should there be? laura clancy, author of running the family firm, is also here. but we ll start with dan walker, one of the big beasts of breakfast tv. he spent six years fronting the nation s most popular early morning television show. those 3am alarms must feel likejust a bad dream now, because on monday, he starts his new role at channel 5. dan walker, welcome to the media show. why did you make the move? well, it had nothing to do with the 3am start, although i am even though i ve stopped doing breakfast now for a couple of weeks, i am still waking up occasionally at that time in the morning. poor you. i think it takes a while to sort the body clock out. i think it isjust, if i m honest, just opportunity. i think channel 5 came and had a chat and sort of said in the nicest possible way, we want you. and they said, we don t want you to just do the news. we d like you to come and have a set number of hours every year of your contract to come and make tv for us. and i ve got
and improving patient safety by making doctors and nurses working night shifts take short power naps. hello. thanks for joining hello. thanks forjoining us. four days of non stop celebration to mark queen elizabeth s 70 years on the throne have come to a close with the queen greeting a huge crowd from the balcony of buckingham palace. a special pageant, with more than 10,000 participants, including the military, stars of entertainment and key workers, filed down the mall and past the palace. sir cliff richard and ed sheeran were among the celebrities taking part. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell was watching. cheering the closing moments of a memorablejubilee celebration. back on to the palace balcony came the queen accompanied by prince charles and the duchess of cornwall and the cambridges. 0ne current and three future monarchs, charles, william, and george. it was the image which the crowd had been hoping to see, an image which emphasises the institution s continu
the eastern city of chittagong. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. the queen has expressed her hope that her platinum jubilee celebrations will focus on what brings us together, on what unites us, not what divides us. my guest on the programme has had to spend much of her career worrying about exactly the opposite, about extremism and how to counter it. she is dame sara khan. herjob now is the government s independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience. before that, she was the country s first counter extremism commissioner. born and raised in bradford to pakistani parents, she once said, there is something going horribly wrong within muslim communities. we need to have an open and honest debate about that. words which won her praise from some, but criticism from many within her own community, who said that she was fuelling rather than countering some of the prejudices about muslim people, and in partic
handed over to kyiv. in bangladesh exploding chemical containers hamper efforts to extinguish a huge fire at a storage depot. and how a power nap could save lives. latest research points to the risks for patients from medical staff working night shifts. four days of non stop celebration to mark queen elizabeth s 70 years on the throne have come to a close with the queen greeting a huge crowd from the balcony of buckingham palace. a special pageant, with more than 10,000 participants, including the military, stars of entertainment, key workers and representatives from the commonwealth, filed past the palace. nicholas witchell, was watching. cheering the closing moments of a memorablejubilee celebration. back on to the palace balcony, came the queen accompanied by prince charles and the duchess of cornwall and the cambridges. 0ne current and three future monarchs, charles, william, and george. it was the image which the crowd had been hoping to see, an image which emphasises
officials say the fire has killed at least 49 people and injured hundreds near the eastern city of chittagong. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the journalists from overseas who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline london. this week, as this country marks the 70 year long reign of queen elizabeth, what future for queens and kings here and globally? from king mswati, who s used his absolute power to rename his country eswatini, to the imperial family ofjapan gods made mortal by an occupying power. from the often absent thai monarch to king felipe of spain, embarrassed by his dad. in the studio thisjubilee weekend are catherine pepinster, whose new book defenders of the faith addresses one of the reasons this queen does not contemplate retirement and her faith. yasmin alibhai brown, a british columnist who is a committed republican, and henry chu from the la times in the unit