Absolutely, we had some snow on the beachin absolutely, we had some snow on the beach in scarborough, it shows how cold that area is. This is from scarborough. Another one from hartlepool. Weve seen lots of snow coming in from gotland for quite a few days now. As far as this evening and tonight is concerned, more snow showers on the way, at least the chance of them around eastern areas of the uk. For northern and eastern scotland, eastern counties of england, possibly into east anglia, perhaps even getting into the Home Counties and the south east as well. But we are only talking about flurries of snow. This is what it looks like around 6pm this evening, temperatures more or less what they we re temperatures more or less what they were yesterday, at least thats the forecast, around freezing. A couple of degrees above freezing across yorkshire, cold enough for some smoke. But notice we often mention the word wintry. Wintry means a little bit of rain with sleet, sometimes snow, and it ch
Issue in the brexit cox and we will be live here throughout the day. Brexit talks. The bbc understands that a 24 year old british man who went to syria to fight so called Islamic State has been killed. Oliver hall, from the portsmouth area, hadjoined Kurdish Armed groups to fight against so called Islamic State. Trials show a new approach to preventing migraines can reduce the number and severity of attacks. Good morning, its thursday, november 30th. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has told theresa may that she should pay more attention to tackling terrorism in the uk, rather than criticising him. The message was delivered in a tweet last night after downing street criticised the us president for sharing anti Muslim Videos posted by a british far right group on social media. The row has placed more pressure on the Prime Minister to cancel mr trumps state visit to the uk next year. Our north america correspondent, laura bicker, reports. The home secretar
Mr. Rubio mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from florida. Mr. Rubio mr. President , i have a motion at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from florida mr. Rubio, moves that the managers on the party on the part of the senate shall insist any conference report shall increase the refundable Child Tax Credit be increased to no more than 2,000 and benefit lowwage parents. Mr. Rubio mr. President , this has to do with the Child Tax Credit. We had a debate about it last week. I want to explain to everybody why its so important that we continue to focus on this. Irrespective of whether we agreed with the final outcome and the numbers were high enough in the senate bill, and i continue to believe that they were not, they are significantly better than the house position on this matter and i want to explain why. The loss of the personal exemption hits middle income families to the tune that has to be made up. Because of the last 15 years,
Mr. President , we stand today on the precipice of the most Sweeping Change to the nations tax system in over 30 years. This is a historical moment as this distinguished body begins final consideration of tax cuts and jobs act, tax reform that will help boost americas economy, create more jobs and leave more money in peoples paychecks. At the last time we considered tax reform similar to this magnitude was 1986. To help remind us how much our country, its economy and the people have changed since the time lets review some of the events of the year. In 1986, the Dow Jones Industrial average closed up 1,895. Sure the 20,000 would never be broken and it wasnt until after the last election it now stands isr over 24,000. A gallon of gas costs just 89 cents entity as close to two and a half dollars. We still use land lines to phone our loved ones. Iconic movies such as top gun and americans were watching shows and the Associated Press chose larry bird is one of the athletes of the year and p