Daily Briefing Saturday 14th November

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0:35Hello, this is your Times Radio Daily Briefing for Saturday 14th November with me, James Kitchen. The U.S. Transportation Secretary says a nationwide ground stop has been lifted after an outage prevented planes from taking off across America. The emergency restriction was in place for more than four hours, with thousands of flights, including to and from the U.K., being delayed or cancelled. Multiple air traffic control centers suffered a communications fault. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says aging systems are to blame. They started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers and because of that we shut the system down.

1:16Now I have already replaced some of those switches with President Trump and our new IP switches did not go down. It's the old hardware that went down. An investigation is underway into suspected unauthorised drone activity that forced U.S. Air Force personnel to find shelter at an RAF base in Suffolk. No aircraft or infrastructure were damaged at Lincoln Heath last night. It comes after several U.S. Air Force planes departed nearby RAF Muldenhall following reports of a security threat linked to Iran. Sean Bell is a former RAF Air Vice Marshal. If sirens go off, that's very worrying. What looks likely though, as the dust settles, is that this was simply a drone.

1:58It looks likely that it was just an unauthorized civilian drone and it looks likely that it was no threat whatsoever to the base. But obviously, with a heightened state of concern at the moment and awareness, you've got to be incredibly careful. There's all sorts of rules and regulations. The White House says Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are planning to meet on the sidelines of a summit in China next week. The meeting will take place as the US president attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation in Shenzhen. Washington says the trio will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons.

2:32It's understood Iran may also be on the agenda. The Times' China correspondent is Richard Spencer. I think Xi wants it to be a nice ceremonial act in which his role as one of the world's most powerful men is acknowledged. Even, I think he thinks that a summit between him and Putin and Trump are both damaged goods at the moment because of the wars in Ukraine and Iran will show him and China in a very favourable light as perhaps the new superpower. But Trump and Putin want something more real and more actual out of it. Authorities say all passengers on board two boats that collided in the Mississippi River have been accounted for with 32 people injured.

3:12A cargo tanker hit a cruise ship that was docked in New Orleans yesterday afternoon. The city's mayor, Helena Moreno, told a press conference that rescue efforts ramped up as tourists were evacuating from the ship. While that was happening, the cruise ship began to sink and then eventually the cruise ship toppled over and flipped. Now, when that occurred, we started to have people in the water. The Conservatives say schools should limit the time children spend on screens because of the danger it poses to their health and development. The Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott told the Times a reliance on devices in the classroom was doing real damage to pupils.

3:55The party is backing new guidance which recommends that children in early years education should have no screen time at all. The BBC has removed its adaptation of Room on the Broom from iPlayer after David Williams was accused of using his fame to prey on teenage girls. The move has angered some parents, who feel that pulling down the Christmas special is an overreaction. Williams provides a brief cameo as the voice of an animated frog. The former comedian is being investigated by police. He denies any wrongdoing. Remember, you can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify, and you can listen live to Times Radio Online.

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