Would feel a little bit better. Rugby league the Great Britain lions will head home without a win on their south hemisphere tour. They were outplayed by Papua New Guinea earlier, in theirfinal match in port moresby. It started well for Great Britain they opened the scoring after 1a minutes a swift move gave blake austin a clear run into the corner, for his First International try. They went 10 nil ahead but that was the end of their scoring and a spectacular try from edwin ipape set off the Papua New Guinea fightback. They won by 28 points to 10. England lost the series a nil. When you play for your country it is the proudest thing you can do in your career and when you dont perform, you have let everyone down. We are all proud men. It is a game we are in. If you lose you have to wear it for a while and try and figure out where you go next. Englands women fell to an agonising defeat this morning a last minute shirleyjoe try gave the Papua New Guinea orchids their first test win against
Than 3 to 6 degrees. Sunday, a similar sort of picture and we still have this weather front across parts of Northern England and wales and you could see a few heavier bursts of rain across the north east, quite wet through the day. Glimmers of brightness across the midlands and the south and some widespread sunshine developing across scotland and northern ireland. It will be another chilly day. This area of High Pressure builds in for monday and tuesday across the uk, we will see a nice window of fine weather with plenty of sunshine albeit very cold and frosty morning. Midweek onwards, more unsettled with increasing cloud, strengthening winds for the south. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines. Prince andrew speaks publicly for the first time, about his friendship with the convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. In an exclusive interview with bbc newsnight, the duke says it was wrong to stay at epsteins house, and admits he let the side down. That is the bit that i kick myself for i
Its time for click. This week the perils of the gig economy. Checking for allergens. And. Fake birds. Its kind of hard to remember a time when we didnt have taxi hailing apps. And when i say taxi hailing apps, even though there are many more players out there, it is uber that comes to mind first. At its conception a decade ago, uber was really disruptive. I mean, the idea that you could have a taxi to you within minutes, it would know exactly where you were, you could see where it was and you didnt even have to have any money on you. I mean, it was revolutionary. The company grew at a rapid pace, becoming the highest valued start up in the world. This without ever turning a profit. In fact, in the last three months alone, uber lost an eye watering 5. 2 billion. Undeterred, uber continues to expand and has its name stamped onto many apps that provide different types of services, all part of the so called gig economy. Now, it has faced a lot of backlash in many of the countries that it o
Regret being friends with the disgraced financier, even though epstein was convicted of sex offences. There are concerns about the cladding on a block of student flats in bolton engulfed by fire. Labour agrees its election manifesto Jeremy Corbyn says it will offer a once in a generation chance for a better britain. Wilson has continued its run back up wilson has continued its run back up the wilson has continued its run back he post and a boost for welsh hopes for euro 2020, with a 2 0 win over azerbaijan. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are nigel nelson, the Political Editor at the sunday mirror and sunday people, and the political commentator, jo phillips, who was a press secretary for the liberal democrats. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. Like many of the papers, the observer leads on the bbcs interview with Prince Andrew, and his comments that he couldnt have had sex with an underage teenager because he
The communicators. Madam chair, thanks for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host before we get into some of the issues, some of the telecommunications and technical issues that your committee deals with, i wanted to ask you abot s. T. E. M. Education. You come from a science background, science education. What is your committee doing when it comes to s. T. E. M. Education and what do you think congress should be doing . Guest let me start with the committee. The committee has passed out two major pieces of legislation that was bipartisan. A matteroffact passed on a consent calendar but it has a long way to go in the senate. It is extraordinarily important that we not only just spread the word but also put in instruments in the empire but, the education environment, to make sure that women and minorities are told about the important of s. T. E. M. Courses. Innovation is our future and if we dont have the people educated and trained and we see a lack of the brainpower now wi