administration in terms of wanting to move forward. we talked about what the majority could mean in terms of setting up committees and the like up and down the senate, so that will be something democrats will have in their back pocket as they look to move forward with this agenda in the next few years. skyler hen in agenda in the next few years. skyler henry in atlanta. agenda in the next few years. skyler henry in atlanta, thank agenda in the next few years. skyler henry in atlanta, thank you. - a group of people with disabilities are taking the government to the high court today, over emergency evacuation plans for residents. the plans are known as peeps a tailored plan for someone who can t get themselves out of a building in an emergency, and the grenfell tower inquiry recommended that they should become a legal requirement. but earlier this year the government decided not to implement that, as our disability news correspondent nikki fox reports. hello, adam! i first spoke t
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thank you, helen catt. a group of disabled people is challenging a government decision not to make personal emergency evacuation plans a legal requirement for people who live in high rise buildings. the leaseholder disability action group called for a judicial review when the home office decided not to act on a recommendation from the grenfell tower inquiry. the high court will hear the case today. nikki fox reports. hello, adam! i first spoke to adam injuly this year. nice to see you, too. how are you? we were discussing personal evacuation plans on our disability podcast, access all. at the time, he d been stuck in his flat for 11 days straight, because both lifts were broken. turns out that was just one occasion he d been stuck at home. it s been a very testing year. you know, 62 days, i ve been trapped, so. to get in and out, adam had to be carried up and down several flights of stairs. it s not the most ideal situation. the trained sound engineer
for talking to us. we will be talking about it later in the programme as well. and you can hear more about this on the bbc s new access all disability podcast with nikki fox on bbc sounds. let s take a look at today s papers. some of the front pages feature a photo of the former british solider, who s said to have been killed while fighting in ukraine. tributes to scott sibley have flooded in, with the metro saying that one former comrade described him as having a commando spirit until the end. the guardian says that the us presidentjoe biden has defied threats from vladimir putin, by doubling the country s aid to ukraine. the uk government plans to send 8,000 troops to eastern europe, in what the daily telegraph is calling one of the largest deployments since the cold war. and the times is reporting that millions of people suffering from arthritis will be advised to lose weight and exercise instead of taking painkillers under new nhs guidance, which the paper says could save the