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appropriately, from the artificial intelligence summit at bletchley park. the other big story this week, though, has been the quite eye popping testimony at the public inquiry into how the government handled various phases of the covid epidemic. and, i mean, it has massively, massively taken me back to those scary, uncertain days in early spring 2020. and i spent a lot of those days sat in this very studio and the person sat across from me and being very reassuring at all times was laura k, who s back in the studio. not in the studio. no, i m not. but i m logistically distanced today, not socially distanced. and i m very pleased to hear that i was reassuring back in those early days of march 2020. you were one of the only people i saw! well, i m pleased. well, it was very nice. we were a tiny little band of people, carrying on, trying to do ourjobs as everybody wondered what on earth was going on. and it s been a very strange experience watching this, hasn t it? because ....
israel confirms its jets attacked a refugee camp in the north of gaza, saying it killed a senior hamas commander responsible for the murder and kidnapping of israelis on october 7th. a doctor has told the bbc that 120 people were killed and hundreds have been injured. three weeks into this war, yet more anguish for the civilians of gaza. the israeli military says the strike destroyed a network of tunnels it claims hamas built under the jabalia camp and says hamas is using civilians as human shields. we ll talk live to action aid, who say one of their team s mother, father, brother and sisters were all killed in the strike. and we ll ask a former us general whether washington s support for israel is open ended and unconditional. also tonight: unfit to respond to the challenges of the pandemic, completely unable to make decisions borisjohnson s top advisers during covid say their old boss was chaotic and dithering. are their claims of the scale of such incompetence wo ....
Be there in the inquiry room, listening to this investigator. we should reiterate, he isjust one of several investigators, stephen bradshaw, but he is being called a significant witness by this inquiry. in terms of what else we are going to be hearing about, there is going to be hearing about, there is going to be hearing about, there is going to be a very important week next week when we hear from fujitsu. to be a very important week next week when we hearfrom fujitsu. that is the company that was responsible for designing and implementing this horizon it system. there will be executives giving evidence. that will be incredibly important because, clearly, there has been a lot of questioning aboutjust how accountable is this company now for what has been going on? is there possibly. some people have been calling for financial sanctions against the company. and there have been, you know, a lot of questions about what fujitsu knew about the system. frankly, just how open, how honest some ....
With some holes in it. sir wyn s taking a big interest in compensation here in this inquiry room. some fear it s becoming a scandal within a scandal, from victims being taxed on their awards to money being used to pay bankruptcy debts, to delays, and a looming deadline for the government s new scheme. today s recommendations aim to fix this. sir wyn williams has taken the gloves off, and he has told the post office, the part of the business, that he will tolerate no more delay, obfuscation or obstacles in the path of compensation. | well, let s turn now to the ceo | of the post office, nick read. today, he told the bbc he welcomed today s report, and they re working as fast as they can. i think what has become extremely apparent is the scale and complexity of this is more than we thought, and much more than we thought. seema s just desperate to get what she s owed, to buy her own house and finally put the nightmare behind her. ....
Seema misra was wrongly prosecuted for stealing from her post office. she was pregnant when sent to prison in 2010. financially, we lost everything. we lost the business, we lost the property in london. there is no price tag to it. her conviction is now quashed, but she is still waiting for her full compensation. it s getting urgent now. i m scared, to be honest, i m really, really scared. fighting the post office was a torture, and getting the compensation is really torture. i don t have any faith left in the way it s been dealt with. the chair of the public inquiry isn t happy how things are going either. what has emerged is a patchwork quilt of compensation schemes, and unfortunately, it is a patchwork quilt with some holes in it. sir wyn is taking a big interest in compensation here in this inquiry room. ....