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and please don t stress the seals a plea for holiday makers on the north east coast of england to be more kind and respectful to the bathing mammals. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. within the past hour, the afghan president, ashraf ghani, has made a televised address to the nation his first public comments since the taliban intensified their latest offensive. mr ghani said that the remobilization of armed forces was his top priority. he also said he was consulting with international partners to prevent further violence. heavy fighting has broken out in the afghan city of mazar i sharif, as taliban militants tighten their stranglehold around kabul. american troops have flown into the afghan capital to help evacuate embassy personnel and other civilians stranded in kabul. britain and several other western nations are also sending troops as resistance from afghan government forces crumbles. the taliban also claims to have captur ....
10,000 homes for rental over the next few years. and in 30 minutes the travel show continues its journey from city to coast, meeting the locals in wales. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the government is signalling that all legal restrictions relating to covid will end on the i9thjuly in england including the wearing of facemasks. the housing secretary, robertjenrick, said the public must learn to live with the virus and use their personaljudgement. labour said they re keen for the economy to open up but they want to see the science guiding government decisions. 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports. from the cobbles of york. ..to the minster, a portrait of england, wandering back to normal, as the government suggests that legal rules around checking into cafes, wearing facemasks and such like are likely to go in a fortnight. i think it is fantastic. i m not sure that masks have been such a great idea in the first place. personally i won t wear outsi ....
from the government s building safety fund for cladding removal. however, to fix other fire safety defects, the leaseholders still face another £6 million in bills, an average of £50,000 each. willis one of them. i welcome it. it won t help me, my building is over 15 years and even if my building was less than 15 years old, my developer is insolvent so it won t help me. mrjenrick this morning said on the show that the majority of these buildings were built in the 2000s so it doesn t take a mathematician to work out that by the time the bill is implemented many of those buildings will not benefit from this because they will be over 15 years old. the main issue here is that leaseholders are being landed with bills for leaseholders are being landed with bills for work that they cannot afford bills for work that they cannot afford to bills for work that they cannot afford to pay and they should not have afford to pay and they should not have to afford to pay and ....
now on bbc news, monday in parliament. hello and welcome to monday in parliament, as ministers delay plans to lift england s lockdown rules. the pause will save thousands of lives by allowing us to get the majority of the second jabs done before restrictions are eased further. the end of an era, as northern ireland s first minister stands down. mr speaker, let us be good neighbours. thank you for allowing me to speak. over and out. and four years after the grenfell tower fire, why is it taking so long to make homes safe? hundreds of thousands of people are living in buildings we now- know to be unsafe. some even still wrapped in the same flammable i cladding as grenfell. but first, boris johnson has delayed the lifting of lockdown restrictions in england by up to four weeks. the rules were due to be eased next monday, with current limits on social contact removed. instead, they will remain in place, possibly until 19 july although weddings and wakes with more than 30 guests ....
now on bbc news, wednesday in parliament. hello and welcome to wednesday in parliament, as borisjohnson gives the go ahead for a public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic. this inquiry must be able to look at the events over the last year issues that will make a difference for the future. labour s new shadow chancellor draws her own conclusions. the government have taken the public for fools. taxpayers deserve that their money is used to best effect, not squandered on contracts that don t deliver. and 80 years on, mps mark the night a german bomb hit the house of commons. this renewed chamber will always remain a symbol, a resilience of democracy in the face of adversity. but first, there will be an independent public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic but it won t begin until spring next year. borisjohnson told mps that the government was fully committed to learning the lessons at every stage of this crisis . but the scope of the inquiry won t be d ....