following torrential rains. this is the heaviest rainfall that greece has seen in decades. you can see the damage. hundreds of people are still waiting to be rescued, and this comes after a summer of devastating wildfires. and. allez les bleus! france will kick off the rugby world cup tonight, against new zealand. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news scotland should take another step towards european championship qualification. we ll get the very latest from cyprus, where they play later tonight. describe does not fit for purpose. it is described does not fit for purpose. good evening. in what is britain s biggest manhunt in recent years, police say they have received information of the first confirmed sighting of daniel khalife, the 21 year old terror and spaying suspect who escaped from wandsworth jail two days ago. a member of the public says they saw him crawl from beneath a van about a mile from the prison still dressed in the share s uniform he was
good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be at the
those two cases were on the 30th and sist those two cases were on the 30th and 31st of january and there would almost certainly be more. the central point according to these minutes is that government had a plan to deal with illness. yes. you didn t in fact, plan to deal with illness. 133 you didn t in fact, within the department of health and social care, commission until the 10th of february the plan, the battle plan as you describe in your statement, or the action plan as it was published on the 3rd of march. and therefore, what plan was it that you were referring to cabinet colleagues too, to deal with the illness? firstly, we had the pandemic flu strategy set out in 2011, but by this point we had a whole series of different plans for expanding different plans for expanding different areas. so we had a plan for the expansion of testing within the hd. that plan didn t go fast enough and i had to take serious action to change that in the middle of march. we had a plan for
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