Darum begann die “Tagesschau” am Montag eine Minute später

Darum begann die “Tagesschau” am Montag eine Minute später

Die 20-Uhr-Nachrichten der ARD sind eine Institution. Am Montagabend hat die “Tagesschau” eine Minute zu spät begonnen.

“Grund dafür waren technische Probleme in der zentralen Sendeleitung”, hieß es wenig später auf dem Twitter-Kanal der Sendung – die eigentlich stets pünktlich um Punkt 20 Uhr beginnt.

“Wir hoffen, Sie haben die ersten 60 Sekunden irgendwie gut überbrücken können.”

Die Moderatorin der Ausgabe, Judith Rakers, antwortete auf Twitter: “Ich hab die Zeit genutzt, um das Handball-Ergebnis noch schnell hart zu feiern.”

Bei der Handball-Europameisterschaft in Kroatien schaffte die deutsche Nationalmannschaft am Montag ein 25:25 gegen Slowenien – dank eines Videobeweises kurz vor Spielende.

Wie viele Zuschauer die kleine Verspätung mitbekamen, ist derzeit noch nicht bekannt. Die Ermittlung der Einschaltquoten ist immer noch wegen technischer Probleme gestört.

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NHS Winter Crisis: Even Jacob Rees Mogg Says The NHS Needs More Money

NHS Winter Crisis: Even Jacob Rees Mogg Says The NHS Needs More Money
Jacob Rees Mogg has joined the chorus of voices calling for an end to cutbacks to the NHS. 

The prominent Tory backbencher has said it will be “very hard to continue” with health service austerity in 2018 “however much there are limited resources”.

The Brexiteer told Conservative Home the winter flu outbreak was putting hospitals under unprecedented strain and the Prime Minister could not avoid taking action.

It comes after repeated calls by the Labour Party for May to release more money and even Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said that Vote Leave’s pledge to hand the NHS £350m-a-week actually underestimated the scale of cash needed.

The backbencher said housing was key for May in 2018, but added: “The other obvious area is the health service, which is clearly under strain during the winter flu outbreak but in reality austerity in the NHS for 7 years of 1% real increases which is against what has happened in its previous history and is going to be very hard to continue with, however much there are limited resources.”

Doctors and nurses have told HuffPost UK of unprecedented pressures on A&E, including patients waiting 10 hours to be seen by a doctor and stressed staff using their own hospital’s mental health services.

Hospitals were also forced to cancel around 55,000 operations to cope with demand.

Johnson said that the UK’s weekly gross contribution to the EU would rise to £438m, and that the NHS should get extra cash when Britain left.

Rees Mogg also said the NHS should look to use its power to fine councils where a lack of social care beds led to bed blocking at hospitals.

It comes after Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had responsibility for social care added to his brief in May’s reshuffle.

Rees Mogg said this had previously been viewed as an “aggressive approach towards councils” but, given the scale of the NHS crisis, government “may want to put a little pressure on” local authorities to provide social care.

The influential Tory backbencher also said the Conservatives should not rule out building more homes on green belt land, despite the fierce opposition it may face from Tory associations at a local level.

It comes amid escalating demand for homes, with many young people locked out of the housing market due to a lack of supply and affordable housing.

Rees Mogg said some green belt was “pretty ugly scrub land”, suggesting that not all of it should remain protected from development.  The North East Somerset MP said “the mood of the country has changed” to favour more housebuilding, but added he may even have problems convincing those in his own constituency that building on green belt was part of the solution.

He said: “I recognise that even in my own constituency we are going to face these difficult choices”.

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Inflation zieht wieder an: Was das für euch bedeutet

Inflation zieht wieder an: Was das für euch bedeutet
Shine Bright Like the Euro.

Das Leben in Deutschland ist wieder teurer geworden. An diesem Dienstag veröffentlicht das Statistische Bundesamt Details zur Entwicklung der Inflation im Jahr 2017. 

Das ist passiert: 

► Nach vorläufigen Zahlen des Statistischen Bundesamtes trieben gestiegene Energie- und Nahrungsmittelpreise die Inflation in Deutschland 2017 auf den höchsten Stand seit fünf Jahren.

► Die Verbraucherpreise legten im Jahresschnitt um 1,8 Prozent zu. Einen stärkeren Zuwachs hatte es zuletzt 2012 mit 2,0 Prozent gegeben.

► Auch höhere Mieten trugen zu dem Anstieg im vergangenen Jahr bei. Im Euroraum stiegen die Verbraucherpreise zum Jahresende wieder etwas langsamer: Im Dezember lag die Inflation nach Angaben von Eurostat um 1,4 Prozent höher als im Vorjahresmonat.

Darum ist es wichtig: 

Hinter der steigenden Inflation steckt auch Kalkül der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB). Die Währungshüter streben mittelfristig eine Teuerungsrate von knapp unter 2,0 Prozent an – weit genug entfernt von der Nullmarke.

Bei diesem Wert spricht die Notenbank von Preisstabilität und sieht die Gefahr des Abrutschens in eine Deflation gebannt.

Mehr zum Thema: Deutsche Wirtschaft wächst weiter – so stark wie lange nicht

Für die meisten Menschen wird die steigende Inflation wohl kaum spürbar sein. 

Weil die Löhne stärker zulegten als die Inflation, haben Deutschlands Tarifbeschäftigte unter dem Strich mehr im Geldbeutel.

Nach Berechnungen der gewerkschaftlichen Hans-Böckler-Stiftung stiegen die Löhne und Gehälter durchschnittlich um 2,4 Prozent. Nach Abzug der Preissteigerung blieb ein Plus von rund 0,6 Prozent.

Was ihr noch wissen müsst:

Für Sparer ergibt sich aus der steigenden Inflation dennoch ein Nachteil.

Denn sie verlieren derzeit unterm Strich Geld, wenn sie Geld auf Tagesgeldkonten oder Sparbüchern parken.

Dort gibt es wegen der Nullzinspolitik der EZB kaum noch Zinsen. Und je weiter die Teuerungsrate über den mickrigen Zinsen liegt, umso schneller verliert das Ersparte an Wert.

➨ Mehr zum Thema:  Darum werden wir auch in Zukunft immer Bargeld nutzen

 

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Carillion Collapse: Justice Ministers Under Fire For Failing To Wrest Control Of Prison Maintenance From Firm

Carillion Collapse: Justice Ministers Under Fire For Failing To Wrest Control Of Prison Maintenance From Firm
Public cash was thrown at Carillion to maintain British prisons despite ministers twice admitting the soon-to-go-bust firm was failing to deliver.

Cells were left with smashed windows while inmates lived in squalor and, in some cases, were unable to access a towel and soap.

But the Government still handed Carillion almost £100m from the public purse over the course of two years despite warnings. 

Outsourcing and construction giant Carillion – which employs 20,000 British people – went into liquidation on Monday after issuing a major profits warning last year.

It has public sector or public/private partnership contracts worth a staggering £1.7bn, including providing school dinners, cleaning and catering at NHS hospitals, building HS2 and maintaining 50,000 army base homes for the Ministry of Defence.

It had issued three profits warnings before collapsing and had been struggling under £900m of debt and a £587m pension deficit.

Now justice ministers face a barrage of questions over why Carillion’s prison maintenance contracts weren’t wrested from the firm when serious evidence of failure started to emerge. They twice revealed in Parliament they were unhappy with the group’s performance.

In September, the then Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah told MPs: “I am particularly concerned about the rate of repairs in our prisons.

“Carillion is one company that has a contract and receives public funds to perform such work, and I have not been impressed by what I have heard about its response speed. I will meet its management to ensure that it delivers what we expect.”

Then in February 2017, Gyimah said he attempted to set up an action plan with Carillion, adding: “The performance of Carillion caused sufficient concern that I met with Carillion senior executives to set out our expectations for immediate service improvement.”

Despite those admissions, Carillion was given £99.5m for prison maintenance contracts since June 2015, including £39.8m in 2017 alone.

Prisons and probation contracts in the private sector were supposed to deliver £100m of savings, but a damning report by HM Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke was utterly damning about the state of the prisons estate last year.

Clarke found cockroaches, filthy toilets, litter-strewn cells and electric wires hanging above shower cubicles.

Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon said: “This is not just about the shortcomings of Carillion but represents the Government’s damaging obsession with privatisation and outsourcing across our justice sector and beyond.

“Carillion continued to pocket tens of millions of pounds per year from the taxpayer for running prison contracts even when it was clear to ministers themselves that it was failing to properly deliver basic maintenance services.

“When these essential repair services were outsourced, they didn’t just fail to deliver the promised savings but made it more difficult for prison governors to manage prisoners and to help turn their lives around.

“Cells were left unusable and prisoners unable at times to even get access to towels and soap.

“Labour has not only ruled out building any more private prisons but had already promised that in office it would look at returning prison service repairs contracts to the public sector. The Government must now bring those Carillion prison contracts back in house.”

Steve Gillan General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association called the conditions in jails “inhumane” and said urgent action was needed to carry out repairs that Carillion had not done.

He said: “We need to know the contingency plans to keep our prisons operational. During the time Carillion had this contract the level of essential maintenance and work that is outstanding has spiraled out of control. This has resulted in loss of prison accommodation and inhumane conditions in our prisons”.

Gillan added: “When these contracts were let the POA and other unions within the MoJ raised serious concerns and objections.”

Ministers from across government met for an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the fallout from the Carillion crisis.

The Government also faces questions over why it continued to hand Carillion public sector contracts despite the profits warning.

Ministers said the company refused a last-ditch £20m bailout, saying the firm and not taxpayers should foot the bill for Carillion’s failure.

Anger also erupted in Parliament over the bonuses handed to top Carillion bosses.

The firm’s former chief executive Richard Howson pocketed £1.5m in salary, bonuses and pension payments during 2016 and, as part of his departure deal,Carillion agreed to keep paying him a £660,000 salary and £28,000 in benefits until October.

Former finance chief Zafar Khan, who left Carillion in September, will receive £425,000 in base salary for 12 months.

Interim chief executive Keith Cochrane will be paid his £750,000 salary until July, despite leaving the company in February.

The chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, Labour MP Rachel Reeves, said the huge salary payments should stop immediately.

She said that despite Carillion’s towering debts “year after year after year, they paid dividends out to their shareholders.”

Reeves hit out at Howson’s continued salary payments and called for them to be stopped “as of today” before demanding a shake-up in the UK’s corporate governance laws “so that companies can’t siphon off money to the detriment of suppliers, workers and ultimately the British taxpayer.”

Cabinet Office minister David Lidington told MPs that the role of the company’s former and current directors in Carillion’s collapse will be investigated by the Official Receiver, and they could face “severe penalties”.

He said that while it would be wrong to pre-empt any inquiry, “I can certainly well understand and appreciate that sense of unfairness”.

Referring to claims that the past and present board of directors could still benefit from planned payouts, Lidington said: “The Official Receiver does not only have power to investigate but the power to impose severe penalties if he thinks misconduct has taken place.”

The Government’s response Carillion saga is set to dominate the news agenda this week, as it emerged failed to appoint a key Government oversight position sat vacant for three months towards the end of last year.

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Horrorhaus in Kalifornien: Eltern fesselten ihre Kinder und ließen sie hungern

Horrorhaus in Kalifornien: Eltern fesselten ihre Kinder und ließen sie hungern
Das Haus der Eltern in Perris.

  • Eltern in den USA haben ihre 13 Kinder unter grausamen Bedingungen im eigenen Haus gefangen gehalten
  • Die Polizei befreite die Geschwister, die Eltern erwartet eine Anklage

Für die Kinder muss das Zuhause die Hölle gewesen sein: Kaum zu essen oder zu trinken, von den eigenen Eltern ans Bett gefesselt.

Die Polizei hat in Kalifornien am Montag eine schockierende Entdeckung gemacht: Ein Ehepaar hat seine 13 Kinder über Monate unter grausamen Bedingungen gefangen gehalten.

Einem Mädchen gelang die Flucht. Die 17-Jährige habe dann die Polizei verständigt, berichtet das Büro des Bezirkssheriffs in Riverside.

Gefesselt mit Ketten und Vorhängeschlössern

Den Beamten boten sich erschütternde Bilder.

► Einige der Geschwister seien mit Ketten und Vorhängeschlössern an ihre Betten gefesselt gewesen.

► Sie seien unterernährt und sehr schmutzig gewesen.

► Ihre Umgebung beschreibt die Mitteilung als dunkel und faulig riechend.

Vater (57) und Mutter (49) hätten nicht erklären können, warum sie ihre Kinder festhielten, heißt es in dem Bericht.

Die 13 Geschwister sind zwischen zwei und 29 Jahren alt, berichtete der Sheriff. Es handle sich um sechs Kinder und sieben Erwachsene. Die Beamten hielten zunächst alle Opfer für Kinder.

Die Polizeibeamten seien schockiert gewesen, als sie erkannten, dass sieben der Opfer Erwachsene waren.

Eltern erwartet Anklage

Die 13 Opfer wurden zunächst auf der Polizeiwache mit Getränken und Lebensmitteln versorgt, ehe sie zur Behandlung in umliegende Krankenhäuser gebracht wurden.

Die Eltern wurden festgenommen. Sie erwartet jetzt eine Anklage wegen schweren Missbrauchs und der Gefährdung Schutzbefohlener. Für Vater und Mutter wurde eine hohe Kaution von jeweils neun Millionen US-Dollar festgesetzt.

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Laverne Cox, Lena Waithe, and Angela Robinson speak out in support of Time’s Up movement at the 49th Annual NAACP Image Awards

Laverne Cox, Lena Waithe, and Angela Robinson speak out in support of Time’s Up movement at the 49th Annual NAACP Image Awards

49th Annual NAACP Image Awards
NAACP

The 49th Annual NAACP Image Awards took place Monday night in Pasadena, California, honoring outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts and LGBTQ representation was strong throughout the night.

Anthony Anderson hosted the ceremony, which for the first time ever took place on the evening of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Anderson deftly balanced the fine line between humor and the political issues of the day. His opening monologue included jokes about Confederate statues, Omarosa, Tyrese Gibson, and Donald Trump. Soon thereafter, Anderson won for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in “black-ish.”

In a powerful moment immediately following the opening monologue, LGBTQ stars Laverne Cox, Lena Waithe, and Angela Robinson took the stage alongside Kerry Washington, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Jurnee Smollett-Bell to talk about the TIme’s Up movement and introduce the Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture category, which was won by Octavia Spencer for her role in “Gifted.”

“We are America’s black women,” said Washington, kicking off the array of short speeches. 

“An extension and embodiment of the legacy of the work the NAACP has done,” said Waithe, who then added, “Time’s up on the abuse of power.”

“Standy by us, stand for us, stand with us,” said Cox. 

Stand by us. Stand for us. Stand with us. #TIMESUP #Imageawards #ATT #HumanityofConnection pic.twitter.com/XjDeIIR2m5

— NAACP Image Awards (@naacpimageaward) January 16, 2018

“The midterms are a perfect moment to use our voices,” said Professor Marston and the Wonder Women director Robinson, riling up the crowd.

“We can not sit this one out,” Cox continued.

“If we can take back a Senate seat in Alabama….” added Robinson… “Then we have the ability to shift the balance of power,” Smollett finished.

“Register to vote! Then vote! Get involved,” added Waithe. 

LGBTQ television nominees for the evening included out actors Titus Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Jussie Smollett (Empire), and Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale), all of whom received nominations for playing LGBTQ characters on their respective shows.

Nominated television shows with LGBTQ-inclusive content included Netflix’s Dear White People, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, OWN’s Queen Sugar, NBC’s This is Us, Disney Junior’s Doc McStuffins, NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Out writer/director Justin Simien was nominated for both Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for Dear White PeopleMaster of None’s Emmy Award-winning “Thanksgiving” episode received a nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series, for an episode loosely based on the life of co-writer, Waithe. 

On the film side, lesbian filmmaker Dee Rees received nominations for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture for the Netflix film Mudbound. Professor Marston and The Wonder Women, written and directed by Robinson, was nominated for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture. And queer actress Amandla Stenberg was nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her lead role in Everything, Everything. Documentary Whose Streets? received a nomination for Outstanding Documentary (Film).

Individual winners for the night in television categories included Taraji P. Henson for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series (“Empire”), Ellis Ross for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series (“black-ish”), Omari Hardwick for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series (“Power”), and Jay Ellis for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (“Insecure”).

“black-ish” won for Outstanding Comedy Series. “Power” won for Outstanding Drama Series.

Winners in film categories included Tiffany Haddish for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (“Girls Trip”), Daniel Kaluuya for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture (“Get Out”), and Idris Elba for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (“Thor: Ragnorak”).

“Girls Trip” won Outstanding Motion Picture. 

Director Ava Duvernay, whose “A Wrinkle in Time” opens in March, won the prestigious Entertainer of the Year award, which was presented to her by Mary J. Blige. 

Congratulations @Ava on receiving the honor of Entertainer of the Year!

Congratulations @ava on your Entertainer of the Year win! #ImageAwards #ATT #HumanityofConnection pic.twitter.com/i5MVeMgZll

— NAACP Image Awards (@naacpimageaward) January 16, 2018

Danny Glover received the honorary President’s Award, quoting James Baldwin in a stirring speech about the state of race in America. William Lucy received the Chairman’s Award.

A particularly moving performance was delivered by Andra Day, who sang “Strange Fruit” before being joined on stage by Common for their duet “Stand Up For Something” from the film “Marshall.”

The In Memorial segment honored an array of amazing entertainers lost this past year, ranging from musicians Chuck Berry and Joni Sledge to actors Robert Guillame and Della Reese.

#GonetooSoon pic.twitter.com/fr7b0nTYI2

— TV One (@tvonetv) January 16, 2018

Click here for a full list of nominees and winners.

January 15, 2018

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