allysia, what happened here that caused the meltdown? so it was a con newspapers of bad typing confluence of bad time, bad weather and bad government policies. this is an historic freeze for texas with temperatures dipping down, plunging, for that matter, into the single digits. but the bigger problem is there just wasn t enough power to keep the grid running, and that s largely because the state has been forging more and more into wind over the last decade. the power that it derives from wind has more than doubled while the amount of power that it gets from coal has fallen by half. and coal and nuclear with the most steady sources of generation. and when you didn t have that to back up the grid amid surging demand for heating and other things, they had to resort to blackouts. paul: okay. so when you say baseload power, you mean reliable power that isn t intermittent like solar or to wind that you can count on when the chips are down, and that s predominantly coal and nuc
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the mirror columnist susie boniface and the editor of the sunday express, michael booker. have they no respect? reads the front page of tomorrow s daily mail as prince harry and meghan markle are stripped of their royal patronages, the paper reports on the sussexes response to buckingham palace the couple insisting they will still live a life of service outside of the royal family. on the mirror, no way back for the couple. the paper says the queen is saddened by their decision to quit the royal family for what the paper calls a megabucks life in the states but she insists they remain much loved members of the family . the times describes harry and meghan as hitting back at the statement from buckingham palace about their permanent depature from royal duties in their own statement the couple said that service is universal . meanwhile, the i is taking a look
in detail and the robot during its historic landing. the us presidentjoe biden, has delivered a major speech which underlies it, that an attack on one is an attack on all. just over four weeks after taking overfrom donald trump, mr biden s message stands in marked contrast to donald trump s ambiguity over the us role within nato. in a moment we ll hear from the us secretary of state in an exclusive international tv interview. but first, that pledge to unite the west, from president biden. i m sending a clear message to the world, america is back. the transatlantic alliance is back. and we are not looking backwards. we are looking forward together. it comes down to this, transatlantic alliances is a strong foundation. the strong foundation on which our collective security and our shared prosperity are built. the united states is fully committed to our nato alliance. and i welcome europe s growing investment and its military capabilities that enable our shared defenses. you kn
programme, coronavirus infection rates keep falling across the uk. just over 550,000 people have the virus last week according to government data. and the latest look at mars. being back from perseverance from the red planet. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the duke and duchess of sussex will not be returning as members of the royal family. not be returning as members of the royalfamily. prince fleet that not be returning as members of the royal family. prince fleet that they would step down last year a move said the rebate reviewed within the next year. now their break with the institution is final. the couple who are expecting their second child i have been stripped of their patronage and honourary appointments which will be returned to the queen and distributed elsewhere in the royal family. and distributed elsewhere in the royalfamily. with more here is o
asked for testing and ppe, and to get family members in. it hasjust not been done and now dangled at the end of the year and so you might be able to list people being offered people of my age being offered vaccines when there are people in care homes who have not had their second dose yet. they should get that second dose, they should be made as safe as they possibly can be before the government starts rolling out vaccines to people who are really not anywhere near as vulnerable to more anywhere near close to falling apart psychologically or physically as people in care homes are. the need to get their second dose offering them a chance to have one person to see them after a year is an absolute abomination i right in thinking you have been offered dose the first dose? no, iwrote have been offered dose the first dose? no, i wrote a column saying that i could in theory be on the front to my gp demanding one, because i have epilepsy, but it s very mild and i don t feel any parti