New figures reveal cancer survival rates in the uk are on the up, but still lag behind other high Income Countries. Good morning, welcome to bbc newsroom live. Iamjoanna i am joanna gosling. The Prime Minister has insisted that he didnt lie to the queen over the suspension of parliament. Hes been speaking this morning. Heres what he had to say. Prime minister, your announcement today, whats the aim behind it . Well, the uk is one of the great centres of shipbuilding and were expending that now. I think that shipbuilding is an area of industry, which is of massive promise for this country. We are exceptionally good at it, we make loads of frigates used in australia, the canadians are buying them and we are now announcing another five type 31, a new type of frigates that will be built at shipyards around the uk, so they drive high qualityjobs here in they drive high qualityjobs here in the uk, the shipbuilding programme, but they also represent a massive export opportunity for this count
Tell the story of the weather. This has been the story this morning in the Northern Isles but for scotland tomorrow i suspect we will have seems like this with blizzard like conditions and frequent snow showers tonight but how far south will they go . Stay watching and i will tell you in half an hour. Thank you. Well be talking to tvs nick hewer about why 80 of the worlds orphans arent actually orphans and what hes doing to help them. We might talk about that other apprentice presenter, dondald trump, as well. Hello. The leader of hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group, has called for an uprising or intifada in response to President Trumps decision to recognise jerusalem as the capital of israel. Palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip are holding a day of strikes and protests and israels military has used water cannon against protesters in bethlehem. Traditional allies of the United States, including saudi arabia and france, have condemned President Trumps decision but israel has
Some of the snow totals were already getting. Those numbers in the 1 to 5 inch range outside. Lets take the camera full here for a second and then we can see some of the numbers on the board. Looks like maybe our computer is having a bit of an issue. Im happy to stand here as long as necessary. You want to read over a couple of the numbers for us if your mike is still open. Absolutely. Its southern delaware seeing some of the highest totals so far. This is what started falling yesterday afternoon and continued in the overnight hours. Delmar over 5 inches, topping 4 inches in laurel, delaware. Lewis, you have 4 inches on the ground. Again, these are the colder surfaces, the grassy areas. Those grassy areas is whats going to see the greatest accumulation during the day. The problem with the higher accumulation in other sports are the temperatures, krystal. Thats right. You just left off a moment ago in this area. So lets take a look across our hour by hour map. What you see is the temper
This soldier borne sensor out and you have a real time downlink from the sensor. Now, the tactics for employing there where it could be distributed and then also some of the design changes came from early experimentation. So for example, it wasnt very good in the wind, so i got to fly to fort benefitting a few years ago, it went up and blew back against the wall, that is fixed now. So i think that getting the technology in and seeing how it applies helps. The second thing is to try to simplify things. And you know, there is a great book called men, machine and modern time. In the book he said that man has succeeded in creating these machines to help tame his Natural Environment but in doing so has created an artificial environment that is far more complex than the Natural Environment ever was. So i think can we get to the point we stress getting to the point where were integrating technology to simply things for soldiers. The iphone, in to wative, easy to use. Then of course its traini
See the heaviest amounts of snow, upwards of four to six inches of snow. We will time the snow and the rain for the rushhour commute, and we may have wind gusts of 30 miles per hour, and looking ahead to the upcoming weekend a just a few minutes. Alison steve, thank you. Two seasons inof 24 hours. Jonathan today people war wearing shorts, exercising, and tomorrow will be in the 30s. Alison tom roussey has the weather with the lash is throwing everybody off. Tom . Tom this is absolutely nuts, alison. This is the snow dome and Fairfax County that holds 32 tons of salt. Working, soon loading a lot of trucks at this vdot lot, deploying by midnight to be ready for the Winter Weather. Even though it was in the 70s not that long ago. Gravelly point. You dont need a jacket because it is in the 60s. For a lot of people, tshirts and shorts are just fine, and a lot of people are exercising, taking advantage of the last hour of the warm weather. And a tshirt and shorts. How hard is it to believe i