washington promising a written reply within days to rush a s expansive demands, downing street saying it plans to ramp up pressure on russia. the defence secretary likely to visit moscow soon. the uk conservative mp, nusrat ghani, who was sacked as transport minister two years ago, says she was told that her muslim faith, was one of the reasons for her dismissal. she also says that when she told borisjohnson what happened, he told her, he couldn t get involved. downing street says the prime minister had invited her to make a complaint, but she didn t do so. the president of the conservative muslim forum lord sheikh has said that he would like an investigation to be carried out by an independent person . somebody was trying to bully her. if what she is saying is true. you have two scenarios parliamentarian a saying something, parliamentarian b saying something. and we need to get to the bottom of it, we need to establish the truth.
it is all nonsense. releasing pictures of its latest drills close to ukraine s border, still saying it has no intention to attack. but after freddie s talks in geneva, diplomacy continues. washington promising a written reply within days to rush a s expansive demands. downing street says it plans to ramp up downing street says it plans to ramp up pressure on russia, the defence secretary likely to visit moscow soon. the omicron variant has moved the coronavirus pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in europe that s according to the world health organization. its europe director hans kluge said it was plausible the region is moving towards a kind of endgame . his colleague dr maria van kerkhove spoke to the bbc a little earlier. this is a very different virus and it s evolving differently. in a sense where we have a lead time in terms of our ability to develop the vaccines and make these educated guesses about how the vaccine composition should be,