good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the man who was the government s chief scientific advisor during the coronavirus pandemic, sir patrick vallance, has been revealing more details about what went on in downing street as covid took hold. sir patrick told the covid inquiry that the then prime minister, borisjohnson, was clearly bamboozled by the science around covid. he says he was not consulted on the eat out to help out initiative it was very obvious that the eat out to help out scheme launched by the then chancellor, rishi sunak, would increase transmission of coronavirus. and key measures to stop the spread of covid including lockdown weren t brought in soon enough. here s our political editor, chris mason. it felt like he was on our screens almost every night, sir patrick vallance. . , ., vallance. the evidence i shall give shau vallance. the evidence i shall give shall be the vallance. the evidence i shall give shall be the truth, vallance. the evide
get to the root problem of what had happened out there. because the camera is pointed in the other direction when the fight begins, it s difficult to determine who started it. but take a closer look at the video. the video moves away. you see the coach initiate the action by throwing a water bottle at him, by lifting his arm and throwing a water bottle. and that s not all. an even closer look at the video reveals a surprising twist. it s actually the referee who throws the first punch. video comes back when the altercation was on and from the video you re able to tell the coach is on the ground and we learned later that when he s charging him, the referee does throw a punch in defense of himself and drops the head coach on the ground. and then just kind of a melee starts. bradley, austin, howard and the 14-year-old gators player who tackled the referee are all charged with battery on a sports official.
the video shows up on youtube. the first time i saw it, to be honest with you, i was disgusted, and i directed my direct testify detectives to start a criminal investigation. get to the root problem of what had happened out there. because the camera is pointed in the other direction when the fight begins, it s difficult to determine who started it. but take a closer look at the video. the video moves away. you see the coach initiate the action by throwing a water bottle at him, by lifting his arm and throwing a water bottle. and that s not all. an even closer look at the video reveals a surprising twist. it s actually the referee who throws the first punch. video comes back when the altercation was on and from the video you re able to tell the coach is on the ground and we learned later that when he s charging him, the referee does throw a punch in defense of himself and drops the head coach on the ground. and then just kind of a melee starts. bradley, austin, howard and
be honest with you, i was dust disgusted. i directed my investigators to get to the bottom of what happened out there. because the camera is pointed in the other direction when the fight begins, it s difficult to determine who started it. but take a closer look at the video. the video moves away. you see the coach initiate the action by throwing a water bottle at him, by lifting his arm and throwing a water bottle. and that s not all. an even closer look at the video reveals a surprising twist. it s actually the referee who throws the first punch. video comes back when the altercation was on and from the video you re able to tell the coach is on the ground and we learned later when he s charging him, the referee does throw a punch in defense of himself and drops the head coach on the ground. and then just kind of a melee starts. bradley, austin, howard and the 14-year-old gators player