Story with martha begins now in. Martha thank you very much. It afternoon im Martha Maccallum and this is the story. We have breaking news right now in new York City as you just saw quite a bit of news in florida as well. Obviously in beirut. For the first time in history, the sitting mayor of the biggest city in the country Eric Adams was indicted on a tangle of charges around Campaign Donations and bribery and the government of turkiye. Also as you just heard Hurricane Helene has now strengthened to a category three hurricane. Its expected to grow further before making landfall several hours away. So we are watching it, its enormous Peer Arlington with the Big Bend of florida we are going to have live coverage for you as it changes this afternoon. Also waiting in new york a couple big things, trump will speak shortly from Trump Tower. But first. Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not give in to White House calls for a ceasefire in lebanon. As u. S. Officials say w
Dedicated to ideas that never took off. The museum of failure. Good morning. Its june 8th. Iam i am annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Polling stations are open across the country as millions of people go to cast their votes in the general election. Theyll close at 10pm this evening, with the first results due before midnight. Police say therell be increased security at some Polling Stations with Armed Officers in some areas. Joining me now from westminster is our Political Correspondent alicia mccarthy. And intensive seven Week Campaign and now people get to go and cast their votes, tech as to what has been happening. 50 days since mps voted to hold the selection and finally, today is the day. Polling stations will be open for another 11 hours. We have seen theresa may, tim farron, nicola sturgeon, jeremy corbyn, they have all been out to vote so far. We are electing 650 mps. We have got 3301 candidates standing in the selection. 986 of those women. The polls dont close unt
That didnt work out. So what success have you had in persuading companies to reveal theirfailures and hand over exhibits some of their failed products to you . Zero. What does that make you think . It really drives home the point how sensitive of an issue failure is, and how, to what extent were willing to go to sort of hide it. As for my favourite exhibit here that was easy. Now, incredibly, this was marketed as a beauty mask, and as you can see inside theres a whole load of electrodes with gel on them. If you put them on your face, you get electric shocks, which apparently make you more beautiful, but i can tell you, it is very unpleasant cheering and applause. But the hope is that with the opening of this museum, failure will be seen in a very different light. Richard galpin, bbc news in helsingborg. I think ironically the museum of failure might be a success well wait and see. Lets get the weather, with darren bett. Hello there. A glimmer of Sunshine Today but also a fair bit of ra
But 1st the western german city of boston is the high much home town of lewd fig. He was born in 1717. 00 and spent the 1st 22 years busy life in the city next year it is a very special. Bond as its the 250th anniversary of the great mans birth and theres lots going on that every year theres a Beethoven Fest about Beethoven 2020 is much more than that indeed the whole year is so packed with all sorts of events that celebrations have spilled over into this year kind of already on the way. Now friday so all the opening of a special walking tour in and around featuring all the important places where beit have malls on the line from the burka the Artistic Director the entire beethoven
2020 year welcome to the program 1st of all Beethoven 2020 gets underway officially at the end of this year and of course stretches of the whole of next year the 1st Visible Project is this walking sort tour so 1st of all that could you tell us a little bit about that. Of course thank you we believe in bonn t
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