the former health minister nadine dorries becomes the newest culture secretary. a very busy day in downing street. in the latest appointment. much more on all the changes in the next hour. in our other news: a record jump in inflation to 3.2%, the highest level in almost a decade, as the price of food and transportation goes up. government scientific advisers warn there could be a surge in the number of people needing hospital treatment in england for covid. ministers say they re working to avoid that. and to boldly go four amateur astronauts make history as the first all civilian crew to blast off into space. good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. the prime minister is reshuffling his top team of government ministers, as wide ranging changes see some big names leave or move within the cabinet. after a long conversation with the prime minister in downing street, dominic raab has been demoted from the foreign secretary position, becoming justice secretary, with the addition
uprising. and later, california s majestic sequoias have thrived for centuries. now fires and climate change threaten their very existence. good to have you with us. later today, u.s. president joe biden will tour the devastation left by the remnants of hurricane ida in new york and new jersey. he has already approved federal aid for people severely affected by the storm in both states. meantime, flooding still poses a danger for areas of the gulf coast devastated by the hurricane. more rain and storms are in the forecast for a region that s also under a heat advisory. nearly 500,000 utility customers face another day of scorching temperatures without electricity. cnn s martin savidge is following the recovery efforts in new orleans, including a gruesome discovery made by the city s health department. reporter: this is a pod, point of distribution. jefferson parish around near the airport, just outside the city of new orleans. as you can see what happens here is the n
political thinking. a national tragedy, shameful, a staggering failure. britain s biggest foreign policy disaster since suez. that is how my guest has described our withdrawal from afghanistan. he is tom tugendhat former soldier and former adviser to the commander of the helmand province, former adviser to the chief of defence staff. he is now chair of a foreign affairs committee of the house of commons and this is the series in which i have conversations with, not interrogations of, those who shape our political thinking about what shapes theirs. their background, their values, their lives beyond politics. it was precisely that which led mps to listen to tom tugendhat in total silence as he spoke in the commons of his struggle with anger, grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. i ve been to funerals from poole to dunblane, i ve watched good men go into the earth, taking with them a part of me and a part of all of us. and this week has torn open some of those w
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you don t have to look at the stumbling, bumbling performance we can t indoor the last few weeks. he is clearly incapable of carrying out his duty properly. he thinks he went to the synagogue after the mass shooting but it was a phone call a year later. they have to tell him where he is in facing with reporters to call on and if he can t run his own press conference and around the country. the people around biden know how bad it is but the last thing that they will do is invoke the 25th amendment. a week puppet who signs whatever they put in front of him perfect. that is the point of biden. biden s mental incapacity is not a bug, it s a feature, it is why he is there, 46 members of congress think biden should resign and of course he should anyone with the slightest decency or responsibility if they ve done this much damage to the reputation and authority of the country they would ve resign by now but we know biden won t he s a vein health inflating machine politician plotting