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will be held at windsor castle on saturday there ll be just 30 in the congregation and a minute s silence across the uk. in other news. activists in myanmar say dozens of people died in a military crackdown at a protest in the city of bago. the irish prime minister warns that northern ireland must not go back to its sectarian past after another night of violence. the duke of edinburgh is to be buried in windsor on saturday. he died on friday at the age of 99. because of coronavirus restrictions, his funeral will take place within the grounds of windsor castle, with no public processions but it will be televised. the palace has said prince harry will attend but his wife meghan, who is pregnant, has been advised by her doctors not to travel. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. at midday in the capital cities of the four nations of the united kingdom, 41 gun salutes sounded in tribute to the duke. fire! fire. and for a man who served in the royal nav ....
hello, and welcome to dateline london the programme which brings together international correspondents filing from the uk with the best of bbc expertise. i m geeta guru murthy. this week, we ask what is britain s role in the world? with a huge moment of change as we battle a global pandemic, and brexit has become real, there is renewed interest in what the uk s international future looks like. a new government report, called global britain, focuses on the indo pacific suggesting closer ties with india, japan and australia. what does this mean for the relationship with china? a question faced at the moment by president biden. meanwhile, nations all over the world continue to grapple with their vaccination programmes. what do the diplomatic skirmishes over covid tell us about where power lies today? with me are isobel hilton, founder of china dialogue, jeffrey koffman, a us canadian journalist and formerly war correspondent for abc news, and the bbc s chief internatio ....
wales and northern ireland millions of people take part in the census. the anniversary of dr martin luther king s march from selma in alabama to the state capital in montgomery. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk government is facing questions about whether or not people can plan for foreign holidays, especially to european destinations, over the summer. the cabinet minister, ben wallace, has insisted that the uk needs to preserve the gains of its covid 19 vaccination campaign at all costs . more than half of all adults in the uk have now received their first coronavirus vaccine. but there is concern about the threat of imported cases, as areas of continental europe face a third wave of infections, as john mcmanus reports. it s been a record breaking week in the uk, at least as far as covid vaccines are concerned. on friday, more than 711,000 doses were administered to the public. that means more than half of the uk s adult pop ....
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us house of representatives has just voted to pass presidentjoe biden s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill. the cash would be extended as emergency financial aid to households, small businesses and state governments. unemployment in the us is close to 10%, with some ten million jobs lost in the pandemic. the vote comes in the same week the us passed 500,000 coronavirus related deaths the largest figure of any nation in the world. the republicans who say it is too expensive had fought to get it defeated in committees. 0ur washington correspondent lebo diseko sent us this update. it s not a surprise that this bill has passed in the house. democrats hold a majority there and it was just a simple majority that was needed to get it through. the real battle will come in the senate. democrats are using a special process called budgetary reconciliation and it means that there are two in the senate it ....