Give taken a particular interest. You go there lots a what draws you up there . A couple of things. Canada as in northern nation. That is what, one of the things that makes us distinct from the United States. Whereas in canada, the United States, you say go west to find your identity. In this country, it has always been go north. That is the part of the country that defines our identity and has so much promise in terms of its abundant resources. I do want to say this one of the things we tried to do as a government, with some success, is we come to office with two views but too often in the past, were seeing. One is that this government is extremely proamerican. The valiant the relationship with the United States. We could not be in a better situation than to have the United States as our only real labor, closest economic partner and oldham of the allied. And ally. At the same time, were Strong Canadian nationalists and think in our own modest way. We see no incompatibility with that.
Will i and and of the security council. The colonization of that land continues. Well, i think that it is important to make that case and it is a very powerful and powerfully felt case among the palestinians. Their flights will only be alleviated if there is a successful negotiation between the parties. It is not possible they would not be wise to disregard all israeli concerns. Those concerns have to be made known as well. Israel has to know that they can live in peace and security, just as palestinians need to know they can live in a viable state. It is very important to understand both sides of the argument and i dont think that is where very good example of that. [inaudible] and the government over the past two years, it has been rejected by the Palestinian Authority. Yet it does require bilateral talks. I think that there is, as i was indicating a few minutes ago, faults on both sides when it comes to efforts to have negotiations of the last few years. Israel has been wanting to n
In his care. Here, criticism of the way the government uses data on coronavirus test numbers by the head of the uks statistics watchdog. People from ethnic minorities are much more likely to die from covid 19, according to a review from Public Health england. The Health Secretary promises to take action. Holiday firms call on the government to consider air bridges, and scrap quarantine plans for people arriving in the uk. In the last few minutes, mps vote not to allow remote voting in the house of commons amid a row over how commons business can take place safely. And in the next half an hour well be heading to downing street for todays government coronavirus briefing, this afternoon led by the Health Secretary matt hancock. Good afternoon and welcome to this special programme from bbc news. Well bring you all the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic, and the downing street briefing, which will be led today by the Health Secretary, matt hancock. That will start at around five oclock
Place at all but f1 has been given an assurance by the government that its teams will be exempt from a 14 day self isolation rule for entries to the uk. Other sports have been given similar encouragement. Today, the ecb announced that england will play three back to back tests against the west indies on two bio secure grounds next month. Sports reemergence from shutdown is gathering pace and with a record equalling seventh World Championship in Lewis Hamiltons sights, this most unusual of sporting summers could still provide many memorable moments. Dan rowan, bbc news, silverstone. Time for a look at the weather. Heres tomasz schafernaker. Thank you. Make the most of the balmy weather because it is about to change with gorgeous conditions gcioss change with gorgeous conditions across the south of the country but soon we will have to wave goodbye to the clear blue skies and all of that summertime warmth. Tomorrow will be very different. The rain clouds have reached scotland already and
Previous month in following social distancing have together helped us to bring this virus under control. I commend the statement of the house. Thank you and i thank the home secretary for her statement and advanced we have been calling for sensible, and we it is vital the uk has a plan for minimising the risk of infection is coming into the country but the home secretary must also realise there are a fundamental question she needs to realise she needs to answer. Why these particular measures and why now . From when the lockdown was imposed, only 273 people were formally quarantined from four flights, three from one hand, one from tokyo, when over 18 Million People into the country by air. The home secretaryjust said in her statement this was because domestic transmission was widespread, but this is what the government because my own chief scientific adviser said, and i quote a lot of the cases in the uk didnt come from china, and didnt come from the places you might have expected. They