Refrain from tearing confederate statues down, saying the state is working on removing them. Announced virginia continues to decrease new covid19 cases and hopes to enter phase two soon. Gov. Northam good afternoon, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. Its good to be with you again. We plan on this being a short briefing today. I want to touch on our health metrics, number one, reopening education, andr our revenue numbers for the month of may and what they mean for our Financial Planning as we move into the latter part of this year. First, i want to speak briefly to the ongoing protests and the confederate monuments. I have said that i believe the confederate monuments are divisive and glorify a racist and painful time in our history. Thats why we are working to monumente lee enrichment, which our state owns. The Richmond City council has also agreed that it will remove the other confederate monuments that are on monument avenue. We all came together to create a process to d
And thanks to all of you for joining us today. Its good to be with you again. We plan on this being a short briefing today. I want to touch on our health metrics, number one, reopening education, andr our revenue numbers for the month of may and what they mean for our Financial Planning as we move into the latter part of this year. First, i want to speak briefly to the ongoing protests and the confederate monuments. I have said that i believe the confederate monuments are divisive and glorify a racist and painful time in our history. Thats why we are working to monumente lee enrichment, which our state owns. The Richmond City council has also agreed that it will remove the other confederate monuments that are on monument avenue. We all came together to create a process to do that safely. ,e need to let that happen because these statues are very large and they are very heavy. A demonstrator was seriously injured by a that was being pulled down. I know these statues are causing a lot of
Im hoping they will. A special report from inside kashmir in lockdown cut off since sunday after india removed its special status. The anger inside isnt really spilling out onto the streets as we have seen happen before in kashmir. The reason for that is people arent able to communicate and the tight security deployment. Its exactly 50 years since the beatles walked across that zebra crossing in abbey road for their seminal album cover. And at 11 30pm well be taking another look at the papers with our reviewers Rachel Cunliffe from city am and joe twyman from deltapoll uk. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. A major United Nations report on land use and Climate Change says we should all be eating less meat and making ourdiets more pla nt based. The un experts at the ipcc say were consuming too many meat and diary products in the west and its helping to fuel Global Warming. But their new report stops short of saying people should become vegetarian or vegan. Heres our science editor David
hello and welcome. pressure has intensified on the british prime minister, liz truss, following the resignation of a senior minister and chaos in parliament. on wednesday evening, opposition mps said they saw some members of the conservative party being physically manhandled into supporting the government in a key vote. earlier, the home secretary, suella braverman, used her resignation letter to criticise the prime minister, who has only been in office for six weeks. our political correspondent ione wells reports. another day, another new cabinet minister. grant shapps sacked by liz truss returns as her new home secretary. it’s sacked by liz truss returns as her new home secretary. it s a turbulent her new home secretary. it s a turbulent time her new home secretary. it s a turbulent time for her new home secretary. it s a turbulent time for the - turbulent time for the government but the most important thing is to make sure people in this country know they have secu
primary defeat, saying she s thinking about running for president. the congresswoman is one of donald trump s fiercest critics, and lost to a candidate hand picked by mr trump. she says she ll make a decision in the coming months. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital. this city buzzes with creativity. now artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you r