you need to be hungrier. you need to be bolder. you need to be more imaginative. we talk disinformation. there s a lot of propaganda and disinformation coming i from non ij handles also. and we ask, what matters? the most raw, yet nuanced political conversations in india often happen at these kind of tea stalls. welcome to this is india. today we re talking elections. india is the world s largest democracy, an economic powerhouse set to become the world s third largest economy. internationally, india is having its moment courted by the united states as a counterweight to china. a voice for the global south. any day now, india will call elections. voting will take place over several weeks, and the results don tjust matter to the people living in it. it matters to the world. now, in india, there are dozens of political parties in this country, but two really dominate the bjp and the congress. before we get there, though, let s take a look at the election in numbers. 968 milli
van, it was driven into three pedestrians, those people are in hospital, we have no update on the extent of their injuries or on the condition they please also say there was a third incident on magdala road were one man was found dead. you can keep up to date with more on this on the bbc live page. our team of journalists have been working on updating the new images. we have also been getting eyewitness accounts from some of our colleagues. there is a post that has just popped up on the live page here. emma, who livesjust outside nottingham city centre, has told my colleague that there is fear in the area. she said nottingham is a big city but a small community and when something like this happens you are rupture. she said she is now wondering how she will explain the news to her seven year old son who is not immune to things that are going on. she says we are trying so hard as parents or carers to give our kids are bubble of safety and then things like this happen. she says,
nottingham s royal concert hall, which is normally a busy part of nottingham city centre the collagen is on upper parliament street. it is unclear why the court and has been put up but all we know from officials as it is because of what police describe as a serious incident. we can now go to our reporter courtney bambridge who has been monitoring the latest on this story in nottingham. what more do we know? we have been showing pictures of the cordon, all the police have told us is this is a serious incident? told us is this is a serious incident? ., ., ., , ., incident? no extra details about exactly what incident? no extra details about exactly what is incident? no extra details about exactly what is unfolding - incident? no extra details about exactly what is unfolding but. incident? no extra details about. exactly what is unfolding but let s look at the lay of the land. these are some of the pictures that have come out, this is near the city s major shopping centr
the inquiry looking at the uk s response to the covid 19 pandemic starts hearing evidence today. it s expected to last at least three years, with witnesses including borisjohnson and matt hancock. police in nottingham say they ve closed a number of roads in the city as they deal with what they re calling an ongoing serious incident. officers have been called to several locations. trams are also suspended. figures show regular pay not including bonuses were 7.2% higher in the three months to april, helped in part by the rise in the national living wage. but despite the surge, pay continues to be outstripped by rising prices. the american actor, treat williams, has died in a motorbike crash in vermont he was 71. in a 50 year career, he had more than 130 on screen credits, including the musical hair and tv series everwood. yes, the covid inquiry. what do you want? it starts today. remember all those five o clock faces, rishi sunak, chris whitty, patrick vallance and the