80th anniversary of the start of the battle of britain, the schoolgirl who helped the raf beat the luftwaffello. president trump has commuted the prison sentence for his friend and advisor roger stone. mr stone had been due to start a three year and four month prison sentence for lying under oath during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 us election. the white house said mr stone would have been at serious risk of covid—19 in jail. within the past hour, mr stone has been speaking to the media. here's some of what he had to say. iam going i am going to do three things, i will write a book, another book, about the experience, because people need to understand the extraordinary abuses of justice in understand the extraordinary abuses ofjustice in our justice system. i will help general flynn to get exoneration, because the refusal of thejudge to exoneration, because the refusal of the judge to dismiss is quaycentre drag it through the summer is outrageous, and i am going to do everything i possibly can on an independent basis to get the president re—elected, which i think i

in 1938 to come see the luftwaffe. erhard milch takes him off in his mercedes and they go to an airfield, and there is a whole row of shiny new messersmith 109 single engine fighters. he says, they are impressive. they watched them all take off one by one and loop around and come back down again. and erhard milch says, well, now i'm going to take you to the next airfield. while they are in transit to the next airfield, all the 109's take off and land at the next airfield. and when he gets back to paris, he says, we are never going to win. we must never go to war with germany because their air force is just aboslutely -- rob: 10 million airplanes. james: exactly. it is smoke and mirrors. the germany that starts the war is never actually as powerful. we always talk about the nazi war machine. but the spearhead is the luftwaffe and panzers. rob: you have an army that is in many ways old-style, a total unified homefront for the time being due to propaganda and the radio. what about things like quality of german equipment?

is the spearhead luftwaffe and panzers.ob: you have an army that is in many ways old-style, a total unified homefront for the time being due to propaganda and the radio. what about things like quality of german equipment? i am a true redhead. that means -- i am a treadhead. that means i love tanks. i dream about tanks. when i was brought up as a kid, german tanks are the ones you want. if you are playing soldier, those are the ones you wanted to be in. we don't really think that anymore, dewey? the superiority of german equipment? james: well, i don't. the moment came from me when i was researching a series of novels. i had a hero i was going to write about, and he was a british infantryman. i realized i just did not know enough about the minutiae. i have to figure out more about the weaponry and what they are using. chap who to see this ran this small arms unit. he of this room stuffed full items, including weapons. 42, and past an mg it had an incredible rate of fire, 1400 rounds per minute. i casually tossed off a remark

the beginning of the battle of britain, the schoolgirl from london who helped the raf, beat the luftwaffetotal of global coronavirus infections, and nowhere has been hit harder than america. the country's top health official for infectious diseases now says some us states should delay ending their lockdowns. this graph shows the number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic, the number was falling towards the end of last month, but now there's a steep rise, topping 60,000 in recent days, the highest single—day tallies for any country, since the pandemic began. the states in darker blue have had the most cases per head of population in the last week, with the worst hit being south carolina, with an average of 305 daily cases per million people. louisiana with 321 and florida with 423. but the state with the most cases is arizona, from where our correspondent, sophie long reports. music plays when the governor of arizona lifted the state's stay—at—home order, people partied, pre—pandemic style. it was a joke to us. we werejust like, "covid's fake news." days later, many woke up to w

80th anniversary of the start of the battle of britain, the schoolgirl who helped the raf beat the luftwaffello. president trump has commuted the prison sentence for his friend and advisor roger stone. mr stone had been due to start a three year and four month prison sentence for lying under oath during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 us election. the white house said mr stone would have been at serious risk of covid—19 in prison. our north america correspondent david willis has the latest. well, roger stone, james, is a political operative, someone who has almost rejoiced in the reputation as a dirty trickster. now, he hinted during the 2016 presidential election campaign that he was in touch — through an intermediary — with the wikileaks founderjulian assange, and boasted that he was knowledgeable about the release to wikileaks of thousands of e—mails hacked from the server of the democratic national committee. he was sentenced to more than three years in jail and been due to report to prison in georgia before next tuesday. well, now, he won't be going to jail at al

you have an absurd situation in the luftwaffe where you have a general who is in charge of one part of the luftwaffe intelligence, whereas a colonel schmidt is in charge of another, but is also at the same time going with personal staff. so the colonel is more influential than martini. martini and schmidt hate each other's guts. schmidt is a good nazi man and a good party man. he loves the ladies, loves to drink, and is good mates with goehring. but he has no qualifications. the bill she gives goering is miserable. if the -- gets cut down in britain, you might have 40 different units. that would all come together very quickly to give us a clear picture, whereas in nazi germany the only time it comes together is at the very top. throughout the second world war, goehring has his own intelligence system. it is as extraordinary to think this is going on. sometimes he shares some of that with hitler and sometimes he doesn't. the main purpose is not to provide intelligence for the luftwaffe, it is to keep himself one step ahead of his nazi rivals. the whole thing is rotten to the core. >> in

the battle of britain pilots flew mission after mission to defeat the german luftwaffe., the battle would not have been won. now, for the first time, we can add a 13—year—old schoolgirl from north london to that list. i think history should remember her as being one of the people who made a real difference, one of the ordinary people, working with their families, making a difference with theirfamilies, that have enormous impact on the overall future of the success of society. society is made up of ordinary people making a difference, and she was just one of those people who made a difference. very proud of her, but lots of people made a difference in the second world war. we only won that war because so many people contributed to the national success. she would have wanted to be remembered for her medical work, but i think history will remember her for this work. she just happened to be the right person at the right place at the right time. sitting around this kitchen table. yes. and she was a 13—year—old girl, she wasn'tjust an ordinary person, that is extraordinary. ab

of the beginning of the battle of britain, the schoolgirl from london who helped the raf beat the luftwaffecoming up on bbc news, england toil as west indies take control on day three of the first test in southampton. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. there are new, disturbing revelations tonight concerning two troubled hospitals at the centre of a baby deaths scandal, potentially dating back several decades. an independent review into claims that children and mothers died, or were permanently harmed by care failures, at telford's princess royal and the royal shrewsbury hospital, is now looking at 300 more cases, taking the total to 1500 over a a0 year period. it comes after the care quality commission again raised concerns about wider hospital services at the shrewsbury and telford hospital nhs trust. 0ur social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan has this exclusive report. when you have got a child, you know what you have missed out on, you know what you have lost, their first word, theirfirst know what you have lost, their first word, their first tooth. know what you h

that summer, he made the decision to attack from the air, using the mighty german air force, the luftwaffeoutnumbered three to one. what followed in the skies above britain that summer has been described as this country's single most important military campaign ever fought. victory in the battle of britain was by no means certain, and depended on the skills and bravery of young raf pilots from britain and her allies. they were flying the latest generation of fighter planes, the legendary spitfires and hurricanes. a key feature of these fighters was the way they were armed. the new planes were initially designed to carry four machine—guns, but in the run—up to war, all that would change. earlier this year i was lucky enough to find out what it was like to fly in one of these iconic planes. there we go. it's a low floor. snug, isn't it? amazing! wow! engine roars. wow! absolutely sensational. being up here, the speed, the agility, the way the plane just... the pilot says you're almost flying it with your fingertips. ijust cannot imagine being up here in a dogfight. oh, my stomach! wooh! wow.

80th anniversary of the start of the battle of britain, the schoolgirl who helped the raf beat the luftwaffe

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but the raf‘s pilots managed to fight off the luftwaffe and defend these shores in their spitfires andal role in the battle of britain. but what we didn't know until now was the role that a 13—year—old girl played in its design. this new generation of fighter plane had originally been designed with just four machine guns. but this man, captain fred hill, a scientific officer in the air ministry, became convinced that four guns would not be enough. each plane needed eight. he faced stiff opposition — most thought eight guns would be too many, impossible to fit on the planes. but captain hill was convinced he was right, so he turned to an unlikely person for help — his 13—year—old daughter, hazel, a talented mathematician. together, around their kitchen table, they worked through the night on complex calculations to prove that eight guns firing at least 1,000 rounds a minute was essential for success. they talk about burning the midnight oil and coming into the office late after everybody‘s gone to carry out further calculations and borrow some bits of equipment to carry out experiments,

but the raf‘s pilots managed to fight off the luftwaffe and defend these shores in their spitfires and a 13—year—old girl played in its design. this new generation of fighter plane had originally been designed with just four machine guns. but this man, captain fred hill, a scientific officer in the air ministry, became convinced that four guns would not be enough. each plane needed eight. he faced stiff opposition — most thought eight guns would be too many, impossible to fit on the planes. but captain hill was convinced he was right, so he turned to an unlikely person for help — his 13—year—old daughter, hazel, a talented mathematician. together, around their kitchen table, they worked through the night on complex calculations to prove that eight guns firing at least 1,000 rounds a minute was essential for success. they talk about burning the midnight oil and coming into the office late after everybody‘s gone to carry out further calculations and borrow some bits of equipment to carry out experiments, more or less off their own bat, working very long hours, because they were really de

but the raf‘s pilots managed to fight off the luftwaffe and defend the shawls in their spitfires and girl played in its design. this new generation of fighter planes had originally been designed with just four machine—guns. but this man, captain fred hill, a scientific officer in the air ministry became convinced that four guns would not be enough. each plane needed eight. he faced stiff opposition and most thought that eight guns would be too many and impossible to fit on the plains. the captain hill was convinced he was right so he turned to an unlikely person or help this 13—year—old daughter a talented mathematician. together, around the kitchen table, they worked through the night on complex calculations to prove that eight guns firing at least 1000 rounds a minute was essential for success. they talk about burning the mid— night oil. coming into the office leave after everybody has gone to carry out further calculations and borrow bits of equipment to carry out experiments, more or less have their own bat. working long hours because they were dedicated. they hazel told those ch

the battle of britain pilots flew mission after mission to defeat the german luftwaffe.ave enormous impact on the overall future of the success of society. society is made up of ordinary people making a difference, and she was just one of those people who made a difference. very proud of her, but lots of people made a difference in the second world war. we only won that war because so many people contributed to the national success. she would have wanted to be remembered for her medical work, but i think history will remember her for this work. she just happened to be the right person at the right place at the right time. sitting around this kitchen table. yes. and she was a 13—year—old girl, notjust an ordinary person — that is extraordinary. absolutely extraordinary. good morning welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: face coverings could become mandatory in shops in england, as the prime minister says the "balance of scientific opinion has shifted". disadvantaged gcse and a—level students in england may miss out on the results

but the raf‘s pilots managed to fight off the luftwaffe and defend these shores in their spitfires andurricanes. it is the most famous plane from world war ii. it played a crucial role in the battle of britain. but what we didn't know until now was the role that a 13—year—old girl played in this design. this new generation of fighter plane had originally been designed with just four machine guns. but this man, captain fred hill, a scientific officer in the air ministry, became convinced that four guns would not be enough. each plane needed eight. he faced stiff opposition. most thought eight guns would be too many, impossible to fit onto the planes, but captain hill was convinced he was right, so he turned to an unlikely person for help — his 13—year—old daughter, hazel, a talented mathematician. together, around their kitchen table, they worked through the night on complex calculations to prove that eight guns firing at least 1,000 rounds a minute was essential for success. they talk about burning the midnight oil and coming into the office late after everybody‘s gone, to carry out fu