With nick robinson. 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 a former soldier and adviser to the government, former adviser to the chief of defence staff. It is now chair of a foreign affairs committee at 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 backgrounds, their lives, beyond politics. It was precisely that which led mps to listen to him in total silence as he spoke in the commons others struggle with anger, grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. I grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. unfold in kabul. I been to funerals across the unfold in kabul. I been to funerals across the world unfold in kabul. I been to funerals across the world and unfold in kabul. I been to funerals acros
over 100 million scans have already been done and thousands of doctors have been trialling the tool whilst it applies for widescale approvals. but to get a second opinion and one from an actual doctor i drafted in clare gerada, gp and former chair of the royal college of general practitioners. so under your skin, you ve got millions of very small blood vessels and what this technology will be doing, no doubt, is actually pinning one of those down and picking up these various indices. another smartphone based solution could be this. lmd s tiny device can track your blood pressure just by holding your finger down on it. its sensors track the pressure that you are putting on, along with what the vessels look like under the skin. but the eventual aim is to have this built in to mobile phones. when you measure your blood pressure with a normal cuff round your arm what that does is squeeze and compress the arm against the pressure of the blood. we do exactly the same, excep
hello this is bbc news with maryam moshiri. the headlines. the government calls for a reset in relations with the eu following a row over the supply of vaccines and the now abandoned attempt to override part of the brexit agreement. i think the european union recognise that they made a mistake in triggering article 16, which would have meant the re imposition of a border on the island of ireland. the prime minister publishes an open letter to parents, saying he s in awe of the way they re coping with home schooling. confusion over coronavirus rules in maternity wards midwives warn a lack of clarity means some staff are being abused. five men have been arrested following a disturbance at a former military barracks in kent, being used to house hundreds of asylum seekers. now on bbc news. from civil war to the pandemic, 2020 was a deadly year for the syrian province of idlib. our world follows two syrian doctors brought face to face with life and death. even before coron
she s someone s relative. this is something precious that we re holding and we re trying to do. my wife lost her fight for life. nobody wants to go through this. i wouldn t wish this on anybody. the coronavirus pandemic has hit the united kingdom hard. i think the public want to do the right thing, but i don t feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. this is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. so we re now going to run into a problem because we haven t got any beds. we ve got patients on 12 floors in total. we ve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and more as the patients arrive. now, i know he is quite sick. he could die from this, by the way i m sorry to say that. i m trapped in a cave - and the water is slowly rising. i m barely keeping - my head above water. people just dying and dying and dying, you know?
the european commission had attempted to block vaccine exports to northern ireland which could have led to checks on the irish border but reversed the decision. the commission made a mistake. they didn t consult us or ourfriends in dublin, and they united parties in northern ireland, from sinn fein on one side to the dup on the other, in condemnation. as the world health organisation calls for a global approach to the pandemic, we assess how the vaccine is being rolled out here in the uk and across the world. and champions exeter are back to winning ways in rugby union s premiership, but they re pushed close by worcester. good evening. the government says the european commission recognises it made a mistake threatening to impose controls on the export of coronavirus vaccines from the eu into northern ireland. it was a decision that could have seen checks on its border with the republic of ireland. the move which was reversed late last night came amidst a deepening row