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Shooting BBC Global Breaking News in sharp focus (hopefully !)

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@scottiebateman Can see you doing a poetry book from 39000 ft !

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Over the years I’ve been in many towns and cities when they were being bombed — in a few cases (Baghdad, Belgrade etc) by my own country. No matter what the justification, most of the victims have been entirely innocent. I’ve come to loathe the very thought of aerial bombardment.

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@DaveWallsworth The examiners have been watching our News output recently then! All those ideas - just like a board for a new job. One of my tests is remembering to press the record button on the camera for a one off arrival shot or work out an alternative way of recording when the camera fails!

[Stop HS2 @stophs2]

"The fact that close to £35B has already been spent is, under the sunk cost concept, no argument for further investment. Those costs are indeed “sunk”; they are irrelevant."
"On that basis, there is not a single good reason for continuing."
#HS2 #StopHS2
https://t.co/B5xV2GYVFF

[mop denson @mopdenson]

#HS2 It's important to remember that campaigners pointed out BEFORE the green light was given to the original scheme that £32billion was not a realistic budget. Now it's more than £100bn for a fraction of the line promised. £100bn to Birmingham is a total scandal. @StopHS2

[Stop HS2 @stophs2]

"Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is expected to tell Parliament on Wednesday that there is "no reasonable way to deliver" the railway line on schedule and within budget".
#HS2 #StopHS2
https://t.co/NGWrnvoZrn

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@mopdenson Yes Align deserve the listening and doing prize, even if there’ll only be a couple of trains an hour each way (if that!) by 2040-45

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@mopdenson Yes you were a star and still are !!

[Martin Anthony Tett @MATatBucks]

Indeed. This remains a massively expensive, over budget vanity project

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@frances_cutler @HS2ltd @transportgovuk Wrong sort of concrete. Mafia involved ?

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@DaveWallsworth At least you definitely get to turn left !

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@TonyD9999 @DuncanCStone Smile !

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

As a wartime leader I’m sure our great Winston Churchill would be proud of ⁦@ZelenskyyUa⁩ …

[EMPR.media @EuromaidanPR]

Photo of the day.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The day the crowd turned on Ceaucescu, he was dead shortly thereafter.

35 years ago today.

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@MarkUrban01 I witnessed it too !

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@ChristopherJM So cool

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

Joy ! To see #Gaza colleagues @adnanelbursh Mahmoud Alajarami as well as @Journo_Ashraf #WorldServicePresents @bbcworldservice

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@MarkUrban01 7 years I spent listening to your musings & bird tweets (before tweets!). And many Newsnight trips between 1997 and 2004 which were always fun and interesting getting to film & talk to big generals and spooks. NN was a great programme to work on with you, wish you well next phase