This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Im mike embley and these are our top stories. Britains Prime Minister says he regrets the confusion and anger as his special adviser admits making long journeys during the anti virus lockdown. No, i dont, i dont regret what i did. As i said, i think reasonable people may well disagree. Misses the scene live right now in hong kong where the hong kong chief executive carrie lam has defended chinas security law, causing it fence against violent protest. Calling it
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it. and then fox then moves in order to respond to these attacks and these threats. this is how we got into that hole quagmire and the insurrection and election lies. fox was in line for a couple days until trump pulled them along by harnessing the fox audience. that s what you re seeing play out here. when you are looking beyond, this when i look around bend, every single time this has come, up there has been flash points or tension moments. trump has won this talk of war with fox news and the media and then pulled them along. the consequences have been bad for all of us and for our democracy. that s where i want to go with. this i don t care about where they are or not to, doing the point is, and a thriving democracy, you have a multi party system, the party, the political parties are robust. you have multiple media entities that are stand-alone and robust. the fact that he is calling the shots is part of what we need
actually become kind of establishment democratic policies for the most part, and in most places. remember, alex, 99% of the democratic party in congress, and 100 percent, a lot of people across the country, maybe not 100 percent, were supporting all of the policies that we didn t get done. that is what we need to focus on and i have been talking with the white house about how we can be helpful to the white house, in really moving bold progressive executive action. and of course, with our incredible, almost 50% of the democratic caucus democratic members who have come in. i guess, when you talk about progressive values, sinema announced her choice to be an independent by a asserting equivalence between the radicalization of the republican party, and the movement of the democratic party towards the left. what is your response to that? well, i really disagree with that. look, she is right that we do not have a multi party system. that is true.
we only have, really, for all intensive purposes to parties. we are not like germany, we are not like other countries in europe that have many parties. i wish we did have a multi party system, but we don t. this is the system we have. given the system we have, we have to recognize that we need to take not only the independents, the moderates, the swing voters, fewer and fewer of them by the way, but we also have to mobilize our base. we have to make sure that we are being respectful to our base who does not want crazy things. you are absolutely right to point out the false equivalency s. this republican party wants to destroy our constitution. and lies about our elections, and does not believe that president biden is illegitimate president. the left, progressives, are pushing for universal health care, for universal child care, for investments and housing that make peoples lives better. and as somebody in germany said to me when i was visiting there