Casting further doubt over whether the Olympic Games in tokyo should go ahead. A petition has been submitted to the capitals governor, calling for the entire event to be cancelled. Now on Bbc News, a look back at the week in parliament. Hello and welcome to the week in parliament. A week when the queen set out boris johnsons plans for the new political year. My government will level up opportunities across all parts of the united kingdom, supporting jobs, businesses and economic growth. Also, in this Program Ex Prime Ministers question time Mps Grill David cameron over the greensill affair. This is a painful day, coming back to a place that i love and respect so much. Britains top Police Officer defends the handling of a vigil for sarah everard. I think its an extremely hard thing to second guess when you are looking back at it, but im proud of the way they responded and i do think they took these issues into account. And 80 years on, the speaker recalls the night the luftwaffe bombed
OverlookIng the river thames, our home for the next couple of hours, as we mark the openIng of a new parliamentary session. Its been a time of national crisis sInce the last State OpenIng, back In december 2019, and the governments new programme will No Doubt Include measures to recover from the effects of the terrible pandemic. The queen will attend todays event, her first major event sInce the death of the duke of edInburgh. Her majesty will be accompanied this mornIng by the PrInce Of Wales, but the usual display of Ceremonial Splendour will be more or less absent because of the current restrictions. The other big difference is that the number of mps and peers here today is rather limited. The Queens Speech is beIng delivered jUst A few days after the extensive elections In scotland, wales and england, which gave new impetus to the debate on the constitutional future of the United KIngdom. Earlier this mornIng, the prime MInister Borisjohnson left number 10 for the Houses Of Parliam
Rural Health Facilities. A brazilian Police Operation against Drug Traffickers in rio ends with the deaths of 25 people. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. The first major electoral test that Boris Johnson has faced since winning the General Election in 2019 looks likely to receive an early boost. A parliamentary By Election in a traditional Labour Seat in the North East of England Town of hartlepool might well have been won. Its the first significant result from a huge day of Elections across the uk. Here is the labour shadow ministerjim malm, speaking a short while ago when he was asked what had happened in hartlepool and what he thought the result would be. Well, it is quite clear when we see the ballots lined up on the table we just havent got over the line on the day. That clearly is very disappointing. We had a good candidate, we run a decent campaign, and one with integrity. Now, clearly, what matters is the result on the day and we havent been able t
about the country s finances the chancellor warns of the enormous strains, following the response to the coronavirus pandemic. speaking ahead of next week s budget, rishi sunak warned britain s finances were exposed and a bill would have to be paid. warmer weather tempts people to enjoy the outdoors, as a government advisor warns the public to still comply with current restrictions. military honours for captain sir tom moore, as his family bid him farewell. you may be gone, but your message and your spirit lives on. and wales catch england by surprise in cardiff, to stay unbeaten in the six nations. good evening. the chancellor, rishi sunak, says he will level with the british people that the response to the coronavirus pandemic has left public finances exposed when he unveils his budget next week. the government has borrowed £271 billion this financial year, and some are urging him to raise taxes. labour have said support programmes should be extended to give businesses
welcome, and thanks so much forjoining me today. borisjohnson launched a new foreign policy direction, global britain the integrated review this week. it was driven by professorjohn bew, a historian known across the political landscape here and author of a much read biography of labour s post war prime minister, clement attlee. seen in that light, the focus on nato, a renewed comittment to nuclear and a tilt to the indo pacific, with more interest in space, cyber and technology are perhaps unsurprising. politically, can global britain be made to chime with the government s other key mantra of levelling up? and what about china friend orfoe, or both? isobel, are we already in a sort of new cold war? well, we certainly have elements of a cold war, but unlike the original cold war we are dealing with not the soviet union, but a country that has the second biggest economy in the world and is a huge trading partner, so it s more complicated than that. but we are in a systemic