Over 100 empty homes forjust £1. Houses like these. I will look at whether this is one way we can solve the housing shortage and i will take you inside some of the houses. And in sport from the farm to the curling sheet. Great britains men beat switzerland in their opening match. Tea m team gb won silver four years ago, but this is a new team, all of them farmers. Theres black and then theres one of the blackest substances known to man. What can vantablack be used for . Well tell you later. And we have the dark lord himself on the weather forecast. We can bring a bit of colour to your forecast. Lots of frost and sunshine to begin with, but rain and hill snow on the way. All the details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story a committee of mps has said there is a pervasive lack of trust among disabled people in how their welfare claims are assessed. The commons work and Pensions Committee said reports by private contractors were riddled with errors and quality targets had b
It and what it means for eight million customers. Good morning. And in sport, a suprise win for the underdogs in americas super bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles beat the favourites, the new England Patriots, by a0 to 33. Its the first time theyve won the title. Let me hear you, minneapolis and Justin Timberlake wows the crowds at half time. Ending up dancing in the crowd. And its getting cold out there. Carol can tell us how cold. A few warnings. Good morning. A cold start to the day. The risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Wind from the east. Some of us will have snow from the west. I will have more in 15 minutes. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story. The eus chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, will visit downing street today for talks about a possible transitional period after britain leaves the european union. The government has indicated it remains determined to leave the European Customs Union after brexit. The move is seen as an attempt to defuse a growing row within the cons
The stigma is that its a place for naughty children. Theyre not naughty children. Theyre wonderful, bright, intelligent, just amazing children, but theyve made poor choices, and thats a big, big difference. This morning, weve been given incredible access to this school, some of its pupils, some of their mums and dads and to the teachers here. And the reason were here is because we can exclusively reveal that theres been a big rise in the numbers of Primary School children being educated in pupil referral units. Morning, welcome to hawkswood primary pupil referral unit in Waltham Forest, north east london. Were broadcasting to you live here all morning. This is where children come when theyre kicked out of Mainstream School or in danger of being kicked out. It isa it is a pretty small screw, this is the main corridor, the main thoroughfare, a0 pupils, and it is at capacity, and this is a place where children come when they have been kicked out of mainstream education, or where they are
United nations and nato. It was a war that was fundamentally about liberty, but it spawned independence movements and colonial wars that led to the creation of modern india, pakistan, ghana israel, and other states in a fermentation that continues to this day. We americans emerged from world war ii with extraordinary advantages that ensure prosperity for decades and a thriving industrial base, a population relatively unscarred by war, cheap energy, two thirds of the worlds gold supply, great optimism. As the major power in western europe mediterranean, and the pacific assisting atomic weapons and an army and navy and air force of unequal might possessing atomic weapons and the army and navy and air force of unequal might. It was described as the end of european supremacy. The war largely dispelled american isolationism even as it encouraged american exceptionalism as well as a penchant for military solutions and a self regard that led to some to label the epic the american century. Rem
To study, although i wasnt planning on being a historian. I was originally going to go into the foreign service. Cspan can you remember when you first got interested in history, say, in high school, or even grade school . Guest no, because it was taught so poorly in high school i cant imagine why i would have been interested in it from the High School Teacher. He used to have us read from muzzey, the textbook. That was how we did history. Each would read a paragraph, and hed go up and down the row, and i would plan ahead when i would be reading, and then id go ahead and read on my own and keep my finger on the spot which i would have to read. But so it was not because of the teaching. It was just something i was interested in, despite the very bad High School Teacher we had. Cspan where did you grow up . Guest i grew up in new england, in Greater Boston lived in worcester for a while but graduated from waltham high school, which is a little town right outside of boston. Cspan and do yo