person to receive the new vaccine course, why delay? have the national it s hailed a ‘pivotal‘ moment. restrictions and bring them into force as soon as possible. it comes amid mounting the vaccine means everything to me. pressure on the nhs, this is bbc news. with a record 58,784 new covid cases i m simon mccoy. to my mind, it is the only way of the headlines: recorded across the uk. getting back to normal life. this leaders of the 4 nations the prime minister is to make are meeting now to discuss a televised address at eight o clock tonight the coronavirus response virus is terrible, isn t it? as the government comes under scotland has already announced it pressure to announce another lockdown to tackle rising coronavirus cases in england. it comes as scotland goes into lockdown from midnight tonight. the first minister announces measures that will last a month. schools will stay closed and a stay this is bbc news, i‘m ben brown. the headlines: at home order is
hi, nick. and i m glad you added that context about the prison line. because i didn t want people to think that i d made an admission of serious wrongdoing and should be behind bars for some crime i ve committed! not yet, you haven t made the admission, but we ve got quite a while to go in this conversation. we ll come to that extraordinary and fascinating background in a second. but what a year you ve had! it must feel like an extraordinary roller coaster. yeah, it has been, and i don t know how you felt when you came back from your experience with cancer, which was far worse than mine. but, especially having a cancer diagnosis at 38, although i was pretty clear from the prognosis that i wasn t going to die, that it had been caught early, that i would have an operation and recover, that time off that i had and that reminder of my own mortality made me think very hard about my life and what i want to do. and the way i want to live my life. and how i would feel if i had been g
areas, especially around aberdeenshire. with that cloud coming in, a cloudierfor tomorrow, rain or drizzle moving eastwards. most of the wet weather in the north west with stronger wind, northern and western parts of scotland. temperatures higher than today for the eastern side, making eight celsius, that the west double figures, could make 13 in northern ireland. not a great deal of rain to come, weatherfront ireland. not a great deal of rain to come, weather front moving ireland. not a great deal of rain to come, weatherfront moving down across the uk week, but will linger and keep more cloud on tuesday in the facade, otherwise those places will see some sunshine. in the far south. will see some sunshine. in the farsouth. i will see some sunshine. in the far south. i will be back with more at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, it s time for some political thinking with nick robinson. i should ve been in prison, not in parliament, my guest on political thinking
so by now you have probably heard it a dozen times. this week on capitol hill will be a make or break test for president biden s agenda. congress is working to pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package and a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, all while trying to avoid a government shutdown and a debt crisis. and just in the last few hours the timeline on that agenda has actually gotten a little bit clearer. now, in a new letter to colleagues released tonight, speaker pelosi announced a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill is now slated for thursday. debate on that is set to begin tomorrow morning. in a letter on friday, though, speaker nancy pelosi described the next few times as a time of great intensity. here is what pelosi had to say this morning about that bipartisan infrastructure bill which was originally scheduled to be voted on before. are you confident these progressive members will vote yes even though she says no? let me just say we re going to pass the b
it s good to see you thank you as always. we ll see you throughout the week. take my friend. it is can the democrats actually pull this off, we re gonna break down what to watch out for with our sunday night all-star panel. then with politics primarily field by divisive cultural issues in this country, we re gonna take a look at how the american cultural war, has changed over the past 30 years with calm this podcast and offered and savage. plus a new bombshell report from yahoo news. on a light cia kidnap weekly weeks julia hassan. we re going to speak to one of the journalist behind this new explosive reporting. i m aiming let s get started. we heard a dozen times this week on capitol hill will be a make-or-break test for president biden s agenda, congress is working to pass a 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation package any one trillion dollar infrastructure bill, all while trying to avoid a government shutdown any debt crisis. and just in the last few hours the timeline on t