The land speed record with the british Bloodhound Team hoping to smash the Current Record of 763 miles per hour. Andrew harding was given exclusive access to the team on the salt flats of the Northern Cape of south africa. Well, the thing about the land speed record is it is the last of the amateur corinthian sports. It is done purely for the love, the fascination of it. Some people argue, well, the old cars are no more, but forget it is a car, we are pushing the boundaries of engineering to its absolute limit. Every day i go, why are we doing this . It may be the last land speed record as we know it. This is a story about stubbornness and ingenuity, and yes, about speed, too. It is the story of a quest to design and build the worlds fastest car, and then to find a place flat enough, long enough, to actually drive it. There are not many spots on this particular planet suitable for racing faster than the speed of sound. You cant just pick a straight stretch of road. At 500, 700, 900 mil
So, weve bought the food, hopefully, but how much is left on shop shelves . About 260,000 tonnes end up in the bin every year. Ill be looking at how we can reduce that. And in sport, tottenham say their initial findings into the alleged racist abuse of Antonio Rudiger are inconclusive, but a chelsea fan has been arrested for allegedly abusing son heung min. Good morning. It is Christmas Eve and we are going to bejoined by the singers all morning. We have rain that were clear. Heavy thundery showers and windy across the south with some sunshine in the forecast. I will tell you where in about 15 minutes. A very good morning to you. Its tuesday, december the 24th. Our top story the queen will use her Christmas Day message to say that 2019 has been quite bumpy. It comes after a year of intense political debate over brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the royal family. Heres our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. It has been a year which at times may have felt quite
Partnership between the General Services administration and the National Museum of civil war medicine. Thisays like to ask question how many of you have been here before . All right, everybody. Great. Welcome back to the museum. Always like to make a shout out when we see mr. Richard lyons in the audience. The reason we are here in this space is because mr. Lyons made an incredible discovery in the 1990s that saved this building from being torn down. Always like a round of applause for mr. Lyons his discovery. [applause] Evenings Program is a pay what you please event, meaning at the conclusion of the program, we encourage you to leave a donation based on what you thought the program and the museum is worth to you and an evening of civil war history. The donation bin is at the front of the Visitors Center on the first floor. As you head out this evening, if you would just drop something in there. All of the proceeds go to support the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum. Interes
Profit is that there is piped in the minister of interior the collaboration it is indeed there is indeed the problem on how the Security Forces or other what other Security Forces were not that of responding to them used. There are at the link with the demonstrators and on the other hand also of course there are also occasion of the from the Security Forces side so there is also of course a problem of how the protests are actually respond that but at the same time they. Saw what can be done individually sure thermic is there for what aside any investigation on what exactly happened and if people now want to know what exactly happened why have you beaches such a level of a high number of casualties in an injury and then in the medium term there is it in need that for the government to actually engage with the section of what they call the society of them was traitors and its very important to i remind that they were not all that they once traitorous are also people who are. There is amo
The duke and duchess of sussexs son, archie, is baptised at windsor castle, amid criticism for excluding the public. Personally i think they should have been a bit more access. Its a shame, everybody has come for the day and nobody gets to see them. Everybody has come for the day and nobody gets to see themlj everybody has come for the day and nobody gets to see them. I think they are entitled to their privacy. The organisers of the pride parade in london claim 1. 5 Million People have been on the streets of the capital. And the Murray Williams show is under way. The wimbledon dream team. Andy murray and Serena Williams on centre court. And at 11 30, well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers Yasmin Alibhai brown and joe twyman stay with us for that. Its been another day of frantic campaigning in the race to be the next Prime Minister, with borisjohnson and jeremy hunt meeting conservative Party Members in the latest of a series of events taking place around the c