West Yorkshire Police are continuing to search for people involved in violent disorder in leeds on thursday. Five people have already been arrested in connection with the disturbances in which a Police Car was overturned and a bus set alight. The trouble began after social services investigated a Child Protection Issue at a house. Our reporter Phil Mccann is in leeds. Talk us through the response. Talk us through the response. Leeds talk us through the response. Leeds City Council has released a statement on behalf of the council and on behalf of the romanian and Roma Community, which signifies the kind of tension is that there have been here come up with local people especially in the romanian and Roma Community blaming the council for being biased against them. This all goes back to the incident that happened here on Thursday Night when some children were removed by social services with Police Assistance from a localfamily. That lead over the coming hours to disturbances on the stree
correspondent and deputy news editor at the la times. polly toynbee is a veteran columnist on the left of centre guardian newspaper. and simonjack, the bbc s business editor, is here in the studio. good to see you, simon, and good to have you bothjoining us from parts around the uk while we maintain all our social distancing forjust that little bit longer, as a result of what s happening at the moment. let s begin in downing street, who have been having a week they d rather forget. three things may explain why. a newspaper published a photo of a christmas party last year held in the basement of borisjohson s party headquarters, at a time when all such activities were against the law. the uk s leading civil servant, the cabinet secretary, was investigating gatherings inside downing street, one of them in the prime minister s own flat at least he was. it turns out his office organised what it called a christmas party, too. on tuesday, the imposition of covid vaccine certfic
now on bbc news it s time for dateline. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the best known columnists on uk newspapers, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week, record breaking daily increases in covid infection hit the uk. pleas, not lockdown, are the order of the day, though the public are already voting with their feet. borisjohnson s pleas are ignored by 100 of his own mps, and by voters in a previously loyal part of england. is he now leader of the party and the country only in name? henry chu is long serving foreign correspondent and deputy news editor at the la times. polly toynbee is a veteran columnist on the left of centre guardian newspaper. and simonjack, the bbc s business editor, is here in the studio. good to see you, simon, and good to have you bothjoining us from parts around the uk while we maintain all our social distancing forjust
sweeping social spending bill. many in the party are blaming joe manchin for the holdup, but he isn t budging. so why do they think this will pass? t in the new year? i want to get straight to cnn s nick watt for the very latest on the surge of covid cases and hospitalizations. reporter: covid-19 cases and hospitalizations climbed around 40% this past month. deaths, says the cdc, forecast to rise in the month ahead. the delta variant still rampant. omicron on the rise. it s here now, and it s spreading, and it s going to increase. for unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death if you re unvaccinated for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they ll soon overwhelm. very soon, it s going to be the dominant variant. we ve seen that in south africa. we re seeiinhe uk, a i m absolutely certain that s what we re going to be seeing here relatively soon. reporter: for the vaccines, this variant is now the most complete escapee say researche
also today, a federal appeals court in d.c. has taken on the case, meaning trump s effort to block the committee from seeing any and all records in the national archives that they back to what was going on in the white house on january 6th. federal judges have now slowed everything down, they have scheduled arguments in the case for november 30th which means it will be weeks now before the committee might see trump s records, and they won t be turned over tomorrow as the committee and so many other democrats at. hoped i actually don t think it s a huge step back, i think that obviously champs folks will spin this as a wind because there s a lack of winds on any of their legal side. this is not unexpected i think we expected, frankly, there would be a stay issue by the appeals court. we also see a very accelerated timeline to hear this case. it is not going to slow down, our investigation, and i expect that keeping the supreme court potentially aside, will have these documents