You are the champions, you are the champions and a musical tribute for the champions of the pandemic queen say the proceeds will go to Global Health charities. Hello and welcome to viewers on bbc news in the uk and around the world. Im annita mcveigh. The uk government says they are confident that they have hit their own target for the number of daily coronavirus tests to be carried out by yesterdays deadline as the Prime Minister told the nation that the uk was now past the peak of the outbreak. The target of 100,000 daily coronavirus tests to be met by the end of april had been set by the uks health secretary, matt hancock. Over 81,000 tests were carried out on wednesday according to figures from the department of health and social care. Budget airline rya nair has announced they are cutting up to 3,000 jobs mainly pilots and cabin crew as they restructure to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile in the us President Trump said hes seen evidence coronavirus originated in a Chi
The state of texas defaulted to a federal exchange to the Kaiser Family foundation. Senator ted cruz, does he have to support this . Guest increasing support has been one of the interesting surprises. Theres a lot of stories about republicans whove lost their zeal for repeal and complete defunding because they understand the political reality. You see the effort by senator cruise and senator rubio who brings the profile to it and i believe senator mcconnell is on board. He came out with a strong statement saying we want to get rid of this law. These are reinvigorated effort. Host senator cruise is offering this amendment to the continuing resolution to keep it funny, which the senate is taking up today . Guest yes. Post a republican in gary, indiana, europe next. Caller i surgically speaking at first about a couple comments here about expenses and expenditures. I go to several. Yours and one of money current doctors they went to out of the Clear Blue Sky incentives see him every three
Trial in june. Yes, we are relieved that the fact that oscar got bail today, but at the same time we are in mourning for the death of reeva with her family. And breaking news right now about disgraced cycling star Lance Armstrong. Now the u. S. Government is on his case. And one week left medical the budget ax falls. Today it is transportation secretary ray la hoods turn to warn about the sec kwsters deep impact. This is going to happen sfwloosh clarify why its the matter of mileage between because were going to reduce the number of controllers which will reduce their ability to guide planes in and out of airports. Republicans say thats just scare tactics. The president is making stuff up. He puts Law Enforcement he puts firemen and policemen who 98 of them are being paid for with your local taxes and says youre going to lose your local policeman because of this. Its not true. And countdown to the oscars. Well talk to the man behind the mom natured documentary five broken cameras about
Department now, which is joining a lawsuit by a former teammate against Lance Armstrong. Nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams jones me now from the newsroom. How is the Justice Department getting into this case . What is the affect of that . Well, legal sources tell, you andrea, that the Justice Department will sign on and its considerable weight to a lawsuit thats been filed against armstrong by one of its former Tour De France teammates, floyd landis. He filed this lawsuit two years ago basically claiming that Lance Armstrong defrauded the federal government. Heres the theory of the case. The claim is that when armstrong agreed to race for the Team Sponsored by the u. S. Postal service, he was in essence defrauding the government because the Postal Service requires everybody who works for it not to use any illegal drugs, and armstrong, landis claims, was, in fact, blood doping and using hormones chshgs are both forbidden by the fewer defrance and they claim by the Postal Service i
Committee. How does cso play into this . We try to work with everyone that you mentioned. We want to be aggregators of talent and good work that has gone on. For example, something as simple as analytics, we have a metadata analyst in our shop now, but we want him to be an aggregator of aggregators. I keep saying you have to be made silver on steroids nate silver on steroids. We cannot run enough staff to review and it turns out the Intelligence Community loves being called by the state department. They are flattered by it. They want their work respected and called upon. It is not hard. Often times, in the military community, there might have been times when the state department has not been as friendly to these other partners as they could be. Particularly when you get to Something Like policymaking, there has been this secret formula like kentucky fried chicken, you have to go into the back room and no one can tell you what the elements are. I happen to believe the process should be