continues despite pandemic pressures. hundreds of manchester united fans invade the old trafford pitch protesting against the club s owners ahead of this afternoon s game with liverpool. and in half an hour, the media show takes a look at the world of podcasts. hello, welcome to bbc news. i m ben mundy. the rules that require people to self isolate if they come into contact with someone who s tested positive for covid, could be relaxed. in a trial starting next week, up to 40,000 people contacted by nhs test and trace will be asked to take a lateral flow test every morning for a week instead of starting ten days of quarantine. 0ur health correspondent, anna collinson, reports. test, test, test. it s a key part of society reopening. currently, if you come into close contact with someone who s tested positive, you may receive this a message from test and trace saying you must self isolate for ten days. but this could soon change. a new study, backed by the government, i
divisions on two huge bills. house progressives are holding up infrastructure because democrats are holding up the other safety net package. if it sounds complicated, this morning, president biden tried to simplify it. we could bring the moderates together, get two more votes. two. those two people of course senators, manchin and sinema, they refused to sign off of biden s bill until the price tag comes down. it s $3.5 trillion over ten years. i m joined by rhode island congressman. congressman, great to see you. thanks for being with us. your caucus chair, the $3.5 trillion top line may have to be trimmed. i know members of congress don t want to negotiate through the news media. but i think it s fair to say would you agree we are no longer at 3.5? no longer there? i think that tgs fit s fair say. the house democratic kcaucus is really unified in this. we want the president s entire agenda to be passed. this is his proposal to really transform the economy in this count
in more than a decade, but has it beaten covid? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the us political website politico says it has seen a majority opinion leaked from the supreme court saying that it has voted to strike down the landmark roe versus wade decision which legalised abortion across the united states. the document, said to be written byjustice samuel alito, says roe versus wade was wrong from since it was first introduced in 1973. if verified, the leaking of the document is unprecedented in the history of the us supreme court. for more on this i spoke to our north america correspondent david willis. this is the majority opinion of justice samuel alito that was written after a vote of the nine members of the supreme court following oral arguments in this case back in december. it is, i ve probably don t need to tell you, extremely rare that a leak of this kind would have occurred. this is the one institution in washington of the supreme cou