Flags are lowered over Downing Street and borisjohnson describes captain sir tom as a National Inspiration, and a beacon of hope for the world. The uk variant of coronavirus has mutated again the Health Secretary says hes seen cases of concern in bristol and liverpool. Meanwhile, 80,000 people in england are tested to stop the spread of the Virus Variant from south africa. Scotland is to introduce Travel Quarantines for overseas arrivals and plans are put in place to open scottish schools later this month. Travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland as heavy snow brings chaos. Good afternoon. In the last hour, its been announced that captain sir tom moore has died. Captain tom, who was 100 years old, and had raised almost £33 million for the nhs, was taken to hospital earlier this week, with coronavirus. The army veteran, originally from keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in bedfordshire, during the First National lockd
interest in the industry. i think. airlines uk are warning these problems will last into the summer. they really don t know at the moment how many flights might be cancelled. ro in, thank you very much borisjohnson has insisted he is not in breach of the ministerial code, after his ethics adviser said the prime minister s fine for breaking lockdown rules raised legitimate questions about whether he d failed in his duty to comply with the law. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. the prime minister and his independent standards adviser, lord geidt. the two have clashed over borisjohnson s handling of parties that broke lockdown laws. after the prime minister was fined for this gathering in the cabinet room on his birthday two years ago, there was a legitimate question, lord geidt claimed, about whether he d broken the ministerial code. i take full responsibility for everything that
would they be subpoenaed? they should be. you have a republican majority on that committee. rhona testifying, working for trump for three decades. what do we think house investigators might want to find out from her? there s a lot republicans and democrats disaagree about. the number of witnesses, the type of documents they want to subpoena. the fact they ve agreed to bringing her in shows how significant she is. you called her the gatekeeper. she s had a front row seat for donald trump at trump tower, with the trump organization. one thing we know would probably come up today, rob goldstone who arranged the meeting, e-mailing with donald trump said i wanted to get incriminating information about hillary clinton. he says we ll get it to ro in.
while also trying to broker this cease-fire. he seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth and accomplishing very little. jenna: quick answers from both of you. regardless of what happens between hamas and israel at this time the ideology still exists out there that is anti-israel and quite frankly anti-the united states as well in this region, and it seems that we have lacked to really engage on that. you first jonathan,ed you second. is there anything that the u.s. can do at this moment? i think what s happening is broadly the right thing to be seen to be talking to both sides. hillary clinton was absolutely right to go to israel and go on to meet mahmoud abbas in ro in jenna: i have breaking news news. we just confirmed through the benge there has been an agreement reached for the cease-fire.
post-script. people have heard of the southeast asian country known as myanmar or bir ma they re as likely to have heard mention of its national hero in, nobel peace prize laureate aung san suu kyi. when burma has it s been known in my family plunged into economic ruin crippled by strife and subject to gross violations of human rights at the hands of an oppressive and illegitimate military regime in 1962 my family immigrated to the united states where they would become american citizens. but not one from the last half decade did they or i ever lose sight of the far away country once called home. a place shrouded as much in secrecy as in sadness. for both exited burmese and the global community that has followed aung san suu kyi s struggle for human rights in the face of one of the most brutal militaries, her recent release from 15 years of house arrest has capped a stunning series of changes inside the country led by newly elect the president thain sane. her visit to the united states