appropriately, from the artificial intelligence summit at bletchley park. the other big story this week, though, has been the quite eye popping testimony at the public inquiry into how the government handled various phases of the covid epidemic. and, i mean, it has massively, massively taken me back to those scary, uncertain days in early spring 2020. and i spent a lot of those days sat in this very studio and the person sat across from me and being very reassuring at all times was laura k, who s back in the studio. not in the studio. no, i m not. but i m logistically distanced today, not socially distanced. and i m very pleased to hear that i was reassuring back in those early days of march 2020. you were one of the only people i saw! well, i m pleased. well, it was very nice. we were a tiny little band of people, carrying on, trying to do ourjobs as everybody wondered what on earth was going on. and it s been a very strange experience watching this, hasn t it? because i was
first, the latest headlines. in the last hour, the jury in donald trump s hush money trial has requested some further evidence after beginning deliberations. the former president is now close to learning his fate after becoming the first american president to face a criminal trial. the polls have now closed in south africa s general election. the vote is being seen as the most pivotal in three decades and is considered a test of the ruling anc s the african national congress hold on the country. the dutch authorities are investigating the death of a person who fell into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passengerjet at amsterdam s schiphol airport. the death occurred outside the busy hub s terminal as a klm flight was ready to depart for billund in denmark. and breaking news a father and son from cheshire are missing after a hillwalking trip in the scottish highlands. tom parry and his 12 year old son richie were due to return home on wednesday after visiting g
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Tim willcox is in london. Not farfrom where i am a car has ploughed into a group of pedestrians in times square. One person is known to have died and 23 are injured. Police are saying it isnt terror related but the location draws tourists from around the world and it comes at a time when people on both sides of the atlantic are on edge about cars being used in attacks. The mayor of new york has been speaking, this is what he had to say. So far what we know, 23 individuals were injured in this incident. That includes tragically one young woman who has passed away. The perpetrator is in custody, a United States citizen and a former memberof the United States citizen and a former member of the armed forces. Inaudible the bbcs nada tawfik is on the scene for us and has an update. What more do we know about the driver . What the nypd has said is that this was a 26 year old man from the bronx, here in new york, new york native, former member of the navy, they say that he does have a criminal