stratford city which is europe's not just shopping center westfield wanted to hire five thousand local people almost half of them from the ranks of the long term unemployed candidates managed to say were enthusiastic but it was soon disk. it's that more than three hundred of them couldn't read all right enough to fill out a basic form westfield is giving remedial classes to its new recruits in the hopes their enthusiasm will carry them through but their comrades survey shows companies all over the city feel the education system brought up to university is letting them down if fifty eight percent of london business leaders felt that too often graduates in london lack basic literacy and numeracy skills this is we're talking about people who spent three or four years in higher education so that so that means that it is a very very damning indictment of the education system at large and it leaves one wondering water water all those ugandans university of arc meanwhile the number of unemployed eighteen to twenty four year old keeps on rising the latest figures show nearly eight hundred thou

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that more than three hundred of them couldn't read all right enough to fill out a basic form westfield is giving remedial classes to its new recruits in the hopes their enthusiasm will carry them through but a comrade survey shows companies all over the city feel the education system by touch the university is letting them down fifty eight percent of london business leaders from out too often graduates in london lack basic literacy and numeracy skills this is we're talking about people who spend three or four years in higher education so that so that means that it's really fairly damning indictment of the education system at large and it leaves one wondering water water all those ugandans university i mean while the number of unemployed eighteen to twenty four year olds keeps on rising the latest figures show nearly eight hundred thousand to now out of work but if businesses can't count on them to be able to out dark and read instructions there are likely to want to risk hiring them you are at it party london to get more on this than any of the other stories we're covering if you can a

i can get a better view of the westfield center and it looks like most of the -- have been closed. >> and the people we see outside the fence, it's hard to tell. are those protesters as well or are those people kind of down there watching? >> i'm not sure exactly what you are seeing. are you seeing the people outside or inside? >> we're seeing the people that they first closed that gate. there are a lot of people behind that gate they have just shut. i'm just wondering are those protesters, people come to watch, are those passengers wondering what's going on? >> actually, i do see a lot of people outside on the steps. if you go past the closed gate there is a core group -- the estimate here about [ indiscernible ] organizer who is leading the [ indiscernible ] so now they are chanting let's go, let's go. there are i would say probably 15, possibly 20 protesters. >> all right, so we see jana, right in the middle of this where these protesters are and just to recap the powell street station has been essentially shut down. they closed the gates. we want to show you outside now to david s