live from buckingham palace, this is bbc news. welcome this is bbc news. to a rather rainy and chilly day welcome to a rather rainy and chilly day here, but it is a significant day. in the next hour, the princess of wales will make her first public appearance since she was diagnosed with cancer, and that is at today s trooping the colour, the military parade which celebrate the king s fund birthday. the princess will be in the carriage parade with her children for the king s birthday celebrations, beforejoining the rest of the family on the baclony at buckingham palace. a new photo of the princess from the palace. taken close to her home in windsor, a place where she has been able to rest, recuperate, and spend time with her family. it marks the first significant announcement about catherine s health since she announced her cancer diagnosis in march. my work has always brought me a deep sense ofjoy and i look forward to being back when i m able. but for now i must focus on m
as before the middle of august. and what if that doesn t happen? huh? what if that doesn t happen? we re going to be in a civil war because the militia will be taking over. the washington post has reported about the sort of toxic mix of, you know, the pandemic, fallout from that and just this rage and angst in the public, has created these misinformation sort of boomlets all across the country, armed groups, trump supporters, anti-vaccine mobs, government skeptics, conspiracy theorists. they re suddenly all protesting the same things on the same side. trumpism seems to pull all that together. is there something about our culture, american culture, that makes us more prone to this particular kind of conspiracy-laden cruelty? i don t know if there s a thing about our culture in particular. i think maybe arguably the first fake news scare in the united states was during reconstruction there were newspapers, democratic-aligned newspapers who said the ku klux klan didn t