letting substance abuse your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. today, may 4th, marks one legal conclusion in a quest for justice began on january 26th, 2021. today federal prosecutors won their big case against a key militia that first breaches the capitol, the proud boys, who donald trump specifically shouted out. now convict of sedition, the most series possible charge for an insurrection, and a rare charge in american life and law. it is proven against these four sedition conspiracy including top gun. you may remember the nation was watching in realtime, and from casual observers to security experts, many were aghast and astounded that a group would so quickly overrun the security apparatus, the police during one of the most significant national security gatherings of the year, during a time when we know all of congress and the
the queen s 70 years of service. elizabeth is now become queen elizabeth ii. elizabeth ii marks 70 years as queen. this is history in the making. it is called the platinum jubilee celebration. she s now the longest reigning british monarch and longest serving female of state in history. she entertained 14 british prime ministers, 14 american presidents. i raise my glass to you and to mrs. reagan. it is extraordinary, after all these years she s continued to uphold finest traditions of the monarchy. that s my home whether long or short, shall be committed to service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. the platinum jubilee celebration of queen elizabeth, we all beautiful. don t you feel it, this british pomp and pageantry. are you feeling it? i m feeling it, everywhere i go. london, nothing like it, this is biggest royal event of my lifetime. this queen has been on the throne 13 years longer than i ve been alive. i know you are thi
for this war to end hamas issued a statement saying it was ready to deal positively with any proposal offering a permanent ceasefire and a complete israeli withdrawal. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the plan was in line with israel s demands that the war would not end until its hostages were released and hamas no longer ruled gaza or posed a military threat. vincent mcaviney reports. after almost eight months of israeli response to the 7th october attacks by hamas, gaza lays largely in ruins, with the lives of palestinians who call it home turned upside down. more than 36,000 have been killed across the region, according to the hamas run health ministry. hundreds of thousands are displaced and aid is struggling to reach them. the conflict has put the us israel relationship under immense pressure. but in a surprise move, president biden unveiled a new peace proposal and ceasefire offer from israel. i know there are those in israel who will not agree with t
to be 5000 miles injust less than five weeks around the country and the heart of the message today is that what keir starmer has said is his number one priority which he talks about is economic security and the detail in that today that they were talking about was a back to work plan, they say, where they want to focus more on reorganising the way that the national unemployment service, the unemployment, job centre plus offices, the career service, merge that all into one jobs and careers service to try and help people who are not in work back into work. they want to increase the numbers, the percentage who are in work i think it is somewhere in the mid 70s to around 80% of people in work so that is one target there. also focusing on young people with
and implementation at cancer research uk. this test looks for particular genetic variants and it uses a saliva test. so hopefully that will be much easier to take. now, the situation with prostate cancer now is that the current test, known as the psa test, often misses the aggressive cancers and can actually lead to overtreatment of cancers that never would have actually progressed. so any progress in this area is very welcome. and so by looking at genetics, this test can be much more targeted, hopefully, than the psa test. it s still early days, though, for this test, and it needs more research because we need to test it in a wider pool of people to see if these results stand out. but anything that can detect those aggressive prostate cancers, which are about one in five prostate cancers, is really, really welcome. there s a huge amount of work going on right now across a whole number of cancers on genetic testing. and the challenge with cancer is that you have to cast the net very wi