my guest is damian collins, a conservative mp and driving force behind efforts to cleanse the internet of fake news and harmful content in politics and online. can trust be rebuilt? damian collins, welcome to hardtalk. trust matters in politics, doesn t it? it matters a lot. of course, because people want to know that they can believe politicians when they say they re going to do things and that they will be consistent and true to their word, so it is one of the most important aspects of political life. would you accept that right now in the united kingdom, many, many voters have a real problem trusting the word of prime minister boris johnson? well, i think they ve seen a lot of reporting over recent weeks about, as you said in your introduction, stories about parties at number 10 downing street when the country was locked down. they heard reassurances that anything that happened at number 10 would have been within covid guidelines. it now looks like it wasn t. so they want
now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. prime minister borisjohnson has a trust problem. the stream of revelations about partying at number 10 downing street when britain was in strict covid lockdown prompted a prime ministerial apology and a pledge to do better, but can he be trusted to change? many voters seem to doubt it, so too do some of his own mps. my guest is damian collins, a conservative mp and driving force behind efforts to cleanse the internet of fake news and harmful content. in politics and online, can trust be rebuilt? damian collins, welcome to hardtalk. trust matters in politics, doesn t it? it matters a lot. of course, because people want to know that they can believe politicians when they say they re going to do things and that they will be consistent and true to their word, so it is one of the most important aspects of political life. would you accept that right now in the united kingdom, many, many voters have a
fda about at-home antigen tests, it s a little confusing, the fda saying those tests are not as sensitive to detecting omicron, but the white house team stressed the at-home tests still offer, quote, an important use. jeremy diamond joins me. jeremy, i know you just spoke to the covid-19 response director. what did he tell you? reporter: that s right, i asked at the coronavirus briefing specifically about the 500 million happen at-home tests that the white house is set to ship to americans beginning next month. and the news that he gave me is that they re still in the process of finalizing the contract to obtain those. but he says he does expect that contract to be completed late next week. of course, that would be the end of the first week of january. meaning that americans likely won t begin to see see the at-home covid tests until end of january. he said the details are forthcoming still in terms exactly how the white house is going to finalize the delivery mechanism for
desmond tutu. we either are going to survive together or going to be end together. a towering figure in the fight for human rights. i m amira walker, pamela brown has the evening off, you are live in the cnn news room. millions around the country spending this christmas week end with friends and family, but, you know, the coronavirus is not taking a holiday, in fact we re seeing new covid cases racing toward record highs now, daily infections now surpass the summer surge sparked by the delta variant and hospitalizations are trending up as well. we are in the thick of the holiday season, and vaccinated or not, triple a estimates more than 109 million people will travel between christmas and new years day. and that increased movement sparking a lot of concerns about this highly transmissible variant. americans are lining up for hours at testing sites, at cities across the nation, something dr. anthony fauci believes is critical right now. we should be using testing much
rise. they re up only 3% in the last week. still some of the nation s largest cities are breaking records in case number, new york setting a new high. in los angeles, new cases tripled in the last week. the surge is making a mess of holiday travel, too, with several major airlines cancelling hundreds of flights this morning because of staffing shortages. that s where we start, as one of the nation s bus yi airports, one of the world s busiest airplanes in atlanta. nadia, what is the situation like here? reporter: you hear a lot of people saying merry christmas, but there s a lot of grinches out there, because the flights have been canceled. getting home to see their loved ones is not going to happen. we re talking about more than 1,000 flights canceled today, tomorrow, throughout this christmas weekend. we just had an update on more cancellations. delta air lines, almost 300 flights canceled today so far. more than 200 for united, more than 100 for jetblue. the numbers keep