following this story hejoins me live.. first of all, or remind us what this is about and what this ruling now means? , , . ., ., means? this is a argument that blew between the means? this is a argument that blew between the official means? this is a argument that blew between the official coronavirus - between the official coronavirus inquiry now under way at looking into the governments handling of the pandemic, and the government itself where the inquiry chair had ecstasy the whatsapp messages exchanged between boris johnson the whatsapp messages exchanged between borisjohnson and other senior officials. a few dozen of them. so, matt hancock was one of them, the senior medical figures involved in handling the pandemic, senior civil servants, and she wanted to see all of those whatsapp messages and barsjohnson s personal handwritten diaries, his government diary, all of that communication. the government came back and said it wanted to redact things and put a black pa
expecting to keep his promise and their other methods to cancel student their other methods to cancel student loan debt in america, we do not and in a blow to lgbt rights, the us supreme court has ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same sex weddings, ruling in favour of a web designer who cited her christian beliefs in challenging a colorado anti discrimination law. our correspondentjessica parker is in washington. great to see you. we have two separate rulings, two separate stories it comes to both of those of the moment, why we submitting rush of rulings from the supreme court? we ve been waiting for these rulings are some weeks now and this reproach at the end of term has now ended and we knew that these outstanding cases would have to land today and we had this rush of cases and of course, the one yesterday which is highly significant as well for the supreme court rules universities were able to
elsewhere in the us presidentjoe biden has vowed in other news china has passed its first foreign relations law aimed at providing a legal basis to hit back against sanctions and what chinese media called western hegemony. the law on foreign relations gives beijing the right to take quote countermeasures and restrictive measures against acts that endanger china s security and development interests. the move comes as the us and china becoming increasingly locked in a dispute spanning politics and trade. china has seen parts of its country gripped by a historic heatwave this month. but it s not the only country in asia affected india too, is sweating under a prolonged heatwave. the weather is putting stress notjust on people s health the climate was a topic discussed at the world economic forum gathering in the chinese city of tianjin this week. dr melissa lott an energy researcher with new york s columbia university talked to us earlier. she explained what needs to be do
him this is bbc news, the headlines you murder of stephen norris has never been fully sought but a new suspect has been identified in the bbc investigation. an inquest into the death of lancashire mother nicola bulley is told she died by drowning and no one else was involved in her death. prince william launches a campaign to end hopelessness same it should not be any problem in modern day society. homelessness. here, an inquest into the death of nicola bulley, whose i was looking to see if there s anything i could find out or anything i could find out or anything i could do and this had always been in the case which was so well known, there was a public inquiry in the 90s and books and films about it. this guy was an anonymised witness called witness k, and he was known to be all over the case. he was at the home of suspects at the knights of the murder and at the source of a lot of information other people had about the murder so i was looking at him and realise he was a
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. donald trump s legal challenges continue as ejean carroll returned to the witness stand today to testify in her damages trial as part of her defamation case against him. unlike yesterday, the former president was not present in court. us forces have conducted strikes in yemen on two houthi anti ship missiles today that were loaded and prepared to launch. us officials say they destroyed the missiles. that is the fifth round of attacks against the houthis in yemen since thursday. on wednesday, an american owned vessel was hit by a drone near the gulf of aden, second time in a week that us vessels have been targeted by the houthis. also on wednesday, the white house re designated the houthis as a terrorist organisation which will mean sanctions. the secretary of state said that status will be reviewed if the attacks stop. here sjoe biden speaking at the white house. he was asked if the airstrikes in yemen were