good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the man who was the government s chief scientific advisor during the coronavirus pandemic, sir patrick vallance, has been revealing more details about what went on in downing street as covid took hold. sir patrick told the covid inquiry that the then prime minister, borisjohnson, was clearly bamboozled by the science around covid. he says he was not consulted on the eat out to help out initiative it was very obvious that the eat out to help out scheme launched by the then chancellor, rishi sunak, would increase transmission of coronavirus. and key measures to stop the spread of covid including lockdown weren t brought in soon enough. here s our political editor, chris mason. it felt like he was on our screens almost every night, sir patrick vallance. . , ., vallance. the evidence i shall give shau vallance. the evidence i shall give shall be the vallance. the evidence i shall give shall be the truth, vallance. the evide
took over 200 people from israel. they have been talks in qatar. one saying only very minor obstacles were in the way of a deal. israel s ambassador to the usa a significant number of hostages could be freed in the coming days in exchange for a brief cease fire. we will be keeping an eye on that. we go to gaza, we will look at the hospital in the north hit by in an israeli strike. these are verified pictures from inside the indonesian hospital indonesian hospital organisations from indonesia behind it. hamas run health ministry says that at least 12 people have been killed. take a look outside hospital. tanks close by indonesian foreign minister says strike a violation of humanitarian law. whoalled israel says terrorists opened fire from within the hospital towards idf troops, 28 premature babies are out. 28 premature babies have been taken out. they were being treated at the al shifa hospital. they been moved to egypt and you can see they travelled through in these incu
The Poores escaped the worst of the early pandemic. Melanie still had work, and when she left, she was cushioned from free-fall - stimulus checks, unemployment, and the eviction moratorium kept the family stable. But gradually, these protections were revoked.
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off by asking, we ve seen this sort of stop and start approach across asia with mixed results. what is your outlook for when this region can really start to put covid behind them? the challenge put covid behind them? the challenge now put covid behind them? tie: challenge now with covid put covid behind them? ti9: challenge now with covid is the rapid spread of infections all over the country to greater variance emerging. now we are seeing the delta environment doing my variant which is highly transmissible. so seen the lockdown is really a challenge it is difficult to say at the present.- challenge it is difficult to say at the present. what is the bi est say at the present. what is the biggest issue say at the present. what is the biggest issue do say at the present. what is the biggest issue do you say at the present. what is the biggest issue do you think- say at the present. what is the biggest issue do you think for. biggest issue do you think for countries across asia