among the worst hit: ididn t i didn t really have much of a choice so i am. iam. thejohn lewis partnership has warned of further store closures after it made a loss of more than 500 million pounds good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. prince william has insisted the royal family is not racist, in his first comments since the duke and duchess of sussex told us television that a member of the family had questioned what colour their child s skin would be. william also revealed he hasn t spoken to his brother since harry and meghan gave the interview to oprah winfrey, but said he would do. the duke and duchess of cambridge were visiting a school in east london when they were asked by a reporter about the controversy. have you spoken to your brother since the interview? no, i haven t spoken to him yet, but i will do. and can you just let me know, is the royalfamily a racist family, sir? no, we are very much not a racist family. our royal correpsondent sarah campbelljoins me no
prince william breaks his silence after harry and meghan s interview with a direct challenge to their most explosive claim. is the royalfamily a racist family sir? we are very much not a racist family. it s one year since the world health organisation declared coronavirus a global pandemic. since it first emerged in china, 118 million people have been infected. and 2.6 million people have died. the united states is the worst affected country, with more than half a million deaths. in the uk, the death toll has passed 125,000. anne marie rafferty is president of the uk s royal college of nursing. it s a sense of shock and it was quite profound and i think that continues to some extent although people have attuned to the pandemic, no one hoped it would last this long i think the psychological consequences of this have yet to completely unfurl. the great success of the last year has been the development of vaccines. more than 300 million doses have been administered worldwide.
and in his first comment since harry and meghan s bombshell interview prince william insists the britsh royal family is not racist. reporter: have you spoken - to your brother since the interview? no, i haven t spoken to him yet, but i will do. can you just let me know, is the royal family a racist family, sir? we re very much not a racist family. the oxford astrazeneca vaccine, one of the most widely used covid 19 vaccines in the world, has been suspended in three european countries amid reports that some people who ve had the jab have developed blood clots. each country s health authority have stressed the move was precautionary, and that evidence of the vaccine s safety and efficacy was good. norway and iceland announced their decision to pause its use, after denmark stopped its rollout for m days. astrazeneca says the safety of the vaccine has been extensively studied in clinical trials. here s denmark s prime minister. denmark will suspend the use of the astrazenec
The finance committee will come to order. The last place anybody wants to hear about gross mismanagement and incompetence is in the business of saving lives. That is precisely at unfortunately with the finance committee needs to discuss today. This mornings hearing is an update on the investigation senator, grassley and i, along with senator young have been conducting for more than 2. 5 years. It examines a network of dozens of organizations with the demand to organ transplant and a group that oversees and coordinates them. The United Network for organ sharing. We have reviewed 100 thousand of their documents, totaling more than half a million pages. Before i get to specific findings, i want to frame what we have learned as simply as possible. Already Many Americans are dying needlessly becauseuno and many of the transplant organizations it oversees are failing and seem uninterested in improving. The existing alphabet soup of acronyms and organizations, i will start out with a bitter b