you re watching a simply remarkable moment there at the white house. if we can stay on the pictures for a minute, it would be worth it. a reason to smile and be proud. a kcaptain during the vietnam wash, looeding special forces to an enemy base. he was shot despite being shot and wounded, he refused to be evacuated until he could get all of his colleagues evacuated from that battlefield as well. well worth our time. other big stories today, alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his liven behind bars. the convicted south carolina attorney sentenced earlier this morning for culling his wife and youngest son paul at the family sprawling hunting estate.
of the surveillance. we don t know whether it was data linked with satellites and other things that we just don t have the capability to jam. so it was very clear it was an isr threat, and in my opinion, we should have taken action before rather than let it loiter over our mainland and sensitive military sites for three or four days. a u.s. general says publicly that the delay in shooting down the balloon will be, and i m quoting now, well worth its value in intelligence collected against china. is there an advantage to that? well, i don t think that his point is without merit. there perhaps was some intelligence value that we were able to gather as we monitored this balloon. but i think the larger point isn t some intelligence that was valuable to us, and i doubt, by the way, that it was a breakthrough in any way. the larger point is the politically precarious situation we find ourselves in. again, in your reporting before,
of england, and of course, the famous cliche is that people are so tough, they can go out in the winter without a coat on at all. but what s the wearside, the sunderland solution to the january weather and keeping warm? have you got a battery powered coat? no, i m, as you say, i am from the north east so . can more than manage a bit of cold weather. i think i d be all right. as they say, you go out in the streets like this. i do have a coat. you are tough. you are tough. i do have a coat but i can manage. i m used to the bad weather. grant shapps is a southern softy! your words, not mine. laughter. thank you very much. cheers for coming on. thank you. cheers. so that is your lot from james and from me, and newscasters, you have an upgrade tomorrow. yes, the professionals will be here tomorrow because we have greg james, radio one s greg james, and roisin hastie from the bbc world service. well worth a listen. from us, thanks for listening. bye. bye bye. newscast. newscast, from the b
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talked about the issue of pay and there being some willingness to engage on that. what is complex about these talks is both sides seem to go in wanting to talk about different things. the unions wanted to talk about the pay offer they have got for this year. that is what the current strikes have been about. the government seems to want to talk about the next pay offer they want to get, maybe a better pay offer that may be tied to efficiency and productivity. unison s representative came out of the meeting and seemed to suggest steve barkley was willing to listen to the idea of pay for this year, the year the strikes are about and that is something he would take away. sources close to the health secretary are telling us that they were productive meetings, well worth having, that he is looking at the