The big names on the move. He is on his way to inter milan from manchester united. And welcome to edinburgh, where we have singers, we have acrobats. A little worried about them in their warmup this morning. 4 Million People come to edinburgh throughout the month of august for the Edinburgh Festival. We have the red sofa here, all with the wonderful backdrop of edinburgh castle. Good morning. Today we are looking at another day of sunshine, and fewer showers than of late, but later, a deep area of low pressure is going to swing into the south west, bringing some heavy rain and strength ending when. I will have more in 15 minutes. Strengthening wins. Winds. It is thursday 8 august. Our top story a Police Officer is in a Critical Condition after being repeatedly stabbed with a machete in east london. The attack happened at around midnight. A man in his 50s has been arrested. Lets get more from our reporter simonjones, who is at the scene in leyton. Simon, what do we know . Well, the poli
Using computers to detect disease. The nhs is to get £250 million to build an Artificial Intelligence lab. And its set to be a busy transfer deadline day. Manchester united have agreed to sell striker Romelu Lukaku to inter milan in a deal worth up to £74 million. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Police say an officer who was attacked with a machete in east london is seriously injured, but will recover. The policeman was stabbed several times after he tried to stop a van in leyton at around midnight. A man in his fifties has been arrested. Our correspondent andy moore is in east london. Andy, what do we know so far . This incident happened just behind me just before midnight last night. Two officers in a marked patrol car were following a large white van, and we think it was not insured, which is why they were following it. They had the blue lights on and were trying to get it to pull over and it eventually did, just behind me and when the officers got out they were co
California, for hosting us at the Richard Nixon president ial library. There are conservatives here in california and i know a thing or two about what it is like to be embattled as a conservative, a very rightwing guy that lives and works in new york city. I used to live here in union square in new york, which was the epicenter of obama mania. I was up late doing commentary in 2008 at two or three in the morning. I went back home and i was irritable and here at union square. People were chanting and singing and randomly highfiving people, little do they know that whenever i encounter these kind of liberal youths, i am reminded of a reagan story when he was governor here in california. When i spontaneously broke out and he was at a meeting of the board of trustees and while he was there, a demonstration started at the front of the building. And a staff member wanted to sneak out the back. And i said no, im going to go through the back or he gets in his car. They are kind of scruffy and
With broad Economic Trends but also has to do with culture and the social breakdown we are seeing in this country where you have seen the breakdown of family and you are seeing the breakdown of the work ethic. You are saying the breakdown of individual responsibility. So i think it behooves conservatives to consider what is the program that will increase mobility in the society and i believe it goes back to what is a trinity that lincoln supported, a dynamic economy, education and a return to those very basic laws of virtues. This is an bible thumping stuff. It doesnt have to be moralistic at the things that make it easier to get ahead. Marriage, work and discipline. So, i will just leave you with one last passage from lincoln. Long before anyone had heard him he gave what was called the lyceum speech as a young man in springfield and it talked about how even then this week, amateur country that we are invulnerable to military assault. He said he can take all the armies of the world an