prime minister rishi sunak has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry here in london today. critics suggest that his eat out to help out the policy under which the government subsidised meals led to an increase in infections. early evidence at the inquiry suggested that health officials hadn t been consulted about that because the milk scheme, but rishi insisted milk scheme, but rishiinsisted insisted that the chief scientific and medical advisers did not object when the scheme was announced. rishi and a chance at the time back in 2020 claim his actions had protected millions ofjobs hospitality sector. my primary concern was protecting millions ofjobs of particularly vulnerable people who worked in this industry. all the data, all the evidence, all the polling, all the input from those companies suggested that unless we did something, many of those jobs would have been at risk with devastating consequences for those people and their families. and that s my independent thin
it comes as a group of 28 premature babies who were trapped by the fighting around al shifa hospital in gaza city arrived in egypt for medical treatment. our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports. alive, against the odds premature babies rescued from al shifa hospital. parents cluster around before they are transferred from gaza. this man seems to be identifying his son. nora hasjust been reunited with her twin girls. translation: | didn t know. anything about their condition. today, i saw them for the first time since the day they were born. thank god, i have been reassured that they are fine. then they are wrapped up for the journey across the border faces of the war in gaza whose suffering caught the attention of the world. in egypt, specialists standing by with a waiting incubator. still desperately vulnerable, but now safe from harm. ..unlike about a million other children who remain trapped in gaza. in israel, families of those held in gaza are dari
into an economic crisis, overseeing the government response to the covid pandemic. tote the government response to the covid tandemic. ~ ., the government response to the covid tandemic. . ., , , ., pandemic. we are setting up a new coronavirus pandemic. we are setting up a new coronavirus job pandemic. we are setting up a new coronavirus job retention - pandemic. we are setting up a new coronavirus job retention scheme. | coronavirusjob retention scheme. any employer in the country small or large, charitable or nonprofit, will be eligible for the scheme. the furlouth be eligible for the scheme. the furlough scheme was a huge intervention that cost billions. he also masterminded the eat 0ut intervention that cost billions. he also masterminded the eat out to help 0ut scheme, encouraging diners back to restaurants when they reopened. hello! all of that came just five years after he was elected as the conservative mp for richmond in north yorkshire. his family had come to the uk from