what did you do for colleagues who were leaving when the country was in lockdown? @vicderbyshire on tiktok, twitter and instagram. the uk s withdrawal from afghanistan was a disaster and a betrayal , according to an inquiry conducted by mps. images china doesn t want you to see hacked data passed to the bbc shows the detention and indoctrination of uyghur muslims. all police officers in england and wales are to be given anti racism training as part of plans to tackle discrimination. and spanning over 100 kilometres from reading to essex, the elizabeth crossrail line finally opens more than three years later than scheduled. the met police are facing fresh questions after photos emerged of the prime minister drinking at a gathering in downing street during lockdown. but this is an event that borisjohnson was not fined for attending. it happened in november 2020 at a time when indoor social mixing was banned in england. a report into such gatherings by the senior civil
the police close their inquiry. in total 83 people have been penalised. millions of tonnes of grain stuck in ukraine, as the un warns of a globalfood crisis if exports don t resume. this crop is due to be harvested in just over a month s time, but the farmers here still have no idea where they re going to store it or how they re going to get it out of the country. music: chariots of fire main theme and the film score that mesmerised millions its composer vangelis has died at the age of 79. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel: mcilroy sets the pace a storming start to the pga championship in oklahoma sees him on five under after his first round. good evening. we start tonight with the story of an mi5 agent accused of violent abuse and threats to kill his partner, whose identity has been protected by the security services and the government. the spy who s not british is said to have terrorised his partner while also threatening to sexually abuse and kill
Unreasonable eu is demanding of us, and this time the key number is 8 billion, but we have had numbers in the millions and billions, this is not a particularly new story. What is new is that there are now reports that this is being considered as pa rt that this is being considered as part of the negotiation on the british side to help us get the transitional deal which i think will probably make some Hard Brexiteers very upset, that we will continue paying the eu bill until 2020. There isa paying the eu bill until 2020. There is a case that this is money we committed. The eu Budget Frameworks are seven years so committed. The eu Budget Frameworks are seven years so this is money that was allocated to these projects. It is definitely showing that one of our key Negotiating Chips is going to be our contributions. We have the money, they need the money. So i think you can put a fairly positive spin on this. So it will be about the bill versus the trade deal we get as a result . It will be
Month later. he could have forgotten, he could not have remembered what happened on november 13, 2020 or he could have remembered and still said there was no party because he did not believe it was a party, it was a work leaving do, he was on his way to his flat and he popped in. was on his way to his flat and he popped in- was on his way to his flat and he - in. , popped in. reasonable? somebody will have to make popped in. reasonable? somebody will have to make up popped in. reasonable? somebody will have to make up their popped in. reasonable? somebody will have to make up their mind popped in. reasonable? somebody will have to make up their mind about - have to make up their mind about that, presumably the privileges committee of the house of commons, but a prime minister in charge of the country which he puts into lockdown, passing legislation through parliament, introducing regulations, watching statements that are put out, only a day also before explaining how restrict
Cake party before cabinet, for example, everyone seems to have been fined for that, it was a nonwork related event and the prime minister, the prime minister s wife and the chancellor of the exchequer all got fines, but these social gatherings at the end of the working day, the police i think i ve accepted there was a work element to those, so for example a leaving do which the prime minister popped in, he hasn t been fined for, but other people that might have come in especially for that event all stayed on for a long party afterwards, well, they have been fined, and that seems to have been the distinction. 83 people have been given fines, the vast majority of whom are politicians, political advisers and civil servants, the very same people who were telling us how to behave, telling us how to interpret the rule they have made during the long months of the pandemic. daniel, many thanks, daniel months of the pandemic. daniel, many thanks, daniel sandford months of the pandemic. danie