two passenger trains have collided in pakistan killing at least 30 people. to delay or not to delay? it s a week to go until a decision is made on whether to lift the remaining lockdown restrictions in england. a cleaner, greenerform of transport or a menace to motorists? electric scooters are introduced in parts of london from today. buckingham palace says the queen is delighted by the news the duke and duchess of sussex have had a second child lilibet diana mountbatten windsor. brighton defender ben wright gets the last spot in gareth southgate s england squad for the euros. and the bafta goes to michaela coel. and michaela coel is the big winner at the tv baftas, winning two awards for her drama i may destroy you, which is based on her own experience of being sexually assaulted. good morning. just days before he hosts the g7 summit of world leaders in cornwall, the prime minister is facing a rebellion in the commons over the government s cut to the overseas aid budge
i d be lying if i said the journey would be an easy one. he was really honest about what he went through. he wanted to empower people with a sense of inner strength and love. three, two, one. and liftoff. ? this mission is opening space travel up to anyone. i got the golden ticket. i m going to space. how many coaches said look, honey, you re 5 6 , it s not going to work. i m stubborn. it s about connection, that energy that you give out in the universe, it always comes back. bubba, go, baby. you tell me i can t do it, you watch me. don t let anybody tell you you can t, just go out and do it. inspiring america, the 2021 inspiration list. here are savannah guthrie, lester holt and hoda kotb. good evening. we re starting a new annual tradition. we re spotlighting the folk whose inspire us most. these aren t people to idolize or put on a pedestal. they wouldn t want that. these are people we ve chosen to inspire all of us in our own lives. this group sh
from that moment. that s what bothers me every day. that s dr. deborah birx, the former white house covid response coordinator under president trump saying most of the 551,000 u.s. coronavirus deaths could have been prevented. imagine that. and we re at the point where we have been so shocked by what we ve seen over the past four years, by what we saw with the capitol riots, we ve been so shocked by the botching, the mismanagement, and the lies during the trump administration during this pandemic, america has lost 551,000 people and dr. birx herself, who was inside, a scientist saying, all of those fatalities, much of them, many of them, could have been prevented. social distancing guidelines, a race to a vaccine, masking managing this pandemic actually, even though it would have taken a lot of sacrifice on the part of the american people, actually was easy to lead through. you had to work to be as bad as the last president and to allow so many people to die. well, yeah,
dateline london. the time is 3:30am. hello and a very warm welcome to the first dateline of 2021. this is the programme that brings together some of the uk s leading columnists, bbc specialists and those who file their stories for audiences back home with dateline, london. with me this week are uk newspaper columnist yasmin alibhai brown, henry chu who s deputy news editor at the los angeles times. and here in the studio, at a suitable distance in this age of pandemic, the bbc‘s asia pacific editor, celia hatton. forget the week just ended, and a year many are glad is done. this is the week to look ahead. to january 20th, whenjoe biden becomes president of the united states, to september when the european union s longest serving leader angela merkel is replaced, and to november when nations agree, or are supposed to agree, how they ll make each other actually meet the promises they ve made to cut the emissions heating the planet. a year of possibilities, then. but recall to
dateline london. hello and a very warm welcome to the first dateline of 2021. this is the programme that brings together some of the uk s leading columnists, bbc specialists and those who file their stories for audiences back home with dateline, london. with me this week are uk newspaper columnist yasmin alibhai brown, henry chu who s deputy news editor at the los angeles times. and here in the studio, at a suitable distance in this age of pandemic, the bbc‘s asia pacific editor, celia hatton. forget the week just ended, and a year many are glad is done. this is the week to look ahead. to january 20th, whenjoe biden becomes president of the united states, to september when the european union s longest serving leader angela merkel is replaced, and to november when nations agree, or are supposed to agree, how they ll make each other actually meet the promises they ve made to cut the emissions heating the planet. a year of possibilities, then. but recall too, that, ten years a