bbc news did ensure it got away from westminster on tuesday to seek some public reaction to the news of the snap election. all this voting doesn t please everyone, like brenda, in bristol. she s lived through 19 elections. we told her about the 20th. you re joking! not another one. oh, for god s sake. honestly, i can t stand this. there s too much politics going on at the moment. why does she need to do it? this struck a cord with some. brenda swiftly became the overnight media sensation. the bbc rode the wave enthusiastically with a follow up report on the following night from jon kay. you are trending on twitter. do you know what that means? this was all too much. such as anthony parry, who begged, please, please, stop showing brenda from bristol. mr kingston added. there will be plenty more to say on newswatch about the bbc election coverage over the next few weeks. but, for now, let s leave it with this plea from clare. away from all the political excitement in britain, w
it is quiet and they will be happy here and they have access into our garden and a neighbour s garden. how this village in east yorkshire has returned many hedgehogs back to the wild. and ben has the weather. good morning. we have a decent weekend in prospect. plenty of dry weather and even some sunshine, but there s a big change on the way for the start of next week. something much colder on the way. all the details in about 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. the conservatives are attempting to play down speculation that they will raise taxes if they win the general election. yesterday, the chancellor, phillip hammond, hinted that the government might abandon the pledge made at the last election not to raise income tax, national insurance or vat. labour and the liberal democrats were quick to jump on what they saw as a change of policy, warning that tax rises lie ahead. 0ur political correspondent, iain watson, reports. the american revolutionary benjamin frank
in the first round of their presidential election. and curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. in the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. but not this time. for both the presidential elections and the legislative elections, injune, it is back to pen and paper. and that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the french national cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk. queues of people, paper voting surely there has to be a better way. well, we asked bbc newsbeat‘s political editor jonathan blake to have a look. ancient institutions and modern technology. the two do not always go together. as elections are held worldwide throughout 2017, that could radically reshape the political landscape, most people will cast their vote in the same way it has been done for decades, using a pencil and paper to put a cross in a box. one company is working on a way to make v
Kaesong which is not in connection with the demilitarized zone of jks, but we had to go to the bus station and leave personal belongings behind including newspapers with news coverage from the west. we took a bus, and we were with government minders the entire time, and restrictions of the picture we could take, and people that we could talk to, and some of the north koreans that we came into contact with. in fact, i remember going on bus, and they asked us not to take picture or even look outside of the windows, because there was so much sensitivity to this, but this is a rare opportunity for me and my colleague will ripley has been able to travel several times to north korea, but this is not available for the public at large. marc stewart and kylie atwood, thank you both. we will continue the follow this breaking story out of the korean peninsula, and also much more on the top story this morning, we have learned that donald trump is a target of the special
Much earlier, at 8:44 pm, now it will be up to the jury to decide what they want to do with that information, anderson. randi kaye, appreciate. extraordinary moment to only on cnn s coming out. one of our reporters in china looking for answers about the covid pandemic there was not only followed by government minders, but they actually took away someone she was interviewing midsentence. you see right there. there s more on that ahead next. let s be honest. the rent-a-car industry is the definition of boring. and the reason can be found in the name itself. rent - a - car. you don t want a friend. you want the friend. you don t want a job. you want the job. the is always over a. that s why we don t offer a car. we offer the car. sixt. rent the car.