it. george floyd. as many as half a million workers go on strike, across the uk, the biggest day of industrial action, in over a decade. the funeral of the controversial australian cardinal george pell begins in sydney shortly. the fbi search president biden s home in delaware as part of their investigation into his handling of classified documents. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the us, where the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29 year old black man who died after being beaten by police, has taken place. the us vice president kamala harris was among the thousands attending the service at mississippi boulevard christian church, in memphis, tennessee. following tyre nichols s death, five officers, all of them black, were charged with murder. several other police officers and emergency staff have also been fired in recent days. our north america editor sarah smith was at the service. # you lift me up. the grief was over
It. george floyd. as many as half a million workers go on strike, across the uk, the biggest day of industrial action, in over a decade. the funeral of the controversial australian cardinal george pell begins in sydney shortly. the fbi search president biden s home in delaware as part of their investigation into his handling of classified documents. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the us, where the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29 year old black man who died after being beaten by police, has taken place. the us vice president kamala harris was among the thousands attending the service at mississippi boulevard christian church, in memphis, tennessee.
To say that george pell was controversial in life and in death those controversies have not faded to talk through what people have been saying? cardinal george pell was an extremely polarising figure here in australia. fix, was an extremely polarising figure here in australia. here in australia. a former archbishop here in australia. a former archbishop of here in australia. a former archbishop of sydney - here in australia. a former archbishop of sydney and l here in australia. a former - archbishop of sydney and melbourne he became a senior economic adviser to the pope to his detractors he was a man who ignored child sexual abuse in the church. as early as the 19705. in the church. as early as the 1970s. in in the church. as early as the 19705. in 2018 in the church. as early as the 1970s. in 2018 cardinal pell was convicted of abusing two boys in a cathedral in melbourne in the 1990s. he spent more than four days in prison before those convictions were overturned by australia
We want to be teaching. we love teaching the young people, but the government aren t listening. we ve got people leaving the public sector in droves, and ultimately we need people to deliver those services. if millions of people are inconvenienced today, as they are, that s worth it, is it? i mean, that s the point of the strike. the point of a strike is to inconvenience. both sides remain miles apart in so many of these disputes. there is every prospect of more days like this. chris mason, bbc news. more on the bbc website on that story. the funeral of the australian cardinal george pell begins in sydney shortly. cardinal pell died last month aged 81, after heart complications arising from hip surgery. at one point he was the third most powerful figure in the vatican but was also controversial. he spent 13 months injail for abusing two boys while archbishop of melbourne in the 1990s before the conviction was quashed. and a landmark inquiry found
Walter wally in north carolina. summer arrives in march. by the way, on the internets, paranoid punxsutawney pete says we ll have six more weeks of intrigue. sydney, australia, hello. we go behind the news for the real newsroom no-no. during an afternoon broadcast, a of sydney s channel 7 news, a financial analyst for the mochrey bank was on to discuss reserve bank interest rates. except the guy in the upper left there, he was not interested in interest rates. he was using his workstation to view soft core pornography. viewers paying extremely close attention saw him check out a seminude woman during his colleague s news report. it s been brought to the attention of the bank mcment. who said they re dealing with the issue internally. and the woman has been brought to the attention of fox news manager. we ll see her on the air next tuesday. the president on the road again trying to radicalize this nation by the forced imposition of democracy, next.