indian farmers celebrate after a surprise u turn by india s prime minister. narendra modi says he will scrap the agricultural reform laws which sparked a year of protests. belarus clears a migrant camp on its border with poland, moving thousands, hoping to get into the eu, to a logistics centre. plans for tougher laws to prosecute drivers in the uk using their phone behind the wheel with a ban on playing games and scrolling through playlists. # mew, mew, mew #. and the duchess of sussex as you ve never seen her before, as she plays a prank on unsuspecting members of the public, during a us television interview about family life. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. english cricket is facing fresh accusations of racism, after it emerged that a player wore black make up at a fancy dress party in 2009. a photograph of alex hales, who plays for nottinghamshire, has been published by the sun newspaper. he responded by saying he was dressed as his m
on all federal workers and large companies. but is the governor s order legal? we ll speak to the mayor of austin. hello, welcome to the programme. how did the uk a country that, pre covid, had been held in such high regard for its pandemic preparedness, end up with one of the highest death tolls per capita of any large economy? the first official report into what went wrong was released today, a joint inquiry by two parliamentary committees, and it comes to some damning conclusions. the committees, led by two conservatives, said the failures amounted to one of the worst public health failures in uk history. thejohnson government had followed the science so unquestioningly that politicians and scientists fell victim to a form of groupthink despite the fact the groupthink was fatalistic and flawed. the crisis exposed major deficiencies in the machinery of government , with public bodies unable to share vital information and scientific advice impaired by a lack of transp
to the fire. for instance, if you had one of these bodies in the centre, if they try to do the job of the health secretary at the category one responder, then who guards the guardian? far better would be that they are in a position to haul in they are in a position to haul in the health secretary and say, are you doing that enough? because i wasn t called. we will leave that for a moment. the inquest into the death of nicola billy has been hearing more details this morning. her body was found in the river wye in february. live now to our correspondence danny savage years at the inquest. this to our correspondence danny savage years at the inquest. years at the inquest. this is the second day years at the inquest. this is the second day of years at the inquest. this is the second day of the years at the inquest. this is the second day of the inquest - years at the inquest. this is the second day of the inquest into i second day of the inquest into nicola billy? death. ye
communication if you like but not enough was done. the other issue i think we will hear an awful lot about was obviously last week was a science week, we heard from some of the top scientists and again the general theme there seemed to be the scientists frustration with this government mantra of following the science which they said basically meant that scientists were used as scapegoats for controversial decisions that politicians were making. and then of course the general thing which has been bubbling along over the last few weeks has been the chaos and confusion right at the centre of government in downing street. a lot of that is to do with the personalities involved, and so i think we will be hearing more on all of that because michael gove really had a front row seat to all of it. and another big name that we are expecting to hear from this week, matt hancock, the former health secretary, of course, who has come in for a huge amount of criticism from those at the very
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