From most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. Laura this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. Growing desperation in Eastern Ghouta. Intensified government airstrikes killed scores of civilians in this rebelheld area of syria. Hollywood turns the Golden Globe Awards into a night of action as stars come together and call for an end to Sexual Harassment. Oprah i want all the girls watching here and now that a new day is on the horizon laura and charting a Brighter Future for africa. Solar powermate be the key solar power may be the key, and panels are now seeing across the continent. Laura welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. Syrian Government Forces backed by russia have targeted 10 medical facilities in Northern Syria over the last 10 days. That is what sources on the ground told the bbc. For nearly four and a half years, the rebel
The video assistant referee system is used as brighton beat Crystal Palace 2 1 in the fa cup third round. Iam in i am in las vegas for the greatest gadget show on earth. There are humanoid robots, self driving taxis. There is even a suitcase which follows you around the airport. And carol has the weather. Good morning. It is not as exciting as that. Today what we have is a fairly cloudy, grey day ahead. Some brightness and parts of the west, and later the wind will strengthen and later the wind will strengthen and we will see some rain arrive. Further details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story the education secretary, Justine Greening, has resigned from the government after refusing a job as work and pensions secretary in theresa mays Cabinet Reshuffle. It is also understood that jeremy hunt was asked to become business secretary, but persuaded the Prime Minister to keep him at the department of health. Theresa may is expected to make more changes to her cabinet later t
2008. Id like to provide specific welcome this morning to our new member, senator smith. It is good to have yes part of the committee. I think youll find that this is a committee that does good work it would like to focus on policy, and would like to do things in a bipartisan way every now and again. So looking forward to starting the new year off with that good foot. We dont have senator capito with us this morning but she is also returning to our committee and i look forward to welcoming her and her ongoing contributions. We do have a lot on our agenda today. Our broad Bipartisan Energy Natural Resources bill where again were looking forward to continuing that as the year progresses to our efforts to increase our nations mineral security, our need for wildfire funding fix, for Street Management reform, innovation, islands and territories. With a wide range of public lands come so theres just do the things that we have on deck for this new year. We were probably have a lighter attenda
Production in the United States this is good news for the us economy is trades and i am quoting you here, combined with the right policies. When you make that statement, are you referring to tax policies, energy policies, a combination of all of that . If you could go into that i would be curious. Very fortunate because we have oil, gas, Renewable Energy sourceand business here. By improvement of the technology you look more and more oil and gas, existing resources if the right incentives are provided to the industry. Number 2, i believe, huge potential to make more use of urban energies, solar and wind especially. I was able to see support for Renewable Energy policies. The production tax credit. Exactly. Third, very important, the Independence Energy dependence and Energy Dependence is based on two factors, one is encasing production and seconds, keeping consumption at a certain level and not to waste Energy Efficiency so i imagine Domestic Energy policies, in addition to supplyside
Dramatic. And the speed as which they were happening was once unthinkable. The dow travelled 20,000 points during the f paste trading sessions. Today, it rose 500 points. Then it fell 500 points before closing with a gain of more than 1 . The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 330points, to finish at 24,190. No longer in correctio territory. The nasdaq added 97. The s p00 climb 38. But for the week, the major indexes each saw declines more than 5 . In one of the craziest stretches since the financial isis. The dows sudden drop a week ag today had Global Markets reeling by monday. Its allbout market psychology. And it is changing as we speak. Reporter by the final harrowing hour of trading the dow was setting records, but not the kind anyone wants to hear about. Now we are talking min stretch. Its changing by the second here. The dow jonesndustrial average is currently down just under 1600 points. M everybody thought theket was going to keep going up, going up, it was never going to go s