at 6:30, and bringing you more reaction from melbourne at 7:30. pressure is mounting on the prime minister as the row over parties held in downing street during lockdown continues this morning. former minister, tim loughton, has become the sixth conservative mp to publicly call on boris johnson to resign. our political correspondent, iain watson, has this report. borisjohnson is boris johnson is under borisjohnson is under more pressure this weekend after the ports of gatherings and parties in downing street during law council. mps have been hearing the views from the voters that doesn t sound good for the prime minister. this is four element minister team lawton. he is the sixth conservative mp to call for borisjohnson to go. said his constituents were troubled, angered or appalled. and writing on his facebook page he says that terminal damage has been done to the reputation of the prime minister and borisjohnson s position is now untenable. but it takes 54 conservative mps to call fo
are warning almost five million americans could call in sick in the coming week in a major disruption to the economy and essential services. we can now speak tojeremy faust, who s an emergency physician at brigham and women s hospital and an instructor at harvard medical school. thanks forjoining us. how worried are you, half a million cases every single day doesn t sound too good. sound too good. think you for havin: sound too good. think you for having me- sound too good. think you for having me. no, sound too good. think you for having me. no, that - sound too good. think you for having me. no, that doesn t l having me. no, that doesn t sound good at all. and we know that 0micron might be a little bit milder, but if you look in the hospitals we see patients have coronavirus looks just like it did in 2020. so if you combine that with the amount of care we have for other things, influenza, heart disease, things though, quite frankly,
. this just in. dozens of spacex satellites launched just last week are now falling back to earth. great. the company says a geo magnetic storm wiped out almost all the star link satellites. this doesn t sound good. what do we need to know? reporter: well, you have nothing to worry about. all these satellites have burned up or are about to burn up as they reentered the earth s atmosphere. when spacex launched these star link satellites last thursday, they launched them straight into a geo magnetic storm which is essentially a storm in space that is caused by streams of charged particles from the sun. when they interact with the earth s magnetic field, it can
attacks. is a fire at a nuclear power plant, i mean, obviously, it doesn t sound good, but are there systems within a plant to automatically fight a fire? well, yes, but not all fires. and not all fires at a power plant have catastrophic consequences. we can remember what happened at fukushima. the issues really go to whether the fire may be in the cooling pits, because there, you have material that is particularly radioactive, or if ultimately, a fire could cause a meltdown of the reactor and in that case, you would have a huge release of radioactivity and as i say, the radioactivity that was released in 86 from the chernobyl crisis or tragedy, you know, spread all over not just ukraine, but all
terrible and a war crime. the military commanders thought it would be over in three to four days. it is not. they have to adjust to other fighting. they re proving they re unable to do that and they have got no plan b. they are stuck with plan a which was encircle the city on roads that isn t going very well. dana: in the e.u. they said they were going to fly planes to the ukrainians and pilots from ukraine went there to get them and they found out it s not happening. that doesn t sound good. it is unfortunate. i remember hearing the stories of the eagle squadron in world war ii that went to england and americans and flew for england before we entered the war. the same when you look at what happened the pilots we had for the flying tigers, american volunteer force. too bad we don t have people willing to go now and take fighters and stack them up and put them on the ground. right now i think he has a great chance. when you look at the western part of ukraine it is all bordered by n