Post brexit trade arrangements. If youd like to get in touch this morning, you can tweet me vicderbyshire or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. A team from the World Health Organization visits the high security chinese lab at the centre of claims over the source of the covid 19 pandemic. And the queen and british Prime Minister have led tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100 years old, after Testing Positive for Coronavirus Last week. The uk government says it will ensure hes officially remembered. I think we should find a way to make sure that we mark the memory of captain tom and thank him for the contribution that he made for the nhs. So i will ensure that we mark his contribution properly and appropriately at the right moment. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, has described as absolutely superb the findings of a study which suggests for the first time that the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine significantly reduces
Flew new im john king In Washington. Youre watching sad, solemn, sobering images there, officer Brian Sicknick on his way to his final Resting Place at Arlington National cemetery after lying in honor in the capitol rotunda. It is another wednesday of reelection here in the United States of america lying in the rotunda of the building where officer sicknick was killed four weeks ago today defending the building, defending his government against an insurrection by a trumpinspired mob that attacked the United States Capitol Building. Officer Brian Sicknick will be buried at a private ceremony at Arlington National cemetery. His colleagues also part of this ceremony. You see the hearse leaving the capitol grounds. The fencing still there added after the insurrection at the United States Capitol Building again four weeks ago today on january 6th. Its a short drive across the Potomac River to Arlington National cemetery where officer sicknick will be buried as he deserves as an american her
A man opened fire yesterday on f. B. I. Agents attempting to serve a child pornography warrant. After he spotted them on his security camera, killing two of them, wounding more. The bureau identified those agents as 43yearold Laura Schwartzenberger and we do not yet have the photograph of 36yearold david alfin who also was killed. Three other agents wounded. A live report from sunrise, florida, is coming up. President biden is set to meet with democrat senators at the white house this hour on his covid19 Stimulus Plan after suggesting that republicans counter proposal is dead on arrival. Biden told Top Democrats he wants a big, bold package and the party is prepared to pass it without republican votes despite the president s push for unity and working together. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Democrats are fast tracking a Stimulus Plan despite lacking any republican support as the president faces increasing pressure from the far left of his Political Party to act.
Sandra house conservatives also taking aim at Conference Chair liz cheney, calling for her removal from that post after she voted to impeach former President Trump. We have affecting coverage to kick things off on this wednesday afternoon, Kristin Fisher with more of the Biden Administrations next steps but we begin with Jacqui Heinrich live on capitol hill for us this afternoon, hey. Hey there sandra Marjorie Taylor greene did not make things easy on House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy during our long meeting last night expressing no remorse, im told over past comments she made when elective promoting conspiracy theories. Mccarthy was forced to call in the Stearate Committee and lawmakers with their assignment. Whatever mccarthy decide to become it was not enough for House Democrats who Just Announced they are moving forward with a vote tomorrow on the floor to strip green of her committees. Democrats in the meantime seizing this moment watching half a Million Dollar ad campaign and
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are uk trade and economics correspondent for politico, anna isaac, and Chief Executive of the think tank new Economics Foundation and former labour adviser, miatta fahnbulleh. Tomorrows front pages start with the metro. A National Treasure is how the metro describes captain sir tom moore, whos died in hospital at the age of 100. Hed been battling both pneumonia and coronavirus. The i describes the Second World War veteran as the best of us he was knighted by the queen last year after raising more than £30 million for the nhs by walking laps of his garden. Under its large image of a smiling captain sir tom, the telegraph reports on the results of a study which has found just one dose of the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is successful in cutting Virus Transmission rates a key factor in tackling the pandemic. That encouraging news about the oxford jab is also the main story for the mail, describing