Morning briefing Monday 19th October

0:00Great meeting. Who took notes? Anyone? With Monday NoteTaker, nobody has to take notes again. It joins your call, transcribes it, and turns the whole conversation into a clear plan. Action items, owners, deadlines, all right there on your Monday.com board, ready for the team. So the meeting ends, and the plan already exists. Meetings aren't just talk anymore. Go to Monday.com, the AI workspace platform.

0:35This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Monday the 19th of October. France's Prime Minister is to chair an emergency crisis meeting after protests turned violent across the country over the weekend. Things escalated from what began as demonstrations against the rising cost of living and school conditions. Fires burned and shops ransacked in several major cities. Around 2 ,500 arrests were made and 500 officers injured. President Emmanuel Macron described feelings of anger and shame and called for unity following the worst riots France has seen in years. French political scientist Jean-Yves Camus told Times Radio what impact Macron's speech had made.

1:18His speech particularly didn't change anything with regard to the demonstrators' claim and their wish to continue rioting. The Prime Minister Andy Burnham says Britain is facing an economic catastrophe and moral failure because a generation of young people is being written off to a life on benefits. Writing in The Times, he argues that the time has come for Britain to invest in the success of young people rather than pay for failure through the benefits system. The PM says every young person will be guaranteed technical pathways, work placements, apprenticeships and the skills they need to find a job.

1:54There would be an expectation that they will take up the opportunities available to them. John McTernan is a former political secretary to Tony Blair and he's told Times Radio that it's a positive move. I think it's a big change in the language that Labour have been using over the last few years about welfare. It's positive. It's actually saying we're offering you something and we have an expectation that you'd step up to it. Authorities are continuing to investigate what Canada's Prime Minister has described as one of the country's worst peacetime military tragedies. Mark Carney has confirmed that four service personnel died in a fire at a training base.

2:31Sadie Stevenson is Ottawa bureau chief at the Globe and Mail. She's told Times Radio what's known so far. They're describing a very large grass fire that started off as a small smouldering fire and very rapidly became a wall of flame. There's no indication at this point how the fire started. The troops were on the range, working up, getting ready to deploy to Latvia in the coming future. President Trump housed back to Benjamin Netanyahu in this month's Israeli elections, calling him a great warrior. Posting on Truth Social, the US president said Israel's prime minister has been an even greater partner for peace in combating the Islamic Republic of Iran.

3:11Alan Eyre is a distinguished fellow at the Middle East Institute. He's told Times Radio that he's not surprised that Trump has made his support public. They do have a relationship and President Trump sees the world in terms of people and relationships, and he operates in what's called a favor economy. I do something for you, you do something for me. There's more on all these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

3:42For investors at the highest level of sophistication, those with strong advisory support, the natural outcome is two distinct portfolios, one public, one private. Each plays a different role in the overall strategy. Uncover new investment opportunities for you at creativeplanning.com slash new. Pessimism. It's never going to improve a disconnected healthcare system. Next. So what will? At Optum, we're working every day to connect primary, specialty, and pharmacy care, and help lower prescription costs. Will we fix it all overnight? No. But we'll wake up trying again and again until healthcare works as one for everyone.

4:21That's healthy optimism. Learn more at Optum.com.