the prime minister is expected to give the go ahead to financial support for firms struggling with the soaring cost of energy. the number of vacancies in the uk hits a record high as the jobs market continues to recover from the pandemic. efforts to recruit young black people are failing to have an impact on racial injustice at work, according to a new report. good afternoon. one of the most important public health failures in uk history that s the damning verdict of mps on the government s early response to the pandemic. a joint report by two commons committees says both ministers and scientists waited too long to lock down last year, costing many lives. and it says there were thousands of avoidable deaths in care homes. the report calls the test, trace and isolate system slow, uncertain, and often chaotic , but there is praise for the vaccine rollout. our health correspondent jim reed reports. it is completely unimaginable, and we are not at the peak yet. in the spring of
we will have that very important story for you a little later. it was a central pillar of russian foreign policy a mercenary company operating at arm s length, but directed by the kremlin. the wagner group and its notorious leader, yevgeniy prigozhin, had operations all over the world, but especially in africa. as russia s invasion of ukraine stalled, they were brought in to shore up the regular military and it was here that things between prigozhin and the man for whom he had once cooked started to go wrong. he launched a short lived and ill fated coup before being forgiven then having a mysterious plane crash. the key question what would happen to wagner after the death of yevgeniy prigozhin? well, now we know. joe inwood has more. this was the yevgeny prigozhin on his final tour of africa. a few weeks later, he would be dead. at the time, few doubted why the mutinous mercenary boss had been killed. there was less certainty about what would happen to his wagner empire
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. police say a body has been found in the river thames by officers searching for the chemical attack suspect abdul shokoor ezedi. authorities had been looking for him for almost three weeks after a woman and two children were attacked in south london. the 35 year old was last seen on 31 january on cctv leaning over the railings of london s chelsea bridge. our home editor mark easton reports. with the tide low close to london s tower bridge at around four yesterday afternoon, the crew of a passenger boat saw what looked like a body in the water. scotland yard s marine policing unit attended and recovered a corpse which detectives working on the clapham chemical attack inquiry quickly concluded was their key suspect, abdul shakoor ezedi. because of the amount of time that the body has been in the water, it has not been obvious to do an easy visual identification, or indeed to get immediate fingerprints. however, with the very dis
to share details of his tax affairs that are normally shrouded in confidentiality, because that s the way it works in the uk. that is why apparently the prime minister didn t know anything about this. ..with the ethics adviser to the prime minister, who is crawling all over some elements of this to work out if nadhim zahawi, as the conservative party chairman and minister without portfolio, has broken the rule book, the ministerial code. so, mr zahawi clearly thinks that this detail from the tax man will help corroborate his argument that says, look, yeah, there is a conversation with hmrc and i did get clobbered for a massive tax bill, and the penalty for being careless but not deliberate in how he handled his tax affairs. the prime minister is still saying, let s wait ethics adviser to do his work, some in government saying hope he gets a move on, because meanwhile you ve basically got a party chairman who is kind of padlocked in his office, because he can t really s