Emerged of Russias Expulsion of six british diplomats from moscow, accusing them of spying and sabotage, claims the Uk Government says are completely baseless. The kremlin said london had engaged in Multiple Unfriendly Acts and that actions of the British Embassy In Moscow aimed to cause harm to russias people, but the Uk Government says it believes the suspension came after it brought in measures against the russian embassy earlier in the year. Well discuss the expulsion of those diplomats shortly and also how the west is interpreting those comments from President Putin, but first our political editor chris mason, whos travelling with the british Prime Minister, has been talking about the meeting with President Biden about ukraine. They met at the White House injuly, shortly after the Prime Minister had taken office and won the uk general election. He was here for a nato summit. This time it is a specific visit entirely based around a meeting with the president in what is in plain sig
So the research group, the Nuffield Council On Bioethics said that Policy Makers at westminster and at Holyrood In Scotland needed to know the reasoning behind why. Poll after poll, survey after survey of Public Opinion in the uk finds an overwhelming majority of adults would like to see assisted dying introduced, and so they selected this group of 30 jury members, 28 of whom eventually voted, and they got them to hear views for and against, hear evidence from a variety of speakers, and then set out why it was that they supported a change in the law. And i think it was 20 in favour of a change, seven against and one undecided at The End of those deliberations. Fergus, how is what this group of people have concluded going to affect Policy Makers, potentially affect any future change in the law . Well, that remains to be seen. What is clear is that a lot has happened internationally since 2015. 2015 was the last time that mps at westminster voted on a bill to introduce assisted dying, an
And Maja Stark looked like they might squander a strong position in their match against Ally Ewing and Jennifer Kupcho but they held their nerve on the last hole to claim europes first point. The Afternoon Fourballs are just getting under way. Well the fourballs have just got under way. And once again, the Home Side had Barack Obama on hand for support again, after surprising them at the pre match dinner, the former president turned up at the first tee to help get the team fired up for the second round of match play. Quite near washington, dc, this course. Great britains davis Cup Tennis Team are hoping to move a step closer to the finals in november. They won their Opening Group Tie against finland on wednesday and are now taking on argentina as we speak at the manchester arena. They are 1 0 down in the tie though after Dan Evans lost in straight sets to tomas martin etcheverry, despite saving five match points. So all eyes are now on the british Number One jack draper, whos back in t
The freeman foundation. Blby judy and peter kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Source. Thousands of peoe in the u. K. Haveit been injectedh a covid19 vaccine. The 90yearold margaret was the first to gett. I am thankful for it. It is free and the best thing that has happened. And joe biden has introduced his health team that will fight the pandemic and set out a threepoint plan. Masking, vaccination, opening school. These are the goals for my first 100 days. Donald trump has held events on the vaccine rollout, but used it to repeat unsubstanated claims he won the election. Next administration will be the trump administration. You cannot steal hundreds of thousands of votes. You cant have fraud and deception and all the things they did. There is no evidence that happened on that scale. Boris johnson will go to brussels for dinner with the president of the European Commission to unl
The argument in europe about the distribution of coronavirus vaccines has intensified with the authorities in belgium investigating a Production Site owned by astrazeneca. Brussels wants to know why the Pharmaceutical Company wont be able to deliver all of the doses it promised. The eu has called for some of the vaccines made in the uk to be diverted and warned it could resort to legal action. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Once again, science has triumphed in the fight against coronavirus. The Us Firm Novavax has released results of its british trial showing the first proven efficacy against the new, more contagious uk variant. There were more than 15,000 volunteers on the trail throughout the uk. Over half the cases of covid recorded were the result of the new variant. The results showed the vaccine was 95 effective against the original covid strain and over 85 effective against the new uk variant, giving an overall efficacy of 89 . The former head of the uk Vaccine Task Fo