hello there, and welcome to wednesday in parliament. on this programme: boris johnson tells mps he hopes to set out a plan towards the end of next month on easing lockdown, but says schools won t return before the 8th of march. and i know how frustrating that will be will be for pupils and teachers who want nothing more than to get back to the classroom. the labour leader calls for teachers to be vaccinated in the next few weeks. he should bring forward the vaccination of key workers and use the window of the february half term to vaccinate all teachers and all school staff. also on this programme: there s a call for tougher action against russia on human rights, and the jailing of the opposition leader, alexei navalny. the london laundromat is still very much open for business. i the lack of urgency is truly staggering. i and an appeal to help those hardest hit by the collapse of the retail giant debenhams. this will disproportionately affect women who traditionally hold m
hello to you. president biden has set out his plans to try to deal with climate change, describing it as an existential threat. he said the us had waited too long to confront the climate crisis, and must lead the global response. mr biden has signed a raft of executive orders, in sharp contrast with the policies of the trump administration. among them, a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on public land and making climate considerations a focus of american foreign and national security policy. our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt reports. if ever america needed a warning of what climate change could mean for the country, it got it last year, with record wildfires and an unprecedented series of hurricanes. there is no time to waste, president biden said today. we can t wait any longer. we see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones, and it s time to act. and by appointing one of the country s most senior politicians, john kerry, as his climate
now on bbc news click. this week, as 45 becomes a6, we ll talk to some of the most important voices in social media to find out what the new president might do to put right the wrongs of big tech. theme music plays. hey, welcome! hope you re doing 0k, and wow, what a momentous week in world politics this has been. whether or not you re in the united states, what s happened there will affect us all. i, joseph robinette bidenjr, do solemnly swear. lara lewington: joe biden s become the 46th president. of the united states. lots about the last few weeks has broken with convention and almost broken democracy in the process. it reminded everyone just how fragile democratic systems are, even at the heart of the free world. and at the grand finale of this election, the spotlight is now firmly on big tech and their practices, having shown the world the havoc, the mistruths and conspiracy theories that fake news can bring. let s begin to listen to one another again, show respect to
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. russian opposition leader is the most resilient opponent vladimir putin has ever spaced. resilient opponent vladimir putin has everfaced. navalny survived the attempted assassination by novichok, returned to russia and is now orchestrating anti putin protests from his prison cell. the head of staff, the opposition movement has supporters willing to take to the streets and hundreds of russian towns and cities and do they have a strategy capable of forcing vladimir putin from power? 0k leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. he must establish what kind of contact you have with alexei navalny right now, do you have any means of contacting him? the only way to contact him is through his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two or three times a week and they do not enter a privacy and so it is supervised contact but still, we managed at least to pass some basic informa
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has set out his plans to try to deal with climate change, describing it as an existential threat. he said the us had waited too long to confront the climate crisis, and must lead the global response. mr biden has signed a raft of executive orders, in sharp contrast with the policies of the trump administration. among them, a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on public land and making climate considerations a focus of american foreign and national security policy. our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt reports. if ever america needed a warning of what climate change could mean for the country, it got it last year, with record wildfires and an unprecedented series of hurricanes. there is no time to waste, president biden said today. we can t wait any longer. we see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones, and it s time to act. and by appointing one of the country s mos