Muslim countries is essential, but its still suspended by the courts. Alastair cook resigns as england test captain after four years in charge and two ashes victories. And, final preparations for the biggest ever exhibition of works by david hockney. Im not saying im that good, but im not that terrible either. And in sportsday on bbc news, director of cricket Andrew Strauss says Alastair Cook stepped down as england captain because he was drained and lacked the energy and drive to continue. Good evening. We start tonight with new evidence of the immense pressure on parts of the nhs in england, with Patient Numbers considered unsafe in the majority of Hospital Trusts this winter. Over the past week bbc news has been given exclusive access to the royal blackburn hospital. Its accident and Emergency Department receives more ambulances than any other in the north west of england. In the first of two extended reports our special correspondent ed thomas has been speaking to staff and patient
you know with priceline you could actually take that trip for less than all this. i made a horrible mistake. go to your happy price priceline last night we brought you the story of a conservative activist group, which calls itself moms for liberty, which is trying to pressure schools around the country to remove books it deems controversial like works by judy blume, books that make mention of sexuality or race. one of the leaders behind this group says a belief teachers are secretly trying to turn kids gay or destroy american families. to me, it sounds like you re saying there s some kind of high-level coordinated effort to make more children trans and guy.
since the invention of the printing press, and even before. but for generations in this country you had brave civil liberties minded publishers who bucked those trends. in fact, throughout the english speaking world, you had publishers, most left wing, by the way, who said no. free people have a right to read whatever they want. but those publishers don t exist anymore. in fact, we re down to pretty much just one, that we know of, the name of that company is sky horse publishing. it has done what civil liberty janes did for many years, it s published works by canceled authors, in their case, woody allen, robert f. kennedy, among others. the man who clings to the ideal of free speech is tony lyons. he joins us tonight. tony, thank you so much for coming on. so i ve talked to you before, not on the air.
he moved incrementally, but he has moved. he had a mind that he was not going to accept anything over 1.5 trillion dollars. he is now at 1.5 seven trillion dollars. obviously nowhere where the party initially was, but he did decide. he has been open to had uncertain provisions back into the legislative language, but he has been very firm on not allowing things like paid leave in. there ultimately, the people we talked to on the hill think that he is going to be there at the end, a lot of this theatrical that this is sort of the process that mentioned works by, i think the big miscalculation early on was that he would respond to threats, protesters, and the holding of hostage of the physical infrastructure bill by the house. but he won in that bill so, bad that he would make some sort of agreement on the human infrastructure bill. those who know joe manchin, that is just not how he operates. he is not going to be pushed her bullied into doing
new it provides artists with space for experiments. a frequent guest is john franco young nuzzi of italy a world famous video artist. here both of what s special about leipsic and this place in particular is its history you can sense it when you re in the city or the space you know the industrialization is still visible here in these halls that s inspired me a lot and so with my art i d like to give something in return. quote me on the war on what they thought palace thought it was for both. his installation the giants of the renaissance for example shows the best known works by raphael michel angelo and leonardo da vinci digitalized animated and accompanied by music this form of presentation is known as immersion it s taking the art world by storm and fits in