Mail on their extracts of boris johnsons autobiography. And the daily mail serialisation, boriss dramatic plan for a Military Raid on holland to snatch back vaccines. I think i have heard that story before and i would probably want a bigger story for the serialisation rights. And the tv presenter. Lots more on the Bbc News about the emerging news from The Middle East. Thats almost all from us tonight. Victorias back on monday from the tory party conference. But before we go the Word Legend is overused but if it applies to anyone in our industry then it applies to her. Thats how Daniel Radcliffe described his harry Potter Cast Mate Maggie Smith who died today. But before she won a wider audience as Minerva Mcgonagall and the Dowager Countess of grantham in downton abbey, that legend was built on raw, astonishing performances like this one jean brodie, for which she won an oscar in 1970. Goodnight. Lama i am a teacher. I am a teacher first, last, always. Do you imagine that for one incid
we continue here at cnn, our coverage of israel at war. you re most welcome, wherever in the world you re joining us from. i m richard quest in abu dhabi. here the time is 1:00 p.m. it s a few hours earlier in gaza, 11:00. they re two hours behind in gaza. and idf helicopters have been seen flying along the israeli coastline. these are pictures from ashkelon earlier today. now, ashkelon is only 20 kilometers from gaza. it is there, of course, that the idf says hamas has been is holding 230 hostage. and it is there where israeli military says it s hit more than 450 targets in the last day. israel says it includes hamas command centers, observation posts, and missile launch sites. first, let me update you with events overnight. these are the pictures israel says it s been targeting hamas tunnels and underground spaces, continues to urge everyone to go further south. in gaza itself, the near-total communications blackout apparently is easing, hospitals resume to be overwhelm
a warm welcome to this hour s coverage of israel at war. i m richard quest live from abu dhabi and you re most welcome if you re watching in the united states or indeed from wherever you re a watching around the world. it is 10:00 on sunday morning in gaza. and idf helicopters have already been seen flying along the israeli coastline in ashkelon earlier today. the city is only 20 kilometers from gaza, where the idf says hamas is holding 230 hostages. now, in gaza, we are waiting to see the latest images of damage from overnight, and of course, receive the reports on possible casualties. overnight, the reports of near total communications blackout, internet, telephone, mobile phones and the like, is believed to be, that has now eased up, but it was an extremely dangerous and busy night. israel says it s been targeting hamas tunnels and underground spaces. and again, warning people to go south. this is the israeli prime minister. our heroic fighters have one supreme goal, to
Twenty-seven specimens were tested to investigate the uniaxial compression behaviour of an innovative standing support for underground space applications. The innovative standing support consisted of an external fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) jacket and the infill column made of cementitious grout, tailings and coal wash rejects. Effects of the FRP layers number and water to the cementitious grout (w/g) ratio were evaluated. Test results indicated that lower w/g ratios produced stronger infill columns. With FRP confinement, the standing support demonstrated strain-hardening loading characteristics with a significant improvement in both strength and ductility. The highest strength and strain of the specimens achieved was 58.4 MPa and 11.8% respectively. Compared with the unconfined specimens, the confinement with four FRP layers increased the specimen strength and associated strain up to 3.6 and 27.0 times respectively. A correlation between the compressive strength of the infill materi
Large-size lump (e.g., coal reject or waste rocks) is one of the most popular backfill materials for underground mines attributed to its cost-effective and easy-to-obtain. The massive void between lumps, however, does generally affect the overall performance in eliminating the ground subsidence. This paper presents a conceptual backfill material, termed as lump-grout (LG) material, the attractive feature of which is that the voids between lumps are totally filled up with high-water content cementitious grout (CG) material. To explore the mechanical behaviour of LG material, a total of 36 LG specimens were prepared and tested under the uniaxial compression and the tensile loading. Other 20 CG specimens were tested in parallel for comparison. Key configurations investigated in the present research covered the particle size of lumps and the water-to-powder ratio of CG material. Test results indicated that the stress–strain behaviour of LG specimen is predominately affected by the streng