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good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be ....
public gatherings of more than two people were banned and you had to stay two metres away from people you did not live with. the police could find you if you did not follow the rules. the inquiry will also hear from priti patel, who was home secretary during the period and the human rights group liberty. the home secretary during the pandemic and lockdown lobbied for stricter border controls in the early stages of the pandemic in an attempt to prevent the virus reaching the uk but she was overruled. despite criticism to the way the police enforced lockdown rules she defended her approach during her time rules she defended her approach during hertime in rules she defended her approach during her time in office. it you are watching bbc news and we are now going hoping to go live soon to the covid inquiry in london. edible be speaking on our healing from priti patel, home secretary during the pandemic as well as martin hewitt who was chair of the national police chiefs council, ....
after europe s medicines authority says the jab is safe and effective. in france, the prime minister announces a new month long lockdown for paris and surrounding areas, warning the country is suffering a third wave of coronavirus. a decade after the war in syria began, the misery inflicted on a nation. we look at the role of president assad during this brutal conflict. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. it was billed as a chance to re set relations between the world s two biggest economies, but there s no indication so far that these two giants are warming up to each other. america s top diplomat, antony blinken, is meeting his opposite numberfrom china, against the snowy backdrop of alaska. but in their opening remarks, the two sides leveled sharp rebukes of each others policies. today, we will have an opportunity to discuss key priorities, both domestic and global, so that china can better understand our administration s intentions ....
we start on the markets because a day after wall street closed at new record highs the jitters have returned. but i don t seem to have a camera! what i can do is. you know what? you can look at my chair. we are coming back. hello, nice to see you again. shares have fallen sharply, oil had its steepest one day fall since last summer, and those bond yields the effective interest rates on government debt have soared again. the yield on the 10 year us treasury bond hit almost 1.75% its highest since the very start of the pandemic back injanuary 2020. what s that telling us? that investors are scared inflation is about to take off and interest rates will have to rise soon. that s despite reassurances to the contrary from the head of the federal reserve. we d had about a 45 basis point jump in that treasury yield, and during that time, that is when we saw the nasdaq sell off more than 10%. so the question here is, what does it look like on the chart now for the treasu ....
good morning from north yorkshire. millions of us go on coach trips every year but they are under really big financial pressure and hoping for a big summer to their losses. it s a huge day forjockey rachael blackmore. she s leading the way at the cheltenham festival and today aims to become the first woman to win the gold cup. raising a laugh, but at a safe distance. red nose day goes ahead in the face of covid restrictions. a spring equinox this weekend but the weather stays fairly cloudy for most of you, but most should stay dry. the full forecast coming up. it s friday the 19th of march. our top story. the oxford astrazeneca vaccine will be rolled out in some european countries today after regulators found no evidence it causes blood clots. the prime minister borisjohnson will receive the vaccine today and has assured the public it is safe after more than a dozen countries paused their delivery of the jab. here s our health correspondent katherine da costa. the oxfor ....