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What can New York do with its empty office buildings? – BBC News
Building vacancy rates are at a 30-year high in many US cities – including New York, which had a staggering 22.2% of office space sitting empty in the first three months of the year.
So what can be done with all that unused space, as many workers continue to do their jobs remotely?
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Saudi Arabia’s energy minister has threatened a ‘serious’ response to the deadly Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s international airport. Flights remain suspended and are expected to remain so for days.
The Houthis said they launched the attacks in retaliation for “brutal Saudi aggression” against areas they control in western Yemen.
The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner examines how it is that Saudia Arabia – which spends billions on its defence – can not stop the Houthis from attacking its people.
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One person has been killed and 11 injured in a second strike on the international airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, officials have said.
A Saudi military spokesman said a projectile had hit King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, causing a fire in a passenger hall. Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said in a statement that one person, a Pakistani resident, had been killed in the attack.
It comes a day after a strike on the same airport killed 13 people and injured 308 others.
The Houthis in Yemen said they were behind them and warned airlines and passengers against using Saudi Arabian airports and airspace.
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Inside the secret factories making Britain’s fake cigarettes – Behind The Investigation | BBC News
One in every six cigarettes smoked in the UK is counterfeit.
In this episode of BBC News Behind the Investigation, Melanie Stewart-Smith talks to File on 4 Investigates reporter Jane Deith about how the team uncovered the global criminal networks flooding Britain with fake cigarettes, and the human cost behind every cheap pack.
Jane explains how the team traced the supply chain from secret factories in Belgium to corner shops, minimarts and cash and carries across the UK.
We also look at why gangs are moving from drugs to fake cigarettes. A former senior Europol official says they now make as much money as they do from drugs, with far lower prison sentences if they’re caught. The profits are being used to fund weapons, people smuggling and even terrorism.
Do people really know what they’re funding when they buy cheap cigarettes?
Hear the full investigation: search for File on 4 Investigates on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0032sbc
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0:00 Intro
0:54 Why investigate counterfeit cigarettes?
2:00 How big is the UK fake cigarette market?
3:31 Undercover in Liverpool
5:30 Tip-off from Belgian customs
6:20 How Polish gangs run the trade
7:18 The dawn raid near Brussels
8:02 Inside the raided factory
11:15 The hidden factory in South Yorkshire
12:15 The trapped workers’ story
14:09 Emerson’s story
15:09 How big and organised are these operations?
16:21 Why gangs target the UK
17:30 More money than drugs, less risk
18:21 What the UK government says
19:15 The violence behind the trade
20:54 What buyers are really paying for
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Since Andy Burnham has been in office he has consistently mentioned Brexit and why he thinks it has been a bad deal for the UK. Now, he says he wants to “deepen” the UK’s relationship with the EU at a summit in Brussels next month. Adam, Chris and Faisal Islam discuss if he has Brexit strategy, what it might be, and what it could mean for the next general election.
Plus, Faisal is in Bangkok where the International Monetary Fund has upgraded its UK growth forecast for the year. He outlines the outlook for the UK and how it fits in with the global picture.
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Americans will head to the polls in 17 days to decide how the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency will play out.
Thousands of races are taking place across the US, at different levels of government, on 3 November. But the main event for voters will be electing members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the two chambers that make up Congress. Both of them are currently controlled by the Republicans, the president’s party.
The success or failure of Trump’s final two years in office could rest on the outcome.
The BBC examines the key battleground states and what the Republicans and Democrats are doing to win these crucial midterms.
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@southernseahawk
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Let’s give all that empty space to the immigrants and provide them with the resources to survive there instead of the hotel rooms…it wouldn’t take muchit’s a win win…hotels recover and offices filled with homeless immigrants where the city can pay the mortgage holders 350 dollars a day😮…gonna get banned again
@malakturk6887
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Never going back to the office. I don’t care about commercial real estate. If they force me go back, I will quit and get the next job.
@sovereignprime4683
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
im into it
@michaellaflotteron7665
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
2:38 OMG THATS MY DAD WOOOOOOOOO
@marcinhibner9507
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
One idea would be to place electric batteries and install solar panels instead of windows and inside also computer servers and and just loaded building with hydroponic systems to grow fresh veggies as well sell energy back sell high end foods and sell rotation. Lots of ideas.
@marcinhibner9507
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
What to do with the buildings? That idea is worth billions of in new US dollars.
@contrarian322
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Turn them into toilets .
@Hanse-dx4de
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Small apartements
@axnyslie
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Turn them into affordable housing or implode them and make parks.
@richardcampbell7255
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Convert them to affordable rental apartments!
@Cryptic_Crypt1d
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
house homeless people?
@lordofhowell7158
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
The uk would soon fill these buildings 😂😂
@lynseyluvsatwink9800
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
We can make them into tourist attractions. They'll be like our pyramids. Then in a thousand years, people can study them; and talk about how aliens must have built them, because they are also studying old Fox News footage and assume every American was a moron.
@rusaliagumerova33chingizhan
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Hire Professionals , surely there are many People who would love to Enjoy this Space , I would take these buildings , I would use them for My Company & Uniwide Formations Company , Lets Negotiate ,
@Mando_Trucker
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Demolish the overpriced real estate.
@Elaiyel
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
What to do with these empty buildings? House the homeless and the immigrants. Snd the government can pay the building owners rent.
@hubertlawrence4903
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Lower rent prices
@Rubylove48
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
I hate how corporate media news have become shameless advertorials for capitalist hysteria.
@adineatha9766
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Sell them to the Japanese. The Japanese takeover of Northeast US. Korean takeover of East US. Taiwanese takeover of Southeast US.
Chinese takeover of Northern US. Tibetan, Sikkimese and Bhutanese takeover of Midwest.
Mexican takeover of Southwest. Caribbean takeover of Florida.
@niceandflyy
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Easy solution turn them into apartments , condos , museums , restaurants , retail stores , observation decks and etc
@RayMak
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
The movie shooting location is a lot of money
@SelfAugment
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
We will rent these apartments and we will be happy
@JYOTISH.das.
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Bbc should ban in uk
@JYOTISH.das.
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
NYC = no tree -high air pollution – high temp – most expensive
Why should stay here 😂
@tobehonest7541
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
And yet 84,526 homeless people in NYC
#SHAME
@ronnelacido1711
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Turn those empty buildings to refugee housing. Make an inventory of all vacant buildings nationwide. Spruce them up to become first-class accommodation for refugees for free. The federal government will foot the bill including the lease to the buildings for as long as it takes. Everybody wins. Problem solved.
@passurlamer
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Time to re-distribute some of that wealth back down the ladder via cheaper rents. Haha, just kidding. Like that will ever happen.
@cliveabbey8587
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Why not start holding Massive Free Acid House/ Techno / Punk & Space Rock Weekend 🎶 😎 Rave Parties 🎉 ❤ 😊 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😄 🤣 😂 😅 😂 😊 🌟 ❤️ 😍
@Justin-yc1ig
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Turn them into swinger communities
@JTSunriseMusic
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Capitalism Reality: Market collapse is always eminent
@successinstinct5984
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Why not do permanent work from home for work that can be done from home easily? Employees are happy, it will reduce carbon emissions and the company can save millions as well!
@jamesmartin3599
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Amazing…. Short lease for movies/tv….good luck.
@jamescote9925
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
It's New York is a Democrat state. New York City is hardcor cool. When all these apartments become available? All these immigrants organism living in and not pay rent free, right?
@jamescote9925
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
How are you gonna build apartments and nobody's going to pay you rent
@manishkaushik4595
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Give them to poor black peoples. Be kind to them.
@wesleydeng71
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Let the homeless move in. They have plenty of them.
@opaque2208
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Commercial real-estate will never be the same, thats why they buying up all the single family homes.
@mashaallahkhorshidi6288
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
NO, NO, NO TO REMOTE WORK
No to work at home #
@mashaallahkhorshidi6288
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Offices must open all offices are opening must be in place soon Now
@mashaallahkhorshidi6288
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Also, people will getting ill and illnesses will be getting higher
It is disasters that works in the home or in the so called remotely no must stopped sooner than later
If the offices closed Because of work at home or so called remote work, It will be all the business mostly will be destroyed and Quality of the services will be poor and out of the control
No, No to remote works #
@mashaallahkhorshidi6288
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
No must not be like that
Because all the business will be destroyed if the building empty from staff and workers
@GhenAurwin
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Will need this space for the waves of aylees expected to continue arriving.
@varunsjster
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Bbc – capital of western hipocracy and hangovers from the past
@issimplelife2702
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
those emty space for homeless and imigrant
@Uno-1968
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Imagine the council tax bill let alone the rent
@shorts_dose
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
There are thousands of homeless people give them empty space
@holyheretic3185
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Don't worry! It won't go towards helping the homeless.
@bankrollkaine
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Turn NYC into an apocalypse!!
@bradrousse5928
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Yes, I'm sure converting those office buildings into apartments no normal person could afford will definitely help.
I always wanted to live in New York and I finally abandoned it after seven years because the literal cost is just not worth it.
@constantinesal732
December 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Fill them with the homeless! DUH 🙄! Why do you keep turning your face from the homeless!?