government is investing in now and we are taking the tough decisions necessary. statutory sick pay is worth £3 a week less in real terms compared to at the start of the pandemic and millions of workers are being forced to choose between isolating or putting food on the table. in germany, 100% of workers salaries are covered by sick pay, whereas in the uk it is a pitiful 19%. so, i asked the prime minister if he thought earning £250,000 from his second job was chickenfeed, how on earth does he expect working people to survive on £96 a week when they get sick? and if he agrees that many lives and livelihoods could be saved by increasing sick pay, will he commit here and now to raising it to the level of the real living wage? mr speaker, i thank the honourable gentleman, of course, as he knows one of the first things we did when covid struck was to make sure that statutory sick pay was payable from day one, so it is up to 75% more generous if you need to self isolate. and th
hello i m ross atkins. welcome to this week s addition of the media show. and we re going to talk about british tv and britishness. as you may be aware, it s boom time for the uk tv industry. not least because of the arrival of amazon and netflix. but with these streaming giants, is there a risk that the britishness of the tv shows made in the uk is being diluted? there are lots of questions to work through. let s meet the guests who are going to help me with them. beginning with sarah doole, chief executive of the red production company. it s behind last tango in halifax, it s a sin and many other successes. sarah, great to have you on the media show. what have you got plan next? well, we ve been really busy and production this year. we ve got a big show for it netflix coming out the beginning of next year. another show that we just filmed for itv. which interestingly we ve had to recreate a 5 star resort in bolton. sounds like we could spend the whole edition just talking a
deliveries, prime minister boris johnson is assisting there s no supply crisis and he is not worried. let s begin in france ran it independent inquiry has revealed the scale of sexual abuse by the catholic church. it found that 216,000 children had been abused by priests and clergy in the last 70 years. inquiry found abusers were protected by a veil of silence and that the church showed cruel indifference to the victims. francoise was abused himself and now the head of the victims association. translation: m0 the head of the victims association. translation: the head of the victims association. translation: ., . ., , , , translation: no culture has been up to sto this translation: no culture has been up to stop this church translation: no culture has been up to stop this church with translation: no culture has been up to stop this church with the translation: no culture has been up to stop this church with the regard - to stop this church with the regard to stop this c
good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. more than 70 people have died, including children, after fire tore through a five storey apartment building injohannesburg in south africa. more than 50 people were injured, and there are fears that the number of fatalities will rise as rescue work continues at the site. the block had been declared unsafe for use, but city officials say it had been taken over by property gangs who rent out the rooms and overfill them. our southern africa correspondent pumza fihlani reports from johannesburg. a warning her report contains distressing scenes from the start. piercing screams as a fire rages through a building in the heart of johannesburg. home to hundreds, residents have described the horror of people clamouring to get to the nearest exit as smoke filled the building s narrow corridors. many were not that building s narrow corridors. many were not that lucky. building s narrow corridors. many were not that lucky. the building
steve rosenberg, our russia editor, has the very latest from moscow and there are some upsetting scenes in his report. screaming. gunshot. a russian concert hall under attack. gunshots. gunmen had stormed the venue near moscow, the crocus city hall. they went on the rampage, shooting their way through the building. screaming. ..and into the auditorium. there was supposed to be a rock concert here. gunfire. instead, this. gunfire. the attackers walked through the stalls, firing indiscriminately. dozens of people are reported to have been killed. they ve set the hall on fire! the hall s on fire, he says, as more shots ring out. then, the rush to escape. there s panic! panic, she says, as the crowds fled from the auditorium and tried to get out. soon, the whole building was ablaze. the mayor of moscow said it was a terrible tragedy. the russian foreign ministry called it a bloody terrorist attack. i saw how the terrorists came in and started shooting everyone, he says.