david gauke suggests they should be a landline so suggests they should be a landline so inmates can contact at any time is private? this is interesting because we talked about this a few weeks ago and this is obviously an idea and at first i thought it seemed like a supremely bad idea because there are all kinds of implications. organising drug deals or things like that. and the daily mail does point out that around 20,000 phones and seven cards are confiscated each year. however, the reason it seems that whether it is david gauke and other experts being in favour of this and recommending it, is because actually there is a huge queue for communal phones and it causes friction and violence. this is an attempt to give every prisoner a telephone in their cell for £70 billion. white? to cut reoffending. to diminish the violence and inner sense to show some good faith. others will say, when you go to prison it is not so you can have the mod cons? there is supposed to be some sort of things that you are deprived of. it depends on what you think the function of prisoners. loss of liberty or to reh

a. landline phone but it still is still too hard for someone with sense to me we have to make modifications here you get the magnetic field now on this side. it stops. why is it sir because there's no wire in here this is an air tube all it is is a tube the reason i have a pedal attached is because i was holding. i was holding this and i was going my my fingers would start to tangle and get numb because of that magnetic field so i just happened to use a plastic pen and then here's the air to and i have no magnetic field and this is a microphone and i speak into the microphone sometimes i hold this and sometimes i don't. and i can spend quite a long time on the phone this way but i do have to hold this away otherwise because begin to know there are many other issues the one that is. that i've been very much involved in has been electro hypersensitivity in children which is reflected primarily by headaches. but a sense of having brain fog of not being able to learn well i'm presently involved in a legal case in massachusetts of a nine year old child who school refused to provide him with a ro

the use of a landline phones in prisons has helped improve rehabilitation.er this project will be expanded and the cost of that. one moment they are saying it will be 10 million, maybe up saying it will be 10 million, maybe up to £17 million. before we start to introduce land lines we need to get basic facilities improved for prisoners. in many prisons across the estate we can't provide them with toilet rolls, clean socks and underpants due to the chronic shortfalls in basic hygiene needs. we are hearing that the calls will be monitored but already we are hearing from campaigners for the rights of victims that it will have to be very strictly monitored to ensure that prisoners are not intimidating or harassing witnesses or victims. is there a danger that that will be an additional burden on your members? it shouldn't be an additional burden but what we do need to ensure is that the systems are robustly checked and monitored. prisoners will only be allowed to die or approved numbers so we should be able to minimise the risk. the problem is that are associated

a public purpose program, charging people a fee for telecommunication services like talking on a landlines to fund programs to make phone services more accessible for those that are low income. the proposal would extend that to cover text messages. they -- if more comes from texting, less will come from voice services. if texting surcharges are not make more would come from voice services. they represent the wireless communications industry and argues that texting is not a telecommunication service that can be regulated by the commission. it is an information service. we asked people what they thought about the proposal. >> if it is used for what they say the purpose is, to help other people get telephones that are low income, i think that is a good idea. people are doing it and sometimes abusing it. if they tax it, it could be advantageous in that way. >> they plan to discuss the issue today. walnut creek, kfox. >>> we brought you breaking news, the former attorney, michael cohen sentenced to three years in prison and federal court in new york. he told the judge that he takes full respon

inside this room, once it's completed, there'll be a landline, there'll potentially be an alarm systemn see if someone is in the house, where they're moving around. you can also do that. it can also have a separate breaker so that you have the ability to run a generator outside. >> the rooms give peace of mind to residents like bernice, who had hers built into the bathroom. >> we have horrible hurricanes, tornados, and that one thing about it, i love that security. >> yet inside her house, you'd never know that the safe room was there. >> the first little sign that it's a safe room is, of course, the width of this threshold. it's much thicker than your traditional 2x4 wall, and, of course, this steel door, which is much stronger than a traditional interior house door. >> the door has to open in, because if the whole house collapses around you, and if the door opens out, you're not gonna get out. >> so all the safe room doors open in. and we've also got a few features here like the telephone outlet and, of course, the fresh-air vents to make sure that there is airflow in and out of the

know, was this a cellphone, was it one of the few pay phones left in the u.s., was it made from a landline. so law enforcement all over this, and nypd is just about the best at this in the world. so i have no doubt they're pretty much onto this. and they had the bomb squad standing by, which indsicaticat me they knew right out front we'll do the search, if we come across a suspicious package then we'll bring the bomb squad actually in. >> you gave us information who may be behind this and exactly what law enforcement could be doing at this hour. our law enforcement analyst and don lemon is back with us along with shimon procupez. >> we're still standing outside, and i'm waiting to get the all clear to be able to go back up if possible to my studio and control room. the folks are there -- because the people who were evacuated were evacuated from the posts that we need to get on the air. and so we need to make sure that i can get on the air properly before they send us back up stairs. there's still some police presence out front but maybe ten minutes ago, maybe 15, we got the all clear to go

a couple weeks ago i get a phone call on my landline. om india, offering me medical services. they had read my gmail about a minor medical problem i had over past couple years. they read my gmail, called me up out of nowhere, say, we can fix this for you, mr. varney. i don't like that at all. what is going on? >> i'm very impressed you still have a landline, first of all. the second thing is, look, it is always very strange, the big joke now, that you will be thinking about buying a toaster oven or have a conversation with your friends about things you're interested in exploring and purchasing, all of sudden you show up with an ad in your email or phone, scrolling through twitter or instagram. all of sudden an ad for something you didn't type into a search search engine you talked about with your friends. there are questions about targeting advertising. who they are selling your data too. giving confidential information for a phone number. especially something like medical information. those are very serious questions. but at the same tim

a humanitarian crisis. the daily mail says landlines are to be installed in cells in prisons across england as part of a radicaltar they say "it's the end of winter" — no, it's not a weather story — the paper says the government is considering ditching daylight savings time! on to the express, where they say the commissionerfor the eu's budget has warned the european union must be prepared for the uk to leave without paying all the money agreed in the "divorce settlement". the times says ministers are allowing the uk to appear a "soft touch" for migrants crossing the channel because they're so distracted by brexit to ensure the border is properly policed. the guardian also leads on a border—related story — but they say border officials are struggling to stop a rising tide of illegal firearms entering the uk. we will make a start with the telegraph. headline, sent back channel migrants or risk tragedy. former immigration chief suggesting this. it is a beginning on uk territory to start to see some of the effects we have seen in italy and a much smaller scale but it is starting to raise the spectre that we will s

communications in cuba but do you know only four years ago and at least one part of the country a single landline in the house of one woman was all that one village had now does the review find a latin america program went to the sierra maestra mountains back in twenty fourteen and found an amazing little story. when really going. to do you mean trick is i mean you don't know what you're a little girl not. now then one day one of them on the lawn. in the painting there to deliver me because eventually. you only come in for most you. know denim delivered him deliver. you're not here here like me. i am now. living. being again i am the only. one. and that is a film which is really worth watching in its entirety it is called cuba calling part of the viewfinder latin america series as we said if you just search for that you'll find the entire film there is a little fact book fact box and an interview with the filmmaker really worth watching. right we are going to look at some of the other stories making news around the world now and italy is piling the pressure on egypt over the torture and killing o

it came on a landline, that i hadn't used in a long time. it is an old phone, so no caller i.d.l from india, offering me medical treatment. apparently i had mentioned minor league ailment in a gmail message i sent. apparently google is reading my emails, picked up on the medical problem and sold the information to a third party in india. that is what it looked like to me. so much for electronic privacy. big brother is making money invading my messages. i'm not happy. i don't like this. nothing i can do about it. in this day and age i cannot get away from all electronic communication. we're all locked into the grid, except, with a letter. now of course i'm not going to turn the clock back 30 years and go back to a type writer, writing letters, i will not do that. i would like to point out the brave new electronic word is a little bit creepy. to put obtrusive power in hands of a few multibillionaires rubs me up the wrong way. the second hour of "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ stuart: the control room is laughing at me i did the he will tomorrow about writing a letter. ough

i presume you don't have a landline. i did but i can't get to it because i am bedbound.my house phone, so couldn't get down to my house phone, so it can pick things are bit further. presumably you are feeling quite vulnerable at the moment. it's an awful feeling. my daughter was panicking this morning because she went to college on the bus and couldn't get hold of anybody to check up on me, and she couldn't get through to me, so that was quite worrying for her. we have become so reliant on the fact that we can get in touch with anyone whenever we like, it is so frustrating, but for you there is an extra dimension. what will you do today?” you there is an extra dimension. what will you do today? i am sitting reading at the minute. there is not an awful lot i can do but my daughter managed to get into a shopping centre and use their wi—fi this morning to be able to message me, just to check up on me, but it leaves you feeling like, if something happens, it's the constant worry and panic of not being able to get in touch with anyone. i keep turning off my home wi—fi and che

provide other forms of verification, so perhaps a fingerprint on a mobile app, perhaps a numbersent to your landlinerolled out across the country over the next few months, we will be hearing about alternative ways for those people in blackspots. this really does ruin the shopping experience. when online shopping first started it was all about the speed of your data being sent down the line. are there any exemptions in place? there can be some. the law allows banks with a good track record of stopping fraud to allow people to make transactions without the need for this pin, and there are also certain transactions, certain very trusted websites, that perhaps will not require this. these are early days and we will see how many exemptions there are and it could be that those exemptions do not apply to people without mobile phones, because they are making more complex transactions or perhaps they are making one off transactions that their bank thinks is dodgy. uk finance is saying there has to be a plan to help these people. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. eddie izzard drier i

a great website with advice about these calls, people can complain. the latest figures i have according to offer comp, 3—.9 billion nuisance calls received an uk landlineser the last 12 months. and i think, because we are gradually tightening the noose around the offending companies. complaints to come all so coming down, i don't know whether that's good or bad, last year 32,000 complaints made to off, about silent or abandoned calls. martin thanks so much for coming on the programme, and timbuktu, government minister, cani and timbuktu, government minister, can i ask you whether a second vote should be put to the people?” can i ask you whether a second vote should be put to the people? i think we have to have a vote on the prime minister's deal. let's say that voted down, those are the indications. the indication is we will vote in the new year, there is a powerful case to be made for the prime minister's deal if you don't feel it's appropriate to go straight back to the public on another referendum, neither do you feel it's a risk worth taking to leave the european union without a deal and i think once minds are focused on that, this is the deal, it's

surprised, i get a pile of them and they are really frustrating. 0n get a pile of them and they are really frustrating. on my mobile, landlineg about this, they are broadening the reach because the current bands which started in september is about claims management, ppi, that kind of thing but it's moving in the new year to pensions. this is really important. with the pension changes that have been introduced in recent years, there's been a massive increase in there's been a massive increase in the number of nuisance calls relating to pensions. lots of tweets about this, ryan from the us says the finds are excessive of the cold calls are getting annoying. i'm not sure what that's like in the uk but in the us we get calls from foreign companies that hang up and expect you to combat. do you get those? pa rt you to combat. do you get those? part of the advice in this article says one of the things you must not do is call back the numbers because they are requesting you to do that early often. one viewer in 0xfordshire says it's the ultimate beneficiaries of cold calling you should be fined, this would put an end to the problem.

a disgusting anti-president message. >> stephen: no, no, they didn't. you're just old. "alert the police! somebody hacked my landline. i can't get an operator to connect me to klondike 532! hello! hello! hello, mabel. make this a station-to-station call. wherwhere's the--" click. "hello." he continued, "the same thing-- period no space-- occurred later, and it didn't happen. don't tell me they are not committed, card-carrying anti-trumpers." wait. there's a card? ( laughter ) does it get you discounts at the cnn store? giuliani is complaining because he also didn't put a space between helsinki dot either, and that did not create a hyperlink. although, if it did, i assume it would send you to a dating site for "not picky finnish bisexuals." it's cold. who cares? but here, sir, mr. giuliani, here's why it didn't make a hyperlink: either isn't a domain name. now, i wouldn't expect a 74-year-old man to know that, except for the fact that giuliani is trump's cybersecurity adviser. "oh, absolutely, absolutely. rudy is a tech wizard. he's the one who taught me how to type 'boobs' into a calculator 5-8-0-0." we've got a great

wasn't that long ago where we all lived in a world where we didn't have the internet. and things were fine. we had landline telephones. the dod in particular has to focus on resilience because they need to be able to operate in a world where we should expect to see massive cyber attacks. so, they need to think about that and not be dependent. use the technologies available but not be totally dependent. >> great. patrick barry, a couple different affiliations but today i am representing new america and their cyber program. i really enjoyed senator warner's comments including his specific but probably rare praise of this administration for delegating authority. for taking a limited amount of cyber operations. there has been a tremendous work in congress to further clarify authorities with respect to some of the adversaries we face. what do you do when the threats which are manifesting in cyberspace are manifesting across an internet which is global in nature but also viewed by certain countries as being there sovereign territory? these countries that are major adversaries in cyberspace have a practice of co-

a priority. hello. but now, the government says that thousands of prisoners will in future be able to make calls on landlines prisons in england and wales, like here at 0akwood prison. that number will rise to 50 by march 2020. the government says it is vital that prisoners maintain contact with those most able to support their rehabilitation — theirfamilies. one of the things that helps reduce reoffending is maintaining family ties. i think it is really important that we allow prisoners the opportunity to maintain those family ties, maintain links with their loved ones, because, when they are released, those relationships are going to be really important in keeping them on the straight and narrow. but the idea of making prison life more comfortable has been criticised by the conservative mp and former shadow home affairs minister andrew rossindell, who tweeted he thought the idea of being sent to jail was to punish criminals and take away their freedom and creature comforts. his comments, though, have been challenged by the prison governors association. we would disagree with prison being a place of punishm

provider softbank has confirmed it's suffered major outages for both landline and mobile phone customers. in the past hour, 02 has issued awhich says the incident is causing high demand the provider goes on to say: well let's find out more about this technical problem and how it's affected businesses relying on being about to use mobile data. joining me now is matthew howett — a telecommunications analyst and founder of the independent research company assembly. and james farrar — the chair of the independent workers' union of great britain. this is a huge breakdown, it has this is a huge breakdown, it has been going on all day. bound to be the second biggest network is well means that similar people are affected. we think something like 30 million customers have been affected by this. it has gone on since the early hours of this morning, it looks set to continue. even when you get the systems back up and running. that hasn't been that much intermission from 02, julian white this happened byes it looks like another company. they were responsible for an outage that 02 had six years ago which poured some type of issue. erik

landlines instead of using 911 in the event of an emergency. >> the nation's top college football teams are facing off today in a pair of semifinal games to determine who is headed to the championship. you have number two clemson and number three notre dame in the cotton bowl. both teams are undefeated but clemson is the heavy favorite. that could set up another show down with alabama. crimson tide faces oklahoma tonight. let's talk about the weather for a moment. maria has a look at the rest of the country's forecast. >> today is a day of changes. we have the rain leaving the east coast and hanging on across the southeast. we still have flood concerns. cooler drier air behind it. wind chills 20 to 30 below but more mountain snow. a signal of the next storm system moving on through. this will be tracking as we get into the rest of the holiday weekend and into new year's >>> and the 80s in florida. that's the look at your weather. >> thank you, maria. still to come, a new twist in the sexual assault case against kevin spacey. what his lawyers are saying as they keep him out of the courtroom. >>> and the parents who gave this baseball player the surp

up on my screen or there's a commercial and for me that is extremely creepy, not only that but i called myself on my own phone at least three times, and we're talking landline and cellphone. so i'm asking that what protections can a consumer -- i also feel like i'm at the mercy of, right? i live in 2018. there's a certain way the world flows. either you catch up or get left behind in my home i don't want a smart home. i don't have a smart home. don't want a google or alexa but i'm continuously interacting with a world that does mitchell first question is, at the point you have actually asked -- sent you foia out to see if you're being watched ask they won't con femur or deny. what recourse does a civilian have when they know because sense and intuition is better than anything, there's something going on. how die figure out how to put my finger on it or can you commit to being my friend to help me work through the process. >> i'll commit to friendship before -- [laughter] >> i think that run of the undercurrents of this entire conversation is there is an imbalance of power. consumers don't have a huge amount of power but i like what you bring up as a point j

a prison sentence because he cooperated with investigators. with the sentencing postponed now, flint continued to help the special prosecutor. >>> the landline -moving forward with plans to demolish the building. the families of people killed in the ghost ship fire say they no longer oppose the building being torn down now that the evidence has been collected. however, the families do not want the landlords to be able to sell the property. instead, they want a memorial at that site. >>> a woman from yemen whose 2- year-old son is on life support in the hospital in oakland is on her way flying to the bay area to see him for the last time. the state department granted a waiver to shaima swileh who was from yemen after the council on american islamic relations filed an emergency lawsuit and attracted media attention to this case. that she was previously denied entry into the u.s. because of the trump administration's travel ban. the little boy is suffering from a rare genetic brain disease. coming up at a: 30, we are going to hear from the young boy's fire -- father, plus this -- 8:30, we are going to hear from the young boy's father, plus this -

a lot. i try to block them but they keep bringing all the time, they are frustrating. to the point where i get rid of my landlinee step the government has taken and the reason they've taken this step is they've listened to our concerns. we've been investigating the cold calling issue for a number of issues now and it's because of our experience of organisations, particularly company directors, getting away with it if you like and being held accountable and responsible that's led to the change in the legislation and we're pleased, it's a positive step. it's added a new dimension to investigative powers and enforcement powers and we're looking forward to taking this forward and making a real impact. you can now target these individuals, that's the change essentially, because what's happening is actions are on a business and they declare themselves bankrupt and move elsewhere and set up bankrupt and move elsewhere and set up another business. that's the problem we're facing. it tended to bea problem we're facing. it tended to be a bit like whac—a—mole were the countries were a phoenix and re—emerging and reinventin