On the back and forth over mask messaging, good evening, peter. Peter good evening and shannon, White House officials are dealing with a lot. Gas shortages, violence in the Middle East, signs of a weakening economy, but none of those things are getting as much attention as this Announcement President biden had been saying was two months away about masks. Did somebody at the Biden Administration or in the biden Administration Update this guidance for political reasons . No. Peter but critics arent so sure. This iS Polldriven, look, they always say trust the science but we know what its been. Its been trust the polls, trust the Teachers Unions. Peter and leader of up influential Teachers Union just recently changed her tune about reopening schools in the fall. We must keep them open, fully and safely five days a week. Peter so why did the Biden Administration make the big Mask Announcement Yesterday . There was no scientific Knowledge Manifestation ha happened yesterday, when you look at
Good afternoon. The Foreign Secretary, dominic raab, will hold talks later with the new us secretary of state, anthony blinken, whos on his first visit to London Sincejoe Biden became president. The discussions take place before britain hosts Foreign Ministers from the G7 Group of industrialised nations in what will be their first Face To Face Meeting for more than two years. Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale reports. Americas top diplomat arriving in london for the first time since Team Trump was swept away by team biden, and while the politics and style may have changed, when it comes to world affairs, the message remains the same. What we have witnessed over the last several years is china acting more repressively at home and more aggressively abroad. It is the one country in the world that has the military, economic, diplomatic capacity to undermine or challenge the rules based order that we care so much about. And it is defending that international order that will be top
and joining them, virtually, will be 30 members of the public. the debate gets underway in around 20 minutes time, and between now and then we ll be looking at the main issues of discussion with our political analysts professor sirjohn curtice, professor of politics at university of strathclyde, lesley riddoch, author and broadcaster and pro independence campaigner, and pamela nash, chief executive of scotland in union. but first, our scotland editor sarah smith who ll be asking the questions tonight has this preview of what ll be happening later. soon, i ll bejoined here by the leaders of all five of the major political parties in scotland, who, as you can see, are going to be at an appropriate social distance from each other, and the audience members will come via the magic of technology. they will be asking their questions via zoom on screens that politicians will be able to see, assuming that they remember to unmute of course. and in my experience, it s much, much
have been quite embarrassing. it the british royal family it could have been quite embarrassing. it was su osed have been quite embarrassing. it was suwosed to have been quite embarrassing. it was suwosed to be have been quite embarrassing. it was supposed to be quite have been quite embarrassing. it was supposed to be quite significant? yes, it was king charles s first state visit as monarch. he was due to address politicians in the national assembly. to address politicians in the nationalassembly. it to address politicians in the national assembly. it was important for him and important for france. his first trip abroad as king. france is one of the uk s oldest and closest allies. these trips are made at the request of the foreign office, so the royal family don t decide where they re going to go. it is the importance of the links with the uk and the rest of europe, particularly after brexit and the issues that have arisen. as well ahead of coronation, getting people