by the chair, which will be its centrepiece. nicholas witchell, bbc news, westminster abbey. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. chilly today but there is colder weather on the way as we head into next week. today is the first day of meteorological spring, it s also st david s day and it s been pretty cloudy. the cloud is thick enough to give us more showers around today. still got high pressure close by so the really wet weather is being deflected into southern parts of europe. that s the storm that brought all of the rain we saw in majorca, that s moving away. just to the north of that there is clear skies. it looks like we will tap into some of that tonight and tomorrow, so may be some changes on the way. today the winds are coming in from off the north sea, picking up in from off the north sea, picking up a lot of cloud. that s pushing our way. the best sunshine in western scotland. the cloud still ringing quite a peppering of showers in those temperatures
firefighters injured battling a fire in new york s staten island, part of a burning home collapsing. what we ve just learned. chilling new details about a hate crime investigation under way in los angeles. police say a gunman now under arrest is admitting he was targeting jewish victims. two men shot and wounded, leaving separate synagogues on back-to-back days. what authorities are now saying about the suspect. matt gutman standing by. overseas tonight, four u.s. service members and a service dog wound in the a deadly helicopter raid targeting an isis leader in syria. images coming in, the deadly shooting in a rural town in mississippi. six people shot and kill in the a series of shootings. nearby schools briefly placed on lockdown while police hunted the gunman. late details at this hour. two weeks after that toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio, the biden administration responding to a question from the govern earthquake deploying medical personnel and toxicol
cloned three cavs that, once grown, will be capable of producing 50% more milk than the average american cow. so they re putting our cows out to pasture like voters did to hillary. that is a reach but i approve. by the way, i believe we have a picture of the new super cows. [cheers and applause] greg: yes. off to a good start! okay. enough of that. let s talk about giant balloons, all right? yeah! greg: no. not those. i mow ten chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of south carolina. china should have said there was a boy inside. that s what i would have done. then i would have shot it down because i m a bad man. anyway there was lots of speculation over the balloon s sudden appearance rumor has it joe insisted that it was just a full moon. maybe it came from hunter s birthday party from last saturday. you know he loves his balloons. normally if they re full of cocaine and shoved up a drug mule s ass but still. hunter and the balloon have a lot in comm
hello and welcome to bbc news. banks and governments around the world are nervously watching the european markets to see if the crisis surrounding credit suisse will develop into a global banking crisis. so far things seem reasonably calm with shares in credit suisse rising almost 30% after the swiss national bank gave it a lifeline. but there are concerns that a potential interest rate rise later on thursday by the european central bank could add further volatility to the situation. earlier our business presenter sally bundock explained why the situation at credit suisse was notjust important to the financial community but to all of us: a real worry about credit suisse. if that bank, which is 160 odd years old in switzerland, were to fail, it could have the same effect that the lehman brothers collapse had in 2008, which is it brings a huge amount of fear within markets about the stability of other banks. so people therefore act very quickly and remove their funds from banks
kind of considered taking a question. this were a number of shouted questions. then decided he said something about you can come see me in my office or something like that. departed. so here s a bit of the new details about the objects that were shot down over canada, alaska and lake huron. the intelligence committee s current assessment is these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private company that studied weather or other scientific research. martha: he spoke about the chinese spy flight, the balloon, whatever you want to call it. he said he expects to speak with president xi. watch this. we seek competition, not conflict with china. we re not looking for a new cold war. i make no apologies and we will compete. we ll responsibly manage that competition so it doesn t veer into conflict. martha: that s something that the president says a lot. he wants competition with china, not conflict. he said he expects to speak with president xi about this. it s