Morning briefing Thursday 12th November

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0:36This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Thursday the 12th of November. The former Health Secretary, Alan Milburn, will recommend Labour prevent most young people from claiming sickness and disability benefits and replace them with a youth allowance. Milburn has spent the past year conducting a review into the one million young people who aren't in education, employment or training. In an interview with The Times, he said he'd concluded that the system needed to be rebuilt from scratch to stop people being trapped on benefits. Speaking to Times Radio, the former Minister of State for Skills, Robert Halfon, highlighted several other potential initiatives of the reform.

1:15We need more vocational training in our schools. I welcome what the Prime Minister has said, for example, on more technical and vocational training from 14 to 19. University Technical College sleeves, which would be in secondary schools and would focus from 14 to 19 on high-quality technical education. A former editor-in-chief of ITN and ex-BBC board member says the increasing casualisation in media production has eroded editorial oversight in favour of protecting lucrative talent. Speaking to Times Radio, Richard Tate claimed an unchecked imbalance of power had protected high-profile presenters for too long.

1:54He cited a misuse of gagging clauses as well as a disproportionate leverage enjoyed by on-screen stars over short-term behind-the-scenes staff. He also said systemic reform and genuine whistleblower support are urgently required. The balance of power between presenters and editors or executive producers, who should be responsible for the welfare of everybody as well as responsible for the quality of the output, that that power has shifted in the last 15-20 years because the broadcasters and indeed the entertainment industry have become convinced that the talent is what really matters. Jensen Huang, the chief executive of NVIDIA, who is fighting to save his career amid fears he was compromised by a suspected Chinese spy, is reported to have had a further relationship with an employee at his company.

2:46According to the New York Times, Wang was filmed with Kimberly Powell, who is Nvidia's vice president of health care, and 15 years his junior. Officials in New York have confirmed at least two people have died and ten others have been injured after a three-story apartment building collapsed in Brooklyn. Four people are known to be in a critical condition, and a further six were transported to hospital with minor injuries. The mayor of New York City is Zoran Mamdani. I want to thank our city's first responders for their quick and professional response. This has been an incredibly challenging and fast-moving situation, with precarious wreckage to navigate and dangerous voids beneath the surface.

3:26This type of rescue is exactly what the FDNY trains for. And Andy Burnham has arrived in the Turkish city of Antalya, ahead of a series of meetings with global leaders at COP31. The Prime Minister is also expected to appoint formally Dame Madeleine Alessandri as the UK's new climate security envoy. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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