If youd like to get in touch this morning, you can tweet me vicderbyshire or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. And the queen and Prime Minister have led tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100 years old after Testing Positive for Coronavirus Last week. The government says it will ensure hes officially remembered. I think we should find a way to make sure that we mark the memory of captain tom and thank him for the contribution that he made for the nhs. Good morning. The health secretary, matt hancock, has described as absolutely superb the findings of a study which suggests for the first time that the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine significantly reduces people passing on the virus. The research by oxford university, which has not yet been formally published, also found that the jab provides a high level of protection, even when theres a gap of 12 weeks between the two doses. Researchers believe that the vaccine remains 76 effective for up to three months after the first shot, while p
Comprehensive review in what is now the fifth deadliest fire in u. S. History. Fox weather correspondent max gordon has more for us. No official reason why the fire started, the finger is being pointed at hawaiian electric. They kept electricity on amid high fire and wind danger. They are focused on restoring power in the affected areas. The governor of hawaii ordering an investigation into why the fires started. Take a listen. Ive authorized an extensive review. We will build back together and find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life and bringing the government to alleviate suffering. The local government here limiting access to the town of lahaina, devastated by fire, saying it is unsafe and they are recovering bodies, in one case, entire family of four identified as victims. Curfew is in place running from 10 a. M. To 6 p. M. With access limited to residents and people with hotel residervations. Buildings were destroyed, many houses, so many people without homes
Spending around ten or 20 lower in real terms than it was in 2010. Other parts of the Public Sector are spending more. Finally we need to note that demand for services are going up with the population getting older and growing. Many people have needs they have to have where councils have to provide services. In a sense it has reduced resources and greater demand. And in the end some way will have to be found in National Politics to change the Local Government funding model or get Local Government doing less. To Local Government funding model is very different in other countries. It certainly is. In other countries you have a local income taxes. In scandinavia, famously, norway, sweden and denmark, local income taxes. Even in the united states, more local taxes are available so local decisions are made. Thats another issue. What Local Governments spend is heavily constrained by Central Government, and Central Government has wanted Local Government to cut its spending over time and that
payment rights on the social media platform. to discuss all this i ll be joined by the political analyst and democratic party strategist mary anne marsh and philip rycroft the former permanent secretary at the uk s department for exiting the eu. the bosses of five major tech firms have been testifying at a senate hearing about what they re doing to protect children from online sexual exploitation. the five have faced some fiery questions, with meta boss mark zuckerberg being asked what the hell were you thinking? over an instagram prompt directing users to possible child abuse material. mark zuckerberg and the boss of tiktok voluntarily agreed to testify, but leaders of snap, x formerly twitter and discord initially refused and were sent subpoenas, forcing them to appear. all have hundreds of millions of young users. senators are particularly worried about a rise in reports of explicit images of children being shared, including those created with artificial intelligen
story. it goes on the nhs strike posing a threat to great ormond street, the children s hospital, serious concerns over staffing levels there, and looking ahead to next week s coronation. and the daily telegraph, there is a reference to the story of the bbc chair. gary lineker s tweet, saying, don t let ministers pick the bbc chief. he said the bbc chairman should not be selected by the government of the day, not now, not ever. another story about surgeons operating only once every fortnight. so a busy news week. that s all from us tonight. thank you forjoining us. mark is here on tuesday. till then, have a great bank holiday weekend. goodnight. breaking news from around the world 24 breaking news from around the world 2a hours a day. this is bbc news. yeah, we did not fire the first shot. all the mediators were present. we agreed to sit down at 10 a.m. and sign the final agreement. we were taken by surprise when we found that the country was shut down and all the bridges wer