coming up, liverpool have to avoid defeat against an austrian side to guarantee getting out of the group stages of the europa league. they are top of their group ahead of the match at anfield. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the former health secretary matt hancock has told the covid inquiry that with the benefit of hindsight the uk should have locked down much sooner at the start of the pandemic. he said many, many lives could have been saved if the first lockdown had began three weeks earlier on the 2nd of march 2020. mr hancock also dismissed allegations from other colleagues that he had lied to them, and described what he called a toxic culture in government. 0ur political editor chris mason reports. one of the biggest names of the pandemic. the health secretary for england, matt hancock. the man in the middle on the television many nights, and the man who resigned for breaking the very rules he d helped draw up. today, his moment of accountabilit
at edinburgh zoo the tale of two pandas picked for love, who just didn t get on. on bbc london the burning building, the black smoke, and on newsnight at 10:30pm. we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. a 21 year old woman who was kidnapped from the supernova music festival in israel on seventh october has tonight been reunited with her mother, as a temporary truce between israel and hamas continued for a seventh day. mia schem was one of eight hostages freed by hamas today, in return for the expected release of more palestinian detainees from israeli prisons. but as one family celebrates the return of a loved one, another is facing fresh anguish. this is shira bibas and her two young sons hamas claims they died in an israeli missile attack on gaza. tonight, the organisation, designated a terrorist group by the uk government, released a hostage video of her husb
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I would argue that wed have a healthy and robust relationship with the Mexican Government and i think they would a court that sentiment. I think the relationship with mexico is phenomenal. An unbelievable and robust dialogue. The Mexican Government is less impressed with the Trump Administration at the moment. Yesterday the us unveiled strict new immigration guidelines. They aim to greatly increase the number of undocumented immigrants deported and also suggest that many of those deported will be sent to mexico. The Mexican Foreign minister said i want to say clearly and emphatically that the government of mexico and the mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other. We will not accept it, because theres no reason why we should, and because it is not in the interests of mexico. Add this to the fact that the mexican president cancelled a planned trip to the us in january after President Trump tweeted this. If mexico is unwi