Liverpool kick off the premier League Season in style, as last years runners up thrash newly promoted norwich 4 1 at anfield. A number of Outdoor Events have already been cancelled because of bad weather well be on the Isle Of Wight where the annual sailing regatta has been suspended. Add strong wind will be the main weather story, particularly across england and wales, 50 six mrs powell wind, some disruption. Thundery downpours elsewhere, join me for the full forecast later. Its saturday the 10th of august. Our top story the Energy Watchdog has demanded an urgent report from the National Grid, after yesterdays massive power cut which affected nearly a Million People in england and wales. Ofgem has warned it could take enforcement action following the blackouts, which caused huge disruption to the rail network and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes. Some rail passengers were stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning, as andy moore reports. Darkness at clapham
One small step for man, one giant lea p one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Its 50 years ago today that Neil Armstrong took the giant leap to become the first man to walk on the moon. And in a special edition of witness history at 3. 30pm, hear the personal stories of some extraordinary moments in space exploration. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has spoken to his iranian counterpart expressing what he said was extreme disappointment over the seizure of a british flagged oil tanker in the gulf last night. A Senior Iranian diplomat has also been summoned to the Foreign Office. The government has advised uk ships to stay out of the area of the strait of hormuz for an interim period after a meeting of the emergency committee, cobra, late last night. State media in teheran say the tanker, the stena impero, had violated International Maritime rules. But the ships owner, the Swedish Company stena bulkt, says the tanker was in full compliance with all navigation and inter
Today. Be it medicare, tricare, private insurance, fehpb for those federal employees and when they dropped that they would immediately go into the va system for two years. I want to ask you to stop and think about that for just a second. To a veteran on medicare, theyre going to drop their medicare, go into the va for two years . And then pay the penalty to get back into part b medicare . For an employee who has private insurance, theyre going to drop their insurance and leave their spouse uncovered because they see some advantage to being on va . Its estimated that 90 of those veteran who is are eligible but not enrolled in va have less than 50 disability rating. The threshold to where its va care comes without a copay. These are individuals who have already made a determination that the coverage theyre under is the best coverage they could have. If not, they would be enrolled in the va today. So, the fact that cbo now says with just the execution of this minor reform legislation it w
I am sorry. This was the wrong decision. But i think its right that weve had a Public Inquiry in this country that is right that we have proper investigations. Yesterday, once again showed that no one is above the law in our country. Miliband . Mr. Speaker, today we know that for four years, the Prime Ministers handpicked closest adviser was a criminal and brought disgrace to downing street. We anyhow also know that the Prime Minister willfully ignored multiple warnings about him. On the 8th of july 2009, the guardian published evidence of phone hacking on an industrial scale when coulson was editor of the news of the world. At that time coulson was his director of communications. What action did he take . As i said a moment ago, the assurances i sought and received were the same assurances received by the press complaints commission, by select committee of this house and by police investigations. They were also thoroughly gone into by the leff levison inquir. Specifically, he talks ab
Next a british Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions from the members of the house of commons and outgoing president the congressional gold medal and another chance to with a tomorrow on washington journal, the author of 100 victories, special ops in the future of american warfare, discusses u. S. Military options in iraq. John gable examines the impact of the Health Care Law so far on insurance plans, including pricing. Texas congressman henry dont bonilla talks about the attempts to break gridlock in washington. We take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal live on cspan. During this weeks question time, british Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the hiring of former news of the world editor andy colson as his inmunications your back 2010. Mr. Colson was charged with intercepting voice mails, also known as phone hacking. The Prime Minister apologized to members for hiring him, saying it was the wrong decision. Opposition l