the hashtag, #bbcyourquestions. a deal to support uk companies struggling with high energy bills the government is expected to announce details in the coming days. finding a way forward for afghanistan the world s major economies will hold talks to try and avert a crisis. the uk will set out demands for changes to the northern ireland protocol today, when brexit minister lord frost makes a speech in lisbon. superman s creators announce that the superhero s son will reveal he s bisexual in the next edition of the comic. and coming up this hour. a room with a pew how camping in a church has become the latest unorthodox getaway trend. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. an inquiry by uk politicians has described the government s initial response to coronavirus in england as one of the worst failures of public health in the country s history. the report mainly focuses on the response to the pandemic the study was carried out by two house of com
This is bbc news. the headlines at 11: one of the worst public health failures ever a report by mps condemns the uk response to the early stages of the covid pandemic. early decisions, in particular slowness to lockdown, did have consequences and we ve got to confront the need to learn lessons from it. and while there was praise for the uk s vaccine roll out relatives of those who died, say a public inquiry should begin right away. my my mother didn t lose her life in a game. i think she lost her life because of mistakes that were made by the government. and i want to know about that, i want to hear
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For one of the world s biggest tourist markets. as we ve been hearing, the uk will set out its demands for changes to the northern ireland protocol today when the brexit minister, lord frost, makes a speech in lisbon. the protocol, agreed by both sides, prevents a hard border on the island of ireland by keeping northern ireland in the eu s single market for goods. our reality check correspondent chris morris is here. remind us what this is all about. yes, the northern ireland protocol is part of the brexit withdrawal deal, the bit of the deal dealing with northern ireland and it was agreed by both sides in 2019. and what it does, in effect, is set up a series of checks and controls on goods moving between great britain and northern ireland, which has made it a lot more difficult to supply a whole range of things into northern ireland. the reason those controls were agreed is both sides were
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