Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Its easter monday, april the 5th. Our top story. Everyone in england will be offered two free rapid covid tests each week from this friday, under the governments plans to expand its testing programme. The health secretary, matt hancock, says the additional tests will play a crucial role in curbing future outbreaks of the virus as life returns to normal. Our Health Correspondent jim reed reports. Rapid Lateral Flow Tests are already being used to test Secondary School pupils, families with children and those who cannot work from home. From the end of the week, they will be offered to everyone in england. These devices give a result in 30 minutes. They can be picked up from a local Testing Centre or pharmacy or ordered online and delivered in the post. Even when people have no symptoms, they may be infected and they may be infectious. And if we can catch those people early, then we can break transmission and that reduces
Of covid 19 in the capital. Well have all the latest developments on the virus here in the uk and Around The World and you can get in touch by tweeting me reetacbbc or using the hashtag hello and welcome to bbc news. Bbc your questions. Covid 19 vaccinations are being given to patients at some gp surgeries he was hugely influential in a in england from today as part of the next stage of the roll out generation of novelists, notjust of the programme. Spy gp practices in more generation of novelists, notjust spy novels, just the way that he than 100 locations wrote. He created a kind of world will receive their first deliveries of the vaccine later today, which sometimes takes the place of with another 100 to 200 over the real world, its so vivid. The course of this week. And coming up this hour, some will start giving tributes paid to the the cold war the vaccinations to patients spy novelist, John Le Carre, from today, with people over 80 who has died at the age of 89. Along with healt
Public. The other developments that relate to all this January 6th Business is the committee now scouring those Trump Documents that he failed to hide, losing at the Supreme Court. It was just last week. It was just last week that the Supreme Court handed down that big 81 decision, a stinging rebuke for trump. For people who say how does this all work, does any of it matter . The rule of law is holding. Days later the committee is receiving and processing what looks to be about 770 pages of once secret documents from inside the Inner Sanctum and the upper levels of the trump white house. Whats in there . The short answer is we dont have all the texts yet, but we do have reporting on some of the examples, the categories. Meeting notes at the time they were preparing for january 6th, drafts of the actual january 6th speech which could be incriminating. We know trump wanted to hide it, as well as high level correspondence, that could be emails, notes, from then white house Chief Of Staff
Neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of americas leading champions for science. So you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so Many Americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. I dont have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and im going to give what sounds like an easy sort of cop out answer, and it has to do with how science is taught in the schools. Its currently taught as a body of information, a satchel of facts that are imparted upon you and then you regurgitate that for an exam. Thats an aspect of science, but its not the most important part of science. The most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. And if you think science is just that one Research Paper that reports the one result that you either
Brisk winds blowing in some showers, some of which will be wintry, especially across northern ireland, wales and the south west. These are our temperatures. When you add on the windshield this will make it feel colder wind chill. As we head into the evening and overnight, expect a widespread frost. Now on bbc news its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, from new york. Im stephen sacker. This city is testament to the power of science and technology. But we shouldnt be fooled by these gravity defying towers. We are not masters of the universe. Covid and Climate Change remind us of that. And so too does my guest today, arguably americas most famous scientist, Neil Degrasse tyson. His special subject is astrophysics, but his mission goes much wider, to get us all to respect scientific fact. So hows that going . Neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of americas leading champions for science. So you tell me why t