I opened my door and ten feet away was a wall of flame. A warning the Health System is straining at the seams because of staff shortages, rising demand and the number of patients with preventable illnesses. Also information at the tip of yourfingers. The new fingerprint technique that can tell what youve touched, eaten or had to drink could soon be used as evidence in court. And the rspca expresses concern over exotic animals becoming the entertainment at childrens parties. New regulations to ensure they are not being mistreated. Good morning. Its tuesday, 10th october, welcome to bbc newsroom live. In the last hour, the defence contractor, bae systems, has announced its planning to cut almost two thousand jobs. The majority of roles will go at the firms two sites in lancashire. Unions are demanding urgent talks with the Defence Company. The firm says the redundancies are part of a move to streamline the business and have what it says is a sharper Competitive Edge. 0ur correspondent, d
Far is the footsie. Also in the programme. Tired of cramped legs and aching backs after Long Distance air travel . Well meet the company aiming to put the luxury back into flying, using smart design. At the other end of the scale, dubai has just tested its first pilotless people carrying drone. Today we want to know, how comfortable would you feel being whizzed about in the air without a pilot on board . In the last few hours, former banker Steven Mnuchin has been confirmed as the new Treasury Secretary. Asjobs go, its a very important one. Besides serving as the nations banker, paying its bills, collecting taxes and managing its debt, the secretary is also one of the leading regulators of banks and wall street. So how well do we think hell perform in this new role . Heres what we know about him. Hes been criticised as a wall street insider, having spent 17 years working for goldman sachs, and also setting up and running several hedge funds. This has enabled him to finance dozens of hi
That was the one on to which we saw four bodies being loaded. We understand more than that number were in fact on that aircraft. But those four were given the dignified moments of silence here. And then the ukrainian military, slow march to that plane where they were handed over to officials of Australian Military. We have dutch and Australian Military on the tarmac here. Dignitaries spoke, Great Sadness from the Prime Minister of australia here, focusing not on what happened but the resolve of the nations and the grief and anger. And ukraine very clear that the russians are directly responsible in the firing that brought down flight 17. Let me explain whats. Happening behind us here. We see another c130. We think that is going to move in for the second place here as they continue to load on the bodies. The first cargo we believe were of 50, they were taken from the first of and second of the five refrigerated trains taken from the separatist areas. We talked about discrepancy, theres
Tel aviv after a rocket from hamas comes dangerously close to the airport. No end in sight. Were live with the very latest. Good morning, welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. Its wednesday, july 23rd, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Wed like to welcome all our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Up first for us, u. S. Officials coming this close, directly blaming russia for the downing of flight 17. Heres the very latest on this tragedy malaysias Prime Minister charging russian investigators interfering at the crime site. The planes cockpit found sliced open by a dieselpowered saw. Here in the United States, the white house is ratcheting up the rhetoric, insisting it was the russians who created the conditions that led to this disaster. We know for months now, heavy weapons have been moving across the border from russia into ukraine. We know that the russians have been training russianbacked separatists in the use of those weapons, including antiairc
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