Vaccinating rohingya children. Also Cyrille Regis, a pioneer for black footballers, dies at the age of 59. What a great shot. Tributes are paid to the former west brom striker, who made his name in the late 1970s. And a narrow escape for a driver and passenger how they escaped with only minor injuries from this car crash in the us. Good morning. Its monday 15th january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Construction Firm, carillion, has gone into liquidation. Government officials had been involved in talks to try to prevent the collapse of the company, which owes banks about £900 million. This morning the government said Public Services provided by carillion will continue. The company employs 20,000 people in the uk. Carillion holds approximately a50 contracts with government. Some of the projects include the new hs2 rail line and managing nearly 900 School Buildings across the country. They are the second largest supplier of Maintenance Services to network rail and
Legislative achievement. The numbers are not good. Mike viqueira joins us from the white house, mike, you were telling us that the numbers were likely to be bad. How bad is it . Its worse than it was yesterday. It seems to be less than that. If youre counting the people who were trying to enroll through that healthcare. Gov website. Only 26,794 people, well call it 27,000, were able to register through those states. There were 36 states who declined to do this themselves. Theyre relying on the federal government to get them enrolled. All told, the rest of the states, had now who have their own website, the total is 106,185. When you consider the fact that ththe congressional budget offie project the number that would be enrolled in the first month, theyre certainly falling short, and there is more trouble on the horizon. Do you remember the president assigned a Technology Czar to straighten this whole thing out. They said the website would be up and running by the end of the month. The
Without but the murderer of medgar evers, bobby frank cherry, involved in the Birmingham Church bombing, they were all ultimately brought to justice in a series of striking and horrifying trials in in cases 30 and 40 years after the crimes and not nearly everyone who was responsible for these outrages was brought to justice but there were many people who were brought to justice, and when you say the question about enforcement, one of the striking things that president johnson said on the weekend he signed the bill, he called his old friend, governor John Connellly of texas. He said you dont want to talk about enforcing this law. That gets a mans hackles up. You want to be talking about obeying it because thats the right thing to do, and i thought that was a fascinating distinction and one that probably he learned at a very early age. We have time for one last question. Thank you for taking the question. Mr. Williams, thank you for the Howard University reference, at alumnus, i definite
Whose time has come, eyes on the prize, and waking from the dream this is just under an hour. Nowk festival, a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement with dave chapelle, and Juan Williams. Thank you all for coming. And share of the humanities department. I would just like to ask that you would all silence in the cell phones or other Electronic Devices of the panel is not disrupted. I want to start by acknowledging that yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther king. Would like to ask if we can all take a brief moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. We have an interesting array of books represented year. They cover a chronology of the Civil Rights Movement. I guess i will introduce them in sort of the order of the periods that they cover. Eyes on the price covers the Civilrights Movement from 1954 to 65 offering closeups of the struggles of many of the people who made up the movement. A contributor to fox news since 1997 and has worked for npr, a W
Were quite rightly asking us to make that effort. If you want to get in touch with me about any of those stories or anything else on todays programme tweet me Annita Mcveigh or use the bbcyourquestions. Uk doctors leaders warn hospitals will be overwhelmed with Covid Patients unless tough new restrictions are imposed after lockdown ends in england, amid reports of rules easing to allow families to get together over christmas. None of us want to see a situation over christmas where youve got the mixing of generations of people, grandparents mixing with grandchildren, and then finding that some of the most vulnerable in our society end up becoming infected. And coming up this hour the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. The uk sees its highest levels of loneliness this autumn as a result of the disease. Hello, and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Plans for a green Industrial Revolution