by stating he d already given the cabinet office all relevant material. here s our political correspondent ben wright our political correspondent leila nathoo is in westminster. whether all the documentation as for has been handed over yet. do we know yet? an hour after that deadline we still haven t heard from the government or the inquiry itself as to whether any of the documents ask for have been handed over. so, we are still in a bit of a waiting game to understand whether the deadline was met or not. just to recap, for viewers about this. the covert inquiry is the big inquiry been doing and lots of work behind the scenes. it hasn t held public hearings yet but is has been after official records from the government as part of its work and it does ask for borisjohnson what s up messages and diaries during the course of the pandemic during the course of 2020 and 2022. in order to be able to assess the governments handling of the endemic. the cabinet office has resisted the
right. thank you. than k you. thank you.than thank you. so it s crazy when the girl scouts of america are in the audienceof ameri . happy happy thursday. so are the young uns about to sot to that drooling old coot? in a new fox, donald trump is crushing joe biden, 51 to 44 among voters under the age of 30, a group joe won by 25 points in 2020. i know truwon bye. it s early yet. then again, when you consider joe s age, i don tgain, wh think anything could be too early. let s just sae toy joe hass a pizza delivery and the guygo on the phone says it s going to be 45 minutes. he breaks int45o a cold min sweat because he s like old, really old, really old. like jesus christ was a freshman in his senior frf talking old.d. so we got two possible candidates. one of them is skin glued to a skeleto n and the other is trump. true, donald s aging just like anybody else except oddly, it s backwards. everybodelse, ex he looks grer his hair is stil il a naturalhav orange that i
where former prime minister, imran khan, has been granted bail by the islamabad high court. the court is currently hearing eight cases filed against him. mr khan s bail had been due to expire later today but has been renewed for a further three days. this was mr khan arriving at court earlier, behind a curtain of bullet proof shields, after earlier attempts on his life. imran khan was removed from office by a vote of no confidence last year. he accused pakistan s military of forcing him out and says the cases against him are politically motivated. earlier i discussed the situation with khurram dastgir khan a federal ministerfor energy in pakistan. the fact that mr khan is getting a bonanza of bail from the courts means that pakistan s justice system is operating normally and functioning well. the important point to note is that the events of may nine in their scale and severity amounted to an insurrection against the pakistani state. because if a political party takes it
counter offensive against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov describes the planned assault as an historic opportunity . now on bbc news.political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. every so often there s an issue that bubbles up. if you ll forgive the metaphor, and reaches beyond the westminster bubble. the issue we re talking about today is the issue of sewage, the quality of our waterways, our rivers and our seas. my my guest this week is the man who is insured that no political figure can and should ignore the question of the waterways. he is keen angler, campaigner, and original lead singer with the undertones, fergal sharkey, a man who left the stage in order to campaign for musician s right before taking up his current position another one of the country s leading environmental campaigners. he b