You ready for me, mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Roe, we have your statement. It will be included in the record in its entirety. And under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. Ill just sort of summarize it. Ill here to provide a frank response to questions regarding Exxon Valdez Oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. Before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. And we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the Prince William sound area. Thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and weve done so from the beginning. Well continue doi
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
Japan is closed for a Public Holiday but you can see the strong gains from wall street on friday are travelling through to the asian trading session to hopes are high for a warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme the Climate Change activist Greta Thunberg has got a new challenge she needs to travel from california to the next un Climate Summit in madrid in 28 days. Without taking to the skies shes asking for ideas. Do send them in just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. As air quality hits hazardous levels, delhi hasjust introduced a traffic restriction scheme to help tackle the worst air pollution in three years. For the next 12 days, car drivers will only be allowed into the indian capital on odd or even dates, according to the final digit of their car number plate. Live now to delhi and our correspondent salman ravi. You can see the extent of the smog theyre making you can see the extent of the smog th
Lewis hamilton says he is flying super high after being crowned World Champion for the sixth time. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Health bosses in england have warned politicians not to use the nhs as a political weapon during the general Election Campaign. Nhs providers, the organisation which represents health trust leaders, has urged parties not to make empty promises over future funding for the health service. Our health editor, hugh pym reports. Nhs providers says hospitals and other trusts have been preparing for winter, but the pressures are bigger than ever. With health featuring prominently already in the Election Campaign, there is a warning that politicians need to be straight and clear about funding promises and not overdramatise the problems. We recognise there is a political po ten si around the health service, people care about the health service, but it is important we have afairand service, but it is important we have a fair and balanced debate that pre
As things are going to turn colder. Low pressure in charge at the moment, you can see low pressure in charge at the moment, you can see areas low pressure in charge at the moment, you can see areas of cloud spiralling around it, those lumps of cloud bringing showers or longer spells of rain, as you can see from the radar picture the quite widely scattered across many parts of the uk, not too many across the midlands, east anglia, expect a fair amount of dry weather through here and sunshine this afternoon. For eastern scotland some persistent rain piling in, we could see travel problems, perhaps even localised flooding and that rain in scotland being blown in on a brisk east or north east breeze, breezy for western coast as well, lighter winds further east and temperature wise this afternoon we are looking at highs of 10 13d. This evening and overnight the showers continue in many areas, tending to become fewer and further between as the night wears on and this persistent rain across e