and brazil lights up in honour of pele on the first of three days of national mourning for the footballing legend. queen guitarist brian may is among those receiving awards in the new year s honours list. he s knighted for services to music and charity. hello and welcome to those watching in the uk and around the globe. a us congressional committee has released six years of tax returns for the former president donald trump. mr trump battled for years to keep the documents secret until the supreme court approved their disclosure last month. the returns show that in 2020 he paid nothing in federal income taxes. the former president has released a video statement, condemning the release of the documents. although these tax returns contain relatively little information and not information that almost anybody would understand, they are extremely complex, the radical democrats behaviour is a shame upon the us congress. i spoke with lloyd doggett, a democratic party congressman and
Lets start with the story thats dominated the uk Political Agenda for the last few days. Rishi sunak says its Utterly Wrong to blame him forfailing to tackle the issue of unsafe concrete in school buldings. As thousands of children return to classrooms today after the summer break, its emerged that more than a hundred schools in england and scotland will be closed or partially shut. Its over Safety Concerns about what is known as raac a type of concrete, thats known to be at risk of crumbling. Our Political Editor chris mason reports on a busy first day back for mps. You probably hadnt heard of it until the other day, but this stuff concrete that can get crumbly is building into a political mess. Did rishi sunak, when he was chancellor, walk away from repairs happening sooner . The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme
Hello. At least 20 people have been killed in an explosion at a fuel depot in the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh. Thats according to armenian separatist authorities, who say 290 people were also admitted to hospitals. They say dozens are still in critical condition. Armenia now says over 13,000 people have fled across the border, amid fears of persecution and Ethnic Cleansing. It comes as armenia and azerbaijan are due to meet in brussels tuesday for eu backed talks. Itll be the first such meeting between the two countries since azerbaijan seized the enclave last week. Nagorno karabakh is at the heart of one of the worlds longest running territorial and ethnic conflicts. Its recognised internationally as part of azerbaijan, but has been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for three decades. Bbc russian s Nataliya Zotova sent this report from goris, near the border with armenia. The exodus of refugees started late sunday night. Some arrived in the border town of goris in ambulances e
Enclave of Nagorno Karabakh. In cross to the United States a chief giving a press conference. As im sure many of you have seen that trauma and exhaustion translation is visible on the faces of so many of the people that one encounters here. It is absolutely critical that independent monitors as well as Humanity Name organisations get access to the people and Nagorno Karabakh who still have dire needs. Translation we know that there are injured civilians in Nagorno Karabakh need to be evacuated and it is absolutely essential that evacuation be facilitated by the government of azerbaijan. Translation given the scale of the needs that the people of Nagorno Karabakh our face and come am announcing that estates will provide 11. 5 million in humanitarian assistance. This assistance will be used to provide everything from food to psychosocial support, given again the grave psychological wounds that so many citizens are carrying stop i have also met with locals who do not know we are certain m