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First, the latest news. The prime minister has said that the king s speech marks the start of a rejection of what he called the snake oil charms of populism and the beginning of a national renewal. He was speaking in the commons after the king had laid out labour s plans for its first months in office. Growing fears that another war may erupt in the middle east as israel and the lebanese armed group hezbollah keep trading fire across the border. Police in thailand say six vietnamese nationals found dead in a luxury hotel suite in bangkok on tuesday were probably poisoned with cyanide in a suspected murder suicide case. Authorities are investigating possible motives. The prime minister of bangladesh has warned that those responsible for the death of six people in a wave of student protests will be punished regardless of their political affiliation. Many oppose a law under which a third of civil service posts are reserved for relatives of bangladesh s independence fighters. It is day t
Happen future generations on the line. If happen future generations on the line. ,. , ,. , the tough questions continue for the us secretary of state on the us pull out from afghanistan. Who is responsible? who made the decisions on this? was it the president of the united states? ultimately, the president makes the decision. That s correct. Also in the uk, prime minister boris johnson says all the adults over 50 will be getting a third booster shot, and we will look. The third dose of six shot, and we will look. The third dose of six months shot, and we will look. The third dose of six months after shot, and we will look. The third dose of six months after your shot, and we will look. The third i dose of six months after your second dose, so that is going to be we are going to be building even higher laws of immunisation of vaccination protection in this country. A look at a rising demand for a drug sometimes used to the worm animals thatis sometimes used to the worm animals that
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he though. hello. there could be a breakthrough in the way we treat covid 19. interim trials suggest that a new experimental drug for severe covid cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by about half. if authorised by regulators, the new drug which comes in the form of a pill would be the first oral antiviral medication for covid 19. our health correspondent james reed has more. on the surface, these are very positive results, and they ve come through much earlier than we were expecting. so the way that these trials work, you give half the people in the trial this medication, you give the other half a placebo or dummy pill, and you compare what the outcomes are. and in this case, 7% of people in the trial that were given this medication that had covid or had just been infected with covid ended up going into hospital. in the placebo arms they hadn t had this medication it was twice that, it was 14%. so that s where you get that really positive result it cuts hospi