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hi, nick. and i m glad you added that context about the prison line. because i didn t want people to think that i d made an admission of serious wrongdoing and should be behind bars for some crime i ve committed! not yet, you haven t made the admission, but we ve got quite a while to go in this conversation. we ll come to that extraordinary and fascinating background in a second. but what a year you ve had! it must feel like an extraordinary roller coaster. yeah, it has been, and i don t know how you felt when you came back from your experience with cancer, which was far worse than mine. but, especially having a cancer diagnosis at 38, although i was pretty clear from the prognosis that i wasn t going to die, that it had been caught early, that i would have an operation and recover, that time off that i had and that reminder of my own mortality made me think very hard about my life and what i want to do. and the way i want to live my life. and how i would feel if i had ....
rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london from an overdose of drugs. janice joplin was found dead last night. the cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. he was 27. the early years of the 70s in music was sad because you lose people and you lose the beatles. this small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. there will never be another beatles, never. i wonder what i m doing here with no drummers or nothing like that. you might know i lost my old band, or i left it. imagine there s no heaven it s easy if you try for so long you waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped the mus ....
happened a year and a day ago behind us, we still need to reckon with the events of that day and hold those responsible accountable. attorney general merrick garland vowed to take as long as it takes and whatever it takes. he is delivering. the department of justice charged more than 700 members of the trump mob and so far 75 sentenced and 36 receiving jail time including a north carolina woman who brought her 14-year-old son into the capitol on january 6. today virginia spencer was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 36 months probation. the judge said she did not believe spencer understood the significance of her participation and what it means for our democracy. the january 6 select committee is beginning to hold those responsible accountable making it clear that it is interested in speaking with former vice president mike pence but has yet to formally request his voluntary cooperation. the republican vice chair liz cheney acknowledged the committee is examining donald ....
ask pence to appear voluntarily. the panel s chairman, bennie thompson, quote, you could expect that before the month is out. tonight one member of the committee explained why pence s information is critical for their inquiry. he would have, i think, very undoubtedly relevant testimony for us about that pressure campaign. he would be in a better position to speak to it. all the efforts to violate his constitutional duty to count the votes and instead reject votes without basis. as the chairman indicated, we intend to extend that vision fairly soon. so let s hope he ll do the right thing. chairman thompson says they are also focusing more intensely on the role some members of congress played ahead of january 6th. we have information that members hosted people who came to washington on that day in their office. we have information that before the actual certification, people came earlier, were given tours in the capitol. we have pictures of members taken taking pi ....
two former prime ministers back calls for a so called hillsborough law to ensure fairer treatment for bereaved families. and, whatever happened to roly, zammo and gripper? grange hill, a tv staple for 30 years, is being turned into a film. good afternoon. staff absences caused by covid are making hospital care unsafe that s the warning from the main nursing union, the rcn. absences are up more than 40% in a week in england, and about one in eight hospitals are in a critical incident, which means they re struggling to provide core services. the armed forces have been called in to help 200 personnel have been deployed in the capital, with another 1800 around the rest of the uk. our health correspondent katharine da costa reports. like many hospitals, kingston in south west london has been tackling a rise in covid admissions over christmas and a busy a&e. that has been compounded by growing staff absences. 4% of staff here are off work due to covid, and that is having ....