Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight here in london and 1am across Central Europe which is in the grip of a record breaking heatwave. The hottest temperatures ever were experienced in germany and the netherlands this week. While in paris on thursday it was more than 42 degrees celsius thats 108 in farenheight, the highest ever temperature in the french capital. Lucy williamson reports from paris. The city of light has become the city of heat. 42 degrees, just bearable if you are mostly underwater. The government has repeatedly warned people not to stay out in the sun, but with offices and schools closing early, and most homes without air conditioning, not everyone is listening. Its difficult to enjoy it. Here we are in this most amazing city in the world and its tough to want to go and do much. Its very hot. The summer in brazil is not like this. Its hot too but here its too much. This is a short, sharp spike
Tech features . Blind spot detection as well as prevention. Were already seeing that on a number of vehicles. Night vision Collision Mitigation and avoidance systems well camera and Rearview Mirror systems. Think about it all of these are basically out there in the market already and weve seen them in other cars so were comfortable with them already. By comparison the study found just 19 of those studied or surveyed i should point out, 5,300 people surveyed only 19 want autonomous drive cars right now and just 17 want incar wireless connectivity. Most interesting is that when i talked with the studys author mandy, she says when it comes to looking at new cars and you ask people what do you want, what system do you want in the car as far as the connectivity system and how it matches up with your phone, they want to check their phone first. If they have an apple, they want to go with the car that has apple features. This they have a google, they will say i want android auto. So its an in
Ms. Mikulski mr. President , today we bring to the floor on a bipartisan basis the annual appropriation bills of the commerce, justice, science bill, the subcommittee on transportation, housing and urban development, and also agriculture and food and Drug Administration. I want to thank all the members of the Appropriation Committee for their tremendous work on these bills. First, i want to say a special word about my vicechairman Richard Shelby who has done the hard work and the Due Diligence of helping move the entire process, but also moving particularly our bill that funds the Commerce Department, Justice Department and the science programs like our space program. In terms of transportation, we have the able leadership of senator murray with her vicechairman senator collins and on agriculture chairman mark pryor and again his vicechairman roy blunt. This process is about moving america forward. This legislation that we are putting before the senate today puts americas middleclass f
Check check check just when we need it most. Hi there, everyone, thanks for joining us. Im thomas drayton. We begin with security at the winter olympics. The u. S. Is comparing a contingency plan to protect u. S. Athletes and citizens in the effect of a terror attack. It involves military warships and planes on standby in case evacuations are needed. It comes as Russian Security forces are searching for a suspected suicide bomber. As Allen Schauffler explains, authorities are looking for a young woman being called the black widow. Police are looking for female suicide bombers and released information about one in particular, her name is rusana, from dagestan, linked to caucuses emirate, a terrorist seeking on independent homeland in southern russia. The group taunted russian authorities and threatened attacks on the sochi games. A poster with her into n is has been posted at the airport. Its been sent by Russian Federal security to enforcement agencies in and around sochi. The u. S. Ol
There could be an aboutface with the United Nations concerning iran in the syrian peace talks. The u. N. Now expects the u. S. To withdraw the are invitation to iran, expected to begin wednesday. John tret is in iran and ban kimoons invitation causing controversy. Thats putting it mildly. Backed by other governments around the world, u. S. Including britain and saudi arabia, very unhappy that the secretarygeneral of the u. N, ban kimoon, has invited iran to peace talks on wednesday. Promised that they will come with a positive attitude, no preconditions but the United States has said look they havent publicly signed up with the communique of geneva 1 that these talks will create a icial Traditional National governmen government transitional interim government. Here is the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Samantha power. As of this morning, iran has still to demonstrate its willingness to explicitly and publiclpubliclypublicly subscrie communique. That is a minimum are are prereq