been relatively poor. my guest is the soon to retire chief medical adviser to president biden, dr anthony fauci, the scientist at the centre of america s covid storm. what lessons has he learned? dr anthony fauci in bethesda, maryland, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s good to be with you. it s great to have you on the show. now, let s start with that big statement by president biden. the pandemic is over, he declared. do you agree with that view? well, certainly, if you re talking about the pandemic as a widespread disease throughout the world, it s not over. what the president was referring to. but it s understandable how there could have been some varied interpretations of that. he was referring to the very fulminant phase of the outbreak when, for example, in the united states, we were having about 800,000 to 900,000 infections a day and up to 3,000 to 4,000 deaths per day. we are not at that point now. we re much better off, but technically speaking, we still are in
leaving just no disposable income. that is leaving people and also to places in the country. these are people who are not the country. these are people who are not totally poverty stricken. you just are not totally poverty stricken. you just don t have loads of extra cash you just don t have loads of extra cash by you just don t have loads of extra cash by around, i think they will blame cash by around, i think they will blame the cash by around, i think they will blame the government for that. i was talking blame the government for that. i was talking to blame the government for that. i was talking to somebody works as a tory adviser trying to remortgage at the momeni adviser trying to remortgage at the moment and they were saying i blonde lee s trusi moment and they were saying i blonde lee s trust and kwasi kwarteng for my mortgage rate going up. so if they blame liz truss and kwasi kwarieng they blame liz truss and kwasi kwarteng for the mortgage rates
alexjones to pay $965 million to the families of the victims of the sandy hook massacre. and in china, where the country s ruling communist party gathers for its annual congress, we ll look at whose likely to become xijinping s second in command. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 11 in the evening in london, where the government is battling new economic uncertainty. prime minister liz truss has told mps her strategy of cutting tax will not change. but she s also said she won t cut spending either, suggesting the government will have to borrow more. that s raised concern even among her own mps. some want her to rethink tax cuts to reassure the markets. our political editor, chris mason, reports. reporter: have you wrecked the economy, prime minister? - there are plenty of questions for liz truss at the moment, but that one gets to the crux of things. spiralling prices, interest rates climbing, the market
and australian scientists say they ve created the first sentient lab grown brain. other experts described the work as exciting but said calling the cells sentient was going too far. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn stevens, political editor at the daily mirror and martin bentham, home affairs editor at the evening standard. tonight s front pages make sobering reading for the new pm. the times says her advisers have told her to rip up her mini budget as it has caused such financial and political turmoil. and the ft is reporting a similar call but this time made by liz truss own backbenchers at a stormy meeting with her in parliament. the mirror can t resist reworking an old margaret thatcher declaration to advise ms truss to change course. but the daily express takes a different approach, saying conservative politicians are blaming remarks by the governor of the bank of england for the fall in the val
and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we re going to do everything we can, as fast as we can, to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. i want to bring you some news that s just come through in the last hour from the us, where a usjury in connecticut has ruled that the conspiracy theorist alexjones must payjust shy of $1 billion in damages to the families of those killed in the 2012 sandy hook mass shooting. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attacked in 2012. a little earlier, our correspondent gary 0 donoghue told me why alexjones has been held accountable. really, from when it actually happened, alexjones, on his info wars channels, reachi