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how is the strike affecting you? are you working from home? did you have a trickyjourney to work? do you support the strikes? we d like to hear your thoughts. get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. in other news, a senior ukrainian official says russian forces have almost captured the strategic city of severodonetsk, with ukrainian forces holding on to just one factory. a russian nobel peace laureate auctions his medal for £81; million to raise funds for children displaced by the war in ukraine. and to mark his 40th birthday, new photos are released of prince william selling the big issue we look back at his four decades in the spotlight. good morning. the biggest rail strike in 30 years is under way, with an almost total shutdown of the network in england, scotland and wales. members of the rail, maritime and transport workers union are staging the first of this week s three 24 hour walk outs due to an ongoing dispute over ....
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Its launched by hand, its completely solar powered and in theory, it may be able to stay up here for months. I was last at zephyr s base in farnborough in the uk in 2018, when it had just stayed aloft for very nearly 26 days. Since then, its done 64. So, this is how it works. During the day, the sun hits the solar panels, which charge the batteries and power the propellers, and the plane climbs to 75,000 feet. When the sun goes down, the batteries completely take over. The propellers do slow down and the plane does lose altitude. The trick, though, is to make sure youre still above 60,000 feet by the time the sun comes up the next morning and the process can start again. So, will the entire wing be covered with solar cells, every single square centimetre, as much as you can in solar . Actually, the solar array that we use now typically is so efficient that we dont tend to need to do complete coverage. Really . Yeah, we can actually recharge the batteries most normal days by lunchtime. ....
On christmas away from their loved ones. What do i miss most . A good christmas dinner i think will be the one. You know, mums cooking. And, coming up. Mark kermode looks back at 2017s big film releases, including the sequel to blade runner. Thats the year in film, in half an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. The queen will pay tribute to the cities of manchester and london in her Christmas Day broadcast later today for the way in which they dealt with this years terrorist attacks. This morning, she attended the traditional Christmas Day service at sandringham in norfolk, along with other members of the royal family including prince harry and his fiancee, meghan markle. Our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, reports. The Christmas Morning stroll to church. And already the newcomer seems very much at ho ....