Its one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Its 50 years ago today that Neil Armstrong took the giant leap to become the first man to walk on the moon. Commentator the crowd here in the arena knows, 11 months ago, they throw away their hopes of reaching the final. Studio englands hopes of reaching their first netball World Cup Final have been dashed after they were beaten by four time winners new zealand in liverpool. The foreign secretaryjeremy hunt has expressed his extreme disappointment in a phone call to his iranian counterpart over the seizure of a british registered tanker in the gulf yesterday. He said iran had failed to honour a pledge to reduce tensions in the area. Germany, france, the netherlands and the eu have all called for the Immediate Release of the stena impero. Iran has released a video which appears to show masked gunmen descending from a helicopter to board the tanker, as paul adams reports. This is the Moment Iranian revolutionary guards took over t
just revealed to give the military the order to shoot down that balloon three days ago. lucas tomlinson live at the white house, lucas. that afternoon guys u.s. air force f-22 that locked from langley air force base in virginia fired a single sidewinder missile to destroy the spy blimp six off the coast of south carolina took late at 3:30 9:00 p.m. in the afternoon. the debris field is stretching . the u.s. navy is sending a salvage crew. president biden spoke moments ago. on wednesday when i was briefed on the bloom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground, they decided the best time to do that is when it got over water. within the 12-mile limit. the success took it down i want to complement our aviators who did it. we ll have more to report in this little later thank you. hugs your sake the recommendation from your national security? once i told them to shoot down progress on wedn
Welcome to bbc news. Police in iran say one of their officers has been shot dead as Anti Government protests continue across the country. This is believed to be the first death of a Security Force member since the unrest began on thursday. Another ten people were killed overnight in the countrywide unrest which began as a protest against the falling standard of living, as Rana Rahimpour reports. The fifth day of protests in iran. Once again, thousands of people have taken to the streets. They are angry at unemployment, rising prices, and what many think is widespread corruption. Its the boldest challenge to the countrys leadership in nearly a decade. The demonstrations began in the North Western city of mashhad, a key base for president rouhanis most outspoken critics. And has quickly turned into a widespread antiestablishment movement. This is the biggest show of dissent in iran since the post election rallies of 2009. They were large in size but limited to urban areas of the country
This morning we have a hearing the preparedness and response capabilities we will hear from the assistant secretary for preparedness and response hhs and the director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response for health at cdc and dr. Gottlieb commissioner of the fda. This is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. The second tuesday january 23. Senator murray and i each have been openingng statements or any opening remarks they may haverk after that we will introduce our panel and hear their testimony then each minute member has up to five minutes for any remarks or questions. First welcome to the chairman for giving me the opportunity to have this hearing that discusses the topic critical to National Security and has seen many years of bipartisan work in this committee and congress. We have developed strength in the name work with and other Nuclear Threats with the potential to jeopardize the health of all americans. This created a framework as we have
Connors. Glad to have you with us. Im tracy davidson. Rain is here. Power is out for more than 13,000 homes and businesses in Gloucester County. Thousands more scattered across south jersey and delaware. The storm is moving in, already tore through the south. [ thunder ] trees fell on houses, homes crumbled, and tractortrailers tossed on buildings in North Carolina yesterday. Now the first of the storm is moving into our area. We have Team Coverage in the first alert weather and traffic centers. Tracking the storms and problems on the roads, storm force 10 is out ready to check on the conditions that youll face on your commute. We begin with meteorologist krystal klei where the storms are now. We have to begin with radar and satellite. The first alert radar showing we have broken showers that are moving through. The spots of yellow are the pockets of heavier rain. You might think they dont look that bad. Some of us not even getting rain. That is true, but were going to have another lin