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A team at Harper Adams University In Shropshire Attempt A World First by using solely robots and drones to grow and harvest a field of barley. Good morning. Its thursday 4th of may. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The past hour Buckingham Palace has announced that the Duke Of Edinburgh has decided to stop carrying out public engagements from the autumn. Prince philip who is 95, is said to have the full support of the queen in taking his decision, she will continue with all her duties. The duke is the longest Serving Consort in British History. Our royal correspondent Sarah Cam...

Also not mentioned in the queens speech was Donald Trumps planned Donald Trumps planned state visit later this year raising questions about whether it will happen. The other main stories this lunchtime it could be a record breaking midsummers day with temperatures in parts of the uk expected to hit a forty year high. And triple oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis announces he is retiring from acting after more than a0 years in the film industry. And coming up in sport later in the hour on bbc news. After six games on tour, some tough choices for warren gatland. He will name his lions fifteen to face...

Casualties were women and children. We were going to school when the explosion took place. I do not know anything about my parents. They may have died. This man says the victims were all students, or going to their places of work. After the explosion, the ground was full of bodies. The state news agency has blamed the violence on terrorists, its name for the rebels intensifying attacks on the government. This was the latest in a string of bombings in and around damascus. For the first time, russia has acknowledged the possibility of the rebels winning the civil war in syria. The assad regime w...

Soldiers, and that is a statement they should be able to make in the very near future, and we will give them the help they need in order to be successful. Thank you. Newest member of the committee is front and center on Energy Policy and global affairs, and we appreciate his expertise. Wo final questions one, ambassador green, you have talked about this several times in your answers, and i am concerned about i would like to hear some other views as well ukraine, yes, but all of Eastern Europe, and that is the saturation the russians have created with their broadcasting. Nto the region of coars...

Good morning. Not long to go before the queen arrives here in that traditional carriage procession the start of a new procession of parliament but the new we know is 11 months so theres hardly any time to start an ambitious new program of legislation. Having said that there are some interesting and significant items in the list of bills were expecting today and we will be talking about those in due course. We also put the thing in the wider political context following the recent local and european elections which saw the rise raising new questions for other party leaders. Plenty for David Came...