on the goverment s first flight to rwanda. farmers are urged to produce more home grown food, as the government s food strategy is published. but there s criticism as it doesn t include plans to tackle obesity. as hundreds of civilians die in the ukrainian city of kharkiv, amnesty international says there s evidence russia has used cluster bombs. and england are bowled for 539 all out by new zealand on day four of the second test at trent bridge. and coming up on the bbc news channel: manchester city announce the signing of one of the world s most prolific marksmen erling haaland joins on a five year contract. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. in the coming hours the government will publish plans that would allow parts of northern ireland s post brexit trade arrangements to be altered without agreement with the eu. the prime minister says the government s proposed changes to the northern ireland protocol amount to a trivial set of adjustments and would be
Government can step the framework and Step Government can step the framework and step back when necessary. It can make and step back when necessary. It can make big and step back when necessary. It can make big decisions. What ive concluded is those decisions, which can change concluded is those decisions, which can change our country, can be so lacking can change our country, can be so lacking in can change our country, can be so lacking in debates and scrutiny that we stumbled into a consensus about the future we stumbled into a consensus about the future of our country that no one seems the future of our country that no one seems to be happy with. This is because one seems to be happy with. This is because too one seems to be happy with. This is because too often, motivated by short term thinking, politicians have short term thinking, politicians have taken the easy way out. Telling people have taken the easy way out. Telling pe0pte the have taken the easy way out. Telling people th
of countermeasures. why did you not say those things? say those things? that is not howl would characterise say those things? that is not howl would characterise the say those things? that is not howl would characterise the situation. i would characterise the situation. the first thing is that i am not confident that by this cabinet meeting, i will have known that sage had concluded that containment was lost. and in fact, i don t think that i was told that for a number of days after. as i said, i m not exactly sure when i was told that. but this meeting was the morning after the minutes of sage coming to that conclusion. secondly, at this point in the department and nphet and the health service, we were working extremely hard to prepare for the pandemic. i had commissioned the action plan and work was under way on that and phe. we were attempting and pushing phe to build the testing system and all of the other things we were directly responsible for. as i say, we were
all of politics. it s a friends. we are having tributes from all of politics. it s a you friends. we are having tributes from all of politics. it s a you say - friends. we are having tributes from all of politics. it s a you say that - all of politics. it s a you say that he was a gentleman. was he a friend of yours? he was a gentleman. was he a friend of ours? ., ., . .,, of yours? no, we won t close friends- of yours? no, we won t close friends. but of yours? no, we won t close friends. but when of yours? no, we won t close friends. but when he - of yours? no, we won t close friends. but when he was - of yours? no, we won t close friends. but when he was in i of yours? no, we won t close - friends. but when he was in office, and i was a backbench mp, and a major issue, you always got a courteous and informed response. he was very much in command of his brief. we did not agree on many many issues, but our exchanges were never anything other than courteous and bus