Here is more on whats ahead. There are new signs that foul play may have played a role in the planes disappearance. The aircraft continued to ping a satellite to send a signal for up to five hours after it last made contact. Everything vectors are learning at this point is raising a suspicion that this is no accident. Sunday is the vote on referendum in crimea. Off of a diplomatic off ramp has failed again. Neither we nor the International Community will recognize the results of this referendum. Antigovernment protests are continuing across venezuela. Secretary of state john kerry says the government must end what he calls a Terror Campaign. We begin with Malaysia Flight 370. It has been a full week since 239 passengers boarded the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. New data from malasian military radar reportedly say the plane made unusual changes in altitude and altered its course more than twice. Indicating the pilot was still in control of the jet. The plane was believed to have
Play may have played a role in the planes disappearance. The aircraft continued to ping a satellite to send a signal for up to five hours after it last made contact. Everything vectors are learning at this point is raising a suspicion that this is no accident. Sunday is the vote on referendum in crimea. Off of a diplomatic off ramp has failed again. Neither we nor the International Community will recognize the results of this referendum. Antigovernment protests are continuing across venezuela. Secretary of state john kerry says the government must end what he calls a Terror Campaign. We begin with Malaysia Flight 370. It has been a full week since 239 passengers boarded the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. New data from malasian military radar reportedly say the plane made unusual changes in altitude and altered its course more than twice. Indicating the pilot was still in control of the jet. The plane was believed to have kept flying for four hours after diverting can its course t
Ileana roslehtinen to act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones madam chairman, thank you very much. Im on the nor again today to talk about on the floor again today to talk about afghanistan, the absolute waste of life and money. A lot of people dont realize this, but if you go back to 2001, the war in iraq and afghanistan, we have spent over 1. 5 trillion which averages out to about 11. 2
There was a bit of a thrill for a group of children in norway this summer when they found a message washed up on the beach, not in a bottle, but in a tiny boat. And it turns out that the little boat had been on a big journey. It set sail ten years ago from the remote scottish island of st kilda. Its a replica of the miniature boats the islanders used to send messages to the mainland. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon has the story. A Summer Holiday surprise from islands far across the sea. Messages not in a bottle, but in a tiny mail boat, washed ashore and discovered by children playing on a remote norwegian beach. The kids, as always, were messing around down by the water and looking for things and just playing around and they just stumbled upon this boat. They found it and look what i found and then, by coincidence, totally coincidence, they just dropped it and it opened. What they found inside was a treasure trove of postcards, intact after a ten year, thousand mile journey f
More people are expected to return to their work places later this morning, as the government seeks assurances from employers in england that measures are enforced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Pupils will also begin to return to school and politicians remain divided on whether exams should be delayed next year, because of the lingering effects of the lockdown on school work. Heres our political correspondent, nick eardley. This week, these classrooms will start filling up again. Many children will be back at school for the First Time Since march, as england takes another big step moving out of the coronavirus shut down. Its a big political test for the government, which has made education its key priority. And in number ten, there was increasing confidence that most pupils will return in the coming days. The focus now has got to be getting those schools reopened, allowing them to reopen safely, getting parents to have the confidence for their children to return to school.