so there is just a week to go until the uk general election a race that is closely fought between theervative party and the opposition labor par party and no one is expected to win out right and vying for seats in parliament for which the government is formed and steve barker explained. >> reporter: it's the most unpredictable election in a generation now for the first time in british political history we are entrying an era of five party politics when david cameron became prime minister five years ago he was the youngest british leader in 200 years and took over a country struggling with the global financial crisis and responded with billions of dollars worth of spending cuts. he is hoping improvements of uk economy will be his trump card on election day. not to mention moves to shed the conservative image of the party of privilege and even while it has been difficult to shake off his own wealthy roots. he faces the labor party's band whose parents came to britain as jewish refugees from the nazis and repeatedly called for united fairer country. >> it's only when working people succe

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but a week out from the uk's general election. >> yeah. >> she is now a striking example of the extraordinaryal change sweeping through scotland. >> when you started this, you were studying politics. now you are living it. she is vying for the constituency of the south near glasgow. her opponent is douglas alexander. he held the seat comfortably since 1997. a former government minister, the chairman of labor's national campaign. and the man who would be british foreign secretary if labor forms a government after the vote. but opinion polls suggest he is losing here. the latest figures from a spolster with lyspol st pollster show mary black leading by 11 points. understandably, douglas alexander doesn't look to focus on the polls. this is an extraordinary situation. always a safe labor seat. you won it so comfortably. you are up against a 20-year-old political student the what does that say? >> it says no politician should take any voter, community, any seat for granted. that is long gone. >> reporter: that lesson is true for labor beyond this race. opinion polls show the party facing a wipeou

the uk general election takes place on thursday, may 7th. our live coverage of the bbc question time debate coming up in an hour on c-span3. >>> back in the u.s., bernie sanders of vermont announcing he was running for president as a democrat providing hillary clinton with her first official rival for the party's nomination. this from the "new york times" today. avoiding the fanfare that several republicans have chosen so far when announcing kand datse inging candidate, mr. sanders noted his goals. he later arcticticulated before media and curious onlookers why he was running. he acknowledged that he faced big financial challenges but said that as a politician with the most unusual political history of anyone in congress, he was optimistic about his chances. again, that from the "new york times." senator sanders was a number of presidential hopefuls interviewed recently in manchester new hampshire for "conversation with the candidate." we'll show you that interview now. followed by the station's interview with senator rand paul. >>> good even

. >>> later on seven party leaders here in the uk will take part in a tv debate. the general electionly may, and the polls are tight. so these two hours of tv definitely matter. but all of this is quite new to us in the uk. but in the states it's different. tv debates have been a staple of the u.s. tv experience for a long, long time, and lots of o lessons have been learned, sometimes the hard way. here's katty kay. >> reporter: america's elections are bigger more expensive, and more glitzy than anyone else's. and in the showbiz world of u.s. campaign debate nights are oscar nights getting viewers to notice you on this crowded stage is tricky. it's a seemingly endless lineup of elder statesmen. yes, men, you're lucky if you get one woman in the mix. >> and you will be a one-term president! >> reporter: so how do presidential hopefuls make debates work for them? >> you have to have a message that stands out. and you have to have a moment or two in the debates where you stand out from all the competition. >> a debate performance can define a candidate. the front runners want to make his

the uk general election is may 7th, that debate live this afternoon on c-span at 3:00 eastern. >>> now indiana's freedom law and changes ahead from a reporter covering the issue. >> thanks for joining us. >> glad to be here. thank you for having me. >> give us a snapshot what's happened in the least 24 hours when it comes specifically > problem hi the biggest impact we saw on wednesday was the christian church disciples of christ denomination in indianapolis announced that they would be moving their 2017 national convention away from indianapolis. that's a blow because that's a pretty large convention they bring about 8,000 visitors over several days. that was single alone estimated to cost us about 5.9$5.9 million in lost spending. the irony of this is that the christian church disciples of christ is actually headquartered here in indianapolis. this is a stand they're making in their own city by not holding their convention, bringing in people from all around the country to come to indianapolis. that's a b

the 1992 presidential election. and traditionally, that one issue stands above all the others when it comes to a major vote. well the same can be said for the uk and in next month's generalion. but the impact that immigration is having on both the economy and society has been riding rapidly up the list of key issues this time around. a recent poll shows that the immigration question bothers more people than anything else after economy and health. especially in areas where the economy is in thex doldrums. our correspondent ben brown, is in the british, well, seaside town of grimesly here ben. it's fair to call it a one-time great fishing port, because it's been a long and slow decline hasn't it? >> yeah we're in the port here, david. it has been a decline in terms of the fishing vessels that used to go out and catch fish. although actually, that industry has been replaced somewhat by a lot of offshore wind farms and also food processing. having said that, unemployment here is relatively high. it's about 10% at the moment, compared to the national british average of about 6%. there is quite a lot of anger when you talk to workers here about immigration. we were just talkin

the u.k. before the general elections. guy: uk gdp numbers.ore we get to this number, check out this chart. big revisions. francine: it is the launch of the bloomberg business europe website. we want to know in one word what business is to you. " businesses is opportunity." ♪ francine: welcome back. breaking news. u.k. gdp below expectations. guy: .3% versus .5% was the headline read we are getting. it looks like the service sector has been slowing down. we were expecting construction to be weak. the pound is suffering as a result of all this. number has political significance as we head into the general election a week away. almost now. it will be interesting to see how the politicians react to this figure over the next hour or so. francine: let's get more on that figure and what it means for the election. we are joined by an ing senior economist. this is the data that will be reduced and viewed. james: that's right. it is disappointing. it's not a great story. we know that january was a soft month. soft for construction and manufacturing. bu

the way. if you look at the elections, it was result was too high but it was not as high as expected. if you look at finland, general elections on sunday. uk doesn't play in the general election. l not place a role, it's most expected. even if austria, it was in late '90s, only concern with heritage must not care. not as pessimistic. the world is moving in trial and error. take advantage of a free society so it can learn. coming to europe even in europe, if european integrate will be majorities, all over europe, to defend european integration. european integration, at the basis, it's not disputed. even to so-called euro skeptics, if you ask, do you want -- are you not in favor of your opinion? oh, yeah we're in favor. it's standard to actually -- not completely. there's no huge dangers that we really face in nationalism, in the part of europe it's the european union. russia is moving -- the putin government is relying on provoking nationalist sentiments which is the short term successful but not the long term. quite then we have to care what we've been doing in europe. you can't understand how decision making works. strong government is in

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. >> this is an interesting session in europe, for the record, uk gdp slowing down in advance of next week's general electionhere is the losses that you see on your screen. it probably shouldn'te this way. the message coming out of the greeks is really good, the greek prime minister did an interview last night on local television where he suggested he'll have a deal on the table with the rest of europe by a week on saturday. and may have to hold a referendum if it's really full of austerity. so we could in theory have rallied on that instead what you've had is throughout the session profit-taking in particular on those stocks that have done very well so far this year. so look at airbus, which is down 5% on the session. still for the year, year to date, up 37%. and st microelectronics, up 24%. people see that the euro is stabilizing and moving higher again the dollar. maybe it's partly a call on that health care stocks are also suffering from the profit-taking, you see it on this side of the atlantic for one and a half trading sessions andnd you see is in europe. merck, the german merck reported above expecta