Security scam thats cost victims thousands of pounds. And qantas takes a quantum leap for air travel with a record breaking 19 hour non stop flight from new york to sydney. And well be getting the inside track on Internet Speed with the man responsible for the uks broadband infrastructure. The boss of openreach will bejoining us. Sally mentioned that scanning case. We would like to know if you have been scammed, almost everybody has these days, but tell us your story and how it affected you. Just use the hashtag bbcworklife. A warm welcome to the programme. Once again we are focused on the British Government and its attempts to get the backing of parliament for Boris Johnsons brexit to get the backing of parliament for borisjohnsons brexit deal. It comes after politicians delayed the crucial vote on saturday and passed legislation to block the uk leaving the eu without a deal. So whats in mrjohnsons agreement . Hes ditched the irish backstop in favour of a new arrangement that sees the
Important to conservatives in 2020 and the Republican Partys future agenda. And later the drug policy alliances kassandra joins us to discuss the history of the war on drugs. [video clip] more need more prisons, jails, more courts, more prosecutors. I am requesting altogether 1. 5 billion in drugrelated spending on Law Enforcement. Former president george h. W. Bush on september 5, 1989, what many site as the beginning of the u. S. War on drugs. Good morning, this is washington journal. 30 years later, the fight against drug abuse continues with news yesterday from President Trump of another 2 billion in funding for the Opioid Crisis. The first hour talking about the legacy of the war on drugs. What experience have you had with it . The numbers to call for those in eastern and central time zones, that is 2027488000. The mountain and pacific regions, 2027488001. We also welcome your comments on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. And send us a tweet at cspanwj. We will show you mome
Antony blinken is meeting this morning with ukrainian president vladimir zelensky. Blinken arrived in kyiv early tuesday, local time, on an unannounced Diplomatic Mission to reassure ukraine it has american support as it fights back increasingly intense russian attacks. His visit comes less than a month after Congress Approved a long delayed foreign assistance package that sets aside 60 billion in aid for ukraine. During this mornings meeting, blinken told zelensky the new Weapons Package is already arriving and more is coming, stressing, quote, thats going to make a difference. Zelensky, in turn, thanked the u. S. For the latest Weapons Package. Fierce battles are taking place near the border in eastern and northeastern ukraine, with outgunned and outnumbered ukrainian soldiers trying to push back the significant Russian Ground offensive. Speaking sunday, blinken said, quote, if putin thinks he can outlast ukraine, outlast its supporters, he is wrong again. Us Secretary Of State Anton
Planes, the plead involved in a deadly pair of crashes that killed everybody on board. All this according to reports which cite instant messages from two boeing employees. Our chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt covering breaking news from los angeles. Jonathan, tell us about the text messages. Yeah, trace. The faa and the Justice Department now have these messages. The faa has called them concerning. The messages are between mark faulkner, the chief technical pilot for the boeing 737 max when it was going through the certification process and another boeing pilot. In one, faulkner says the Automated Systems on the max were making the plane very difficult to fly on a simulator. Youll remember, it was that Automated System that is being blamed for two crashes. One in indonesia in october of 2018, the other in ethiopia in march this year that killed three 46 people. The ncas system is said by investigators to have sent both planes into unrecoverable nose dives. Two years before the first o
Katy tur, thank you. Have a good weekend. Te hello, everyone. Im Chris Jansing in for ali velshi. In impeachment terms, this is deadline day. Right now, window for White House Acting chief of staff and Energy Secretary rick perry to submit subpoena documents is closing. Mulvaney has already said he will not comply and the white house is scrambling today to undo the damage mulvaney caused to the president s no quid pro quo defense. A full court press including just a short time ago the president brushing off concerns and so was Energy Secretary rick perry. I think he clarified it. Its just a terrible witch hunt. This is so bad for our country. I think he was straight up with what he said. You know, i think straight up how . Connect dots when the facts would by by basically saying that there was no quid pro quo in the sense of what those folks out there would like for it to be. That were going to give you this money unless you go investigate joe biden and his son. I never heard that said