i am joined now by mark handy he seismologist at berlin's free university thanks for being with us in the studio today a seven point one magnitude quake absolutely devastating for the people in mexico how much advance notice was there that this was going to happen when did seismologists like yourself know this coming well had they known i'm sure they would have said something had they been sure the trouble is that it's very difficult based on size seismic events that are small to predict exactly when the big ones going to happen so that's why they probably remain silent it's very it's not like the weather then is that you can't say ok we're expecting a massive earthquake here in two days and that makes it all the more tricky to warn people do you think though that people in this region can look forward to more seismic activity in the coming days well certainly after a big event it's usual to have aftershocks so the people become very nervous i'm sure they'll feel quakes coming. when the and then these quakes thing die off with time so the frequency will decrease but there will be quak

university of berlin thank you very much to be here. ryan it hasn't pulled out of its tail fin just yet in fact things have got even worse for the budget airline it's announced it's counseling another eighteen thousand flights between november and mall this month ryanair announced it was pulling up to fifty flights a day through the end of october after a quote messed up the planning of pilot holidays. even relieved passengers whose flights haven't been canceled might think twice about booking ryanair in the future what started as a mere debacle has turned into a public relations nightmare for founder michael o'leary at a press conference last week after the first round of cancellations he admitted serious mistakes have been made but does that mean that from time to time we don't make mess ups and we do with this is clearly a mess up i take responsibility for the mess that it is my mess up and therefore i have to clean it up. o'leary apparently has a lot more cleaning up to do than anyone guessed the new round of cancellations this wint

and to unpack the president's tax plan and now i'm joined in the studio by professor from the free university of berlin lovely to see you this morning now this document has been billed as a framework more than a plan and he's promised relief for companies what does that mean specifically. the companies are interested in the net that they're getting from increased sales in the future when economic growth brings about new sales it's going to be in the first instance the net income coming to the corporation that will be important for making these investment decisions if you're willing to invest more if you know there's going to be more sugar if we can call the extra profits sugar if that's offered so that's the theory behind everything but corporations are not people they're owned by people corporate income goes to people who own stock and. roughly the top. thirty percent of the population own the very overwhelming majority of stocks so one looks at that as as much a redistribution as it is an incentive for further increased investment in dayton where we know that we could see the corporation ta

i am joined now by mark handy he seismologist at berlin's free university thanks for being with us in the studio today a seven point one magnitude quake absolutely devastating for the people in mexico how much advance notice was there that this was going to happen when did seismologists like yourself know this coming well had they known i'm sure they would have said something had they been sure the trouble is that it's very difficult based on. seismic events that are small to predict exactly when the big ones going to happen so that's why they probably remain silent it's very it's not like the weather then is that you can't say ok we're expecting a massive earthquake here in two days and that makes it all the more tricky to warn people do you think though that people in this region can look forward to more seismic activity in the coming days well certainly after a big event it's usual to have aftershocks so the people will become very nervous i'm sure they'll feel quakes coming. when the and then these quakes thing die off with time so the frequency will decrease but there will be qua

university of thank you very much to be here. now off to federal elections here in germany you might have thought that campaign season was over but apparently not brian has no that's right hello as if you had had enough electioneering chats americal is campaigning again this time ahead of a key vote in the state of lower saxony a snap elections been called there because a member of that state parliament switched parties bringing down lower saxony s.p.d. green governing coalition. chancellor angela merkel is back on the campaign trail already despite her narrow election victory on sunday or perhaps because of it she's out to reassure voters they're in good hands. i'm waiting for some clear statements from her about the outcome of the vote since the far right got so much support. to spend if she's disappointed i don't think she'll show it oh how she's going to go from here. and toast. the crowd of roughly two thousand surge chancellor back in normal business move this regional election all in a day's work not a whiff of stress abou

well helena humphrey spoke to and khoja of the free university berlin about trump's tax plan she asked him about lower income americans and how they might benefit from it right now it looks like there's going to be essentially a sop a little bit could be coming out but when you hear a doubling of the standard deduction what is happening is a merger of what's called the personal exemption with the standard deduction so from the point of view of the small. poor family there might be a fifteen percent increase in this deduction which means a tax saving but it's it's peanuts compared to dropping for instance the personal tax rate for these so-called passthrough companies by the way the trump organization is a passthrough company and that would be an income tax rate of twenty five percent what are the chances that this reform well actually implemented. let's just say better than i think the repeal of obamacare with the repeal of obamacare was possible to mobilize people who are directly suffer the cuts the way this is all packaged is the necessary spending cuts will come in the future so th

university of berlin thank you very much to be here. now catalonia independence referendum has been contentious at times it almost looked like it was off the table but brian has the latest now on the vote is very much back on the table right now another leader of spain's catalonia region says a referendum on independence will go ahead as planned on sunday that despite the national government's efforts to stop that vote catalonian authorities say they're worried about public safety if police carry out orders to prevent people from voting the showdown brewing between madrid and catalonia is one of spain's biggest political crises and for decades the controversy referendums also causing divisions within catalonia itself including in the town and our next report. in a spot i guess they're proud of their church its annual passion play the life and passion of jesus christ and they're proud of social solidarity but ever since the catalan government decided to hold a referendum on independence from spain the community has been split it why the

i was one of the last people to enjoy university for free and i was a schoolteacher and i was supportive of stu d e nts schoolteacher and i was supportive of students and supporting them as best we can but we have expanded the number of young people going to university exponentially, particularly those from poorer backgrounds to do and we have to be honest about this. the labour government introduced fees and then doubled the. what we've tried to do ina doubled the. what we've tried to do in a progressive way to these rises in tuition fees is make sure people don't pay them back until they are earning over £21,000, way above the median salary in my constituency. and we have a question, if you are going to put money into this issue, you have to say where it is coming from and when we talk about tax rises on other people, when the labour party say this, those people that are ordinary workers, everybody out there watching this programme, who will have to pay. we have to keep looking at this because it is an issue as debts continue to rise but a lot of students will never pay their debts ba

university education free college education as well we're talking about ensuring that when developments occur regeneration developments that the tenants who live there are democratic voice in so that we're actually getting regeneration in terms of housing for the many times the residents not the few wealthy speculators so we're building on a deepening the manifest that captured so much hope and inspired some new people in the general election obviously there are a lot of b.s. from big gay investment banks big private property companies so visibly able to be a systems and arms company was visible the fact is sponsoring this conference how can the electorate trust that you're really going to be as radical as you promise but i don't think that having a stall at the conference is the same as sponsoring a company come what may. governments will suspend arms sales. from britain to the saudi arabian government for example whilst they're carrying out those human rights abuses in yemen so people shouldn't doubt the resolve of jeremy coben and the labor the same when it comes to making britain a

here with me at the big table is our professor with the department of geosciences at berlin's free university and he is an expert on extreme weather. good to have you on the program. there is some as extreme weather going on right now. we have the three hurricanes in the atlantic. when does the extreme begin to become the normal, in terms of whether? -- weather? >> i would say it will not become the normal because it hits different places, usually. in this situation we may have a situation where two hurricanes hit the same area, which is even worse, but normally you would have the extme setting up a different places and still then people are not well prepared. so there is and will remain a risk. brent: how unusual is it to have these three storms, three hurricanes at the same time in the atlantic? how often do we see that? guest: we see that in hurricane seasons where there is a very high number. that is part of it, the statistics. part of it is also that the mechanisms producing these hurricanes are favorable for their production. there is another thing. which really surprised me now, usuall

now it's not free to attend university of berkeley either. out of state students pay over $61,000 with the in-state tuition fee at nearly 35,000 bucks now as a reminder american students who graduated from college they currently owe over $1.4 trillion in student loan debt. that's spread out about over about 44 million borrowers. now let's bring in berkeley college republican's vice president he's naweed. good to see you. thank you. >> liz: let's take a look at the guest speakers you have. bright bart editor, former white house strategist steve bannon, conservative comentator ann coul ter, all scheduled all controversial. are you worried about protests? >> well the organization hosting the event is actually berkeley patriots and a conservative newspaper on campus but of course there's always protests we've seen fliers around campus suggesting we should shutdown and steve bannon for hate speeches but i have to say i'm actually surprised that janet napolitano is concerned about financial issues after she routinely squanders the hard working taxp

well let's talk about those proposals chances with what code you're of the free university berlin you know use helen humphrey him about lowering com americans and how they might benefit from it . right now it looks like there's going to be essentially a sop a little bit could be coming out but when you hear a doubling of the standard deduction what is happening is a merger of what's called the personal exemption with the standard deduction so from the point of view of the small. poor family there might be a fifteen percent increase in this deduction which means a tax saving but it's it's peanuts compared to dropping for instance the personal tax rate for these so-called passthrough companies by the way the trump organization is a passthrough company and that would be an income tax rate of twenty five percent what are the chances that this reform will actually be implemented. let's just say better than i think the repeal of obamacare with the repeal of obamacare was possible to mobilize people who are directly suffer the cuts the way this is all packaged is the necessary spending cuts

speech the university clearly violated their commitment to free speech and hearst university did however leave a statement on its website honoring the three members of their community killed in the deadly attacks sixteen years ago with the death toll reaching nearly three thousand the attacks served as a pretext to launch the war on terror which resulted in massive alien casualties and american soldiers did. ok thanks very much to me in a column there reporting from washington for the update on that story. great britain got some warning from the commission president find out why after this break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works my economy is built around corporate perforations washington washington post media the. voters elect a businessman to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate is full on. the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch. yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is

of free speech. there are those who will say even provocateurs should have a platform, that the first amendment is very clear on this. under the first amendment, all speech, even hate speech, is protected. >> yes. they have a right in an abstract constitutional sense, yes. on the one hand, the boycott such as it is almost accepts milo's right to speak. in fact, i'm not really worried about milo's words. we know what he's going to say. i'm worried about milo's followers, the alt-right activists that follow him. that on january 20th at the university of washington shot somebody, a milo supporter shot someone. we saw what happened in charlottesville in which alt-right activists beat students into a coma and then murdered heather heyer in charlottesville. berkeley is not interested in becoming the next charlottesville and inviting milo is exactly what could result in this. >> have you seen alt-right activists already on campus? >> yes, they're already here. they've been coming in since the ben shapiro ta

and we must do so on our campuses, university officials and faculty must defend free expression boldly and unequivocally. that means presidents, regents, trustees, alumni as well. a national recommitment to free speech on campus is long overdue and action to ensure first amendment rights are overdue. starting today, the department of justice will do its part in this work. we will enforce federal law. defend free speech. and protect students' free expression from whatever end of the spectrum it may come. to that end, we are filing a statement of interest in a campus free speech case this week and we will be filing more, i'm sure, in the weeks to come. this month we marked the 230th , anniversary of our constitution. what a remarkable document indeed. it is the longest existing constitution in the world. and it is an extraordinary thing. this month, we also mark the 54th anniversary of the 16th street baptist church bombing in birmingham. four little girls died that day as they changed into their choir robes because the klan wanted to silence their voices for civil rights. but their choi

university and we also have oliver from yana friedrich schiller university he's an expert on the german political system gentlemen thank you so much for joining us to put this all into context and hi i will begin with you what do you make of what we just saw from the f.t. . you know. at this center between the chairwoman and the candidates for the parliament and you could have seen that since months it's a split in the middle of this party we've seen the f.d.a. just generally speaking as a party i mean they they are already known for walking out of debates so perhaps this is no surprise that front entry was also so dramatic today but just generally speaking i mean they have tried to tap into this discontent among the voters on this dissatisfaction in germany all over what do you make of what we heard today. i think it's an expression of. a. swell of anger and resentment that we can and could see for a long time and now it has expressed itself into this kind of election success and they play a game they play a game for for attention so i don't think that this is the first and last exampl

in the us there is no free tuition for university. i can tell you that you can start off at 21 years old with a debt that can last you for the rest of your life. it sets you up for a whole credit cycle ofjust seeing life as credit. i think it is partly a clash of the way universities are set here and the idea bringing in tuition. i think that is where the problem is and it needs to be looked at, instead of thinking about slashing, look at how the collision has happened and work from there. finally, the sunday times says that prince charles will not live at buckingham palace. he says he will go to the house he currently lives in at the moment. he is very co mforta ble in at the moment. he is very comfortable they are. buckingham palace is too big and costs too much money to run. the idea would be to open it to the public a little more. they're certainly not going to sell it. they will try to make it a bit more commercially viable. apparently prince william as well, he is quite happy not to live in buckingham palace either. at the momen

in the us there is no free tuition for university. i can tell you that you can start off at 21 years old with a debt that can last you for the rest of your life. it sets you up for a whole credit cycle ofjust seeing life as credit. i think it is partly a clash of the way universities are set here and the idea bringing in tuition. i think that is where the problem is and it needs to be looked at, instead of thinking about slashing, look at how the collision has happened and work from there.

in our manifesto at the general election, we talked about free university education. we are now also talking about free couege are now also talking about free college education, which is vital. you mentioned the policy of making sure that local residents are in charge democratically of the kind of the generation that takes place. boosting wages, having a regional investment bank and a national bank. increasing wealth in society, but also making sure that the proceeds of the wealth are shared by the many, not the few. we have come a long way in the general election. jeremy made clear in his speech that there is further to go. judging by there is further to go. judging by the speech today, all about hope, i believe that labour, the largest political party in western europe with 600,000 members, 3 million votes in the election, i believe that a unified labour party can go on and form the next government. thank you very much indeed. reflecting the optimism that there has been here all week. we have been told by labour officials that the divisions of the past have been lef

so i was talking about making colleges said university's tuition free that was radical and crazy. the now it is all across the country right now. new york state has legislation to do that. for a common sense reason for pro and makes no sense when they need more education to punish them because they do the right thing to get the education. [applause] we have legislation the next couple of months the only makes colleges and universities tuition free to those millions of debt that they are carrying right now. [applause] a couple of years ago a young woman came up practicing primary care she said period did thousand dollars for going to medical school i that that was off the charts i was your id in iowa the young woman came up and said i graduated dental school $400,000 in debt. the bottom line is our job is to encourage all people to get the education they need to do the job that is out there. that is what we have to do. [applause] >> another issue where we are gaining significant momentum. the affordable care act did a number of good things. 28 million more people in america with in

of this university. the answer is more speech, not less. >> do you still allow them to come to the university and speak a even though you're say looking would agree with what they're saying >> i think university have to be widely open, there are places of debate and discussion. >> i think that's the issue we're seeing a lot of students, uc berkley and some other campuses students some of the protests turned violent do you think students just aren't getting the message >> some of that violence not from the students. some of that is coming from the outside. now another question is how do you maintain campus safety? you watch what just happened at uc berkley and they had events that worked quite well but they weren't inexpensive, so you can sayc berkley spent $600,000 last week for milo yiannopoulos to come to campus and do you know what happened? nobody listened. the chancellor of berkley called it the most expensive photo op of all times. >> thank you for coming in. >>> confusion over his voter registrati

. >>> the university of berkeley's free speech week is canceled. organizers called off the event citing safety reasons but still made a brief appearance yesterday. they had to go through a metal detector which limited the detector which limited the number of people in the crowd. >> i think it makes me feel on edge. >> i've seen it be pretty volatile. >> 11 people were arrested mostly for carrying a banned weapon. yiannopoulos plans to return to uc berkeley, quote, over and over again. >> as far as illegal weapons, here is one example. someone tried carrying all of this into sproul plaza including a shield, a boot knife, a stun gun and what appears to be a slingshot. >> looking to bring speakers. they would discuss issues including racial justice, rights including racial justice, rights and lgbt inclusion. >>> san francisco police shot and killed a man they say held his wife and two young children hostage, just off pacific avenue hostage, just off pacific avenue near the broadway tunnel. two shots were fired inside that apartment. his wife and child

what he's doing to protect free speech at american university but the socks guys like so much they're buy >> neil: all right is free speech under attack so that was the assessment of the attorney general of the united states jeff sessions warning american universities this week launching a crack down to protect free speech as we see conservative voices shutout. charlie, do you think jeff sessions is right? >> charlie: i don't see why these institutions which many of them are not even private schools and public institutions, public colleges can allow a sort of minority to force the academi a to accept only one point of view it's ridiculous and the problem is they waited so long. this thing is so, this sort of pc culture and this speech culture, it's so ingrained in colleges right now. i don't think even the federal government could change it. >> neil: neither side listens to the other, but can sessions risk going too far? >> i don't think so. you're right neither side listens to each other but on college campuses one side is completely shut out. allow voice, allow opposition allow conv

spirits of the universe and then he doesn't write anymore before it. thinks that's good enough. so, scale is what you make of it in your head. explaining the world is how you make it in your head. and that's a big part of the stories as i'm trying to tell. my focus on some person who thinks they have itself figured out and don't have it figured out because there's always a scale largeern than they can understand and always will be. again in these ancient places, you can't -- they don't dom neat endings, and to ask how the tribes respond? they are devastated. they're traumatized. they still are. and they're trying to come out of it and a lot of them are astonishingly resilient people and i have been monitored by some lucky inform to have mentored around with and i who i have been friend with and they're constantly telling me, look, you don't understand. you don't have any say in this. you're dying a terrible job but if bogey going to do it, bet deer a better job, and you've been in it so long you can't quit now. so mixed messaged but that makes sense i

university officials must defend free expression boldly and unequivocally. presidents, regions, trustees, alumni as well. a national recommitment to free speech on campus is well overdue, and action to ensure first amendment rights are overdue. starting today, the department of justice will do its part in this work. we will enforce federal law, defend free speech, and protect students' freedom of expression from whatever end of the section -- the spectrum it may come. piling interest in a --n we are filing interest in a free-speech case this week. this month, we marked the two 30th anniversary of our constitution. what a remarkable document indeed. the longest existing andtitution in the world, it is an extraordinary thing. this month, we also marked the 54th anniversary of the 16th straight baptist church bombing in birmingham. for little girls died that day as they changed into their choir robes because the klan wanted to silence their voices. but their voices were not silenced. dr. martin luther king would tell them -- would call them the dignity and free

and universities tuition free. talk to the governor of the state of new york, he thinks that's a good idea because they already passed that legislation. ( cheers and applause ) and other communities are doing it. so the ideas -- the real point is we broke through a box which said you can't talk about this, you can't talk about income inequality, you can't talk about healthcare for all, you can't take about taking on the billionaire class. we did it. we ended up with 13 million votes, i think we helped transform politics in america. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: well, i have, next week, just a little over a week from now, i'm going to have secretary clinton sitting right there talking about her book. what do you think i should ask her about the accusations? if you were going to respond, if there's a question i'd like to ask her about about these ponies, what might it be? >> i think the response is we have got to think going forward, and i would like her to join us in the fight for 15 in a medicare for all sing

joining us now to talk about whether universal free lunch is the right approach is ben calos. he is a new york city council member welcome to both of you ben, why don't we start with you. this was a program you were in favor of and tell us about your experience, too. >> new york city is one of the wealthiest cities in the world and it's hard to imagine that we still have hunger. i wanted to take that on i grew up in the city. i went to a public high school, and i grew up on the upper east side i grew up with a single mom and we lived with my grandparents which made me a little bit different than a lot of the other kids from the upper east side that were going to the bronx high school of science i came from a single parent household and multi-generational household which meant that i was eligible for free or reduced school lunch every day when it came towards lunchtime all the kids would go out and buy lunch and i had to choose between food and friends. i would go with the other kids, not buy lunch because i didn't have any money to buy it and i would tell them i wasn't hungry

the universe. he doesn't ride enough anymore about it and think that's good enough. scale is what you make of it in your head and explaining the world is how you make it in your head. that's a big part of the stories that i'm trying to tell is i focus on some person who thanks they have it figured out and they don't have it figured out because there's always a scale larger than they understand. there always will be again, in these ancient places stories they don't come to meet endings. to ask how the tribes responded they are devastated and traumatized and they still are in there trying to come out of it. a lot of them are astonishingly recent people and i had been meant for it around by some several of them who i've been friends with for a long time and they are constantly telling me, but -- look, you don't understand. you don't have any say in this and you're doing a terrible job but if you're going to do it you better do a better job and you better stick with it and do it and you can't quit now.

spirits of the universe. then he does write anymore about it. he thinks that's good enough. so scale is what you make of it in your head. explaining the world is how you make it in your head, and that's a big part of the stories as i could tell, i focus on some people thinks they haven't figured out and they don't have it figured out. there's always a scale larger than they can understand, there still is. there always will be. and again in these ancient places, stories, they don't come to need in thinks. there's no such thing. to ask of the tribes respond, they are devastated, traumatized. they still are and they're trying to come out of it. a lot of them are astonishing resilient people, and i've been made toward around by several of them who i've been friends with for a long time, and they're constantly telling me look, you don't understand. you don't have any say in this. you are doing a terrible job of what you're doing. but if you're going to do you better do a better job. you better stick with it and do

universal, free and empowering. that, conference, is essentialto oui’ that, conference, is essentialto our socialism for the 21st century, for the many, not the few. applause during the election, i visited dell inside college in the constituency of laura pitcock, one of dozens of great new mps breathing life and energy into our parliament. that couege energy into our parliament. that college offers adult courses in everything from it to beauty therapy, from engineering to childcare. i met construction workers who stand to benefit from labour's hundred 50 billion national transformation fund, building the homes people need and new transport, energy and digital infrastructure oui’ energy and digital infrastructure our country needs. by changing our economy to make it work for the whole country can't take place in isolation. from changing how our country is run. for people to take control of their own lives, our democracy needs to break out from westminster into all parts of our society and economy, where power is

when i began talking about making colleges and universities tuition free that was a radical and crazy idea. that idea is spreading across the country right now. [applause] >> new york state has passed legislation that will do that, other states moving in that direction, for a commonsense reason, and that is it makes no sense when young people need more education, to punish them with levels of student debt because they did the right thing in getting that education. [applause] >> we have legislation, we are going to be talking about it a lot in the next couple months, not only makes public colleges and universities tuition free substantially lowers the level of student debt millions of people are carrying right now. [applause] >> a couple years ago, i had a meeting in burlington, vermont, a young woman came up who just graduated medical school, practicing primary care, she said my debt is $3. i thought that was off the chart. i was here in iowa and a young woman came up to me after my remarks and said $300, i graduated dental school $400,000 in debt. bottom line here, our job is to enco

we issued a report last year called campus for all diversity inclusion, free speech at u.s.al universities, documenting these rising tensions and pressures between the drive to make the campus a more inclusive, equal environment open to all students from all kinds of backgrounds, making sure they really can learn and feel comfortable and accommodated at the university but also arguing that those changes and that necessary evolution of the university should not and must not come at the extense of robustob protections for free speech and academic freedom. it's our view that the two sidet too often talk pass each other. and social change and those who are defending free speech need to come together and come together. so i think -- >> really? >> that's my, i think -- >> do you have an issue? >> racism and sex schism, i think people who are concerned are not going to come together in promulgating -- [applause] >> i don't disagree with you, but you pointed this out. not all people cloak themselves in the language of free speech come in peace. and i think what has happened especially over the las

to engage in free speech. >> the university's commitment to the fami to the first amendment is of utmost importance. >> you can receive updates just by downloading the abc news app, and it is free to dlo. >>> president trump made an appears to campaign for senate candidate luther strange. for the first time the president responded to north korea's statement that they might test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean. >> now he's talking about a massive weapon exploding over the ocean, pacific ocean, which causes tremendous, tremendous calamity. where that plume goes, so goes cancer, so goes tremendous problems. >> mr. trump also took a veiled shot at colin kaepernick. >> wobt you love to see one of these nfl owners when someone drpts our flag get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field. he's fired. >> we'll have more on the newest attempt to repeal and replace obamacare coming up in our next half hour. >>> now to mexican city and the zmat sech for survivors in the rubble. researching teams are working around the clock three days after the earthquake hit. >> tonight in income tax city amidst

it's not a public university. that was the first thing that stood out to me here and the nfl is private as well. but there are certain spaces where we're expected to allow free speech even in private places. in fact, a mall is private. but people can hand out literature in some places in a mall and i think that generally free speech is welcome in these public spaces even in private universities. let me ask you real quick, during his speech today, the attorney general said universities are churning into who he monday just thought, a shelter for fragile egosment he criticized forgiving into the protestors demands to rescind invitations for certain speeches. is he right. >> he spoke not before georgetown university law center , but a specific conservative wing that didn't allow will i bal students to even enter the room. this guy is saying we need to have all points represented and the very people who invited him kept liberal students out. a little bit of hip rock situate. we heard from the attorney general, this has