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First up, today, we are looking at a combined effort to try to support the global economy. The federal reserve, the Fed, is the United State's central bank that means it's the country's main financial authority. It's responsible for printing up money and setting fianancial policies. Yesterday, the Fed annnounced a plan that involves five other central banks from around the world. They are teaming up to make it easier and cheaper for banks in any countries to borrow U.S dollars and other global currencies. Sometimes, banks need to borrow money in order to keep doing business.


That's especially true when there's a financial crisis like the one happening in Europe right now. So, this plan might sound like good news that could help the European economy. It seemed to go over well with investors. Global stock markets went up yesterday. But some analysts are saying this plan isn't actually good news that it won't solve the Europe's debt crisis. They believe it just shows how worried these central banks are about the crisis getting worse and possibly spreading to other parts of the world. Those services can't be different from country to country. But some examples of public sector jobs, might include police officers, some transportation workers or public school teachers.Those were some of the folks who walked off the job yesterday in the United Kingdom. Strikes swept across the country. The employees stopped working to protest government plans to reduce their pensions. Those are the benenfits that workers get after they retire. The British government said the strikes didn't have much impact on public services, though more than half of the country's schools were closed because of the strikes. Our reporter looks at the buildup to this dispute between the governmnet and workers.

Reporter:
In Britain, the age of austerity is increasingly bitter and acrimonious. First the students fought battles over the rising cost of education. Now the protests are spreading this time over pension reform. From closed schools where teachers won't turn up to chaos airports, boarder agency staff are also walking out, Even some non urgent operations at hospitals are being canceled, as staff strike, all in protests at government plans to cut state worker retirement plans.
Unions are likening it to a general strike such is its scope and potential affect. The phrase general strike evokes echoes of the 1926 action that crippled Britain. 2011 won't be as bad, but it will still cause major disruption.

"Everyone should be clear that there is going to be distruption. And the reason for that disruption, the responsibility for that disruption lies squarely with trade union leaders who've decided on a strike even while the negotiations are ongoing. I think that is irresponsible, I think that is wrong. People should know who to blame." 

Unions blame the bailout of the banks for the current swave of cutbacks. Just a short distance from the glittering financial quarters of Canary Wharf, is one school that will close for the day. Pupils at George green's may be smiling at the thought of an extra day off lessons. But it will cause headaches for parents. Headteacher Kenny Frederick is going on strike for the first time in her 37 year career.

"Never been on strike and I was a teacher through the 80's when every second day seemed to be a strike.I don't really believe in striking. but I just don't feel as well anything else that we can do."

U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is doing something that hasn't happened in 50 years. A U.S secretary of State is visitng the country of Myanmar. This is a country, that the U.S governmnet says, it knows the least about. The south east country is reclusive. Myanmar which is sometimes called Burma, tends to keep itself apart from the rest of the world. But secretary Cliton is hoping to learn more about it during her two day visit there. She was met by officials when she landed in the country's capital yesterday. A millitary government ruled Myanmar for nearly forty years and reportedly used harsh policies against its people. The country has a new government now. It's been making some reforms. She said, she wants to see how serious Myanmar is about those changes.


That doesn't mean there can't be any hurricanes until next June. Theses storms can still form anytime outside of that six months window. Before the season starts, experts make predictions about how many storms we are going to have. Our reporter is here to tell us how those predictions worked out this season. What was the final tally for this year?

Reporter:
2011 hurricane season is over. Here you go. Three landfalling storms. Only one landfalling hurricane. That was Hurricane Irene. Very few people will forget that up the east coast  the East Coast from Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, parts of North Carolina which did get a direct hit there by the storm. Irene will be remembered as a flood maker not so much a wind maker. We had 18 named storms altogether, 7 hurricanes, 3 major hurricanes.
Most of that didn't hit anything. That's the good news. On that average year, you should have 11 named storms. We have 17. You should 6 hurricanes. We had 7. And You should 2 major hurricanes. We had 3. And then forcast actually, right along what we have here, and NOAA's forcast's right exactly in the middle. A perfect forecast from the NOAA in the August forecast for them. We made it all the way up from Irene through Sindy and Gurt all the way up to Sean.
If your name is Tammy, you didn't get your hurricane this year. Most of them, other than Irene, will probably be used again. They rotate these name every six years. So if your name's tammy, maybe six years from you'll have another chance.


This date, December 1st, is the World's AIDS day. ADIS stands for acquired immunodificiency syndrome. And it's caused by HIV, Human Immunodificiency Virus. Your immune system can clear most of the viruses out of your body.
But HIV and ADIS attack the body's immune system and make it vulnerable to other infections. According to the latest estimates, more than 33 million people are living with HIV or AIDS worldwide. The disease has killed more than 25 million people since its first cases were diagnosed in the early 1980s. World's AIDS day has three main goals to it; To raise awareness about the fight against this disease, to support the people living with it, and to honor the memories of who those died from it.


Alright, before we go today. One of these things is not like the others. Jet, Jet, Jetman. This dude is wearing a personal wing-end engine. He's flying in formation with a pair of actual jets. Cruising speed for the personal jet wing is 137 miles per hour.
Now that's the fastest that jet man can fly but it's almost slow enough for the real jets flying near him to stall. The winged warrior has shown off his skills before flying over the Grand Canyon. What he will do for his next big stunt, probably just gonna wing it. Clock says it's time for us to jet. I guess time flies when you are having pun.