 lock busters like independence day and the day after to morrow new this time he'd have to get his facts right. midway incredibly well documented battles film and endless books about it and we'll i kind of didn't invent anything but just try to tell the story as good as we can. highlight woody harrelson as gruff admiral chester nim

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and is similar incident in somerset where he said to stay there until new year's day.st of my brexit cast. we have seen them on the airwaves all over the place, our media editor who joins us from the balcony. hello. all the stock my brakes is making me feel very old. i think we have found the one outlet on bbc you have not on before. the thing is, you have been scouring the entire internet. you know the happy days we could follow campaign literature and pamphlets and that was when the election was. i was nice. mostly it happens online nowadays there is a huge amount of action online, the virus of the gets shared by lots of people, some of the true and some not in there the advertisements, the party and other countries have worked out the advertisement billboards and newspapers are slow and expensive so there's a huge amount of activity with ads in terms of viral content and e—mails and it is keeping people very busy. have you got some exhibits to show us? some arguable ones. discussed a bit ofa some arguable ones. discussed a bit of a stir this week. the first i wa nte

nick and louise goldsmith bought this piece of woodland in somerset seven years ago, while nick was servingve him somewhere to go between deployments fighting in afghanistan. so this land came up and we had to manage it, and we worked quite hard managing it for quite some time. and then it kind ofjust developed quite organically, really. they realised that what worked for nick could also help others — a weekend in the woods learning bushcraft. chilling out down here and trying to retain what was left of my marbles between tours. you know, eventually, when it was time to leave the armed forces, and i was told you're medically discharged, this is the end of your career. you feel like you're living again, you know, from having felt like you're standing still and numb. helen barnett was the first female armed response officer in the metropolitan police. during her career, she was stabbed, shot, and blown up — traumas she's been dealing with for 30 years. all of us here, to have done what we did at the careers we've followed, we were tough, robust individuals. and look how, you know, we've been

campaign was over and i wonder if jacob rees—mogg might have a similar thing in terms of going back to somersets day. we have a special guestjoin us for the first time on brexitcast, although we have seen him on the airwaves, it is our media editor amol rajan. you have spent this week spanning the entire internet. i seem to spend my life doing it. rememberthe the entire internet. i seem to spend my life doing it. remember the days when you could follow campaign literature and pamphlets in the by—election and that was what the election was? mostly it happens online nowadays and there is a huge amount of activity online. both the viral stuff that gets shared, some of it during some not, lots of party ads. they've worked out that advertising off—line is slow and you can target people better online. a lot of activity in terms of ads, viral content, e—mails, and it is keeping us and everybody here at the bbc very very busy. have you got as any exhibits shows? some arguable ones. this caused a bit of a stair this week, the first one is a campaign video put out by the conservative party from their off

the prime minister visited a school in somerset this morning as his party's commitment to reduce theive and work in the uk became the focus of the election campaign. beyond the promise to bring down net migration is little if any detail by how much and when. we will have an australian style points based system that will allow us to control who comes in and make sure we do not have so many people coming in without skills or jobs have so many people coming in without skills orjobs to come to, that we therefore protect wages, we increase wages, and we also make sure, this is a crucial point, that companies in this country, business in this country, invests in the skills of young people growing up in this country. the tories' first promised to cut migration in the 2010 election and again in 2015 and again in 2017 but they never achieved that aim so don't expect them to set a similar target now. reducing immigration means reversing a trend, the most recent figures show net migration from eu countries was 59,000 but from the rest of the world it was 219,000. ending freedom of movement from

volume from somerset is one presiding officers and accounting assessments get paid? yeah, they do.of staff are needed to counter the vote and run politician. it will be getting 20 now so politician. it will be getting 20 now so they know what to do. as my vote is secret? the returning officer marks my foot and then slaps a number on the electrical loads, there are far connecting both. yes, you can have confidence at a secret. that is really to safeguard against fraud, but dealers are packaged up separate from the ballot papers, ke pt separate from the ballot papers, kept securely, i can really only be opened and in limited circumstances bya opened and in limited circumstances by a judge. opened and in limited circumstances by ajudge. mark opened and in limited circumstances by a judge. mark from guildford wa nts to by a judge. mark from guildford wants to know, can you be drunk when casting your vote? is there a drink limit likea drink,? casting your vote? is there a drink limit like a drink,? i think as long as you are behaving appropriately and the polling station, you can go ahe

we have been very clear that all somerset society election manifesto, we are calling for three thingsre to enable people to access the quality of care they need 110w. access the quality of care they need now. and we are calling on significant investment in research to find that cure for tomorrow, but also have the best possible care for today. finally so that people living with dementia are able to live in their society in a way that supports them and enables them to live well as possible. fiona carragher, thank you very much for coming in to talk to us. we will return later to health, but first tomic... millions of people in hong kong are preparing to vote in local elections on sunday. it‘s being seen as a gauge of public sentiment, after almost six months of pro—democracy protests and violent clashes between demonstrators and police. if there‘s more violence, the authorities have threatened to suspend voting. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonnell gave us this update. it is pretty quiet in hong kong this weekend apart from that truck, as people prepared to go to the ballot box rather t

somerset. it was dedicated to flight 93, made out of the steel of 9-11. very patriotic ship. you probably remember the term let's roll from the last passenger that says we're going to take and storm the cockpit, so it's a big huge 93 and a big "let's roll" on the side. it was a phenomenal day, and go to go to pier 32. we had our debris removal plan disaster plan, and that was a success, again, working with the military and then talking about how we're going to have the debris removed from the streets when we have our big disaster so we can get our fire engines and trucks through. our fire island use exercise, we got to use a lot of the military with our l.r.v., light rescue vehicles, and we worked on collapse, using pry bars and cribbing and anything that you can find. that was great training, and i want to thank the squads and station 5 and station 7 for assisting as assistant deputy chief division of training, joel sato. this was the first year, batallion chief crispin. he was our air commander, and he did a phenomenal job. i was to commend him. he did a wonderful job, so t

host: angie, somerset, ohio. caller: hi. am going to say i am a republican for our president, i am sorump, because upset with the democrats. anyone toyou allow have an abortion at 9 months of pregnancy? that is killing a human being crude why are they doing that? is it too much american people in our country that we don't have room? in that case, leave everyone else in their country and don't kill our people. that is a crime and i think if the president can do it, he should override that, that is murdering a child. host: we hear from mike in florida. caller: hi. i would like to speak to the one whatever,nline or this is not a democratic republic, it is a constitutional republic. why do we even still have political parties? we were warned against this by george washington, it is dividing us. thirdly, medical care or health care, $52 trillion? what would be wrong with giving everybody a one million-dollar voucher for their health care and we are done with it? onlymillion and you can use it -- that is your account number and th

the prime minister visited a school in somerset this morning as his party's commitment to reduce theing to live and work in the uk became the focus of the election campaign. beyond the promise to bring down net migration but little if any detail by how much and when. we will have an australian style points based system that will allow us to control who comes in and make sure we do not have so many people coming in without skills orjobs to come to, that we therefore protect wages, we increase wages, and we also make sure, this is a crucial point, that companies in this country, business in this country, invest in the skills of young people growing up in this country. the tories first promised to cut migration in the 2010 election and again in 2015 and again in 2017 but they never achieved that aim so don't expect them to set a similar target now. reducing immigration means reversing a trend. the most recent figures show net migration from eu countries was 59,000 but from the rest of the world it was 219,000. ending freedom of movement from the eu, which the conservatives have promised

he was trying to induce president zelensky to stand up in front of cameras somerset where, somehow, andaying we're investigating the bidens. that's bribery. let's start calling it what it is, it's one of the three or four in the constitution, treason, bribery, other high crimes and misdemeanors. what are the republican senators going to say now? >> we now have four witnesses, including one we thought was a trump yip, this trumpy now said quid pro quo. >> what republicans will say now is they will continue to be nimble the easy way to play it, the nice way to put it, they are going to continue to adjust their message. the message seems to be moving towards this was problematic for president trump, but it wasn't impeachable. all my conversations with republicans, none of them are saying these people aren't credible. no one is saying they are making this up hor the transcripts are fake as the president said, this was a remarkable change by ambassador sondland here. you have him the day before his tran crypt is coming out saying actually i want to add a little bit here, now my memory is pre

tom in somerset. good to speak to you.ns to borrow 150 billion pounds over five years to replace, update and expand schools, hospitals, housing and care homes. for the conservatives, the chancellor sajid javid also promises spending on infrastructure — but insists his priority is to control government borrowing. two ex—labour mps ian austin and john woodcock have urged people to vote for borisjohnson instead ofjeremy corbyn at the general election saying the labour leader isn't fit to be prime minister. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. the british pound falls in value after two people on the interest rate setting committee vote unexpectedly to cut rates. price cuts and new value ranges fail to boost sales at sainsburys, as they shrink again. sainsbury‘s has lowered prices on more than 1,000 lines since february. first—time buyers are shunning one—bedroom flats in favour of larger three—bed homes. research by the property search company zoopla says only 10% of first time buyers searched for one—bed homes th

looking at somerset, looking at what is happening in the west country, i ama is happening in the west in the great southwest, i believe in improving infrastructure, the a roads, which deserve improvement around the west country. there is a lot of talk about broadband today. a slightly fantastical proposal from the labour party. we have a costed and sensible proposal to put in gigabit broadband for everyone, we want to extend it around the country. we want to take that forward. so what we have, annette, is an agenda for expanding our educational provision, massive investment in the nhs, lifting up the living wage by the biggest ever amountand the living wage by the biggest ever amount and doing it sensibly and prudently and taking advantage of the opportunities that brexit will bring. i hope you will go with us as a one nation party. you have mentioned transport, but our conservative candidate, who was our formermp, conservative candidate, who was our former mp, now conservative candidate, who was our formermp, nowa conservative candidate, who was our former mp, now a candidate, conser

the prime minister visited a school in somerset this morning as his party's commitment to reduce the became the focus of the election campaign. applause hooray! beyond the promise to bring down net migration there's little if any detail by how much and when. we will have an australian style points based system that will allow us to control who comes in and make sure we do not have so many people coming in without skills orjobs to come to, that we therefore protect wages, we increase wages, and we also make sure, this is a crucial point, that companies in this country, business in this country, invest in the skills of young people growing up in this country. the tories first promised to cut net migration to below 100,000 in the 2010 election then again in 2015 and again in 2017 but they never achieved that aim so don't expect them to set a similar target now. reducing immigration means reversing a trend. the most recent figures show net migration from eu countries was 59,000 but from the rest of the world it was 219,000. ending freedom of movement from the eu, which the conservatives

and somerset have been docked 2a points after being found guilty of preparing a "poor" pitch for lastssex. they'll start next season on minus 12 points, with another 12 suspended for two years. i'll be back with more on all those stories are just after half past. see you soon, sally. throughout the campaign, bbc news will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. we will be visiting ten parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. from 11 today, the bbc news channel will be live from southampton on the south coast of england. the city is split into three constituencies. two were held by the conservatives and one by labour in the last election. later, simon mccoy will be in itchen. in 2017, the conservatives were re—elected there — but onlyjust, by 31 votes. it's a battle ground for the conservative and labour. back in 2010 labour held the seat by 192. so a true swing seat. dan walker has been finding out a little more about the history and the politics of the area. this morning we're in southampton in hampshire on england's south coast. this

most of the snow has been in the hills and that's been in somerset and we also had some snow as wellernight, some large puddles, surface water and spray to watch out for as well. a cold day and we just had the coldest nice this autumn as temperatures fell to 8.1 —— —8.1 had the coldest nice this autumn as temperatures fell to 8.1—— —8.1 in dalwhinnie and that cold will be around all day and the pressure is pivoting on where we have the rain across south wales and the midlands and the south—east, this end of it, the eastern end will start to move north but it is this end in south wales will move southwards so in the south—west of england you will see more rain as we go through the day and we will hang onto it in the midlands but it will move away from the south—east but continue to push through nottingham5hire, derbyshire, lincolnshire and eventually getting as far north as south yorkshire. wherever you see green or yellow on the chart, that tells you you can expect heavy bursts of rain and u nfortu nately expect heavy bursts of rain and unfortunately this will fall over some of the a

nick and louise goldsmith bought this piece of woodland in somerset seven years ago when nick was servingeployments fighting in afghanistan. so this land came up and we had to manage it and we worked quite hard managing it for quite some time. and then it just developed quite organically, really stop by they realised that what worked for nick would also help others. a weekend in the woods learning witchcraft. gelling out a down here and trying to retain what was left of my marbles twin towers. eventually, when it was time to leave the armed forces, and it was told you are medically discharged, this is the end of your career, if you like you are living again. from feeling like you are standing still and numb. helen barnett was the first female armed response officer in the metropolitan police. during her career she was stabbed, shot, and blown up. traumas she has been dealing with for 30 years. all of us here, to have done what we did and the careers we have followed, we we re the careers we have followed, we were tough, robust individuals. and look how we have been floored by different tr

it sets somerset backs.ent and going back to kellyanne conway. first it was process and that was not working. they seem to be saying as long as president trump did not say the word quid pro quo five times in the phone call then there is nothing wrong with it. that's not a good argument. >> squjennifer, what do you makf steve bannon coming from where ever he's been to defend the white house? is it as ej says they can't find any republicans coming out there to defend the president of what's happening. >> two problems, they can't find anyone to defend him or there is no defense. they put these people on air to have a world salad and kind of all over the air and that's oppose to take the role of defense of the president. i think it is a measure of really how bending over backward the media has been to allow kellyanne conway on television. she's a repeated offender, she lies and lies. the fact she's on television, i think really creates a journalistic ethical problem. but, i also think it is so very telling that

he seems to have been exiled to a banquette in somerset since making his comments on grenfell.over forjacob? andy, the monarchy, the monarchy is the queen, and that in my view she is beyond reproach. there is a distinction between the monarchy and the royal family and everybody will readily appreciate that. 0bvious definition of distinction. 0n christopher's question... there is going to be no change at all. that is clear from the manifesto. 0n hunting. we will use this manifesto. we will certainly not be bringing back fox hunting. that is absolutely inconceivable. what we will do is use this manifesto, gives the opportunities of brexit, to champion animal welfare, and we can do things differently. i feel that it is barbaric that in this country people can legally eat shark fin soup made from the friends of sharks who have been deprived of those fins when they are alive and thrown back into they are alive and thrown back into the sea. i think that should be banned. you cannot do that at the moment under eu law no more than you can ban the shipment of live animals for long perio

and i hear a lot of talk about improved flood defences but i am slightly struck, having visited somerset of these disasters is ok but we need more about the causes and we need to think about how we dredge our rivers and how we maintain our waterways stop i won't get into eu directives on whether they have caused it, but spare a thought for all of those people. it's still raining and the prospects are it won't get much better. you probably think are used to think that we live in a 21st—ce ntu ry to think that we live in a 21st—century democracy. at least, you might have thought that until every promise that was made during the referendum, after the referendum, in the manifestos of 2017, we are going to deliver the will of the people, were going to deliver brexit. it's not difficult. we voted to leave the european union and its institutions so that we could be an independent self—governing country. that is what brexit is about, isn't it? and yet the labour party seem to think that you didn't know what you voted for. did you know what you voted for? well, they don't seem to think so because

parts of wales, into northern ireland, eventually makes it overthrew somerset, into dorset hampshired into the weekend are going to climb. once again, where you see yellows, that is indicating higher temperatures, certainly higher temperatures, certainly higher temperatures than we have seen of late. so on friday we have got our weather front moving northwards, getting into northern ireland, and also southern and central scotland. and another system out towards the west, bringing in some rain. at in between, there will be drier conditions and brighter conditions. we are seeing a few more elevens on the charts. saturday's forecast, still open to question. this is what we think at the moment. it is still open to question and the timing of it, but some brighter skies out towards the west and temperatures by then, we're looking at nine, ten or 11. even through sunday and into the early pa rt 11. even through sunday and into the early part of the next week of the new week, well, there still will be some rain and showers in the forecast. the temperatures will rise, and some of us into the

we saw it with the somerset levels.tastrophic situations that impinge on agricultural land and on our homes and communities as well. do you hold anyone responsible for not dealing with that sooner? as was saying, we are in the middle of an election campaign. toa are in the middle of an election campaign. to a certain extent, these issues become weaponised. for your union of farmers, is it something where you say, this party or that party is talking the language we need to hear? absolutely. we have launched our manifesto today and we will be asking for all political parties to commit to our asks on water. we don't have enough water in the country to water crops and irrigate at times and other times we have far too much water we do not have far too much water we do not have the ability to store. we should be able to store water on farmland and farmers should be paid for the purpose of doing that. in the 2012 flood manifesto, there were many asksin flood manifesto, there were many asks in there that have not been committed

afternoon, but some of the higher totals probably towards parts of distal mud bath, wiltshire and somersete get more rain pushing in towards the east midlands, into parts of yorkshire as well. we do not have the same rain totals as last week, but more rain is coming back to where it is not wanted, where there are still flood warnings. we need to keep across the impacts of that. much of scotland and northern ireland looking dry, except for eastern scotland into the early evening. low pressure is still close by into the weekend. that will bring some outbreaks of rain on friday. not as wet on friday, but it could pep up towards east anglia and south—east england. thank you very much. let's ta ke let's take you to nigel farage. we are back in the ring again. a lot of people over the last week have tried to land some very heavy blows on me. virtually everybody in establishment politics, many sections of the media. but tell you what, we are still moving. and would you believe it, the one thing we do in the brexit party is innovative, different things, and the others copy us. so this morning, jo

somerset will start next season on —12 points, while 12 points are suspended for two years.pose, but the pitch wasn't the way it should have been. see you later. the green party launches its general election manifesto today, with a promise to invest £100 billion a year to tackle climate change, and cut britain's carbon emissions to net zero by 2030. the party's co—leader jonathan bartley is in westminster this morning. good morning to you. good to speak to you again. thank you forjoining us. i'm just going to talk about the money involved in your manifesto. £1 trillion on the green deal, universal basic income, 6 billion more for the nhs, these are staggering amounts of money. how are you going to pay for it? is the investment we need to tackle the climate emergency. so as you say, we're looking at borrowing over £90 billion, it's the kind of skeletal investment we saw with roosevelt's new deal, with the marshall plan. when there is a war and we have developed the banks, we find the money because we know we have to do it. and if the claimant were a bank, we would have bowed