health charity, mind. regardless of who the biggest band in the world is, you will have to realise that you re going to be polishing ed sheeran‘s boots. in a world exclusive, coldplay‘s chris martin speaks to the bbc about why he s taking the band off the road to save the planet. and england make a promising start to the first test in new zealand. they re 241 4 at close with ben stokes 67 not out. good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. lawyers for women who say they were sexually assaulted by the convicted paedophile, jeffrey epstein, have urged the duke of york to give a sworn legal statement about his links to the american financier. prince andrew said yesterday he was willing to help investigations into epstein if required . he s also withdrawing from public duties because of what he called his ill judged association with epstein, who killed himself injail. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. he and buckingham palace accepted his position had
speech would dazzle us! on closer inspection, mr speaker, it is nothing more than fool s gold. our other headlines at 8pm today. a plea from the parents of 19 year old harry dunn, killed in a crash involving a us citizen on a trip to america they say she must return to the uk and face justice. she killed our son, she didn t need to kill him, she didn t need to have the accident. you cannot walk away from that and just leave, and expect nothing to happen. in syria, government forces are on the move to the border with turkey, raising grave fears of a dangerous new confrontation. and i m rebecca jones at london s historic guildhall, where later this evening we will be revealing who has one the booker prize award for fiction, awarded to the best novel of the year. good evening. the queen has set out the government s future policies on issues such as crime, health and the environment, and of course , brexit. but given that the prime minister has no majority in parliament, many of
president trump. for the first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the capitol. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he has done so because he values power over principle. because he sees his own interests as more important than his country s interests and america s interests. and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. on that dark day a mob of angry trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol. it was two months after trump lost the election. trump spent weeks, months refusing to accept the results, challenging them every way he could, in court, on air, on social media, through intimidation of public officials, and private and publicly. trump told his supporters, come to d.c. on the day the electoral votes would be officially counted in congress, j
you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands and some of the coasts but some of those inland places of rivers and these inlets, you are likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead, so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that if you have weathered the storm to this point, going on doing and getting involved in that is totally not worth it and we want to minimise any harm to anybody as a result of what we are seeing right now in the streets. it s gonna be put to use, i don t think we ve seen in effort mobilise for this minutes rate rescues this quickly, but we appreciate and we will make good use of it. we want people to be safe, those people who are in need of life supports, health is on the way help. they are able to see the areas that were hardest hit, and they are focusing assets there. obviously the
president as well. but that s a good i don t know if you have anything more on the first lady, but obviously i think she will continue stay away from the president as well. smart decision, but we don t try to tell the first lady what to do. i feel some trepidation talking about what the first lady so, first of all, the first lady spoke to this directly. she s feeling fine. just want to make sure that s clear. she s going to continue to follow the cdc guidance and she s going to continue to wear a mask, and so that s what she is going to that s what she s going to do moving forward. go ahead. dr. jha, you said you talked about the test he had, what is the testing cadence going to be, will he be tested daily, and will it be rapid tests or pcr tests? so i don t know that there is much value of a pcr test at this point. it will be positive for a while, right. so i don t actually know what his testing cadence is going to be. cdc does not recommend any testing for f