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are considered by ministers. let me know if you think it s a good idea. do get in touch on twitter @annita mcveigh or use the hashtag bbcyourquestions. still in lockdown sydney and the surrounding area, remains under strict covid measures for at least another four weeks as infection rates surge. british former senior military commanders urge borisjohnsonto allow more afghan interpreters to settle in the uk. and remembering britain s police officers and staff from across the country who have died while protecting the public a new memorial will be officially unveiled today a warm welcome to day four at the tokyo olympics. and in the past hour, it s just been announced that the american gymnast, simone biles, has pulled out of another gymnastics event she s withdrawn from the all around competition, in which she s the defending champion. on tuesday, she pulled out of the team event, saying she needed to focus on her mental health. biles has yet to decide whether to compe ....
welcome to the lead, everyone, i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead and foreign policy front and center at the white house this afternoon after praising his own administration s role in brokering a cease-fire barone israel and hamas. president biden today tries to shift his focus to east asia. right now hosting his south korean counterpart at the white house. about president biden has long said competition with china is one of the biggest challenges facing the u.s. stayed and next hour we ll bring you remarks from both of the leaders that are speaking live, but the obstacles in the middle east are far from over. that cease-fire touted by the president which ended 11 bloody and deadly days of fight appears to be fragile with new frustrations in jeersium and president biden saying relentless diplomacy got them to the edge of a cease-fire but can biden succeed where other presidents have failed in helping to achieve a long-lasting and just peace in the region, o ....
plus: the groundbreaking bionic eye operation and the 88 year old woman who s now able to see her grandchildren again. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us has delivered its first shipment of military aid to ukraine made up of what it says are 90 tonnes of lethal aid two words which seldom go together. the details of what is included haven t been made public but this is what it looks like. this plane load arrived in ukraine in the early hours of saturday morning. you can see crates being unloaded. they re clearly too small to contain anything like a tank or armoured vehicle but what the boxes contain remains unknown. it comes after high level talks between the us and russia on friday, over the tensions in ukraine with tens of thousands of russian troops currently camped near the ukrainian borders. with the latest here s mark lobel: the threat of conflict persists. as president putin continues his apparent drive for a ....
now on bbc news, dateline london. hello, welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the international correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences at home from the dateline london. this week, the business of people smuggling to europe, russia s gas powered foreign policy, and is being a british mp a full time job? to discuss that, we are joined byjeffrey kofman, who has been a news anchor and foreign correspondent for broadcasters in his native canada and in the united states, marc roche, who writes for the french political and news weekly le point, and british political commentator steve richards, who is here in the studio. welcome to all of you. it s lovely to see you again. brexit allowed the uk to take back control of, among other things, its borders. but this government has proved no more successful than its predecessors in stopping illegal migration. the problem may even be getting worse. on a single day last week, 118 ....
now on bbc news, dateline london, with shaun ley. hello, welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the international correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences at home from the dateline london. this week, the business of people smuggling to europe, russia s gas powered foreign policy, and is being a british mp a full timejob? to discuss that, we are joined byjeffrey kofman, who has been a news anchor and foreign correspondent for broadcasters in his native canada and in the united states, marc roche, who writes for the french political and news weekly le point, and british political commentator steve richards, who is here in the studio. welcome to all of you. it s lovely to see you again. brexit allowed the uk to take back control of, among other things, its borders. but this government has proved no more successful than its predecessors in stopping illegal migration. the problem even be getting worse. on a single day las ....