thanks, cornelia. good to get that short response on that one.cthebriefing about selfish selfie photographs. i have another chance to mention them. hello again. uk forecast in just a moment but first of all we are off to mozambique where it looks like we've got another weather—related disaster on the way. another cyclone, this is cyclone kenneth, picking up strength and it's going to make landfall thursday afternoon in northern mozambique and bringing you through five days of forecast here, you can see the problem. once the storm has made landfall, it stops moving and we will see torrential falls of rain in the same area day after day. we could be seeing, getting on for a metre of rain over coming days combined with a storm surge 2—a metres high which could bring coastal inundation and looks like we will see another round of devastating flooding across mozambique, particularly in the north of the country. here in the uk, our weather has changed. it's turned a bit cooler, we've got unsettle weather over the next few days with rain or showers but a

cornelia will be back shortly to talk to some of the stories that the global media is grappling withces across england and wales at a cost of £1.3 billion pounds a year. the party says the policy would be paid for by vehicle excise duty but the conservatives claim labour's plans would slash funding for road repairs. here's our political correspondent nick eardley. buses of the most popular form of public transport, accounting for nearly 60% of ourjourneys. campaigners say cuts in funding have hit local services hard. if you live ina town, hit local services hard. if you live in a town, it might not make much of a difference, but if you live in the suburbs, you will have seen a few does make fewer buses going to fewer places, if you live in the country, you might not see any bosses at all. more than 3000 groups in england and wales might have in cutback are withdrawn can legally —— roots. —— roots cut back or withdrawn completely. the idea is that the £1.3 billion cut could find new services and provide a boost were new towns and cities does make for. it's up to politicians to follow

cornelia meyerjoins me now. what do you think of this? to does make sense having followed the issue all day. so that‘s the first thing i thought and i thought that the six party talks, obviously they are trying to get a good position on these national stage as is kim jong—un. but when you look at it, it does make sense to have china — they we re does make sense to have china — they were on the margins, always there, as was japan. so were on the margins, always there, as wasjapan. so in were on the margins, always there, as was japan. so in that sense, it‘s probably a good development. for kim jong—un, of course he wants to see amelioration of the international sanctions this, the talks between him and president trump didn‘t lead to the breakthrough that many, many had hoped for. there was concern that those talks didn‘t and well earlier this year. yeah, well, you saw how these thoughts were prepared, you look at how generally how these talks were prepared, both korean summits were, you know, they raised scanty preparation and the first su

his mom, cornelia, is showing .igns of alzheimer's he wants to try to help her as well. my extrae put it, chromosome provides a blueprint for medical research that could provide answers. i told the subcommittee last year that we might be on the verge of a word cure for sickle cell disease. a mistake in the gene that codes for one of the hemoglobin proteins and they're bending this into this sickle shape that blocks blood vessels, causing ex cruciating pain and damages the organs which shortens the lives of people with in condition substantially. we talked about being on the brink of something. today i think we have reached a remarkable milestone. janielle stevenson is one of the brave research participants who helped make this happen and whose story was recently featured on cbs's sixth minutes. she was often hospitalized, even at christmas, you see there with santa claus next to her bed and has experienced over the course of her 20 years, just about the worst pain that a human can imagine. but she decided to take a bold step for herself and others with this condition and