good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be at the
perino. good to be here with you. another hour. bill: i m bill hemmer. things got serious it feels like. dana: it does. there has been a tone shift. bill: the president is in the room. the photographers are in taking their daily pictures and we ll share those with you when they become available. we ll hear from the judge in a matter of minutes giving the jury the instructions. defense and prosecution have spoken and made their cases and right now the judge will have the final word before they go behind closed doors, before they begin deliberations in the criminal trial from president donald trump and try to reach a verdict. maybe emphasis on try. we ll see. eric shawn begins a new hour outside the courthouse. good morning. good morning, bill and dana. well, the hour has arrived. the former president of the united states, a felony criminal defendant, waiting to find out his fate that is now in the hands or will be soon, of 12 ordinary americans. as you just said, the
we believe someone or some people at that party know what happened. the former downing street adviser dominic cummings describes the department of health as a smoking ruin in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. a digital travel certificate the eu suggests a way for holiday makers to prove they ve had a covid vaccination. bird song. and, why this is so unusual? the bird that s now so rare in the wild, it s forgotten how to sing its own song. coming up in sport later in the hour on bbc news, we will have the latest from the cheltenham festival, where champion hurdle star rachel blackmore has more rides on day two. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a damning report into child sex abuse in football says the football association failed to do enough to keep children safe after the scale of the problem came to light. the independent review found the fa was too slow to put protection measures in place following the high profile convictions of abusers
On this story all week as bbc editor and hejoins on this story all week as bbc editor and he joins me on this story all week as bbc editor and hejoins me now. Has it been awkward . Not particularly, not particulalry. Maybe i have a advantage in that i have not in here that long s0 i have not in here that long sol i have not in here that long so i havent become best friends with various of the people i was reporting on. You are talking about people like huw edwards you are goingto end up working with but you just try very, very hard. You come across try very, very hard. You come across a try very, very hard. You come across a lot of awkward situations in journalism and you try very, very hard to think how would i cover this if it was another organisation, if it wasnt the bbc, and you try and go straight down the line. You come from newspapers, the independant in particular, has it affected how you view the row over bbc pay . I dont think it has affected how i view the row. Basically i a
A South Carolina woman was charged after state officials said she made false statements and misrepresented herself to receive more than $15,000 in food stamps.