and new columnist at the times, and for the first half of our programme, professor peter hotez is with us, expert in molecular virology and microbiology at the baylor college of medicine. what we ve known for some time about the uk s response to the covid pandemic is that the protective ring the government claimed to have thrown around care homes wasn t very protective at all. between march 2020 and april 2021, some 39,000 people died in care homes from covid. the public inquiry, which is still to begin, will examine whether more could have been done. in the interim, some of the evidence the panel will consider is now being tested in the court of public opinion. the reporter isabelle 0akshott, who co authored a book with matt hancock, has now shared with the telegraph 100,000 whatsapp messages which the former health secretary had shared with government officials. the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month. in one message, from april 14th 2020, mr hancock te
bringing rogue states like north korea to the negotiating table strengthening alliances the strategic partners like saudi arabia and india brazil japan israel and to the horror of some foreign policy expert some of the first u.s. president to recognize and respond to the china threat and is challenge also of the ideology of in this work need the first presidency, and more than four decades to start a new war in the trump era is now remembered, is a period of relative global peace and stability and how distant that now seems pretty laughable coming is the establishment smoke claim, biden in the white house from the apples are the room, we have some adult hood just been humiliated like it really quite intelligence not just black, ukraine, for the lies about it in the documents show, and in february, the administration knew the china had approved armed shipments to russia which would be disguised as civilian eight, but a month after that, here s john kirby at the white house pod
bringing rogue states like north korea to the negotiating table strengthening alliances the strategic partners like saudi arabia and india brazil japan israel and to the horror of some foreign policy expert some of the first u.s. president to recognize and respond to the china threat and is challenge also of the ideology of in this work need the first presidency, and more than four decades to start a new war in the trump era is now remembered, is a period of relative global peace and stability and how distant that now seems pretty laughable coming is the establishment smoke claim, biden in the white house from the apples are the room, we have some adult hood just been humiliated like it really quite intelligence not just black, ukraine, for the lies about it in the documents show, and in february, the administration knew the china had approved armed shipments to russia which would be disguised as civilian eight, but a month after that, here s john kirby at the white house pod
bringing rogue states like north korea to the negotiating table strengthening alliances the strategic partners like saudi arabia and india brazil japan israel and to the horror of some foreign policy expert some of the first u.s. president to recognize and respond to the china threat and is challenge also of the ideology of in this work need the first presidency, and more than four decades to start a new war in the trump era is now remembered, is a period of relative global peace and stability and how distant that now seems pretty laughable coming is the establishment smoke claim, biden in the white house from the apples are the room, we have some adult hood just been humiliated like it really quite intelligence not just black, ukraine, for the lies about it in the documents show, and in february, the administration knew the china had approved armed shipments to russia which would be disguised as civilian eight, but a month after that, here s john kirby at the white house pod
that does it for us this hour katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur, after a two-week break, congress is back to work, and boy is there a lot to do there is the debt ceiling, which still has not been raised. speaker mccarthy is in new york city today, courting wall street and arguing massive cuts to spending will be good for everyone he wants to get rid of a lot, and he s playing a game of chicken with the white house we re going to explain what mccarthy is doing by showing up in manhattan and why the speaker is betting president joe biden will ultimately negotiate. also here in new york, congressman jim jordan and the house judiciary committee are here the chair held a so-called field hearing on crime today jordan called it powerful. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg just called it a slap in the face to the nypd we also have news on the senate side senators mitch mcconnell and john fetterman are back in washington after a respected medical can m