there is speculation he was suffering from covid 19. now on bbc news: wednesday in parliament. hello and welcome to wednesday in parliament, as sarah everard s killing fuels calls for justice for women. i have parliamentary privilege. i can name the men who have hurt me, but millions of women in this country don t even have that. we have to address the fundamental issue of the casual everyday sexism and apathy. also in this programme, borisjohnson s former aide returns to the political fray with a damning verdict on how covid was managed. in spring 2020, we had - a situation where department of health was just a smoking ruin in terms of procurement and ppe. and the speaker tells a welsh mp to mind her language. she speaks welsh more on that story later. but first, prime minister s questions, dominated this week by the killing of sarah everard and the issue of women s safety. sarah went missing while walking home from a friend s house earlier this month. a police officer has b
Theyre disappointed they had to drop the case. His alleged victim says she stands by the allegation. Caroline hawley reports i ,and , and this contains flashing images. Out into the fresh air. On the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy Julian Assange emerged this afternoon to have his say on the end of the swedish investigation against him. Today is an important victory for me and for the un human rights system. Seven years without charge while my children grew up without me. That is not something that i can forgive, it is not something that i can forget. But prosecutors in sweden have not cleared Julian Assange, they have simply said they cant pursue the case any further. Translation there are now no further measures remaining which are possible to advance the investigation. In order to proceed, it would be necessary forJulian Assange to be formally served notice of the crimes of which he is suspected. This was a measure that was to have been conducted during an interview in london, but
And the conservatives cant be trusted. We have not rewritten the manifesto, the principles upon which it is written remain the same, we need to ensure that we have long term sustainability and social care, we need to be able to ensure that we can fund social care for the future, we are doing the honest thing in putting a proposal to the british people. How is it honest to reject a cap in your manifesto and four days later say, we are going to have a cap, what is honest about that . what we set out in the manifesto was a series of principles, to say to people, first of all, this is a big issue, we need to address it and we are being honest that we must fix it, and that is what i want to do, i am not going to play politics with it, very my head in the sand, that is whatJeremy Corbyn does with it. No, you arejust going to change or mind on it, apparently. This woman is already doing another u turn she decided it wasnt parliament that decided it wasnt parliament that decided her view. John
The Snp Manifesto calling for a second Scottish Independence referendum at the end of the Brexit Process. Rolf harris says hes relieved after being formally cleared of indecently assaulting three teenage girls. The mother of zookeeper rosa king who was killed by a tiger says she loved herjob and wouldnt have done anything else. The bbc understands that Arsene Wenger is to sign a new two Year Contract with arsenal a formal announcement is expected tomorrow. And back in the top flight after 45 years Huddersfield Town will celebrate promotion to the Premier League with an Open Top Bus Parade later. Good afternoon. In the last hour it has been announced that the american singer Ariana Grande will return to manchester this weekend for a Benefit Concert would nearly two weeks after her gig was attacked in the city killing 22 people. She will bejoined for the the city killing 22 people. She will be joined for the temporary concert bya be joined for the temporary concert by a host of stars. It
On tv and radio, it has always been a member of the public as well as good jurors good journalism, dont get me wrong that have given a good account of themselves. I was ina taxi a good account of themselves. I was in a taxi for some ofJeremy Corbyns appearance, but theresa may appeared a bit more human and early in the week, addressing questions, we will have to see what the papers make of it tomorrow. Obviously, twitter has its own bias in One Direction or another, but really interesting, a really good format for both of them to face some quite tough grilling. In particular, for theresa may, it seemed to be this issue of, why should we trust you . ForJeremy Corbyn, will you or would to ever press the Nuclear Button if it came to it . I think more pressure oii it came to it . I think more pressure on the Prime Minister tonight, she has not had a great campaign, to put it mildly, whereas jeremy it mildly, whereasJeremy Corbyn has. She had to pull it out the bag a little bit tonight, giv