he was a rugby league superstar in tonga, as team captain he was a poster boy for a country that lit following the cyclone he wanted to be home, and felt moved while doing his bit. what got me the most was the kids, they didn't have much. they lost their homes but they were still running round smiling, and enjoying themselves, so hopefully they can rebuild quicker than usual and get back to normal life. for manu sika normal life resumes back in the cold contrasting super league. incredible story there. next to the incredible impact of sir david tanner, the man who has masterminded great britain's success at the olympics and the paralympics over the last two decades. tanner left his job this week after 21 years and helped the likes of sir steve redgrave and dame katherine grainger reach their sporting dreams. sir david is well aware of the challenges of elite sport, including concerns over bullying — a problem that he says has never been the case for british rowing. integrity, among the staff is fundamental, so we have always aimed to make sure our rowers are well looked after and ind

. >> she's like the tonga guy.e did tae kwon do and then he competed in skiing at the winter games. >> all due respect to the tonga guy, she is a medalist. she's big time. jeff ranieri is here now. take a breath because it's going to get a little wild in the next 48 hours. >> we do have the storm system starting to move closer and rainfall will pick up. also some heavy snow for the sierra. let's go and take you into the microclimate forecast tonight. we want to start off with storm ranger. it's our mobile doppler radar which is scanning right now. we're picking up low-level moisture in the atmosphere and the radar beam is bouncing off some of the cloud cover, but as that storm gets here we do have it positioned at san bruno mountains and we'll show you not only higher detail with this radar, but instant live data. every single other radar in the bay area that you have access to in the phone and storm ranger is taking three to five minutes to update before you get to see it. this is live data. so keep an eye on us t

he is pictured with the king of tonga, who is on a state visit to china.out an assassination attempt on queen elizabeth. the gulf news says official documents, published thursday, reveal for the first time that a teenager tried to fire a shot at the queen, when she visited new zealand in1981. those are the neighbours. —— the papers. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? mariko, the freezing weather has got people talking across europe. notjust talking, not just talking, but notjust talking, but complaining. icy blizzards are continuing to cause travel chaos. winds from siberia have brought the coldest temperatures to the continent for years. the cold snap's been given various nicknames. in britain, it's "the beast from the east", the dutch are calling it the "siberian bear" and sweden has gone for the "snow cannon". the wings are so strong am not surprised. but whatever you call it— its still very, very cold. it's now 12 days since 110 school girls in nigeria were kidnapped from their school by boko haram militants. their fate remains unknown

to tonga it would take i have a day i think ok the tonka. like tongue. on my tongue i got healthy really healthy thank you. let's go go go go. right sure here we go through gates. and from there we went to chicago here. i like big cities brother for new yorkers right but i like come to chicago i got a lot of old friends here we've got great deep dish pizza and chicago was just the windy city a little bit cold up pomeranian. is coming like an iranian but with palm in front of where we go from there you drove the massachusetts right straight through. to this area here. so you that it's kind of like a. you know. this is where the magic out the people the phenolic they must be subjugated american pilgrimage one where we actually took our personal our deeds. and we took it out upon the water. was. we did see. the dead or you could walk on water and by golly it did. vary here. in. boston over more. freedom here can build. to be honest with you we really don't know where the pilgrimage goes from here i believe we're on the precipice of a whole new precipice and

in february, tonga is in the firing line of cyclone giza, the worst to hit the country since modern weatherand the widespread destruction, the more than century—old parliament building. in australia injanuary, it's near record summer heat that is making the headlines as temperatures in sydney top 47 celsius. and in south africa, unprecedented drought takes cape town closer to becoming the world's first major city to run out of water. every day without rain takes the 4 million people who live here closer to the day the taps run dry. brazil in february, and the eerie sight of a forest trail completely submerged by water. the flood subsided almost as quickly as it came but it produced scenes that look like they come from another world. newsreel: continuous lines of petrol burners lines of petrol burners are a vital feature of fog investigation dispersal operations or in raf parlance, operation fido. how they tackled the weather elements in the raf has changed, and today we could never imagine this but during the second world war the problem of fog was met by this unusual solution, fido. the pu

those state who is can vote when 21 years old or older is 21, samoa, tonga, singapore, malaysia, kuwait, jersey and cameroon. the united arab emirates as the oldest legal age in the world, 25 or older, notwithstanding the legal voting age. voting is a constitutional rights. - right. sigmund freud with a c where is at twitter. people should not be able to vote until they can pass a reading and general skills proficiency test and removed themselves from public welfare role. there ain't a 16 awake on a saturday morning anywhere in america. so that's a call for those you, younger age brackets to go ahead and take part of this program. we do want to hear from them. shawn from sarasota, florida, 50 or older. go ahead, shawn. caller: good morning. think voting age should be 21 because of the fact that people's brains actually don't get fully developed until at least that age. and when you're young at 16, you think you know everything and you don't. host: all right. caller: and i'll leave it at that. host: all right, shawn. jack, 50 or older from oklahoma. good morning. caller: yeah. how are yo

other context of countries, the united states is a relatively small exporter, somewhere between tonga and ethiopia. you talked about the potential. i hope this committee and this body will strongly support that seeking. you are it is my understanding it will be automatic unless there is resolution disapproval. i hope there won't be. that will take you until july 2021. you have to start developing some of these markets. you mentioned the united kingdom. sayeuropean union this week they will negotiate trade agreements. you say there is a working group there. if you can tell us a little bit about that, that is an extremely important opportunity. southeast asiat africa, putting africa in context -- back in 2000, china had about a billion dollars worth of trade with africa. we had more or less $50 billion i think. in adjusted terms, china is now at 150 billion dollars with africa. what a great opportunity in terms of those countries of and also, what an important strategic opportunity for us. i would like to hear what you have to say about africa. we increasehow can forexports, not just ag

countries, the united states is a relatively small exporter per capita and i think we're somewhere between tonga and ethiopia on the list. you talked earlier about the potential of extending the trade promotion authority. i hope that this committee and this body will strongly support that. tpa extension you are seeking is my understanding will be automatic unless there's a resolution of disapproval, which i hope there won't be, and that will take you until july 30th, 2021, actually. you need that. and second, we've got to start developing some of these markets. so you mentioned earlier the united kingdom, there's, i think, a good decision by the eu this week saying during their transition period, they're allowed to negotiate trade agreements. you said there's a working group that's been formed there. if you could tell us in a moment a little bit about that. i think that's an extremely important opportunity for us with brexit. you talked about japan and southeast asia. you talked about africa. putting africa in context here, back in, let's say, 2000, i think china had about $1 billion worth of tr