We start with a hearing in europes top court, which will have huge implications for hundreds of thousands of companies with european operations. In a landmark case, the European Court ofjustice in luxembourg will decide whether the way facebook transfers personal data to the us should be outlawed. The court will hear arguments by austrian privacy activist max schrems, who claims the Us Government doesnt sufficiently protect europeans data when its shipped across the atlantic. The case comes four years after mr schrems brought down safe harbour, a Previous Data sharing deal worth billions of euros between europe and the United States. At stake now is the legality of so called standard contractual clauses, complex mechanisms which allow facebook and thousands of other companies to move data freely from europe to the us and elsewhere. While the European Commission considers the system legal, mr schrem and his legal team are expected to argue that it runs against eu privacy rules because i
In england to treat patients with a rare hereditary disease. It is making a disease that was previously untreatable treatable and has the potential to make patients lives dramatically better. In the last hour, the labour and video footage is released leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has said his party will challenge showing the final moments of a team of climbers whose bodies the next Prime Minister to put any new brexit deal to a second referendum. Were recovered in the himalayas. Following a meeting of the shadow cabinet, mr corbyn issued a statement saying labour would campaign in that referendum for remain. Good morning. The statement does not explain what welcome to bbc newsroom live. A labour would do if the party won a im joanna gosling. President trump has stepped general election before a decision had been made on brexit. Up his attack on the uks our assistant Political Editor norman smith is at westminster. Ambassador in washington, how big of a deal is this norman . Saying we will no
the east of the district. but a left a lot of moisture up in the air. we ll find out about that in just a second. i m gurvir dhindsa. i m steve chenevey. let s talk about what is happening out there. fog is the main story p. there is a dense fog advisory in effect for some counties east of the washington area particularly east of the chesapeake bay depending on what county you are in. that advisory lasted until 7:00 or 8:00 this morning depending on what count you you are in. we do have fog across much of the region. it is rather muggy out with our humidity levels over 90%. the temperatures aren t bad this morning. 48-degree is your current temperature in washington. 48 degrees is your current temperature in washington. 48 in baltimore. a look at the satellite-radar. we ll show you a couple of things. it won t really show you the fog. it is hard to pick that up. we do have some clouds up there moving by. it will be a mixed bag during the course of the morning and for