Syrian children are allowed to leave a rebel held area of damascus. Tesco investigates after customers complained that their christmas turkey was rotten or had gone off. And england have had their best day on their ashes tour of australia so far. Alistair cook completed his first ashes century in 7 years. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. High winds and snow have caused disruption for much of england and wales. Thousands of homes and properties are without power in the midlands, the south west and parts of wales, after power lines were brought down overnight. Theres been disruption for passengers at birmingham and sta nsted airports, and collisions on the mi, m25 and a number of a roads caused by treacherous driving conditions have caused major delays. Viewers have been sending in pictures from their area , georgina tweeted this photo from the departure lounge at stansted airport, which has suffered delays due due to a closed runway, but has now reopened. But the weather hasnt be
Im rooting for it to shut down. Weve all survived shutdowns. The challenge it is politically risky for both republicans and democrats. Of theyre in a mudslinging fight and hoping the other part has more mud on their face at end of the day. Charles deroy, forget about the market, only one year was the gdp down. I get back to the point. Why are republican so afraid of this . They seem to think they will get burned. After the last shutdown they benefited midterm elections after that. Depend who defines the terms of shutdown. He should do Oval Office Address on friday evening as we go toward the countdown. Lay out deal he is willing to sign. Have the senate vote on it one by one, let democrats on camera decide if they shut down the government and allow the government to continue in operation. Shelby is right to separate between a market story and political story. To take the last shutdown we had in 2013, the market, participants in the market tended to focus what they were already focused
Am uncomfortable just throwing more money into a black box here and id like to see some real accountability for what we spend i mean thats after all more money than the Gross Domestic Product of i think all but about twenty countries over two hundred on the planet so i start there i also just you know i dont have access to classified information but i think you know russia and china clearly have to defend territory whereas the Islamic State whats left of it and radical islamic terror and terrorism do not so i would disagree just as a citizen and not a military expert with the notion that you know we have little we dont have as much to fear from radical islamic terrorism i think we do i think that if you elegy has not yet been fully discredited it could spring up again and so you know that those are be my headline reactions ok there was a point understand during the speech where james mattis made a threat lets have a listen to what he said. And to those who would threaten americas exper
Down, yields go up, conversely, yields go down, prices go up, not to the degree. Not helping stocks to the degree you would think, at a time paul ryan trying to assure people theyre on top of the debt, on top of eventually a daca deal that should make nancy pelosi happy. A twoyear budget arrangement senate came up with that should be welcomed by all. Were in a bizarre kind of world, whether that passes or not, it could be daming to investors, if it were to fall through, analogous to the failure of tarp funding back in fall of 2008, that produced 777 point falloff in the dow, even though both sides regrouped, you would still see in the approval of a followup tarp deal, the dow fall another 6,000 points . We dont know whether youre damned if you do, damned if you dont on budget deal, whether you fall off if approved here or not but a catalyst could be or excuse could be failure to reach such an treatment, there are several house conservatives several we talk to next document hours are le
Laughing with the stars and. Skinny dipping in the himalayas choose wi fi, choose snapchat, choose a pre ordered macchiato with almond milk, choose likes, choose follows, choose pizza delivered by drone, swipe right, swipe left, follow, follow, follow. We are constantly being bombarded with updates, tweets, information and fake news. Were glued to our phones, addicted to digital status. Were even smashing up our gadgets, obliterating them to pieces in a violent quest to rid ourselves of these virtual assistants. Our self imposed restraints. Well, its time to get away from all that, just for a few minutes. This week, Justin Rowlatt travelled thousands of miles to a village in the himalayas which is getting electricity for the very first time by enhancing the power of the sun. Ivejoined a team hiking up the frozen zanskar river. Weve got an eight day 140 kilometre trek ahead of us. Our destination, hanamur village. It has around 50 people, its four houses huddled together under granite c