remember the word devotion unmatched devotion the icy winter at valley forge defeating a mighty empire as the push miles across a dangerous frontier taming the wilderness to build a magnificent life and home for their family packing in the covered wagons trekking across hazardous trails scaled a towering mountains and braved rivers and rapids with a very beautiful frontier with patriots market marching on the battlefield and the enemy strongholds and staring down those enemies to keep alive the flame of freedom at yorktown in gettysburg and midway they joined the rollcall of immortal heroes so many great people that we have to cherish those people we can t forget the ows people and building monuments to those people is a good thing not a bad thing they saved our country no challenge was too much no hardship to great, no enemy to fears and together these patriots soldiered on and endured and they prevailed because they had faith in each other and their country and above all
we heard from the new chancellor, rachel reeves, that economic growth is one of the government s top priorities, and any indication today that the economy is turning a corner will be crucial momentum for the new government plans to, as they put it, rebuild britain . let s discuss this with hetal mehta, head of economic research at st james s place. do you think we will see growth today? will that be the number four, something upwards? that is the expectation, four, something upwards? twat is the expectation, what most market participants are expecting and i think even the poor weather in the previous month, it seems quite likely thatis month, it seems quite likely that is what we will see, 0.2% increase would probably in line with what is expected, but what we can look forward to having that better pace of growth and a lot of people have written off the first quarter as a bit off the first quarter as a bit of a blip, but we need to see the fundamentals of the uk growth sta
unanimously rejected the president s announcement that boosters would be approved by today for the general population. it s a tough time for president biden on other fronts. his entire domestic agenda is in jeopardy as time is running out for a deeply divided congress to pass his mega infrastructure bill. while overseas france is furious over being blind sided by the u.s. on that $60 billion submarine contract. and all the nato allies are burning from the messy withdrawal from afghanistan. the pentagon having to admit instead of isis bombers its drone strike in kabul killed ten civilians including seven children and an aid worker for a u.s. charity. a new crisis at the border with 15,000 stranded haitians living under a bridge between texas and mexico. we begin with the pfizer trial and nbc s gabe gutierrez residence in spokane, washington. this is very promising news for families, but the current covid crisis inside hospitals out where you are is intensifying. reporter
mandatory for care home staff to to be fully vaccinated. on twitter, it s @annita mcveigh or #bbcyourquestions and most workers say they d rather not return to their offices full time according to new research and over a fifth would like to work from home for good. also coming up this hour. out of this world four amateur astronauts, including a billionaire will spend the next three days circling the earth in the latest milestone for space tourism. hello and welcome to bbc news. after a ruthless day of firing and hiring, the prime minister is set to continue the biggest shake up of his government since he entered downing street. yesterday he fired his education, justice and housing secretaries and demoted others as he reshapes his senior team. dominic raab is no longer foreign secretary he s justice secretary and deputy prime minister with liz truss becoming only the second woman in history to hold the post of foreign secretary. gavin williamson, widely critici
in the 60 years since the first human went into space, fewer than 600 people have ventured above 50 miles in altitude. and most of those have been military trained personnel. the inspiration four believe they re breaking new ground. they don t have what was famously called the right stuff . and if they can go into orbit, they say, anyone can. jonathan amos, bbc news. have a back, with helen willets. hi, ben, the atmosphere closer to earth, this was cambridge yesterday where we had almost a month s worth of rain. it was pretty wet across many eastern parts of england. very different outlook at the moment, this was cambridgeshire a couple of hours ago with plenty of sunshine. plenty of warm sunshine and dry weather over the coming few days, although at this time of the year there will be some fog lingering through the rush hour. and it is not all plain sailing, we do have this weather front across thailand. this was yesterday s rain, that is moving away to scandinavia. acro