Welcome to bbc news. In the past hour, Lizzy Yarnold has won team gbs first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in south korea. Shes won the womens skeleton, making yarnold the first british competitor to defend a winter olympic title. Shes not alone on the podium as her team mate laura deas got a bronze medal in the event. Our Sports Correspondent david 0rnstein is in pyeong chang. Weeks and months on snow and ice can come down tojust weeks and months on snow and ice can come down to just an instant. At these games, a few seconds can turn iy these games, a few seconds can turn joy to despair. This was a Elise Christies second medal shot, with one lap to go she had a route to the final. She had to finish in the top two but then this happened. As they come around the final bend. Elise christie has crashed again this most brutal sport can have the most painful ending, and for her, heartbreak comes with jeopardy. Her favourite events begins in three days time. She now has a race to recover.
The british studentJoanna Parrish in france in 1990 is understood to have confessed. Semifinal ukip members will vote on whether to back or sack henry bolton as party leader. And, click goes skinny dipping in the himalayas as a remote village receives electricity for the first time. Sensitive viewers may wish to look away. Thats in half an hour here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may has urged European Union leaders not to put lives at risk by blocking a security deal after brexit because of deep seated ideology. The Prime Minister was speaking at a security conference in munich. Mrs may said that that nothing must get in the way of britain and the eu helping each other to keep people safe. The Prime Minister said that real political will is required to safeguard Intelligence Co operation which has developed over the decades. People across europe are safer because of this cooperation and the unique arrangements we have developed between the uk and eu insti
1500m speed skating competition and is taken out on a stretcher. The murder of british student Joanna Parrish in france in 1990 a convicted serial killer is understood to have confessed. Ukip members will vote on whether to back or sack henry bolton as party leader. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may has urged European Union leaders not to put lives at risk by blocking a security deal after brexit because of deep seated ideology. The Prime Minister was speaking at a security conference in munich. Mrs may said that that nothing must get in the way of britain and the eu helping each other to keep people safe. The Prime Minister said that real political will is required to safeguard Intelligence Co operation which has developed over the decades. People across europe are safer because of this cooperation and the unique arrangements we have developed between the uk and eu institutions in recent years. So it is in all of our interests to find ways to protect the capabilities
Invention and the invention was the origin of International Business machines. Ibms business was based on the punch cards. The way you got information into and out of an electronic computer in the 50s and 60s up to the 80s was like using these mechanical cardboard cards and feeding thousands and thousands of them into the computer at once to run a program or do something. Each week, American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the countrys college professors. You can watch every evening at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern. Next, air force professor mark wells talks about the role of bombers and fighting planes on the allied strategy in world war ii. He also describes the progression of technology in the. Poeriod. He argues that air power brought about the end of the war. This class is 55 minutes. Mark wells lets get started. Room has been shut. Mark wells every seat, thanks. Have a seat, thanks. Todays lesson use the combined bomber offensive. I only have about 15 minutes to tal
Air force professor mark wells talks about the role of bombers and fighting planes on the allied strategy in world war ii. He also describes the progression of air technology in this period. He argues that air power brought about the end of the war. His class is 55 minutes. Col. Wells lets get started. Seat, thanks. Todays lesson is the combined bomber offensive. I only have about 50 minutes to talk to you about something that is very important. , and in of air power terms of the air force. I am going to talk about any number of things, and you will have to follow along and take good notes. Some of these are very busy so i want you to take the most important features. We are going to discuss the bomber barons, a little bit about the war from 1939 to 1945. The american contribution. Remember, we came into the war from the british point of view relatively late. And then we will summarize with the overall impact of the combined bomber offensive. Remember, we call it combined because it wa