Now on bbc news the week in parliament. Hello again and welcome to the week in parliament. Is good news breaks out at westminster. Our nation, madam Deputy Speaker is getting safer every day as more and more people get protected by the biggest immunised pro Immunisation Programme in the history of our health service. Health service. Boris johnson is want he health service. Boris johnson is want he picked health service. Boris johnson is want he picked the health service. Boris johnson is want he picked the wrong l is want he picked the wrong sort of brexit. Sort of brexit. The protocol has betrayed sort of brexit. The protocol has betrayed us sort of brexit. The protocol has betrayed us and sort of brexit. The protocol has betrayed us and made| sort of brexit. The protocol l has betrayed us and made us feel like foreigners in our own country. Tea and sympathy will not cut the mustard. And a long life well lived. Not cut the mustard. And a long life well lived. Commons life well lived.
Were having a baby is becoming something of a lockdown trend. We begin in the us, where President Biden has pledged to rebuild americas alliances and re engage with the world, in his first major Foreign Policy speech. Its a markedly different tone to the America First approach of the Trump Administration. Mr biden said solutions to problems such as Armed Conflicts and Climate Change could be solved only by working with other nations. We are stepping up our efforts to end the war in yemen. A wall which has created humanitarian and strategic catastrophe. War. I have asked my middle east team to ensure our support for the United Nations Led Initiative to impose a ceasefire, open humanitarian channels and restore long dormant piece talks. Earlier on oh spoke to gerald thurston, Senior Vice President of the middle east institute. Spoke to. They asked him how much involvement the us has had in yemen up until now. In yemen up until now. Since the beginning in yemen up until now. Since the beg
Now on bbc news its time to hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The roll out of covid 19 vaccines has boosted hopes the virus can be tamed, but it will have to be a worldwide effort if its to be effective, and right now the signs are not so good. While tens of millions have already been vaccinated in the rich west, the worlds poor are facing a very long wait the phrase Vaccine Apartheid has already been coined. My guest is the chief scientist at the world health organization, dr Soumya Swaminathan. Is Vaccine Inequity undermining the fight against covid . Dr Soumya Swaminathan in geneva, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. Lets start with an overview. Is there any reason to believe that we are getting on top of this Global Pandemic . Well, one year ago, the Director General of the who announced that this covid 19 was a Public Health emergency of international concern. That was on 30 january, 2020. And he sa
was with the agency for more than a decade has just been indicted in connection with his actions on january 6th. the accusation that his comments encouraged rioters to kill the police. that s next. plus, exclusive new footage of the moment in davenport, iowa, the building suddenly collapsing. what we now know about the three people officials say are likely still trapped in the rubble. also, off the ledge, with the u.s. no longer on the brink of an historic collapse, president biden and washington are breathing a whole lot easier today. we ll hear from the president in just a few hours as he prepares to sign the debt ceiling bill into law. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin right here in washington just five hours away from president biden s speech with nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. monica, what s the goal tonight? reporter: i think for the president, chris, it s really to convey the severity of this issue,
a new cnn exclusive. former at the present time donald trump subpoenaed for records after he was caught on tape, discussing how he held on to a classified document. cnn has learned his attorneys haven t been able to find that key document. critical details in a case that prosecutors could be building against the republican front-runner. mike pence cleared. he will not face charge in his classified documents investigation. we have these stories and more, ahead on cnn news central. we have exclusive new cnn reporting about the special counsel, and that audio reporting of former at the present time donald trump. sources tell cnn that they turned over documents can bed to a classified military documents, one that prosecutors hear mr. trump describing. sources also tell cnn there is a giant unknown. whether the document in question, an iran attack plan, was ever actually returned to the government. paula, lay out the question of what happened here. so, let s go back a few