we ll be live with our deputy political editor and our business editor and asking how the government can pay for its committments without cuts in public spending. also this lunchtime: manchester crown court hears how a nurse accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward tried to kill a premature baby girl on two consecutive night shifts. after the latest russian attacks on ukraine, nato says sending air defence systems there is a top priority. and a bbc investigation shows how displaced families in syria are begging for money on tiktok, which then keeps a big slice of the proceeds. and coming up on the bbc news channel, england s preparations for the t20 world cup continue in canberra, testing their credentials against the hosts australia in the second of their three match series. good afternoon. in the last hour, the prime minister has said she ll absolutely stick to her promise not to cut public spending. she was speaking at the first prime minister s questions since last
time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. perhaps not so inspiring today. we got snow weather changes today. some big contrasts from place to place. for many of us, quite cloudy, some rain in scotland this morning, it will ease i think as we go on through the day. we have also seen some sunshine coming through the clouds. a lovely picture here from hampshire. the satellite picture shows the extent of today s cloud. a few breaks coming and going across the south. the midlands and east anglia. clearskies the south. the midlands and east anglia. clear skies to the north west as well but in between, a lot of cloud today and rain showing up lot of cloud today and rain showing up on the radar picture. most of it is falling along this cold front and will continue to put eastwards over the next few hours and, as it does so, we will get something brighter coming in from the west and scotland and into northern ireland as well so becoming drier and brighter and cooler. some w
The blue whale and other baleen whales, the gentle giants of the sea, sift huge quantities of tiny prey from ocean water using a filter-feeding system in their mouths. Fossils unearthed in China's Hubei Province indicate that a curious marine reptile called Hupehsuchus nanchangensis that lived 248 million years ago in the Triassic Period employed a similar system during a time of tremendous evolutionary innovation following Earth's worst mass extinction. Unlike the blue whale, today's largest animal, Hupehsuchus was modest in size, about three feet (one meter) long.
Fossils have revealed an ancient marine reptile with a loosely connected jaw that allowed its throat to balloon out to a massive size so it could filter feed the way right whales do today.