Look the. As a 1000 voices with angel voices ever singing. Good morning welcome to the Sunday regular show on b.b.c. Radio Cumbria it is of course the 1st Sunday of Advent 1st proper day of winter as well the meteorologist would tell you as you might detect Richard is not here this morning so I m Helen Milliken sitting in through until 9 normal service a pa is there on what is shaping up to be a crisp clear and very cold Sunday morning perfect Advent conditions and over the next 93 hours we will be delving into the meaning behind several of our most revered and loved Advent customs symbols and him as as well as being treated to a glimpse behind the scenes of the Nativity play. Will be looking at the pros and cons of religious leaders becoming embroiled in politics will find out how to churches can play their part in getting children out of the gang culture that will celebrate the advent of a new mission community for the county. Also discover how and perhaps why our cathedrals are ri
And the thing to do it is different from that would have been the other inventor of the World Wide Web search him Berners Lee is launching a global action plan for the Internet to try to stump up political manipulation fake news and privacy violations his contract for the web sets out 9 principles were governments companies and individuals Here s our technology correspondent Rick Kathlyn Jones 30 years after he created the Web sit in Berners Lee is worried about where it s heading he s contract for the web is a project bringing countries corporations and individuals together in an effort to combat threats such as online Harris meant election interference and the spread of misinformation so Tim told the b.b.c. That Facebook should ban targeted political advertising and he also attacked the conservatives over an incident where they rebranded their press office Twitter account as fact check you can see he described it as very brazen to impersonate an independent organization Scotland s m
People called to testify this week of already made it clear they don t intend to appear this says House Democrats prepared to move the impeachment inquiry into a more public phase Tamara Keith n.p.r. News the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry has offered to answer written questions under oath from Republican lawmakers the whistle blower s legal team says they have a direct channel to house g.o.p. Lawmakers in recent days some Republican members of Congress have attempted to learn the whistleblowers identity and accuse the person of acting in a partisan fashion Iran s atomic energy chief says Iran is currently enriching nuclear fuel in $68.00 vans centrifuges it continues to violate the 2015 nuclear deal in response to the re imposition of u.s. Sanctions N.P.R. s Peter Kenyon reports the announcement comes on the 40th anniversary of the 1979 us embassy takeover in Tehran if the substance of the remarks by Iran s top nuclear official Ali Akbar Salehi is confi
I late the 2015 nuclear deal in response to the b. Imposition of u.s. Sanctions N.P.R. s Peter Kenyon reports the announcement comes on the 40th anniversary of the 1979 us embassy takeover in Tehran if the substance of the remarks by Iran s top nuclear official Ali Akbar Salehi is confirmed it would mark a significant acceleration of Tehran steps to suspend its commitments under the nuclear agreement with 6 world powers President Trump pulled the u.s. Out of the deal last year and re imposed sanctions that are damaging arounds economy Iran has been gradually suspending its commitments under the deal in protest the use of advanced I r 6 centrifuges would greatly speed up the enrichment of nuclear fuel compared with the limits Tehran agreed to under the deal Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News Istanbul the state of Oklahoma is releasing 462 prison inmates today from member station you Quinten Chandler reports this follows the largest single day commutation in u.s. History by the state s governor t
Have been called to testify in the impeachment inquiry today the advisor to Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is one of them but advisor Rob Blair will not appear N.P.R. s Tamara Keith says the other 3 probably won t either the White House Counsel s Office has said in no uncertain terms that the White House will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry John Eisenberg and Michael Ellis are lawyers who work with the National Security Council who could speak to the decision to lock down the rough transcript of the president s July 25th call Brian McCormick works in the Office of Management and Budget and Robert Blair is a senior advisor to the acting chief of staff and was reportedly listening in on the call several of the people called to testify this week of already made it clear they don t intend to appear this says House Democrats prepared to move the impeachment inquiry into a more public phase Tamara Keith n.p.r. News the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the im