more than seventy migrants die after their boat sinks off the coast of syria our correspondent is with the rescue operation. and the first woman to win the booker prize twice the celebrated author dame hilary mantel has died at the age of 70 officials in four russian occupied regions of ukraine have been holding self declared referenda on whether to become part of the russian federation. the kremlin supports the votes just as it did after the annexation of crimea the ukrainian territory which was invaded in 2014. but the government in kyiv and western countries have condemned the referenda saying they are just a sham, and that they will never be recognised. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south and cover around fifteen percent of ukraine s territory. votes are are expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in m
the biggest tax cuts in half a century in a bid to kickstart growth. more than seventy people die after a migrant boat sinks off the coast of syria. a new type of cancer therapy shows promising results in early human trials. we hear from the study leader. and the first woman to win the booker prize twice the celebrated author dame hilary mantel dies at the age of seventy. officials in four russian occupied regions of ukraine have been holding self declared referendums on whether to become part of the russian federation. the kremlin supports the votes just as it did after the annexation of crimea the ukrainian territory which was invaded in 2014. but the government in kyiv and western countries have condemned the referendums saying they are just a sham, and that they will never be recognised. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south and cov
Went up in flames killing more people and destroyed 7 years later. Author sc gwynne opened book in england on october 4th, 1930, what was happening there that day . Well, in october 4th, 1930 a 770foot long air ship, largest thing that had ever flown, inow fact, something larger than the titanic by volume is about to take off from one trip in india as part of a scheme hatched by the british empire. It was for its they it was kind of a moon shot. A moon shot, a scheme that you call it. One of your chapters is called pipe dreams and imperial vision. How much was this airship . Actually a nice combination of all of them. Itit was air ship as it turns ot were a bad idea. They were competing with airplanes in the early centuries. Starting in the first decade of the century because nobody knew what where you say going to be the few houren of aviation. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with air ships as we will as we will say as we talked to is that it was a fundamentally flaw
Happening that day . October 4, 1930, is 770foot long airship, the largest thing everer clung, larger than the titanic about to take off on a trip which was in india as part of scheme by the British Empire and it was kind of a moonshot. One of your chapters is titled dream and imperial vision, hows much was the airship . A nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they were fundamentally sound that could be improved. Part of what i am riding about is the two writing about, it is the focus of all of this effort to persuade people that airships were the way to go. A good