Details on those products and more like the apple watch. And linking up, we check in with linkedin ceo jeff weiner and his thoughts on the Company Three years after microsoft acquired the site. We begin with one of our top stories. Oracle announced wednesday mark hurd, the ceo, is taking a leave of absence for health reasons. This, after the company disclosed the move along with Quarterly Earnings earlier than they said were to be released the company did not specify what issues hurd faces were how long his leave will be, but the executive chairman, larry ellison, released a statement saying, oracle has an extremely capable ceo ending the extraordinarily deep team of executives, many with long tenure at oracle. We will cover marcs responsibility during his absence with support from the rest of our strong management team. I spoke with our bloomberg Senior Intelligence analyst and Global Executive editor tom giles. There have been signs over the last year that he may not be him unwell, s
he remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duties as soon as possible. it also goes on to say that his majesty has chosen to share this diagnosis to prevent speculation and in the hope it may assist public understanding for all those around the world who are affected by cancer. a spokesperson for the king has not revealed what type of cancer the king has but says it is not prostate cancer. last week the king was discharged from hospital following surgery for an enlarged prostate, i condition that palace had described as benign. he is back at buckingham palace tonight but yesterday, sunday he was at st. mary magdalen church in sandringham. in fairly good spirits, waving and smiling with crowds of well wishers who it turned out to see the royal couple. let s go live to bbc s former royal correspondent who joins us from getting to them. good evening, jenny, thank you for being with us. your reaction to what you heard tonight. wit
temperatures in the west with highs of 18 or 19 in the very mildest spots. we will start to see change in the weather pattern into thursday with this area of low pressure pushing weather fronts in from the southend west. looks like we will see a dry start to many but rain quickly arriving across south west england before spreading into wales, the west midlands and may be as far north thousand northern ireland late in the day. a bit of sunshine ahead of that system with temperatures still 17, 18 or so. continuing to see a cool feed of wind coming in from the north sea. north and east england and eastern scotland. for the coronation weekend it looks like we could see rain arriving across southern england. thanks, chris. that s it. more analysis of the day s top stories on newsnight with mark urban, just getting underway on bbc two. but the news continues here on bbc one. we join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. have a very good night. th
This is nearly two hours. The topic of this panel is how should we think about american patriotism. Our panelists need little to no introduction. They will each speak, and then i will ask a question or two. We will then take questions from all of you. The three speakers will be diana, bbill, and one other. She studied at the university of chicago. She is a coauthor of a 2011 book. A book that amy and diane coauthored. She is also accompanied by an excellent website which i recommend to you if you have an interest in Understanding America in general. It has wonderful reading and commentary. It is worth looking at. After diana, we will hear from jim. He is a student at leon cath. Certainly a friend and influence d by leon. Then, we would hear from bill the history professor at the university of oklahoma. Bill has written wonderful works on American History, american society. About 20 years ago, it was a very important book. Looking at the introductions, i believe both diana and jim spent