Voiceover live from our studios in london and singapore, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello, its seven in the morning in singapore, midnight here in london and 1am in brussels, where negotiators appear to be close to a dealfor britain to leave the european union. Now, isay appear, because despite the optimism nothing is certain. An agreement could be finalised at the eu summit in brussels later on thursday. But any deal would still need the approval of both european leaders and the british parliament. The bbcs Laura Kuennsberg reports. He is in a rush, a terrible rush. Keep working, he says. Eu leaders will be there in the afternoon, and the negotiators on both sides will have to give their verdict to their political masters. The big players in europe desperately want this all to come to a conclusion. Everyone understands english, but nobody understands england. Laughter. And these negotiations are taking part somewhere in this not very beautiful building. Can there be a new un
Up around altima, from 20 to 25 miles an hour. This is a 2 on the storm impact scale. We have a couple of waves of energy that will be moving through the bay area. This first one this morning and another one later on tonight. With it, the brief heavy downpours, the gusty winds and the rainy conditions. In fact, were going to add in a chance of thunderstorms to your afternoon forecast. 50s and 60s right now. Low 60s around noontime. By the afternoon, with a few peeks of sun that could fuel the atmosphere for a thunderstorm and still showers around for the evening hours. Ill time it out for you in a few minutes. Carolyn . Thank you, lisa. You can keep track of the changing weather conditions where you live with the abc 7 accuweath accuweather app. You can monday tort forecast on the go. We have breaking news this morning. Oakland police say theyre responding to several sideshows in west and east oakland right now. And here is a look at one of the active scenes at high street and coliseum
Today were going to think about how the sun is playing a growing role in our future. Our modern world uses an awful lot of power and the sun, as well as other sources of energy are looking better all the time. Thats why my recent tour of an industrial scale solar farm was such an enlightening experience. These state of the art solar panels are moving platforms designed to follow the sun. They soak up an immense amount of energy, free Energy Created all day long every day. All the power thats being generated on this farm is being sold back to the grid. Its about 2. 4 mega watts of solar panels in the sun here today. So its generating more than a mega watt right now. Right now. [chuck] but its not loud. Theres no smell. No, no, its also clean, so its quiet, clean and has very little Environmental Issues at all. Solars really the future that is coming fast. [chuck] thats why anyone looking to address Climate Change has to look at the sun. The ultimate power source. At its core, its an inc
Communications or any kind of Communications Text and be able to assess it and. Check it for other threats or things like that or even. From some of the manipulation programs even respond. And try to manipulate the other person at the other end so i mean all intelligence agencies have this is one of their objectives the white papers are generally circulated among contractors who do business with the government so it is a little unusual to see these things out in the public as far as i know that the most obvious interpretation would be that this is a pushback against the allegations that have been made consistently for the last eighteen months about socalled russian troll phone influencing elections across the west and its interesting to see that the languages that theyre advertising for are part of the language of iran and of course north korea and russia so that would be a bit of a sort of give away about which countries they want to be targeting. Well from online bots to viral photos
A Senate Hearing on thursday the president has committed as a matter of strategy that we will not leave syria were going to stay for several reasons stabilization and assistance in the vital north and northeast protection of our allies the Syrian Democratic forces but for other reasons as well including countering iran. But those offer up a lot of question doesnt it lets try and answer some of them and go live to middle east expert as ziad elise a visceral highs and a good to have you on the program the u. S. Claimed it was in syria to fight i say lots what we heard all along no its going to kuntar iran was not part of the plan all along do you think. I do believe that this is part and parcel of a concerted effort and straining to keep shifting the goalposts they claimed they were in syria to actually fight and eradicate eisel when in reality when they actually sat on the fence in iraq and they stood ideally by why while actually allowing us to expand and to reach the actually the bord