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In his first uk interview, her cousin has told us he wants answers. Our mind is telling us the worst. You know, some days i think, hopefully shes 0k, and some days i think, well, how do we know . She could be dead. And, hes 12 years old, hes passionate about shark conservation, and now hes won a mirror animal hero award. I want a future where my kids and grandkids can see white sharks swimming. I want a world where we can live as a society and not have, with all this brexit and rubbish. Iwant to. I want to have a world in which wildlife is treated equally as humans as, thankfully, we are seeing here today. The device we will speak live to finlay. Congratulations. He will talk about the awards and tell us why he called out badge builds by grills for diving with sharks. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Were going to try and bring you some detail about what the pms new brexit plan is this morning let us know what you think of it . Is it a go er . And we ar
Of thousands of tourists from asia. Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, midnight in london. We start with breaking news from south korea, where the military in seoul say that north korea has launched a series of unidentified projectiles from the hodo peninsula. Last week, the north fired two short range Ballistic Missiles from the same area. Live now to our correspondent laura bicker in seoul. We know these come after last weeks provocations. What do we know about these latest launches . Were still waiting to find out what kind of projectiles north korea may have tested Early Morning from its east coast. Certainly the south Korean Military put out an alert, but it does take some time for them to analyse just how far these missiles flew, and exactly where they ended up. Remember, last week north korea fired two short range of the stick missiles, thought to be a new type of missile for north korea. At that time it took certainly the south Korean Military quite some time to realise t
Of thousands of tourists from asia. Good morning. It is 8 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london. We start with breaking news from south korea, where the military in seoul say that north korea has launched a series of unidentified projectiles from the hodo peninsula. Last week, the north fired two short range Ballistic Missiles from the same area. Live now to our correspondent laura bicker in seoul. Laura, we are getting a few more details about these latest launches, following, of course, the launches saw last week. The south Korean Military now say that it was two short range Ballistic Missiles. They flew a distance of around 250 kilometres in a north easterly direction, landing on the sea of japan, also known as the east sea here in korea. They flew at a height of around 30 kilometres. At this stage, defence chiefs in seoul believe that it is a different type of missile. What they mean by that, were not quite sure. Last week, north korea appeared to have tested a new type of missile, a
The pound drops further. Financial markets think a no deal brexit is increasingly likely, sending the pound close to its lowest in 30 years. Good morning. Yesterday some torrential thundery downpours lead torrential thundery downpours lead to some flash flooding in parts of yorkshire. Today we could see some more of that as we continue with some heavy, thundery downpours. The drier across some southern and south western areas. I will have more in 15 minutes. The latest uk climate data has revealed that the ten hottest years on record have all taken place since 2002. Analysis of temperature records dating back to 1884 also reveals that none of the ten coldest years have occurred since 1963. Scientists say the report underlines how much the uk has been affected by Climate Change, as our science editor David Shukman explains. Temperatures so low, the sea off kent actually froze. This was back in 1963, one of the chilliest years experienced in britain over the last century. But what is sig