Meeting i have to attend to make a quorum down the hall here. So im going to to start out. I know you want to introduce one person. Are you under a time constraint . Because if you are, ill give you the courtesy of going ahead. Mr. Chairman, i can wait until the regular okay. So i welcome our panelists today to our hearing on the oneyear anniversary of the support act. This landmark statute, which many of us had a hand in developing, responded to the Opioid Epidemic on multiple fronts. That crisis affected every corner of our nation with approximately 130 americans dying from an overdose every single day. Weve devoted a lot of federal resources to tackling the crisis, and i look forward to hearing from the Surgeon General on this, of this administrations efforts to implement the support act. Now its on its oneyear anniversary. I also commend dr. Adams for launching his own unique initiatives to help raise Public Awareness about the risk of the opioid misuse. Challenges remain, however,
In the yorkshire dales, the army is helping with the clean up after several roads and bridges collapsed. An explosion in the number of older children going into care over the last five years is stretching resources and leaving kids more vulnerable thats the warning from the Childrens Commissioner. Well be speaking to her about that warning, as well as two people with direct experience of the care system. One man was moved between over 20 Foster Carers and 20 social workers. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Feel free to get in touch on all the stories were talking about use the hashtag victorialive. And if youre emailing and are happy for us to contact you, maybe youd like to take part in the Programme Please do include your phone number in your message. If you text, youll be charged at the Standard Network rate. First, its over to rebecca who has the news. Thank you, good morning and good morning to you. Female students, who use University Counselling s
Mean , while whilst addressing mean, while whilst addressing the nation rishi sunak said the rochdale by election result was beyond alarming. Thats after it was won by George Galloway, the uks leading Jewish Organisation has described the Workers Party leader as a conspiracy theorist who brings division and hate to every place hes ever stood for parliament. During his career, galloway has also presented programmes for both the russian and Iranian State broadcasters, labour leader sir keir starmer says hell stoke fear and division. Galloway only won because labour didnt stand a candidate. Candidate. I regret that we had to withdraw our candidate and apologise to voters in rochdale , apologise to voters in rochdale, but i took that decision. It was but i took that decision. It was the right decision and when i say i changed the labour party, i mean it. Say i changed the labour party, i mean it. Obviously we will put a first class candidate, a unifier before the voters in rochdale at the
First. Lets go to the. News good evening. Your top stories from the gb newsroom. The Prime Minister says islamist extremism aims to drain us of our confidence in ourselves as a people addressing the nation outside downing street this evening , he vowed to back police evening, he vowed to back police to tackling taking action against problem protests and said universities must also do more to crack down on extremism on campuses. More to crack down on extremism on campuses. Rishi sunak says islamist extremists are spreading a poison in a statement, the labour leader has said have backed the Prime Ministers message, calling for unity in the country. The Prime Minister signalled the government will unveil what he called a robust framework for deaung called a robust framework for dealing with the growing problem of extremism. I want us to doubt ourselves, to doubt each other, to doubt our countrys history and achievements. They want us to accept a moral equivalence between britain and some
while fighting in ukraine. and the blanket bog in scotland that is aiming to become a world heritage site. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the countdown is on for this weekends s six nations. scotland have named their tieam to face egland. we ll bring you the latest. good afternoon and welcome to the news at one. the bank of england has raised interest rates from 3.5 to 4% meaning they remain at their highest level since 2008. the increase could add nearly £50 a month to the average mortgage payment at a time when many people are already struggling with crippling energy and food bills. it will also have an impact on repayment charges on bank loans and credit cards but it is better news for savers, who should get a higher return. the bank of england says the increase should help to control rising prices reflected in the high rate of inflation. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity reports. in leeds like every where else, the cost of keeping up a mortgage is jumpi