Scotland, wales and Northern Ireland to look at the restrictions in the rest of the United Kingdom. Good Afternoon And Welcome to bbc news, building up to the latest Coronavirus Briefing from the government, today led by the Prime Minister borisjohnson. Its been confirmed that the planned easing of restrictions in england will go ahead next monday on the 19th Ofjuly. In the House Of Commons a short time ago, the Health Secretary Sajid javid said that while cases could rise to as many as 100,000 a day, it isnt expected that Infection Rates will put unsustainable pressure on the nhs. So lets Take A Look at the restrictions which will end a week today. The rule of six rule for meeting indoors will be scrapped. Pubs and restaurants will be able to let People Queue at the barfor drinks. Theatres and cinemas can return to a full capacity audience. Sport and Entertainment Venues can also welcome back capacity crowds, but businesses and large events will be encouraged to use so called vaccine
Over racial justice in the United States. Formerpolice Officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. It is, now, 2 00 a. M. In surfside, florida. Just over48 hours, since part of a Highrise Condo Building collapsed into a massive pile of rubble. Rescue teams are working, right through the night, again. Desperately, searching for scores of people, still, unaccounted for. Now, at least four people have, now, been confirmed dead. And the whereabouts of 159 others are unknown. Now, part of the 12story towers came crashing down in the middle of the night in this tightknit time, just north of miami beach. Its, still, not clear what could have possibly caused this disaster. Search efforts have been hampered by smoke, fire, rain, you name it. Making an alreadydifficult task, even more challenging. Cnn spoke to miamidades firerescue chief, who has a message for those waiting for news of Loved Ones. You got to have hope. And were doing everyth
Now on bbc news, its time for wednesday in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament. As Labour Demand a full inquiry into links between ministers and lobbyists. Dodgy contracts, privileged access, jobs for their mates this is the return of tory sleaze. With civil servants dragged into the row, borisjohnson admits there is a problem. I, indeed, share the widespread concern about some of the stuff we are reading at the moment, mr speaker. Also in this programme how to make your point at Prime Ministers questions silently. But first its almost five years since David Cameron left downing street, but the former pm dominated Prime Ministers questions. The fall out from his work with the Finance Firm Greensill capital lobbying Government Ministers for access to a covid Loans Scheme continues to fill the front pages. The firm, which was the main lender to liberty steel, has collapsed, possibly putting thousands ofjobs at risk. But David Cameron says hes not broken any ru
world questions. this is the bbc world service. i am amol rajan, and welcome to world questions. this is the programme which brings together questions from the public around the world and puts them to the experts. for this edition, we re looking at information and misinformation. how have the big institutions, governments, health organisations and the media informed and misinformed us about the pandemic? and has the rise of what is sometimes described as fake news, though there are reasons to be cautious about that term, of course, impeded the battle against the spread of covid 19? i m joined remotely via zoom by a panel of leading journalists, academics, health experts and a representative from one of the big social media companies, who will take questions from members of the public, from all corners of the globe. let me introduce you to our panel. from new york, zeynep tufekci is with us. she is a technosociologist who has written extensively about covid 19 and won plaudits