Everyone to be nice to each other. If people see other people being kind they will be kind as well. And when we covered the story of rose brown earlier this year, who was given the gift of her own bespoke digital voice that she chose to match her personality, she told us shed always wanted to be on eastenders. So we took her on a tour of the iconic set. Absolutely fabulous, and i think rose has had a fabulous time. What a lovely christmas present. It was like a dream come true. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Were asking this morning for you to share your best news of 2019. Forget brexit and the snap general election whats been big in your life . Share your happy stories and well read some of them out and maybe even get some of you on air. Laura on twitter. Finishing therapy after 3. 5 years of severe Mental Illness and hospitalization and working on my psychology masters to help others to recover. Gemma on twitter. Graduating with a first class honour
Refugee crisis, after nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims flee from myanmar to bangladesh. And the Manchester Arena re opens tonight with a benefit concert, more than three months after the terrorist attack which killed 22 people. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hurricane irma is continuing to sweep its way across the caribbean, en route to the us coast, leaving a path of devastation. Cuba is the latest island to be hit. The category four storm it was category five, the highest, but has eased slightly made landfall off the North Eastern coast overnight bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Communities have lost power and communication is becoming increasingly difficult in more remote areas. The bahamas have largely been spared after the storm changed course. This is irmas trajectory. Its expected to make landfall with us coast tomorrow, before heading inland. In florida, more than five Million People a quarter of its population have been told to evacuate. And theres another hurrica
Immigration rules as a way to cut numbers, asa immigration rules as a way to cut numbers, as a way to oppose brexit. Mo farah wins the great north run. After battering its way through the caribbean, Hurricane Irma currently a category 4 storm has slammed into the lower florida keys, lashing the island chain with winds up to 130 miles per hour. The hurricane made landfall in cuba late on friday. It engulfed villages, causing widespread damage and leaving whole communities homeless. The eye of the storm has now reached the florida keys, bringing winds that are expected to last in the next few hours. Where water levels are flooding roads and more than 200,000 people have lost power. 0ver six Million People almost a third of the states population had been urged to evacuate, with warnings of a huge storm surge that would be life threatening to anyone in its path. Hurricane irma is bearing down on the sunshine state, these seems an indication of what is to come. Power outage is widespread an
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Mr. Allen also interviewed White House Correspondent april ryan of the American Urban Radio Network. This is about an hour. Thank you for coming out. A great conversation ahead. He will start with april ryan. She is going to talk about some of her ex. Is currently airing president bush, clinton and obama, and then we will have dan pfeiffer of the president senior adviser. As we are out, i would like to you in lifestream land, cspan who is carrying this. Bank of america for the conversations. Bank of america has then fantastic partner at the conventions, cocktails. So we appreciate the partnership and great illuminating conversations we have had as part of it. Please tweet us your questions. I have my twitter machine here. We will try to get your question and. Now i would like to welcome an American Urban Radio Network one of the longest and most respected members of the White House Press corps, april ryan. [applause] none didnt you know, there is something called a book leave . I shoul