Now on bbc news, the week in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to the week in parliament. Going anywhere nice for your holidays this year? a health minister has some travel tips. Travelling is dangerous, and that is why we tell people, don t travel. Also in this programme: angry exchanges as labour accuse borisjohnson of breaking the rules. Time and again, ministers act like the rules are for other people none more so than the prime minister himself! a charge rejected by ministers. It is based not on fact, but on speculation,. Innuendo and smear. And social care reform mps are warned it s not only needed for older people. You can fall down the stairs tomorrow and have a serious brain injury at 30 and need lots of care. All that to come, and more. But first, the battle against covid. The health secretary portrays it as a race between the virus and the vaccine. And, with the spread of what s known as the indian variant, it s not always been clear who s winning. The lifting of some c
Welcome to hardtalk. I m stephen sackur. Russia s relations with the west have been poor for some time, but now they ve reached a new level of hostility. Since the imprisonment of russian opposition leader alexei navalny, new sanctions have been imposed by both the us and the eu. The ukraine conflict, allegations of cyber attack and covert operations the list of unresolved issues is growing. My guest is russia s eu ambassador, vladimir chizhov. Is confrontation with the west president putin s strategic choice? ambassador vladimir chizhov in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Ambassador, you ve been in post a long time. I think i m right in saying 16 years. Is this the worst state of russia eu relations that you can remember? well, actually, 15. 5, but never mind. Long enough. I would say that our relations have seen their ups and downs over these years and definitely before that. Now, they are in what i would call an abnormal state. Whether we have a possibility to bottom out
Please don t take corona so lightly. Very bad, very bad symptoms. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. After 11 days of fighting that s claimed the lives of more than 230 palestinians and i2 israelis, a ceasefire in gaza has come into effect. The deal was brokered by egypt and was agreed to by the israeli security cabinet and palestinian it has been described as mutual and unconditional and came into effect at 2am local time. It s reported cairo will send security delegations to israel and the palestinian territories to help uphold the ceasefire. President biden has welcomed the cessation of hostilities, which he said presented an opportunity for progress in the middle east. The united states is committed to working with the united nations and we remain committed to working with the united nations and other international stakeholders to provide rapid humanitarian assistance and a martial international support for the people of gaza and the gazan reconstruction
Israel and the palestinian militant group hamas have agreed an egyptian brokered ceasefire, which came into effect around 30 minutes ago. It brings to an end 11 days of conflict, in which 232 palestinians and i2 israelis have been killed. Israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s office says his security cabinet voted unanimously in favour of a mutual and unconditional gaza truce. But within minutes of the announcements, ahead of the ceasefire, the two sides were trading rockets and strikes. Paul adams has the background to the ceasefire agreement. Israel s security cabinet met for several hours in the course of the evening. At the end of that meeting released a statement which it was said that they unanimously to an egyptian initiative to a bilateral ceasefire without preconditions. They went on to say that they had reviewed israel s great achievements of the campaign, some of which it said were unprecedented. Hamas officials for their part quoted as saying they have secured guarant
mostly at tel aviv. hundreds of people protest in glasgow to try and stop uk immigration enforcement from removing two men. police have agreed to release the men for the time being. and we will be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers this evening, including dawn foster. but is it 10:30 on bbc news. good evening and welcome if you have justjoined us. the prime minister says he is anxious about the spread of the indian coronavirus variant in parts of the uk and says he can t rule anything out. public health england say there are now more than 1,300 cases, up from 520 last week. bolton has one of the highest rates of the indian variant, with most of the infections thought to be among the under 25s. in blackburn with darwen, additional vaccination clinics will be opened up next week though the jab will only be available to those within the current government guidance, which is currently anyone aged over 38. 0ur correspondent dominic hughes reports from bolto