From milwaukee ended up choosing the wrong house to take an impromptu nap. Hello, i m katty kay in washington. David eades is in london. The wealth gap between black and white americans is shocking. On average, white families are a lot richer than black families. Joe biden wants to close that gap. In tulsa, oklahoma, he will announce new measures. It s the site of the deadliest race massacre in american history. A white mob killed hundreds of black residents, razed 35 city blocks to the ground and wiped out thriving businesses. In a few minutes, president biden will remember the victims of that massacre, and also unveil new efforts by his administration to combat the economic inequality that still exists today. The commitments include a $10 billion community revitalisation fund to target economically under served communities $15 billion in competitive grants for neighbourhoods cut off from investment, and also to use the federal government s immense purchasing power to sign more govern
Good morning. 762jobs here at sheffield are on the line as liberty steel restructu res sheffield are on the line as liberty steel restructures its operations in order to survive. Gareth southgate will name his provisional england squad for the euros today. He ll reveal who s made the final cut next tuesday. Good morning. A cloudy start to the day. The cloud will break. We will have sunshine and showers. Some of them will be thundery with hail. Some rain coming into the south west. All the details later in the programme. It s tuesday, the 25th of may. Our top story. European union leaders havejoined the uk in pledging to punish belarus over what it called the state sponsored hijacking of a ryanairflight in order to arrest a prominent critic. Belarusian carriers are now banned from entering the airspace of the uk and the eu, and more sanctions will follow. Mark lobel reports. A hijacking. An affront to international norms. Playing russian roulette with innocent civilians lives. Some of
and coming up in the next 15 minutes, i ll be speaking to bake off s prue leith about lockdown and coming out of it. hello and welcome to this bbc news special programme, as we await the latest number 10 coronavirus briefing, tonight led by the health secretary matt hancock, along with professorjonathan van tam and dr susan hopkins. we will be crossing to that at number 10 as soon as that gets under way. let s start by bringing you the latest coronavirus news today. thejcvi, thejoint committee on vaccination and immunisation, has recommended that prioritisation should continue down the age ranges, with people in their 40s the next to be invited for a jab. the move is a blow to those who have been campaigning for teachers, police officers and other frontline key workers to be prioritised. it comes as the latest data shows more than 19.1 million people have received their first dose of the jab. a further 3115 people have died in the uk within 28 days of a positive coronavirus t
hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rachel cunliffe, deputy online editor at the new statesman, and the former conservative adviser mo hussein. let s ta ke let s take a look at some of tomorrow s front pages. the i is one of several papers to report once again with the mps standards row. it claims tory backbenchers are in revolt at the way borisjohnson has handled the sleaze allegations. the telegraph leads on comments made by the pm to a meeting of tory backbenchers, admitting reportedly that he crashed the car over the way he dealt with the scandal. the times has the same story, but leads with claims the home office is planning to fly cross channel migrants to albania for processing. the daily mail splashes on the rise in the cost of living, saying a combination of higher inflation, tax rises and interest rate hikes could cost people £2,000 a year each. the guardian reports on changes to the way socia