is one of the richest heads of state in the world he s claimed his daughter is in the loving care of her family. still waiting for a vaccine the radio presenterjo whiley speaks of her fears for her sister frances who has learning difficulties and diabetes after a covid outbreak at her care home. they ll make the situation changed because she has tested positive and i cannot believe it. it s like being in a bad movie and every day there is another plot twist and it s worse than the one before. diversity the final frontier as the european space agency goes recruiting for new astronauts. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the number of people in england being asked to shield to protect themselves from coronavirus infection is to be expanded. the government is recommending an extra 1.7 million people be added to the 2.3 million already on the list. half the group have not yet been vaccinated, so will now be prioritised by their local gps. in other developments toda
donald trump was president. vote for me, joe biden told us, and i will shut down covid. i will put in place a plan to deal with the pandemic. i don t shut down the economy. but i will shut down the virus. i am going to shut down the virus! pa i am going to shut down the virus. i will put in place a plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly bringing this country together with testing, tracing, and masking. i mn not going to shut down the country. i will shut down the virus. will: it would be a bit of an understatement to say a yer into his first term, joe biden has not done any of that. as of yesterday, according to the cdc, there have been over 816,000 americans who have died of the coronavirus. at the start of the year, that number was more than 364,000. that means in 2021, under joe biden, more americans have died of covid banded and all of 2022, when donald trump was president. joe biden has not shut down covid because he cannot shut down covid. neither can
who was stabbed to death last month. the home office is to tell councils across the uk to find accommodation for some of the unaccompanied children who have come over from france in small boats. good morning. a controversial change to the way people pay for social care in england has been narrowly backed by mps, despite warnings that poorer households could end up paying disportionately more. the prime minister has insisted the new cap would still be incredibly generous , but a number of his own mps still voted against trhe plans our political correspondent helen catt reports. the cost of paying for care can be high. for some families it can wipe out nearly everything they ve saved for. the government says its plan will stop that, but critics say not for everyone. it won the vote last night, but the result was tight. the ayes to the right, 272. the noes to the left, 246. so the ayes have it, the ayes have it. under the plan, if someone has a house worth £120,000, they ll st
now on bbc news, we have a special edition of witness history to mark cop26. hello, and welcome to this special edition of witness history with me, claire marshall. we re in the gardens of london s environmental college, capel manor. this time, we re getting first hand accounts of some important moments in environmental history. coming up, the man who fed the world as crop pioneer norman borlaug was called. how saddam hussein ordered the destruction of iraq s great marshes. and we hear about the fight to escape a neighbourhood built on 20,000 tons of toxic waste. but we start here in the uk, which was one of the first countries in europe to ban lead from petrol in cars. the move followed a successful campaign showing the lead was poisoning children and leaving them permanently brain damaged. witness history spoke to doctor robin russell jones from the campaign for lead free air. chanting. lead free petrol now! i am protesting against this company because the lead in the petro
adjustments. she as anyone else with some reasonable adjustments- adjustments. she said, didn t she? there is nothing adjustments. she said, didn t she? there is nothing wrong adjustments. she said, didn t she? there is nothing wrong with - adjustments. she said, didn t she? there is nothing wrong with being i there is nothing wrong with being deaf. it is such a joy to be there. what she did last night was, it is that old adage, isn t it? you don t know until you walk in someone else s shoes and she certainly put us all through that last night. that is absolutely us all through that last night. twat is absolutely right. i think that last was actually, for the human world, to get a glimpse of the world through the experience of someone who is deaf and what i personally felt, looking at it, was quite how beautiful and graceful the dances in the kind of still calm moment of silence and to be able to see it through that as a human person i thought was incredibly moving and