Your attention between the need for a containment strategy to potentially may get worse, are you suggesting that that tips the balance to be unhealthy with Ground Troops with could be a positive thing or with the u. K. Involved is counterproductive . I dont see enough of the intelligence practice to judge the effects of manpower. I just know what i read in the papers. It is potentially doubleedged. But not necessarily read to have both positive and negative so with principal spinach and working in different ways. General entry believe ukase shed join United States and its allies to carry a strikes in syria of . Of the Legal Foundation is sound which i think they said it was then militarily it makes sense for the same purpose of a containment strategy to do that. You are aware that the current size and structure of the majestys armed forces are those structures of sufficient size to deal with a crisis such as the current one in the middle east . I would say the fact that were buying tho
This is bbc news. Im mike embley with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Supporters of the jailed russian activist Alexei Navalny have been arrested after he urged people to protest against president putins government the fbi vets all 25,000 National Guard troops on duty in washington for wednesdays inauguration, looking for possible right wing extremists. The covid pandemic leaves some uk hospitals at breaking point. We have a special report from london where staff are stretched to the limit. I wasnt convinced we were going to have a second wave at all, and the huge numbers that havejust, absolutely
all, and the huge numbers that have just, absolutely slammed us, itsjust. I never thought it would be possible. And risking temperatures of up to minus 70 to scale the worlds second highest mountain the nepalese mountaineers tell the bbc about their historic ascent. Hello and welcome. More than 70 protesters have been detained in russia as they demanded the re
Of new york citys five boroughs. Were at a testing site on the campus of Lehman College here. Ill give you a sense of whats happening here. As we know now, black and latino americans dying from covid19 at much higher rates. The patients tested at this site, very diverse. Even the doctors at this site primarily immigrants themselves. This neighborhood around Lehman College, 78 latino. Unlike a lot of the testing sites weve been showing you, this one trilingual. They speak english, spanish and mandarin. Theres a substantial asian population. Every day they see somewhere around 600 people. Were told that one in two cars that come through, nearly 50 of people tested test positive for coronavirus. Were being very careful this morning not to show faces of drivers, of course, because of hipaa regulations. You can see the Health Care Workers behind me. They are donned in the ppe. What you cannot see is when the cars pull in, they have their windows up. The only time they roll those windows dow
And throughout the day they were definitely mostly peaceful with far fewer violent confrontations with both police and the National Guard. To widespread looting or destruction taking place, certainly not here in philadelphia. The march in philadelphia yesterday evening was by far the largest and longest ive seen in my three days on assignment. Im going to have my one on one interview with the philadelphia mayor who talked to me about the removal of a statue of a controversial man with a historical past when it comes to Race Relations in this city. Our reporters, theyre covering the latest developments. Were going to start with ellison on the west coast. What more can you tell us about it . Reporter were in washington, d. C. , down here at the freedom applauplaza. A large group of protestors have gathered here. This is organized by Freedom Fighters d. C. You can see some of what theyre doing to get ready. In the next 30 minutes or so, we expect them to make their way towards the u. S. C
And and lauren green starts coverage, with tensions there overnight. It was the eighth night of protests, tensions continue to arise. And this means clashing with and in the Berkeley Center with much violence earlier this week. And protesters made their way through city streets. And that is when the scrimmages started. There was a gap between the streets. Dozens were arrested. Some of the officers were terror related but they are coming under scrutiny for the way they handled several encounters with protesters. Police commissioner dermot shea admonishing protesters but admitted there may be some police culpability. The investigations are progressing as fast as possible in the middle of a riot situation. Without a doubt it will be a couple officers suspended. They held a memorial for george floyd. Floyds brother terrence addressed the crowd thanking them for their support but reminding them the protests took place. Im proud of the protests but im not proud of the destruction. My brother