At the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider nhs. The personal stories of more than 30,000 people will form part of the evidence heard over the coming weeks. 0ur Reporterjoe Inwood has more. There was no area of life untouched by the covid 19 pandemic. But what impact did it have on those who risked their lives to save others . Thats The Question being asked by the next stage of the covid Public Inquiry, known as module three, which begins today. It will examine how Health Care workers were impacted, looking at the issue of ppe, at masks and Infection Control, as well as the way that gps and the 111 helpline were used. It will also aim to shed light on the thorny issues of shielding for the most vulnerable, maternity services and end of life care, along with many other areas. The Public Inquiry started injune last year, and is looking at all aspects of the worst pandemic of modern times. This section is set to take ten weeks, and will include 30,000 stories submitted by
Our political correspondent Hannah Miller reports. Were going to have to take the Tough Decisions and take them early. Things will get worse before they get better. So weve had to take Tough Decisions to stabilise the economy. Its already a familiar Refrain Keir Starmer saying hes going to make choices that seem uncomfortable in order to change the country. Top of the list of difficult decisions, targeting the Winter Fuel Payment at only the poorest pensioners. That is not easy, and no Prime Minister wants to take a decision like this, but the Winter Fuel Payments are now to be targeted, they were untargeted before, and i think everybody thought that wasnt a particularly good system. This year, around 10 Million pensioners in england and wales will no longer receive the allowance of up to £300, which the treasury suggests will save around 1. 4 billion. But at their conference in brighton, some Union Leaders are calling for the government to change course. To do this on the Winter Fuel
That her nickname for husband david was goldenballs in 2001. 0ur arts correspondent David Sillito looks back at his life. Dont you get fed up of each other . Oh, yes, yes. I call him golden balls, you know, now. Did you ever say, you dirty rat . Never. Jimmy cagney. Orson welles. Jimmy stewart. These were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. The fact is that youre a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he . Why is that . Well, number one, hes ugly. His interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. He cannot talk. And who told him he could sing . But of all those 2,000 or so guests, one always haunted him. I interviewed everybody from Henry Kissinger to Billy Connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. And im only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. Hes not aggresive Rod Hull And Emu Rather punctured the suave tv persona. I knew we should never have booked it.
rear part how in thailand has legalised marijuana leading the way to all sorts of cannabis creations. live from our studio and singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. israels s prime minister, naftali bennett is to step down from his post and dissolve parliament triggering a fresh election. the current foreign minister, yair lapid, will temporarily take over. mr bennett has been in thejob forjust over a year and has struggled to stabilise his increasingly fragile governing coalition. translation: i held a series of talks with officials - and i realised that in ten days were the expiration of the west bank regulations, israel will experience serious security damages and legal chaos. we spared no efforts to galvanise whomever was needed to pass the regulations, but our efforts bore no fruit. therefore, my friend the foreign minister and i decided to act together to dissolve parliament and set an agreed upon date for elections. for more on the poli