John kerry washington, d. C. The president took a sales pitch to capitol hill. Later tonight making a case to a skeptical nation. The u. S. Stepped back from the brink of a military strike. The Obama Administration called for the United Nations Security Council to come up with a way to secure chemical weapons quickly. This can k. Not be a process of delay this, cannot be avoidance. There has to be real, measurable, tangible. Syria says it will declare weapons arsenal and sign a chemical weapons agreement. So now, russian president putin said today syrian plan can work with the u. S. Drops its threat of force, but all indications from the president suggest tla is not happening. I dont think we would have gotten to this point unless we had maintain aid credible, possibility of a mill tear strike. I dont think now is the time to let up on that. The u. S. , uk and france are working on a game plan but russia rejected a french proposal laying out a plan for securing syrian weapons but inclu
This is bbc news, im reeta chakrabarti. The headlines. Nearly two Million People across most of the north east of england are set for tougher coronavirus restrictions from midnight, after a rise in cases. We do not take these decisions lightly. We agree with the local councils that we must follow the data and act, and the data says that we must act now. A similar story in south wales where almost half a Million People in Rhondda Cynon taff will have stricter lockdown rules from 6pm this evening. Meanwhile a sharp decline in the turnaround time for testing as the system struggles to keep up with demand. The british people honoured their side of the bargain. In return, the government was supposed to deliver effective testing and tracing. The government failed. If you have any questions on testing, do send them in using the hashtag below and well answer them in half an hour with a virologist and senior clinical lecturer. And back to spurs . Real madrid striker gareth bale is due to fly to
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you, captain, and your entire crew. Im going to make this short because were already running a little bit behind schedule, but San Francisco fleet week for the third year is organized with i object credible participation from city, civilian agencies from all around the region and all of us our fabulous United States military, the coast guard has been fabulous in providing assets to protect everybody out on the bay. It is one heck of a Logistics Program to get this whole program started and here we are the culmination of nearly a year of planning. Weve had exercises, weve had lots of meetings down in San Francisco up at the marines memorial, this is a fabulous program, we had a great medical exchange yesterday. Senior leaders seminar third year in a row has gotten a lot of attention. We have a lot of new people who havent been here for the past couple years, we have a lot of people who have been here for the last 3 years, and one of the major consistent peopl
General mike myers who im going to ask to come up and make is remarks. Thank you, lewis. When i accepted the responsibilities for organizing San Franciscos fleet week, the guidance given to me by our honorary cochair was bring the fleet back to fleet week and make it productive with a mission. Lewis has played a big part. I would like to introduce the third fleet commander, this is his ship, were grateful to be on the ship and had the third fleet with us, please help me welcome vice admiral gerald beeman. Good morning, everybody, thank you so very much for joining us. I know some of you thought i was the warm up band for the rock stars that are going to be here lately. But honestly its a great honor to be able to host the third seminar. I would like to thank the San Francisco fleet Week Association for helping put this together and grow this into the nations largest Emergency Planning event. I dont know how many of you know it, but as a result of the success that we have had here devel
Welcome, shall, to the uss macon islands. My name is lewis loeven and im the executive director of the San Francisco fleet Week Association and what a great fleet week were going to have for 2012. Thank you. This is the second time weve had the uss macon islands and i want to thank captain pringle and his entire crew. What a great ship and what a great crew. They turned this swear hanger deck around all right night and turned it into a Conference Room and it looks absolutely beautiful. Thank you, captain, and your entire crew. Im going to make this short because were already running a little bit behind schedule, but San Francisco fleet week for the third year is organized with i object credible participation from city, civilian agencies from all around the region and all of us our fabulous United States military, the coast guard has been fabulous in providing assets to protect everybody out on the bay. It is one heck of a Logistics Program to get this whole program started and here we