Is hannity out . All right. Before we start on the n. S. A. , great panel, ana kasparian, legendary cohost of the young turks. Thats right, legendary. On theyoungturks. Com. Things that should not have been forgotten were forgotten about how good she is. You should appreciate that lord of the rings reference. I got it. John iadrola. While youre on the web, hello, meteorite. Com, noah roth man. I got away from your nickname, the roth man prophecies, which ive got to get back to. [ laughter ] cenk all right. Lets get started on the n. S. A. President obama was on the tonight show, talked to jay leno and talked about spying, really the journalist you want to talk about spying about. Intelligence gathering is a critical component to counter terrorism. Obviously with your mr. Snowden and the disclosures of classified information, its raised a lot of questions for people. A lot of these programs were put in place before i came in. I had skepticism and i think we should have a healthy skeptic
This is bbc news. The headlines joe biden has been handed a major boost in the democratic contest to take on donald trump in novembers election. The former Vice President has won the partys primary in south carolina. Its be a welcome result after poor performances in the race so far. President trump says its time for american soldiers to come home from afghanistan after the us signed an agreement with the militant group, the taliban. He said the us had committed to withdraw five thousand troops by may and that he would meet taliban leaders in the nearfuture. The president s also urging calm after coronavirus claimed its first life on us soil. He said more cases were likely but that the country was well prepared. The victim who was in his fifties, was being treated in hospital in Washington State and is said to have had Underlying Health conditions. More now on the coronavirus and our health editor, hugh pym, has the latest on the preparations the government is making here. He said that
Remains the main strategy. That means taking cases who are diagnosed positive straight to hospital to isolation facilities and then tracing their contacts. And Health Officials still feel its possible that will bring this virus under control. But theres a recognition that things could change very rapidly, globally and in the uk, in terms of the number of cases. And, to that end, the governments about to ramp up its response with a series of announcements over the next week, starting tomorrow with the health secretary, matt hancock, whos appearing on the marr programme. It will require a lot more Co Ordination of Government Departments to focus on the virus as a priority, working with the devolved administrations. There will be an action plan announced during the week. One of the measures being considered is something that will allow a rapid redeployment of retired health staff, bringing them back into the nhs, getting them reregistered quickly. Thats being considered. And youve only go
Cleared away quite quickly but not without wet weather. Stuff more weather and snow but the strength of the wind is clearly not the main concern is a go of the evening and overnight, gusts of wind between 60 and 70 miles prayer, and up to bring down power lines and the rain i talked about is going to stay with us across talked about is going to stay with us across parts of northern england, Northern Ireland, north wells and snow in the hills blowing around in a few shirts in the south but hopefully the wind will allow still alleviate some of the frost risks overnight tonight and then fewer showers to Northern Ireland, rain and snow mix mixes way quite significant store across from the hills and relatively low hills despite continuing across the day and starting to ease, being a wendy day, despite the sunshine and being barge, is still feel quite chilly. Hello. This is bbc news with lukwesa burak. The headlines the government says Everything Possible is being done to limit the spread of
More now on the coronavirus, and our health editor, hugh pym, has the latest on the preparations government are making he said that containment remains the main strategy. That means taking cases who are diagnosed positive straight to hospital to isolation facilities and then tracing their contacts. And Health Officials still feel its possible that will bring this virus under control. But theres a recognition that things could change very rapidly, globally and in the uk, in terms of the number of cases. And, to that end, the governments about to ramp up its response with a series of announcements over the next week, starting tomorrow with the health secretary, matt hancock, whos appearing on the marr programme. It will require a lot more Co Ordination of Government Departments to focus on the virus as a priority, working with the devolved administrations. There will be an action plan announced during the week. One of the measures being considered is something that will allow a rapid red