Elsewhere in the news this morning five british people, including an 11 year old girl, are confirmed to have been killed when a sea plane crashed in australia yesterday. Firefighters have been battling a blaze in a Multi Storey Car Park in liverpool which has destroyed up to 1,400 vehicles. North koreas leader says his countrys Nuclear Weapons are a reality, not a threat and the entire us mainland is a target. In sport, the winning run is over. And it takes an injury time penalty save to preserve manchester citys unbeaten record this season as theyre given a scare at the palace. Happy new year from bbc breakfast from parliament square, the final preparations are under way for the annual new years day parade with thousands of performers from around the world like these guys on texas half a Million People expected, 8000 performers, including these guys. And stav has the weather. Happy new year. Quite a lot of showers around, wet and windy in places but some sunshine into the afternoon bu
Catering group, compass, died in the crash along with his sons william and edward. Mr cousins fiancee, emma bowden, and her 11 year old daughter also died as did the australian pilot. The bodies of the victims have been recovered. The incident is. Talks for itself. This is people that have come over on holiday to visit australia, they we re on holiday to visit australia, they were in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, and for this to happen to them at a place like that is nothing more thanjust happen to them at a place like that is nothing more than just project. Scores of people were left stranded in liverpool and forced to spend the night in emergency accommodation after a fire destroyed more than 1,000 cars parked in a car park close to the citys arena. No one was hurt but residents in nearby apartments were evacuated as the fire service tackled the blaze, which it describes as one of the worst it had ever dealt with. Britains trains are the oldest since current records b
Shocked by news of his death. His brother, edward, who was 23, had recently graduated from the university of st andrews. The pilot, gareth morgan, had done more than 10,000 flying hours, 9,000 of which were on seaplanes. The pilot had collected mr cousins and members of his family from an exclusive waterfront restaurant and was heading back to rose bay on Sydney Harbour shortly after take off, the plane plummeted into the water. Investigators say it quickly sank and there were no survivors. These are people who have come out on holiday to visit australia in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. And for this to happen to them in a place like that is nothing more than just tragic. It could take months to work out how and why a routine sightseeing trip could end in utter disaster. Air crash investigators have begun their work. Their task wont be easy. The wreckage of the seaplane has been submerged in more than a0 feet of water. And although these idyllic bays and inlets are geogr
Going to shrink operations down to three profitable core businesses aviation power and health care practically Everything Else will be sold off to the tune of twenty billion dollars and flannery is also slashing the dividend only the second time its done so since one thousand thirty eight the eighth biggest dividend cut in its history will help g. E. Avoid a cash crunch. Its of course a big topic and we want to discuss it with our financial correspondent on wall street sophie she mounts the sophie hi good to see you youre at the New York Stock Exchange where weve seen these reactions eight percent thats actually a very big loss is it that investors are really not betting on g. E. s future. Yeah well that is quite a strong reaction i mean the company is one hundred twenty five years old has a quite diversified portfolio if not fragmented so focusing and streamlining doesnt sound bad in order to restructure a huge company like g. E. And the long term and clearly this is the main concept
You may have noticed this event originally called for our speaker bill fowler to be here. He is my predecessor at the Historical Society, which many of you already know. He is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern professor of history at northeastern. We realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. He suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation would have more depth if we invited others, leading subject experts on the irish famine in the american response. We are pleased bill is joined tonight by catherine shannon, the guest historian of exhibition at westfield state university. We have christine can nearly, author and founding director of irelands Great Hunger Institute at quinnipiac university. Please welcome me in joining join me in welcoming, bill, christine, and kathleen. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to all of your staff and trustees for hosting this exhibit. Louder. Louder, ok. Close