Whilst we're busy going off topic, why is there no News in the schedule after the 5.30pm bulletin on BBC One tomorrow ? Well, not in my listings anyway.
Can't say I'm that bothered myself but for some this is surely an outrage.
The late news was due to be part of the New Year extravaganza. Maybe this will be changed.
Whilst we're busy going off topic, why is there no News in the schedule after the 5.30pm bulletin on BBC One tomorrow ? Well, not in my listings anyway.
Can't say I'm that bothered myself but for some this is surely an outrage.
The late news was due to be part of the New Year extravaganza. Maybe this will be changed.
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New Year Live
Fri 31 Dec, 11:25 pm - 12:20 am 55mins
Natasha Kaplinsky
(arrrrrrggggghhhh!)
sees in 2005 live from Central London with the chimes of Big Ben and a spectacular fireworks display above the River Thames. Natasha is joined by special guests from news, sport and entertainment, and there's a check on how the rest of the world is seeing in the New Year. Plus live from Edinburgh, the best of the Scottish Hogmanay celebrations.
Includes the latest News from the BBC Newsroom with Fiona Bruce; and the New Year Weather.
New Year Live
Fri 31 Dec, 11:25 pm - 12:20 am 55mins
Natasha Kaplinsky
(arrrrrrggggghhhh!)
sees in 2005 live from Central London with the chimes of Big Ben and a spectacular fireworks display above the River Thames.
The only annual countdown party telecast live on national tv is cancelled, and fireworks at other several coundowns are cancelled as well... Bit of a boring new year. but...
Ive heard somewhere that someone said this was God that caused this because there were too many people on Earth, what do you think about this statement? Although I dont believe in this, I still find it interesting. What are others thoughts on this?
Erm... well of course it's utter boIIocks. Even if we could prove the existence of God, or some other higher decision-making unit that would wish to implement a drastic population control measure, I'm sure that even the terminally stupid members of the Forum can see that this is a pretty crap way of doing it.
125,000 deaths wouldn't make much of a difference. From memory, I think that there are something like 6.4 billion people on Earth. Even if we round that down to 6bn, and assume that in a particularly bad scenario, half a million people were found to have died as a result of this disaster, the comparison of numbers speaks for itself:
6,000,000,000 minus 500,000 = 5,999,500,000
Of course 500,000 deaths would be an incomprehensible tragedy, and I'm not attempting to belittle the human significance of that figure, but from a purely analytical perspective, that number is a tiny fraction of Earth's population, and even generationally the effect would be pretty limited.
I T V 1 posted:
I know slightly off topic, but thought I should mention it. Its easy for me to say there isnt a god, but then why are we here? Where did we come from, and where did anything cease to exist?
Let's not go down the route. Take it to Metropol or somewhere similar. Anywhere but here.
Just watching the ITV News Channel this morning and they crossed over live to Steve Scott in Thailand to present from 0830; I wonder if Mark Austin or any other presenters are out there as well
Sums of money given by governments around the world...
World Bank $250m
UK $96m
Sweden $70m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
And yet again the good ol' US of A shows that it doesn't give jack about the rest of the world by giving the laughable sum of £17m. Compare this to the £25m that has actually been raised by the British general public and the £50m given by the UK government.
I'm not getting at Americans themselves - I bet the average American on the street would be embarrased by this figure and would want to give more - but they really do need to do something about the people who 'run' their country. Can't they do anything to make them understand that America actually shares the planet with other people.
Sums of money given by governments around the world...
World Bank $250m
UK $96m
Sweden $70m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
And yet again the good ol' US of A shows that it doesn't give jack about the rest of the world by giving the laughable sum of £17m. Compare this to the £25m that has actually been raised by the British general public and the £50m given by the UK government.
I'm not getting at Americans themselves - I bet the average American on the street would be embarrased by this figure and would want to give more - but they really do need to do something about the people who 'run' their country. Can't they do anything to make them understand that America actually shares the planet with other people.
My understanding is that the $35m is government contributions only - traditionally, the role of charity groups is far greater in the US than it is throughout Europe (as against government expenditure). What would be a fairer comparison is the net contributions from both the public and private sectors in all donor nations - although this, I appreciate, is harder to calculate.
And of course, the rather obvious point to be made is that many governments have said that these are just initial contributions, and much more will come in the days, weeks and months ahead.
My understanding is that the $35m is government contributions only - traditionally, the role of charity groups is far greater in the US than it is throughout Europe (as against government expenditure). What would be a fairer comparison is the net contributions from both the public and private sectors in all donor nations - although this, I appreciate, is harder to calculate.
What's that got to do with it? Perhaps the role of the charity groupd is greater because the govt won't give!
I'm directly comparing the £17m that the US govt have given with the £50m given by the UK govt. It's appalling.
Mr Q posted:
And of course, the rather obvious point to be made is that many governments have said that these are just initial contributions, and much more will come in the days, weeks and months ahead.
May I just remind everyone to try to stick to "telly-talk" rather than going down the political/philosophical route? As BBC LDN said, it's probably better to take that side of it to Metropol.
BBC News seems to be on full form this morning, excellent coverage with Lydnsey Douscet. They seem to be simulcasting with BBC World, The coverage overall from the BBC has been fantastic, Im aware they were caught with the pants down on Boxing Day, but the overage, not only on TV but radio, like World Service and Radio 4 has been outstanding. Refreshing to also hear the World Headline Bed, which is so more authoraitve, just overall very good.
