In many rivers across our country, and now the conservatives want to reduce the protection for our rivers and play into the hands of their developer friends. this is exactly the wrong move. labour has accused the government of failing on both the environment and house building. ministers hope this change will get stalled. change will get stalled developments moving again. the question from opponents is at what cost? helen catt, bbc news, norfolk. the funeral of the russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin is reported to have taken place in st petersburg. the russian authorities say he died along with nine other people in a plane crash last week. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg, is in st petersberg. what kind of a funeral was it? was it civilian, military? were their mourners? what happened? yes. their mourners? what happened? yes, it was interesting. their mourners? what happened? is: it was interesting. all day, saint petersburg had been buzzing with rumours, counter rumours and
Not to remove environmental protections, but this is what this announcement does today. it makes me wonder whether actually we can trust any environmental promises made by rishi sunak s government in the future. this brings together two big political issues. on the one hand, there is the need to build more housing, on the other, how to protect the natural environment. and there has been a particular political focus on the quality of rivers and waterways in recent months. we ve had a real sewage issue in many rivers across our country, and now the conservatives want to reduce the protection for our rivers and play into the hands of their developer friends. this is exactly the wrong move. labour has accused the government of failing on both the environment and house building. ministers hope this change will get stalled developments moving again. the question from opponents is at what cost? helen catt, bbc news, norfolk.
Breaks promises that they made to parliament and to the british people in just the last few months not to remove environmental protections, but this is what this announcement does today. it makes me wonder whether actually we can trust any environmental promises made by rishi sunak s government in the future. this brings together two big political issues. on the one hand, there is the need to build more housing, on the other, how to protect the natural environment. and there has been a particular political focus on the quality of rivers and waterways in recent months. we ve had a real sewage issue in many rivers across our country, and now the conservatives want to reduce the protection for our rivers and play into the hands of their developer friends. this is exactly the wrong move. labour has accused the government of failing on both the environment and house building. ministers hope this change will get stalled. change will get stalled developments moving again.