Weakly from politics the new electoral system has been drawn up in a way that clearly disadvantages the party linked to former Prime Minister tanks in Shinawatra which was ousted by the coup and was the strongest in the country for 2 decades the British prime minister to resign May is touring Europe to ask her Dutch German and e.u. Counterparts to help her save her breath deal she s admitted that the British Parliament would have rejected the agreement if she d gone ahead with the votes today Mrs May is seeking reassurances about the backstop the legally binding contingency plan to avoid restoring a hard border in Ireland the European Commission president. Said there would be no renegotiation of the deal which is all if used intelligently is room enough to give further clarification and further interpretations we vote openly the rhetorical this will not happen everyone has to know that we ve gotten rid of we not. Iran has confirmed that it recently carried out another medium range mis
Christopher Joyce n.p.r. News snow ice and below freezing temperatures are causing problems again today in North Carolina and Virginia and parts of Georgia some school systems are closed for a 2nd consecutive day due to icy roads and sidewalks North Carolina s governor Roy Cooper says the state s highway patrol responded to hundreds of accidents yesterday because of the winter like weather more than 20 inches of snow fell in western North Carolina I m Dave Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Sierra Nevada Brewing Company family owned operated and argued over since 1980 proud supporter of independent thought whether that s online or over the air or and a bottle more at Sierra Nevada dot com. You re listening to World update from the b.b.c. This is Dan Damon in our program comes to you today from across the road from the house of parliament in Westminster the heart of London s center of government it is a bright da
And this has been named in jazz on December 10th 20182 weeks before Christmas Eve and hope you ve enjoyed it I hope you have a great end of this day and start of the next one and no on of the b.b.c. . Welcome to News Day on the b.b.c. World Service with me shine with the lead in our studios in Lawrenceville art outside the Houses of Parliament in central London yeah we were expecting a big pile of entries vote no vote then a major cabinet meeting no cabinet meeting instead to reason why the prime minister is on the way to Europe to do something everyone says she can t do well to we have a lot to talk about also this how are the women in fear for their lives in Pakistan because of the country s controversial blasphemy laws and the scientists who discovered a vast underground ecosystem that is twice the size of old the world s oceans and it s just at our feet all of that coming up plus sports and business this half hour stay with us more stories to come after the latest world news. Hell
All of Europe she tries to salvage her breakfast deal with the e.u. She ll hold talks in the Netherlands and Germany following the dramatic postponement of her parliamentary vote on the agreement which Mrs May admitted she would lose Rob Watson reports the reason may well visit her darts and German counterparts to see what if any help Europe can provide in selling her brags that plans that M.P. s but there s a growing sense here in Westminster that her credibility has been stretched to breaking point and that she s merely kicking the can down the road it s clear that for now at least there s a stalemate among British politicians over what to do next about Bracks there s no obvious way of breaking it but the clock is ticking on Britain s departure and the road is running out early results from 5 state elections in India suggest the opposition Congress party may have taken control of at least 2 states from the governing b j p These include Russia Stan and Jill McGovern reports results a
3 church bells taken as watery fees from the Philippines by American soldiers more than 100 years ago have been returned to the country a ceremony was held at an air base in the capital Manila the bells were taken when u.s. Soldiers destroyed the town of bombing eager in retaliation for the killing of nearly 50 of their colleagues which took place in an ambush during the American Philippine war in 1901 and that s the latest b.b.c. News. Many thanks for the latest hello and welcome to News Day with. In the next half hour we ll hear from Pakistani women fearing for their lives because of the country s controversial blasphemy laws and we ll speak to one of the scientists who have discovered a vast underground ecosystem twice the size of all the world s oceans combined it s all under our feet. But 1st we begin with a hello and a warm welcome to lightning Well it s lighting up it was dark when we 1st came here we couldn t see parliament now we can it s splendid Victorian architecture that