Virtual bafta awards hosted in london, breaking records from representation. representation. Recognised by british people representation. Recognised by british people known representation. Recognised by british people known as representation. Recognised by british people known as very l british people known as very snobbish people and they approved me with actors? i m very, very privileged. Hello, and welcome to the programme. Queen elizabeth has said the loss of her husband, the duke of edinburgh, has left a huge void in her life, according to their second son, the duke of york. Prince andrew, princess anne, and prince edward have been speaking about what he meant to them. Remembrance services for the duke of edinburgh took place around the uk, including canterbury cathedral. Our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. On a day of pause and reflection, prayers for the duke were said in many church services. And after the service at the chapel of all saints in windsor great
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello. I m shaun ley. Welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk journalists, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who file their stories from the dateline london. This week, 70 years of soft power. How prince philip utilised his status to project and protect. And empty chairs and absent ones how to interpret a week of diplomatic signals. With me to discuss all that, thomas kielinger, who s spent decades in this country explaining the uk to germans, including the monarchy, with his biographies of both queens called elizabeth. Bronwen maddox, a former newspaper foreign editor, now director of the institute for government, a think tank which tries to improve the way government works. And here in the studio with me, james landale, the bbc s diplomatic correspondent. Good to have you with us as well, james. Now, we ll begin with the death on friday of prince philip. Greek by birth, a royal who became a refugee, as republics emer
time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. i m showing you the signs of spring, simon, but interspersed with the sunny spells we have showers today and it s a rather unsettled picture over the coming few days as well. we ve got the scattered showers around as well as the sunny spells. some areas faring better for sunshine than others. the showers are more numerous across northern and western are more numerous gci’oss northern and western areas are more numerous across northern and western areas and we ve recently had showers here in london, if you are stepping out for a bit of exercise. so through the rest of the afternoon sunny spells, showers, pretty much as it is at the moment but it s relatively mild. we ve got temperatures 10 14 c, just a smidgen above where they should be for this time of year, feeling pleasant in the spring sunshine. but change is afoot and as we go through the evening and overnight we keep the showers. they merge in the north to a longer
government is investing in now and we are taking the tough decisions necessary. statutory sick pay is worth £3 a week less in real terms compared to at the start of the pandemic and millions of workers are being forced to choose between isolating or putting food on the table. in germany, 100% of workers salaries are covered by sick pay, whereas in the uk it is a pitiful 19%. so, i asked the prime minister if he thought earning £250,000 from his second job was chickenfeed, how on earth does he expect working people to survive on £96 a week when they get sick? and if he agrees that many lives and livelihoods could be saved by increasing sick pay, will he commit here and now to raising it to the level of the real living wage? mr speaker, i thank the honourable gentleman, of course, as he knows one of the first things we did when covid struck was to make sure that statutory sick pay was payable from day one, so it is up to 75% more generous if you need to self isolate. and th