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Manchester Business survey
Tonight on PM our reporter Andrew Bomford has been talking to private businesses in Greater Manchester. A number of them, in a survey conducted for the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the 91Èȱ¬, have expressed concern about government cutbacks and the effect that they are having on private business. The questions submitted by the PM programme can be seen - along with their answers - via this link (PDF). You can hear the response live on PM with the Business Secretary Vince Cable.
Libya
This morning we started out expecting military action in Libya after last night's passing of a UN resolution. Now we've just heard the Libyan Foreign Minister announcing a ceasefire. The news is shifting by the hour. Here is your place to comment as events unfold....
sequin
Japan
We've been covering the Japanese disaster in depth as you know. The terrible stories emerging from people caught up in the earthquake and tsunami and then the unfolding concerns after those explosions and fires at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Here is a place for you to place your comments and discuss how you feel the Japanese story has been covered.....
all the best,
sequin
Hugh Sykes in South Sudan
On BH this week, Hugh reported some of the daunting problems facing
South Sudan as it prepares to become a new country in July - daunting
problems, and an infectious spirit of focussed determination to succeed.
Wedding programme for the marriage of bank clerk Grace Scopas to sound
engineer Levi Tombe, at St.Kizito's open air church, Munuki, near Juba
Here comes the bride
The wedding dancers
Watching the wedding
Watching the wedding
Watching the wedding
Watching the wedding
Watching the wedding
The 'People of God', marching through Juba
They sing Hallelujah
They are thanking God for the referendum result and independence in July
500 people at least. There were a thousand at the wedding, including those watching from the sides and the back
Basic hospital in Nimule, in the Sudan/Uganda border. South Sudan health statistics are shocking. One in ten babies in south Sudan don't reach their first birthday.
Village between Juba and Nimule.
The villagers' main source of income is charcoal, sold to passers by at 25 Sudanese pounds per sack. There are about 4 Sudanese pounds to the £ sterling
A boy bringing chickens for the pot. A long dusty haul on the Juba to Nimule road. It is 120 miles long, and takes more than four hours to drive. It is due to be surfaced with bitumen, in a project largely financed by USAID. It is the main import artery from Uganda
You have been warned. The legacy of 22 years of civil war. Randomly by the roadside I saw the fins of a rocket-propelled grenade, a rocket
shaft and a large brass shell casing. How many millimetres? Who cares? It was as big as the base of a large cider bottle, and may have killed or wounded a lot of people
Under African Skies
That school....
We've had quite a few requests for more details on yesterday's item about the London school which is trying to raise funds for a 'safe house' for homeless pupils. The name is Quintin Kynaston School.
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Which capital city is Hugh in?
The answer to the question? Juba. Though it's not a capital yet. It can only claim to be capital of the new Republic of South Sudan come July 9th.
Michael Buchanan in Libya
sends these:
Innovation.
Andrew Bomford will report for us tonight on what he tells me is an "initiative at one of our leading Art and Design schools - Central St Martins in London - to find a way to get good product ideas from students out into the marketplace. British universities haven't been very good at capitalising on the innovations they come up with, and by teaming up with an American company from Silicon Valley they hope to have a way at bridging that gap. In the photos we see student Jeremy Innes-Hopkins, who came up with an idea for sun cream which is fun for children to use. Any parent will know how difficult it can be sometimes to get children to lather up on the beach when all they want to do us run off and play. Jeremy's simple idea is for sun cream tubes which look like big marker pens, and can be drawn on children by themselves and each other.
This is Jeremy - with his big idea
And this is Jeremy and me, road testing the sun-cream with Mums - and they loved it!
Expect to see the sun cream in the shops within a year or so."
Michael Buchanan at Friday Prayers in Cairo
"Friday prayers in Cairo's Tahrir Sq. The protests are nowhere near as big as they were at the height of the revolution but still number many thousands. They come every Friday to celebrate what they have achieved and to push for the things they still want changed."
BEACH
Hope you don't object to a familiar recent shot - I've been drafted in to do PM today at the last minute and have just realised we had no beach to play on. So here it is - enjoy....
sequin.
Michael Buchanan writes:
Ghana men on the border
"In contrast to the chaos on the Tunisia side, the situation on the Egypt/Libya border is relatively stable. This, I think, is down to 2 main factors. Firstly the vast majority of people crossing here, around 75%, have been Egyptians who were living and working in Libya and have simply returned to their home towns. Secondly, the Egyptian military, who are in charge at the post, have been both well organised and understanding. The process, therefore, for getting to and from the border is clear. They have also in some cases laid on free buses to take people the hundreds of kilometres from the remote, dusty, sand-swept border post to the major population centres like Cairo and Alexandria.
There have of course been some problems and delays for people arriving here from countries other than Egypt. Hundreds, perhaps a couple of thousand, people have turned up with no passports or money. Most were working for large international construction companies, and under Libyan laws the companies held onto their passports. Some were also not paid for several weeks, meaning they also appeared without any money. That all resulted in hundreds of Bangladeshis in particular being forced to stay several days on the border until their embassy sent a representative to help them. But the International Organisation for Migration have now started laying on charter flights for them from Egypt to Bangladesh and the IOM describe the overall situation on the border, at least at the moment, as fairly orderly. "
Several members of the same football team in Libya flee.
A small aid convoy heads in
And now some music
Terry Stiastny writes: "Here's a photo of the orchestra and choir rehearsing the lost Vaughan Williams mass -- the first time anyone had ever played this piece in full since it was written in 1899. The world premiere of A Cambridge Mass is on Thursday at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon, with the Bach Choir and the New Queen's Hall Orchestra."
In the report below you'll hear from Alan Tongue, the conductor, who rediscovered the work."
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Michael Buchanan on the border between Libya and Egypt.
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