A desperate dash to the french port of calais as britons scramble to get home before the uks new quarantine measures on france come into force. And President Trump stokes a patently false theory that Kamala Harris doesnt qualify to serve as us Vice President. Hello, and welcome. European Union Foreign ministers have moved a step closer to imposing sanctions on belarus. Theyre reported to have agreed to draw up a list of belarusians to be targetted. It comes as thousands of people have taken to the streets of minsk, demanding the resignation of belarus president , alexander lu kashenko. Unrest has been fuelled by accounts of torture from protesters who were detained earlier in the week. Speaking from exile, the main opposition candidate, svetla na ti kha novs kaya, called for weekend strikes and protests against an election she claims was rigged. The Bbcs Sarah Rainsford sent this report from moscow. This is now a mass walk out. At minsk tractor plant, theyve downed tools and are shouti
Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, october 7th. Scenes of the white house with the remarkable Eddie Van Halen. Im sure most of you listening that grew up in the 70s, 80s, 90s, know that. A revolution in music and sound. Willie geist, this guy immigrated from amsterdam to the United States with his parents and created a band that really did just change the sound of music. And he was actually listed as the top guitarist in 2012, the top guitar riist in rock histor for completely revolutionizing the sound of an electric guitar that had been root the in blues and rnb, he took it and changed everything. What a way to start the morning, Eddie Van Halen sleddi shredding under the image of the white house. When that performance came out in the late 70s, i was too young. But for me, 1984, the van halen album, that was formative, that was jump, panama, hot for teacher, that was the van halen i knew. And you know what people forget, he played on beat it, on Michael Jacksons b
The death of baby Harry Richford, when coronavirus who lived forjust seven days restrictions are tightened. Two major new coronavirus after an emergency delivery. Infection studies show President Trump says he might a significant increase in cases, hold an election rally in florida tomorrow with warnings that high rates seen just over a week after being across the north west, north east, diagnosed with coronavirus. Yorkshire and humber could spread across the country. An nhs trust is charged over the death of baby Harry Richford, who lived forjust seven days after an emergency delivery. Sport now. Hello, good afternoon. The uk economy recovered more slowly than expected and for a full round up, from in august, growing by 2. 1 . The bbc sport centre, heres gavin. Although this is the fourth consecutive month of growth, good afternoon. It was considerably smaller its mens semi finals day at the french open. Than that seen injune and july, later on world number one Novak Djokovic faces de
Wont go into that. I was lucky enough to be able to interview several of those veterans. Pretty remarkable bunch. They were started by arnold, some of you may have heard of him, at the behest of franklin roosevelt, who was requested by the guy named church hill. Winston i think was his first name. There were some flyers out there, i dont know if you all got any. If you didnt, i dont know what to tell you. I dont have any more. But it tells you about this book, project nine, both of the air commandos in world war ii. Propublished by the university f any soury press, and let me point out to you that if you call this number or order online from the university of Missouri Press and give them the secret code of afs 14, afs 14, youll get 20 discount. Thats six bucks. Okay. So let us begin. For those of you who are really sharp eyes, you might take a look at that numeral one. What can i say . These guys were young guys a long way from home. Im not going to say anything else. There were three
His time during the war, he said i would lie down on my cot at night and i had a 45 automatic under each side of my pillow in case the japanese called in at night to attack us. And then finally, one marine grunt on one of the islands told this story. He said im a roman catholic, ive been to Holy Communion and all kinds of environments and places in this war but he said i was in the most singular one ive ever seen. He said, i heard that over in the clearing there was going to be a mass said and we could receive communion and he said i went over and he said the priest had his communion set out on top of a flat rock with a piece of wood holding it up at a level place and leaning next his was his flag that showed it was a christian flag showing were having a service. But he said leaning next to that was an m1 car m1 rifle. And he said, i said, whats with this rifle. He said, oh, well im not a combatant, but we are allowed to have weapons to kill snakes. The marine said, i wonder how he def