From the west, some of that rain turning heavy, particularly over high ground if wales and north west england. The further east and south you are, that rain will be lighter and patchier. Snow on the high ground in scotland. Maybe brighten in the far south west. Temperatures of seven to 11, and it is windy in the north of the uk as well. Notice the north of the uk as well. Notice the way in which through tonight the rain continues to pile up on the hills in the west, and there is going to be a renewed surge of wet weather through the second half of the night. A windy and mild night, temperatures by the start of tomorrow. Seven and ten degree, colder up to the north west. That is a sign of things to co come. As the rain works east ward it will introduce colder air. Along the rain band we are likely to develop a narrow band of really intense downpour, you can pick it out here on the graphic, this line of dark blue and green. Heavy downpours with briefly some squally gusty winds. This is w
Brace themselves for more rain. Many residents have had to leave their homes along with the river wye. £20 million in insurance and counting as thousands of farmers way up counting as thousands of farmers way up the damage of storm ciara and storm dennis. A rare defeat for liverpool they were beaten 1 0 by Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie. It isa it is a cold start to the date with the risk of ice. Many of us will begin with sunshine but the cloud will thicken and we will see rain coming in today, overnight and over affected flooded areas already. I will have more in about ten minutes. More than 300 passengers, who have tested negative for the coronavirus, have disembarked a cruise liner moored off the coast of japan, after 14 days of quarantine. More than 500 people have been infected on the ship the biggest cluster outside mainland china. The uk government is preparing to fly home around 70 british tourists. Simon jones has more. Finally release
1 15. Up until then from this mornings washington journal, senator sanders from vermont. Host senator bernie sanders, senator from vermont, here. Thank you for being here. You served on the Budget Committee. We saw senator patty murray, the chairman, introduce her budget plan. Heres the headline in the Washington Times there are no sacred cows that calls for 1 trillion in new taxes. Whats your takeaway . Guest well, what it does is also call for substantial cuts, but it deals with deficit reduction in a balanced way. What the republicans want to do is do deficit reduction simply by cutting, cutting, cutting. Doing away with medicare as we know it. Right now converting that into a voucher system which we very, very onerous for senior citizens, making devastating cuts in medicaid which means that millions of millions of American People and kids will lose their Health Insurance. Massive cuts in education, in nutrition. Basically every program that in the middle of a terrible recession wor
We are the worlds policeman. The other socalled world powers are either too cheap, morally indifferent, or happy to sponge off of us as they have neglected their duty to keep some semblance of order. We are unwilling to let crazy people romp through our neighborhoods. But we are not is the world social worker. To the extent we take it upon ourselves, the goal or the obligation to bring universal selfridge, make sure people can listen to madonna, bring about democratic elections. That is not our job. We are not good at doing it. We are good at building roads, crushing opposing armies. No government is good at the work of nationbuilding. [bell] we will alternate. Tucker, you will go first. Federal debt does it matter . We can simulate our way to prosperity. You are insane for suggesting it. It matters because i believe in math. Here is what i know, which is saying i believe in science. You often hear we are for science. We do not believe in evolution. We are on the side of science. Anybo