the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament as borisjohnson sets out his plan to reopen england, slowly easing lockdown between now and the end ofjune. a wretched year will give way to a spring and a summer that will be very different and incomparably better than the picture we see around us today. labour says this has to be the last shutdown and welcomes the data driven approach. i m glad the prime minister spoke today of caution, of this being irreversible, of assessing the data and following the evidence. those are the right guiding principles. the education secretary announces that teachers will grade exams in england this summer. young people will be ablel to look forward to the next stage of their lives with confidence. . but labour thinks he could have acted sooner. i can t help wondering why he only trusts teachers when there s a chance to make them responsible for what happens with exams, rather than his department. and the lords speaker annou
now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament, as borisjohnson sets out his plan to reopen england slowly easing lockdown between now and the end ofjune. a wretched year will give way to a spring and a summer that will be very different and incomparably better than the picture we see around us today. labour says this has to be the last shutdown and welcomes the data driven approach. i m glad the prime minister spoke today of caution, of this being irreversible, of assessing the data and following the evidence. those are the right guiding principles. the education secretary announces that teachers will grade exams in england this summer. young people will be ablel to look forward to the next stage of their lives with confidence. . but labour thinks he could have acted sooner. i can t help wondering why he only trusts teachers when there s a chance to make them responsible for what happens with exams, rather than his department. and the lo
and wales, and could even seen some fogginess for the central belt of scotland, parts of northern ireland, too. where skies are clear, then temperatures will be sub zero, so, some frost will greet us for monday morning, but it will also be quite grey and misty, foggy and murky for many places, certainly for england and wales. i think the low cloud will tend to break up as we move through the day. some good sunshine across the far south and across northern and western areas, could stay quite grey and chilly crossed some eastern coastal areas of both england and also scotland. double figure values in the sunshine, chilly where we have the cloud. could see a few showers across southern parts around the middle part of the week, otherwise it s dry and turning chilly by the end of the week. thank you hel thank you lo, this is bbc news. the headlines. the chancellor plans a £5 billion grant scheme in england to support high street businesses hard hit by covid 19. free rapid covid t
to lawyer alan dershowitz, who was part of president trump s first impeachment team that s coming up in hardtalk. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government has insisted that its new travel measures will protect the public from variants of covid 19. air corridors are being closed on monday, meaning visitors to the uk will have to quarantine. there ve been fresh calls from the travel sector for suport to help the industry survive. here s our business correspondent, katy austin. last summer, they were seen as a lifeline for travel businesses, keeping people going on holiday. travel corridors mean people coming into the uk from a certain list of countries don t have to quarantine upon arrival. right now, though, we re being told to stay home and the system is being suspended. to protect us against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains, we will also temporarily close all travel corridors from 0a:00 hrs on monday. that means arrivals from anywhere will have to
kebabs, the lamb for the first time in decades. tte: kebabs, the lamb burgers, the koftas of the people of the united states will be supplied at last by britain and a fantasticjuicy cuts of welsh bmb and a fantasticjuicy cuts of welsh lamb and everything else. a high court injunction to stop the protestors who ve been causing chaos on the m25 they could now face imprisonment. in deep water a warning many of our swimming pools could close by the end of the decade without urgent modernisation. hello and welcome to bbc news. the government is warning that hype gas prices will be here for some time to come. the business secretary, kwasi kwarteng, said today we have to prepare for longer term high prices . only a few days ago, the prime minister said the current crisis caused by the rising cost of wholesale gas was temporary . meanwhile, it s been revealed the government could pay tens of millions of pounds to an american owned company to help it restart production of carbon