This week we are reporting from across the uk asking about life through the pandemic and asking how your community and your business has been affected. Today i am in somerset. Let us go straight to manchester. As everyone knows, a suicide bomber evaded the security outside the arena and detonated his bombjust as the concert was coming to an end, killing 22 people and injuring many more. It should not be necessary to have security to protect us from murderers but while the terror threat remains and shows no sign of going away we do need to have in place protective measures which provides security against threats but do not prevent as enjoying the freedoms that are part of our way of life. The enquiry has examined in detail the security provision against terrorist attacks at the manchester arena on 22nd may 2017. I heard evidence from a 53 witnesses over a period of 32 days, lasting 154 hours, and considered over 1000 documents. For many of those witnesses, giving evidence was a very str
of his downing street flat insisting there isn t anything to see here . and, lift off for the first part of china s permanent space station the rest will follow in several instalments. hello and welcome whether you re watching in the uk or around the world. stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. we start in the us, where presidentjoe biden is marking his 100th day in office by attending a drive in rally in georgia. this is the scene live in duluth, mr biden s first stop on a tour to urge americans to support his $4 trillion dollar plan to rebuild america s economy, what he s described as a once in a generation investment plan. he outlined the ambitious agenda to a joint session of congress on wednesday night. much of it would be paid for by tax rises for corporations and the wealthy. republicans have dismissed the proposals as socialist dreams and he ll face a battle to get them through congress. we ll hear a little of what mr bid
hospital leaders warn the prime minister not to ease lockdown in england until services are less stretched. they say it may take another six weeks. good morning. what is the future of hard cash? with more people using contactless payments, there are calls on the government to protect access to coins and notes for the most vulnerable. back to their best in budapest. a much needed win for liverpool in the champions league gives an elated jurgen klopp the advantage after a difficult few weeks for the club. after thousands respond to the case of the mountain rescue volunteer badly injured helping two people who broke lockdown, we look at the couragous work of the teams. today we had band of rain moving west to east, clearing most but lingering in some areas, but i did sunshine and showers and a mild but windy day. it s wednesday the 17th of february. our top story. the family of captain sir tom moore have spoken for the first time about his final days before his death two weeks a