it s wednesday, 31st january. our main story. scotland s former first minister, nicola sturgeon is due to give evidence about the decisions she took during the pandemic, when she appears before the covid inquiry today. ms sturgeon, who led the scottish response to the coronavirus outbreak is expected to face questions surrounding lockdowns, and missing whatsapp messages as the inquiry continues sitting in edinburgh. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. 1,044 positive cases were reported yesterday. nicola sturgeon was at the helm throughout scotland s pandemic response. as head of the scottish government, she was the key decision maker and first in the firing line when things went wrong. we will have made mistakes on all aspects of the handling. now about to be questioned on that handling and how decisions the truth, the whole truth. the former first minister s closest political ally amongst those who admitted texts between the pair no longer exist. are those t
Lets get more from our political correspondent, iain watson, whos in the newsroom. Just tremendous of the background of where we are today. The just tremendous of the background of where we are today. Where we are today. The socket on the aer where we are today. The socket on the paper in where we are today. The socket on the paper in the where we are today. The socket on the paper in the times where we are today. The socket on the paper in the Times Newspaperl the paper in the Times Newspaper reported a bizarre story where, last december, apparently, according to the times, had met a local official in his party at 315 in the morning demanding £5,000 what she said as A Matter Of Life And Death because she had to be released from a flat in which he was locked by some bad people. In addition to this, the Times Newspaper also alleged that some other funds that were meant to be used for a company will use for private medical bills for mr menzies as well. He told the Times Newspaper that h
Sathnam sanghera, welcome to hardtalk. Its nice to be back. Its great to have you back, and you are back with a new book, which i have here empireworld. Its your take on just how massive the impact of the British Empire was and still is on the world. You certainly dont undersell your idea, its subtitled how British Imperialism has shaped the globe. I really do believe that. I think the British Empire explains so much about peoples daily lives Around The World, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the Bbc World Service used to be known as the bbc empire service. It explains so much about our daily news. Youve just come back from guyana theres a Border Dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, theres a gap between the way in Which Britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did before we go around pontificating on th
have been buried alive in a landslide that hit on friday. the country s disaster management agency said in a letter to the united nations that the landslide caused major destruction to buildings and has damaged the economy. unstable terrain is making work dangerous for rescue teams. the figure is substantially higher than the last estimate by the un, which put the number of missing at 670. the disaster hit a remote village in enga province, nearly 600 kilometres north west of the capital port moresby. let s go live to katy watson in sydney, where she is monitoring developments on papua new guinea. in the last couple of hours, we have had the news of this big increase in the numbers of people that are believed to have been buried alive? that s right. a lot of people feared that the death toll would rise, but it s important to emphasise that this is an estimate. it comes from the national disaster centre, who said the landslide buried more than 2000 people alive. as of sunday,