Welcome to bbc news. Im mike embley. Our top stories china deploys the military as concern grows over the true scale of the coronavirus in Hubei Province. The us senate votes to limit President Trumps ability to wage war against iran. The un says 800,000 people have been displaced in syria since december in the offensive by government forces. Antarctica registers a temperature of more than 20 celsius for the First Time Since records began. Hello to you. The World Health Organization has requested further clarity from china about its recent official change in how cases of the coronavirus are diagnosed. The new broader definition has produced what appears to be a spike in the figures in Hubei Province there are now more than 55,000 cases recorded there. But the who says infection and mortality rates are not rising dramatically outside china. John sudworth reports from beijing. Chinas at war with this virus, flying in extra supplies and a reinforcement of 2,600 extra troops. But theres st
Its not going to be a bad day today many of us. Tomorrow however, it is going to be more cloudy with rain around. The weekend is a split and todayis around. The weekend is a split and today is the better day. We can see a window of whether at the moment. Clear skies but mist and fog in good morning. Welcome to breakfast places. These low pressure here with with Naga Munchetty and charlie stayt. Its rain bearing cloud is heading in our headlines today our direction so all of the cloud closing in on victory you can see here will be bleak joe biden tells america that he is on his way will be in place across the uk to the white house. Tomorrow. This same area of low pressure is also scooping up some mild airfrom the the numbers tell us its clear, tell pressure is also scooping up some mild air from the southern climes. Low pressure is put in the air us the numbers tell us its clear, tell usa the numbers tell us its clear, tell us a clear and convincing story are northwards and you can see
The invasion would be cancelled. At dozens of airfields, the spitfires and the hurricanes came home. The main skill was luck, you had to be lucky. No matter how good you were, for instance my boss, dickie lee, was the best pilot ive ever seen. But he was shot down and killed. So he had no luck. I had bags of luck. I couldnt do that. But here i am. Like so many events this year, battle of britain day will be a quiet affair, but this light show at the uks first ever radar station in norfolk is a reminder that we celebrate and remember a true team effort. Robert hall, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather
heres louise lear. A heart warming story deserves heart warming weather. Sparkling blue sky and sunshine for many, almost picture postcard perfect in norfolk today, this is where we will probably see the highest values, High Pressure is dominating the weather and allowing the southerly feet of air to come all the way from africa and get us above average temperatures. There are some w
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President Clinton's 1995 defense budget, which allocates $1.29 trillion for defense from 1995 through 1999, continues his Administration ,s systematic dismantling of the nation's defenses so painstakingly rebuilt by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s., In the Clinton plan, the Department of Defense will fall short of its funding re- quirements-as outlined in the Administration's own "Bottom-Up Review"-by nearly $ 100 billion. The Ad- ministration and Congress must stop looking for "savings" in the defense budget, which has paid more than its share in cost-cutting efforts by three Administrations since the Reagan build-up peaked in 1985. To be sure, Clinton slightly raised this year's defense budget by $1.8 billion.2 However, when adjusted for in- flation, the 1995 defense budget still shows a decline of 0.9 percent. This is the tenth straight year of declining defense budgets. Furthermore, the budget will decline in inflation-adjusted terms in each of th