hello. thanks for joining hello. thanks forjoining us here on bbc news. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga, and still, there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. these very limited pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. they really only tell us so much, but it does seem that the tsunami or the eruption has taken out the one main underwater communications cable. there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was t
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga and still there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands, or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. these very limited pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. the eruption itself appears to have taken out the one main underwater communications cable and there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. a lot of ash on the ground. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was to come a day later an eruptio
now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. prime minister borisjohnson has a trust problem. the stream of revelations about partying at number 10 downing street when britain was in strict covid lockdown prompted a prime ministerial apology and a pledge to do better, but can he be trusted to change? many voters seem to doubt it, so too do some of his own mps. my guest is damian collins, a conservative mp and driving force behind efforts to cleanse the internet of fake news and harmful content. in politics and online, can trust be rebuilt? damian collins, welcome to hardtalk. trust matters in politics, doesn t it? it matters a lot. of course, because people want to know that they can believe politicians when they say they re going to do things and that they will be consistent and true to their word, so it is one of the most important aspects of political life. would you accept that right now in the united kingdom, many, many voters have a
hello and welcome. borisjohnson has denied claims made by his former top adviser dominic cummings that he waved aside warnings of a planned drinks party at downing street during the first coronavirus lockdown in the uk. the british prime minister admitted he attended the event in may 2020, but believed it was work related. labour have accused the government of being in chaos . jonathan blake reports. once the prime minister s closest advisor, now one of his fiercest critics. dominic cummings newly detailed version of events contradict what the prime minister told mps. drinks in the downing street garden when england was under strict lockdown measures on may 20, 2020. and invite sent by the prime minister s private secretary, martin reynolds, to around 100 staff told to bring their own booze. last week the prime minister gave his explanation. i believed implicitly that this was a work event but, mr speaker, with hindsight i should have sent everyone back inside. now, writ
enjoy your few hours off, maria. enjoy yourself, thank you so much. stay tuned everyone. good evening to you, and welcome to ayman. coming up this hour, kevin mccarthy, you know what happened? he was caught on tape in the late night court filing that shows how much stirred the jail or six committee has on republicans. plus, my conversation with a member of the postal service board of governors on protecting elections from interference here at home. then, catastrophic mistake. why alarm bells are going growing, i should say, against kremlin insiders over the war in ukraine? i am ayman wilkie dean, let s get started. tonight, we begin with a wild 48 hours of capital insurrection developments. lots of news to cover. and we start with late last night. we learned that a former white house official actually warned trump s chief of staff, mark meadows, who has become the center of all of this, days before the insurrection, that the events of january the 6th could actually turn