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also this hour who ewe looking at? how sheep can be trained to recognise a familiar face from a photo including barak 0bama and the bbc‘s fiona bruce. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the future of the international development secretary, priti patel, is in doubt after details emerged of further undisclosed meetings she had with israeli politicians. ms patel is currently flying back from africa, after being ordered to return to the uk by the prime minister. she apologised to theresa may on monday about unauthorised meetings with israeli politicians in august, but it appears she did not reveal details of further meetings held in september. joining us from westminster is our assistant political editor norman smith. is there any course of action open to theresa may other than to sack priti patel? it is very hard to see any other outcome, all the signs are priti patel, when she landed back in london, will be summoned to meet the prime minister, and she will ....
are slowing the spread of this virus. i want to pay a special tribute today to captain tom moore who at the age of 99 has raised over £7 million so far for nhs charities by completing 100 laps of his garden. captain tom, you are an inspiration to us all and we thank you. at the core of our plan is to protect the nhs from being overwhelmed. so that its ability to ca re overwhelmed. so that its ability to care for everybody who needs that ca re care for everybody who needs that care is always there and is never outmatched by the ability of the virus to do us harm. that is central to our plan and i m glad to say that the spare capacity in critical care in the nhs today has reached a new record high of 2657 beds. expanding the nhs faster than the growth in demand has been a critical objective throughout this crisis, and it means that every single person who has access to nhs care has been able to get the very best available. at no point has the nhs been unable to offer ca ....
'Why do so many of us walk around with a palpable sense that something has gone fundamentally wrong,' wondered a speaker at the recent National Conservatism conference in the UK. Just how wrong and how disenchanted will become clear on July 4, when Britons go to the polls in Rishi Sunak's surprise election ....