he was like, i want to be on the next voyage. trained and in 1978, when they came around to collect the crew for the next voyage, eddie was unanimously selected. unfortunately, they hit a storm when they were sailing. wave flipped over the canoe. middle of the ocean, 15 miles from the nearest island, the radio has fallen overboard, the emergency beacon has fallen off in the middle of the night, and they did not know what to do. they spent the night, all bodies were accounted for, struggling to hold on with big swells crashing against them all night long, and eddie kept on asking the captain, let me go, let me go for help. i can paddle. he brought his surfboard on the canoe. he said he paddle to the nearest island. and the captain knew that you never leave the ship, and he said no, i cannot you do it. the morning comes around. sick.ewmembers are really one including the captain'sister, the only woman on the canoe, has got hypothermia. emotional night, the winds are hallowing and it gets cold out. is starting to go in and out of co

so a few more years of the voyager mission to go yet. you are watching newsday on the bbc. bittersweet pill to swallow. singapore considers banning the sale of drinks with too much sugar. also on the programme: i am no scrooge. i am sk lu. sklu! a christmas carol with an asian twist. we find out how the pantomime is becoming more popular around the world. john lennon was shot at the entrance to the dakota building, in the centre of new york. there's been a crowd here, standing in more or less silent vigil, and the flowers have been piling up. the 14th ceasefire of this war ended at the walls of the old city of dubrovnik. this morning, witnesses said shells were landing every 20 seconds. people are celebrating the passing of a man they hold responsible for hundreds of deaths and oppression. elsewhere, people have been gathering to mourn his passing. imelda marcos, the widow of the former president of the philippines, has gone on trial in manila. she's facing seven charges of tax evasion. she pleaded not guilty. the prince and princess of wales are to separate. a statement fr

it now joins voyager- 1 in interstellar space. voyager 2 was launched first... but its path to interstellar space was longer than voyager one's ... stopping by jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune.. sending back unprecedented observations of volcanic activity.. and evidence of water on the moons of some of our closest planetary neighbors. both voyagers carry spoken greetings from 55 languages from the people of earth... should either spacecraft encounter intelligent life in interstellar space. let's take a look outside right now... chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the four zone forecast. lawrence karnow: a weak storm brought a few showers to the bay area this morning before moving out of town. by the afternoon mostly sunny skies had returned. tonight will be mostly clear and cold with patchy dense valley fog in the north and east bay. on the satellite you can see the cold front that moved through and is now headed toward southern california. there's another one that will drop in from the gulf of alaska tomorrow night and wednesday. but it wil

it is following its voyager one probe into that blackness. and even though this is a 41—year—old prior, it is hoped both probes would last until 2027, keep talking to earth for 50 years. still phoning home, picking up new signals about what is a big head around the rest of our galaxy, all the cosmic rays tried to get in through that protect the bubble our planet is contained in. a few were used to go yet. —— years. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: a bittersweet pill to swallow — singapore considers banning the sale of drinks with too much sugar. also on the programme: i am no scrooge, i am sk lu. a christmas carol with an asian twist — we find out how the pantomime is becoming more popular around the world. john lennon was shot at the entrance to the dakota building, in the centre of new york. there's been a crowd here, standing in more or less silent vigil, and the flowers have been piling up. the 14th ceasefire of this war ended at the walls of the old city of dubrovnik. this morning, witnesses said shells

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this actually the raw material we use building the solar voyager. collected by children from the primary school. we called it "urban mining". they sort it, the waste plastics, on types, and they have cleaned it and made these chips out of it. what you see is that they are starting to feel more attached with the material, because they do not see it as waste, they see it as raw material for building the solar, for instance. the plastic shreds are melted into a filament for a 3—d printer. 30 of these have been working continuously for six weeks to produce a ii,000—piece of plastic jigsaw puzzle designed to fit together to make the shell, the interior and two trailers. to test the durability, the couple took the vehicle to iceland in april. the pace looks slow and it is — four kilometres per hour, but they plan to drive the solar voyager during every hour of antarctic sunlight that's available which, at this time of year, is 2a hours a day. and so, in continuous shifts of three hours, they'll navigate some of the trickiest terrain on earth. wednesday th

the voyager 2 was launched 16 days before its twin, voyager 1.n 1989 — and then just kept going. they're now in interstellar space — about 18 billion km from earth. it's a new unexplored domain of space — and, while the voyager 2 wasn't first to reach the boundary, nasa says it has an instrument onboard that will give them "first—of—its—kind observations of the nature of this gateway into interstellar space". victoria gill explains. both of these probes left earth just a few days apart in 1977, so 41 yea rs a few days apart in 1977, so 41 years later, this particular probe, voyager ii, has been the second object to leave what we call the heliosphere. it is a little bit nuanced as to whether it has left the solar system. the scientists involved are very careful not to use that phrase, although we use it because it has left the bubble that is contained by our son, this protective bubble of particles emitted by the sun and the magnetic field that protects us from all the cosmic rays from interstellar space. so it is now exploring the space between t

voyage will be controlled from texas by computers in maryland and a splashdown near hawaii. ♪ crawler made in ohio. .he genius of the entire nation ♪ the dream of man. the long and possible dream to reach out to the moon, is coming true. these men believe the way. frank borman, libby -- maybe captain jim lovell and lieutenant colonel bill anders. the successful conclusion, a happy ending history. those the task of filling gaps belongs to each individual. a self debriefing to evaluate the significance of the event which might have gone unnoticed in the excitement. for some, the reevaluation has begun. peel: the vincent mission of apollo eight pulled apart from its significant scientific meaning rejuvenated the spirit of it mankind. the spirit needed rejuvenation. a year featured by two grim assassinations, riots, racial and social strife, and a baffling attempt to end the war left men with a dawsons of frustration. at the end of such a year came the apollo 8. an incredible adventure. one intrepid spirits circle the moon, fascinating the imagination of man. their willingness to stake th

on its moon voyage, it will be controlled from texas, serviced by computers in maryland, and splashdownear hawaii. the giant crawler on which it rides was made in ohio. the genius and sweat of literally the entire nation ride the mission. [ominous music plays] engines roar] the dream of man, the long and possible dream to reach out to the moon, is coming true. these men will lead the way. colonel frank borman. navy captain jim lovell. lieutenant colonel bill anders. the successful conclusion, a happy ending in history. gaps remain. part of the task of filling those gaps belongs to each individual. a self debriefing to evaluate the significance of the event, which might have gone unnoticed in the excitement. for some, the reevaluation has begun. dr. norman vincent peel. dr. peel: the mission of apollo 8 pulled apart from its significant scientific meaning rejuvenated the spirit of mankind. the spirit needed rejuvenation. a year featured by two grim assassinations, riots, racial and social strife, and a baffling attempt to end the war left men with a dull sense of frustration. then at the

and its moon voyage, it will be controlled from texas, serviced by skpcomputers in maryland, sph downear hawaii. the giant crawler on which it rides was made in ohio. the genius and sweat of literally the entire nation ride the mission. ♪ >> the dream of man, the long impossible dream, to reach out to the moon is coming true. these men will lead the way. colonel frank boreman. navy captain jim lovell. lieutenant colonel bill anders. the successful conclusion, the happy ending, is history. but gaps remain. importantly, part of the task of filling those gaps belongs to each individual. a self-debriefing to evaluate the large significance of the event which mitt have gone unnoticed, might have gone unnoticed in the excitement. for some, this re-evaluation has already begun. dr. norman vincent peale. >> the mission of apollo 8, quite apart from its significant scientific meaning, stimulated an immense rejuvenation of the spirit of mankind. and that spirit needed rejuvenation. a year featured by two grim assassinations, by ri riots abo racial and social strife and a baffling attempt to end

a very long voyage away from home and now we are headed back. i have that feeling of being adrift, but still happy to be going back home. that is what you are seeing right there. >> roger, bill. we should be glad to get you back soon. >> this is frank. we have enjoyed the television shows. becauseo the future there will be rendezvous in the ear'thth's orbit. television to the lunar surface itself. until then, apollo 8 is signing up. we will see you back on that good earth very soon. >> all right. walter: this morning, the perfect light of the remarkable apollo 8 ended in the predawn darkness of the pacific, southwest of hawaii. on target, on schedule. before starting its long descent the command module at two separate from its service module and successfully penetrate one more barrier -- the earth's own atmosphere. the voice of mission control begins the last chapter of the flight's story. >> the flight director has confirmed separation. separation of the command module and service module. we have been looking at data on the command module alone

this actually the raw material we use building the solar voyager. by children from the primary school. we called it "urban mining". they sort it, the waste plastics, on types, and they have cleaned it and made chips out of it. while doing this, the children are asking, "are you happy?" "is this 0k?" how many we already have collected and how nice the material is. what you see is that they are starting to feel more attached with the material, because they do not see it as waste, they see it as raw material for building the solar, for instance. the plastic shreds are melted into a filament for a 3—d printer. 30 of these have been working continuously for six weeks to produce a 4000—piece of plastic jigsaw puzzle designed to fit together to make the shell, the interior and two trailers. this is only the flat part. we also have those, which can give us the flexibility to make all kinds of shapes. to test the durability, the couple took the vehicle to iceland in april. the pace looks slow and it is — four kilometres per hour, but they plan to drive the s

going on a long voyage away from home and now we're headed back. and i have that feeling of being proud of the trip. but still happy to be going back home and back to our home. and that's what you're seeing right here. . >> roger, bill, we'll be glad to get you back too. . >> this is frank, we've enjoyed the television shows. and stay tuned in the future. there will be television from the lunar surface itself in the not too distant future. so until then, i guess this is the apollo 8 crew signing off. and we'll see you back on the good earth very soon. >> roger, frank, adios. >> this morning the perfect flight of the remarkable apollo 8 ended in the predawn darkness of the mid pacific south of hawaii. on target, on schedule. before starting its long decent to splash down, the cone shaped module had to separate from its service module and successfully penetrate one more barrier, the earth's own atmosphere. the voice of mission control begins the last chapter of the flight story. >> the flight director has confirmed separation. separation of the comma

we are honored to be here this evening to celebrate our first voyage to another world. on december 21, 1968, 3 men, one of home with us tonight climbed atop the most powerful rocket belt and launched toward the moon. frank borman, jim lovell, and bill landers were the first people to ride in the giant saturn five and the first to travel beyond earth orbit, the highest spaceflight to that point had venture just 475 miles from earth. the crew of apollo 8 would fly a quarter of a million miles, farther from their homes and families than any explorers in history. apollo 8 was not supposed to reach the moon, it was going to be an earth orbit test flight, but satellite photos had shown our rivals in the space race readying their lunar rocket, and a bold decision was made to take our first mode shot. -- moon shot. it was a last-minute mission undertaken by a country shaken by division and civil unrest at home, and a long war abroad. the call was not made lightly or in haste. there was the culmination of eight years of concentrated national effort and faith, faith in the progra

the first was voyager one about six years. where particles from our sun no longer form a protective bubble. that's about 11 billion miles from earth. to get there, the probe has been averaging more than 30,000 miles an hour for 41 years. voyager 2 carries a golden record with sounds of images showing life and culture on earth along with instructions for playing it. just in case the spacecraft finds intelligent life. voyager 2 has enough power to run seven more years. after that, it should continue to speed along in silence and the darkness for tens of thousands of years to come. with a record on board. after our reporting here, we'll have a fox news update on facebook watch. it's a minutes' long newscast online with unique content that streams live on the facebook watch home page just a few minutes from now. once it's concluded, it's available online anytime. >>> the dow has finished up for the day. neil cavuto will have all. >> thank you. what in your world is going on? a british prime minister, right now on the brink. a fren

twice vetted in the court of king james and unfortunately she passed away just at the outset of her voyage home. now england, pocahontas what a human face on the indigenous face people of the americas for the first time in history. it's important to understand that up until this time europeans were debating whether or not indigenous people in the america were fully human. pocahontas as i said, put a human face on the indigenous americans and during her trip to london she entered the human history books. her portrait is created from life. and this portrait is published in a book of british monarchies and other notables. she is received as a daughter of a powerful leader. her life story is published in a famous volume called the grand voyages, one volume deals with the americas and the american volume talks about pocahontas's life. this volume was translated into many languages, so pocahontas's life within a short time after her death is known to a book reading european audience. on this wall, one of the images we are most interested in is a piece from a book on the history of virginia. and

it was launched in 1977, 16 days before its twin, voyager 1, which has already gone into outer space.ata to analyse. the american space agency says it's detected the first signs of signicant melting of glaciers in east antartica, which could have a big impact on rising sea levels around the globe. until now, the region has been considered safe and unaffected by more dramatic changes occuring elsewhere in the continent, as navtej johal explains. in one of the most remarkable landscapes on earth... a tidal wave. . changes landscapes on earth... a tidal wave.. changes afoot, and it's worrying scientists. it's been known for yea rs worrying scientists. it's been known for years that climate change has caused warmer ocean water in west antarctica to eat into glaciers like this one, the giant thwaites glacier. but a new nasa study shows east antarctica, which was supposed to be stable, is now beginning to feel the impact too. the agency is going through huge numbers of satellite images to spot subtle changes in ice streams. the data shows the services of a group of glaciers in the east have

again so with the chaos in the streets and the highest of stresses at work finally the reason for the voyage seen through a window suddenly here was this beautiful fragile looking. planet our own home planet coming up in particularly is out emphasized over the stark lunar aizen five yards. or our. five five five far far far. a christmas eve message from these adventurers perhaps even more heartfelt than they could have ever imagined. roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. and that's it from me piece it'll be for this news out martinis here in a couple of moments with thirty minutes of write up to date al-jazeera world news about. kidnappings amandas in crimea since russia's forced onyx ation of the black sea. i don't understand why he was kidnapped. schools of crimea into tons have been arrested. on camera most believed by russian security forces. crimea russia's dirty secret on al-jazeera. the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls off the road to yet the lady who will be announced the winner of this already controversial presidential election join us for special coverag

wednesday 28th of november, the solar voyager has arrived at base camp, after years of prep it is a oneday on. at the moment at the speed of 2.5 knots nautical miles per hour. this is amazing. this is super, super cool. the entire round trip could take 40 days, which means they should be on their way back from the south pole where they get to celebrate a drastic but fantastic plastic christmas. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. facebook in the news again as released company e—mails show ‘the social network‘ made secret deals to give developers special access. facebook rejected the release of the documents and saying there were presented in a misleading manner which required additional context. it was also the week that the ministry of defence carried out exercises on autonomous vehicles. millions of customers found themselves without their phone. and a seven—year—old american and £17 million. imagine all the toys they goodbye. tom cruise took time away from climbing, falling and saving the world to tell us how to improve the world to tell us how to improve the picture quality on h

is -- voyages. seek the presidency to build a better america. it is that simple and big. lives in missions defined, and missions completed. bomberwas a torpedo pilot, they defined the mission for us. no matter what, you try to reach the target. there have been other missions, congress, china, and the cia. i am here tonight, and your candidate, because the most life ist work in my complete the mission we started in 1980. [cheering] and how do we complete it? we build on it. high this year, and the choice is crucial for the differences between the two candidates are as deep and wide as they have ever been. men,nly two very different but two very different ideas of the future will be voted on. what it comes down to is this. view of the world sees a long, slow decline for our country, an and edible fall fall based onble historical sources. america is not in decline. america is a rising nation. [cheering] he sees america as another pleasant country on the u.n. -- roll call, somewhere between albania and

astronauts flew around the moon that first voyage set the stage for the apollo eleven moon landing months later al-jazeera is rosalyn jordan explains why this scientific feat was historic in more ways than one. apollo eight the u.s. is bid to make history launch astronauts bill anders jim lovell and frank borman into space have them orbit the moon ten times bring the back to earth a lot while the remarkable things about nasa at that time people that were there all or willing to subordinate every factor of their life their families their health everything to the success of the mission we three of us for a very fortunate to a system work and that kind of an environment i believe the nation committed. refuting the goal or that. of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to your john kennedy had set the country this challenge in one thousand nine hundred sixty one but despite several preliminary missions and a fatal fire the time was running out what's more the soviet union was ahead of the u.s. in the so-called space race washington was done. sperate to catch up nasa got its chanc

our hope is to sustain and support you in that voyage. quest for knowledge was a major impetus in the voyage to the moon, which american space scientists and engineers planned for december. a few days before the apollo 8 countdown, at the first white house dinner honoring america's space team, president johnson praised the leadership of nasa's outgoing director james webb. ♪ on hand was charles lindbergh, famed for his solo flight 41 years ago, and the astronauts from apollo seven and apollo eight, who earned their place in history. they autographed a document which will hang in the treaty room, alongside mementos of earlier space men who visited the mansion. president johnson: before the countdown for apollo 8 begins, i want to say to the men in this group, we pray for you, we think of you, we wish you godspeed, we wish you a safe return, and the only person in the world that is going to be more concerned about you than i am is the girls who wait for your return. >> 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, nine, we have a condition sequence -- a conditio

historic wooden sailing ship the dock morrow and overhauled and repaired his ahead of his next big voyage folks and his crew are going to sail to antarctica. is their journey will take them around the southern tip of south america and the dreaded cape. it's a dangerous trip level place huge demands on the crew. with tom and pitch to make sure the ship is c. with. in the lake nine hundred eighty s. folks had to duck and rebuilt and sailed it through the northwest and northeast passages of the arctic ocean. he steals himself against the cold by bathing in. all spending time in cold storage warehouses. he's described as exhibitions in numerous books and has been the subject of several documentary films. in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine folks became the first person to reach the north and south poles on foot in the same year . he made headlines in one nine hundred eighty four by sailing around cape horn in winter in a folding boat now he plans to return. in august twenty fifteen the dogma or unsocial off on its long journey south. its nine thousand nautical miles from here to cape hor

this actually the raw material we use building the solar voyager.tinuously for six weeks to produce a a,000—piece of plastic jigsaw puzzle designed to fit together to make the shell, the interior and two trailers. to test the durability, the couple took the vehicle to iceland in april. the pace looks slow and it is — four kilometres per hour, but they plan to drive the solar voyager during every hour of antarctic sunlight that‘s available which, at this time of year, is 2a hours a day. and so, in continuous shifts of three hours, they‘ll navigate some of the trickiest terrain on earth. wednesday the 28th of november — the solar voyager has arrived at base camp. after years of prep, it‘s day one of the mission. we‘re heading for south pole. at the moment, with a speed of 2.5 knots nautical miles per hour. this is amazing. this is super, super cool. the entire round trip could take a0 days, which means liesbeth and edwin should be on their way back from the south pole, when they get to celebrate a drastic but fantastic plastic christmas. and just when

the size of a pocket watch and it represents the sum of harrison's skills on a twelve week trial voyage in seven hundred sixty one this little chronometer deviated from greenwich mean time by only five seconds. in eight hundred eighty four an international conference was held in washington d.c. at which forty one delegates from twenty five nations agreed to be clad the line of long beach you don't which greenwich lake has the prime meridian in doing so they merely confirmed what had long become standard nautical practice because once harrison's method of determining long beach you did gain acceptance more and more katanga flows worldwide and set the prime meridian on that chance for two hundred years scientists have sought to make navigation at sea more accurate in greenwich. than today as it has done for the last one hundred seventy years every day at thirteen hundred dollars greenwich mean time a red bull slides down from the top of the observatory an optical signal to all captains leaving port to set the ship's chronometer. because it would held true for captain james cook still appl

completed in just six hours the trio are on a six month mission to the ira says it's the first manned voyage to the space station since a rocket failure back in october the body of george h.w. bush is being flown from houston texas to washington d.c. the former u.s. president who died last friday will lie in state in the u.s. capitol until wednesday before a state funeral is held at the national cathedral in washington the casket will then be returned to texas for burial. fringe ambulance workers have joined anti-government protests blocking roads near the national assembly in pairs why a police prevented the paramedics from getting close to the parliament building the protest against changes in working conditions follows days of civil unrest in france a university founded by the hungary an american billionaire george soros says it has been forced to leave budapest the central european university is moving to vienna now with years of wrangling with hungary's conservative prime minister viktor orban on hughes's soros said encouraging the mass migration of muslims to europe. could talks to end

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s it's the first manned voyage to the space station since a rocket failure back in october. the plane carrying the remains of george h. w. bush has landed that joint base. near washington d.c. i should say after a flight from houston texas the former u.s. president was accompanied by his family including his son george bush jr as well as his faithful service dog sell the bush sr who died last friday will lie in state in the capitol building in washington until wednesday before state funeral at the national cathedral bush's remains will then be returned to texas for burial. so back in washington now let's go to washington our correspondent mara liasson waiter's on the story for us good evening to you miles so the former u.s. president has made his final trip to washington d.c. what can we expect now as the u.s. begins morning. yeah well because he is a former president and the head of it was really a political dynasty in the u.s. bush is really getting the whole nine yards in terms of a state funeral as you outlined he is on his way and will be soon be arriving at the u.s. ca

completed in just six hours the trio are on a six month mission to the i assess it's the first manned voyage to the space station since a rocket failure in october. the u.s. and china decided georgiou is better than war when it comes to trade sides agree to a temporary truce intake for tat terrorists with ninety days now on the clock to conclude a fresh round of negotiations also coming up qatar quits opec the gulf state will kiss the oil cartel goodbye come january saying it's set to focus on that chill gas . and violence scenes from protests in france are beginning to affect businesses there with the tourism sector in particular now feeling the pinch. this is your business update i'm headed home for. you could join me and a parent cease fire and trade hostilities between the u.s. and china pushed wall street high on monday trade sensitive industrial and tech stocks jumped off the world's two biggest economies agree to stop the tape fatah tariffs against each other and talk at the g. twenty meeting in this treasury secretary now says the u.s. is working towards creating a firm and real agre

cosmodrome in kazakhstan for a six month mission on the international space station is the first manned voyage to the i s s since the rocket failure back in october. a university founded by the hungary an american billionaire george soros says it has been forced to leave budapest for vienna the central european universities move and the years are wrangling with hungary's conservative prime minister viktor orban who accuses soros of encouraging the mass migration of muslims to europe. but we will go now could talks to end the conflict in yemen start this week iran has said it will support the peace talks which could start in sweden as early as wednesday iran's move comes after the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen agreed to fly out fifty wounded with the rebels the rebels are supported by iran in the medical evacuation is part of confidence building efforts ahead of peace talks the fate of who is the rebels who is the stumbling block in previous efforts to start talks. while international groups are trying to bring about an end to the conflict which has pushed the country into famine we hav

and this story is trending on bbc.com: nasa's voyager 2 space probe has become only the second man—madet to leave our solar system for interstellar space. the craft was launched in the 1970s with the aim of studying the outer planets, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune, but kept on going. that's all. stay with bbc world news. and one other story here in the uk: a convicted paedophile has been found guilty of murdering two schoolgirls who were found strangled and sexually assaulted near brighton 32 years ago. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. sterling slump. the pound tumbles as the uk prime minister delays are crucial brexit vote to buy more time to renegotiate her exit deal with the eu. rbi resignation, the governor of india's central bank quits after a month long tussle over policy with the government. good morning and welcome to asia business report, live from singapore, with me, mariko oi. the pound has slumped after the uk prime minister confirmed that a crucial vote planned for later today will now be postponed. in an address to parliament, theresa may

sea this year at the height of the crisis and twenty fifteen more than a million people made the voyage. crossings have dropped the u.n. said an organist at the journey's becoming more dangerous. restrictions on search and rescue boats like the aquarius. earlier this year they were weeks of wrangling over who would take the aquarius and the six hundred people into gray skewed it was stranded in the mediterranean with italy and mum to refusing entry. welcome to the boat and its international condemnation that politics was taking precedence over people's lives the u.n. says more than seventeen and a half thousand people have drowned or gone missing in the mediterranean since january twenty fourth tain last year there were five rescue boats in the mediterranean now there are none the charity say they are looking for a replacement boat for the aquarius its crew fear that there are vulnerable people out there possibly in danger and no one to help them. on al-jazeera let's go live now to david souter who is in paris so david tell us more about the work of the aquarius what it means if they do

as homelessness reaches record levels us christmas on the moon we look back at how the first lunar voyage made history in more ways than one. and i there is still rather wait for many of us across the southeast in parts of asia at the moment the satellite picture is picking up plenty of clouds and some rather lively showers in the south china sea at the moment too there's a gradually working their way towards viet nam so here it does look like it's going to be pretty wet on choose day and for wednesday to expect the showers to be heavy and banding together at times to give some more prolonged outbreaks of rain also watch this little circulation here just on the edge of your screen that seems to be a developing feature that is tracking its way towards the west and it looks like eventually it will make landfall in the philippines as we head down towards australia we've seen some very sharp showers for many of us in the north but elsewhere it's looking fine and draw and that's the way it should stay for most of us for christmas as well so twenty five degrees very warm there in melbourne and