what was your reaction to the accusations made by dominic cummings? let me know on twitter, it s @annita mcveigh, or #bbcyourquestions. president biden orders an intelligence report into the origins of the covid 19 virus, after recent us media reports it could have emerged from a chinese laboratory. victoria heads into a snap week long lockdown. more than five million people in australia s second biggest city, melbourne, will now face restrictions. ten years after the winterbourne view scandal, campaigners fear people with learning disabilities and autism are still facing abuse in long stay hospitals. the cast of friends! also coming up. friends reunited they re back, 17 years after the prgramme ended its run. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk health secretary, matt hancock, will in half an hour s time respond in detail to a series of explosive claims by the former downing street adviser dominic cummings, including that tens o
more now on the row over football. as you ve been hearing, the uk government has said it will do whatever it takes to prevent a breakaway european super league involving six leading english clubs. and bloomberg is reporting that uefa is in discussions with centricus asset management over a 6 billion euro financing package to overhaul its flagship soccer tournament. the idea is this will also put a stop to the new league that its creators argue will benefit football as a whole. joining me now is doctor dan plumley is a sport finance expert at sheffield hallam university. good morning to use. what do you make of these latest moves on the part of the uk government saying it will do whatever it takes, to uefa looking for a huge financial injection to revamp the champions league? injection to revamp the chamions leacue? ~ , , . champions league? absolutely, a crazy situation champions league? absolutely, a crazy situation here champions league? absolutely, a crazy situation
600 children a day. leave fox news team coverage on all of this. richard is on the border with more on the growing situation there. let s begin with david at the white house with the administration reaction. reporter: since the supreme court was founded well over 200 years ago in this country, the number has fluctuated a bit on the high court, started with six justices but we ve had nine justices on the u.s. supreme court 1869. four years after the end of the civil war. this commission is a bipartisan commission announced via executive order by president biden. 180 days to come up with a solution about potentially adding or subtracting from the u.s. supreme court the president during the campaign promise that commission to look at multiple issues. the white house says they want to stress bipartisan and before the president receives a report but already getting tons of pushback from publicans at least on capitol hill. senator ben sasse threw a punch of a statement, talking abo
in 2019 then justice ruth bider ginsburg said that nine seems to be a good number and wondering what the fuss is about, why would they consider changing the number on the u.s. supreme court. the president during the campaign promised that 180-day commission to look at multiple issues on the court including potentially expanding it. the white house this week announced it s kicking that off through an executive order and six month before the president receives that report. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell blasted that calling an on the judiciary. and he said that president biden campaigned on lowering the temperature and the divided nation, if he meant it looking at the antiquated idea and hawking it. it was president franklin roosevelt who wanted more on the high court and his plan failed, what we call court packing. he violated no law and he was absolutely correct, but it was a bonehead idea, it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. the commission itself. 36 mem