we ll have his report. and the british prime minister has resumed his weekly audiences with the queen, 15 months after they were suspended. where to begin? hello, i m katty kay in washington. christian fraser is in london. britney spears is pop culture royalty. she s on the mount rushmore of modern music. in fact, britney has been famous for longer than most current music stars have even been alive. and yet, for the past 13 years, she s had no control of her career or her health, or many other aspects of her daily life. that s because she s been placed in a legal arrangment called a conservatorship. that s when another party in this case, herfather, jamie takes control of a person s decision making on significant matters. this often comes up with those who have diminished mental or physical capacities. today, in a california court, ms spears s lawyers are set to argue that she does not fit that bill. so, let s cross to the bbc s david willis, who s outside the court. love
as demand in britain forfoodbanks goes up by a third, footballer and campaigner marcus rashford teams up with chef tom kerridge to create cheap, healthy family meals. if i could literally go back as a kid, this is the thing that i d learn to do. as well as, like, do what i was doing with my football and stuff, when i went home, i would have loved to have been able to sit down and just learn to cook. the brit awards ceremony will go ahead next month with a live audience of 4,000, who don t need to wear masks or socially distance, but will have to show a negative coronavirus test. hello and welcome, if you re watching in the uk or around the world. more than 100,000 black and asian service personnel who died fighting for the british empire were not properly commemorated due to pervasive racism that s according to a new report. the commonwealth war graves commission has apologised after it found the troops were not formally remembered in the same way as their white counter
is not a backlog. new data suggests covid cases in england are at their lowest since august but there are concerns about a variant first identified in india. it isa it is a variant of concern. we are anxious about it. it has been spreading. at the moment there is a very wide range of scientific opinion about what could happen. world leaders have appealed for calm amid escalating violence between israelis and palestinians more than 70 have been killed in recent days. the largest tunnelling machine used in a uk rail project starts work under the chiltern hills on the hs2 high speed link. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the former prime minister, david cameron, has told mps he broke no rules in lobbying senior members of the government on behalf of greensill capital. he s been questioned by the treasury committee, which is looking at the collapse of the finance firm. mr cameron told mps his main motivation was to help the government and businesses rather than per