know, it s about the speed of withdrawal. but not the, they re in agreement about drawing down, about a political settlement. so these are, these are, these are all negotiable issues. there s no big stumbling block. i mean this is a pretty harmonious visit from that point of view. so there are no deal-breakers here, just some hiccups? right. thank you so much. katherine mayer from time magazine. thank you. we ll bring you president obama s speech to both houses of parliament live at 3:30 p.m. london time. join us for cnn s special coverage of the event starting today at 3:00 p.m. in london. that s 10:00 a.m. washington. we want to get more on the volcano of iceland. grimsvotn is settling down. iceland s official weather agency says it is not likely to blow up again. cnn producer adam reese is in
online and tweeting by traveling by train as an alternative. a popular search is for euro star, the rail service, that links london to paris to brussels via the chunnel tunnel. and number one, to boldly go where no man has gone before, nasa says it s designing this new capsule it take humans into deep space. that means future missions to the moon and possibly mars. this is such a popular story on cnn.com. you can find out more also by going to our facebook page, w1 cnn. blanketed in ash, how iceland s latest eruption is transforming the landscape.
because of the different levels of ash density, airlines can still apply to fly in some places. a british airways plane made a test flight on tuesday, b.a. says it s expecting to operate normal flights today. in iceland, the grimsvotn volcano is calming down. officials in the country are saying that the eruption itself is almost over. let s get more on the situation in germany, where it s not over yet for so many travelers. fred platkin is at cnn in berlin. fred, how long are the airports going to be closed and how long are travelers going to wait? reporter: zain, for some travelers, the nightmare is just beginning. two berlin airports, among the largest in germany, just shut down a couple of minutes ago, the airspace closed at 11:00 a.m. local time. which indeed happened a couple of minutes ago, hamburg and bremen airports remain closed since the early-morning hours. 600 flights will be canceled throughout germany today. there will be a lot of very
the phrase special relationship does not remove these difficulties. it s all a long way from the weekends at ditchly, when churchill spent day and night negotiating angelo-american relations. but six decades after churchill coined the phrase, that bond of the special relationship remains unbreakable. dan rivers, cnn, ditchly, oxfordshire. let s talk about the special relationship in a little more detail with katherine mayer, the london bureau chief at time magazine. if i hear that phrase one more time i m afraid you re going to hear it a lot. how special is it, really? it s a lot, it s a special relationship. it just happens to be a bit more special on one side than the other. it s especially onesided relationship. it s not that the uk is not an important ally for the u.s. but the uk is completely permanently obsessed with taking the temperature of its relationship with the u.s. and
claimed responsibility for the attack. as fighting in libya continues, the south african president, jacob zuma, is planning to visit the capital, tripoli, as early as next week, to hold talks with moammar gadhafi. nato air strikes hit the city for a second consecutive night on tuesday. the government says 19 people were killed. back to our top story now, barack obama in the uk and the so-called special relationship. it s likely to be at the heart of his address to parliament today. but when did it all begin? cnn s dan rivers explains. that unity of purpose and of action, which has made victory possible and certain for the united nations in this war. the special relationship between britain and the u.s. will be forever be associated with the close friendship between president roosevelt and prime minister winston churchill. who knew his country s survival depended on american help. the relationship between my grandfather and roosevelt was absolutely single-minded pursuit