wales and northern ireland in the new year. last week, borisjohnson, the prime minister at the time of the pandemic, arrived 3 hours early at the hearing just after seven am. here s how the 6:00 news began its coverage at six. boris johnson apologises for the way the government handled the pandemic. arriving at the covid inquiry under cover of darkness, the former prime minister admits he should have twigged much sooner the need for action. several viewers wrote in to newswatch to say they thought that was unfair. caroljefferson from loughborough protested. daphne turpin emailed from northampton. ken holden agreed. we asked bbc news to respond to those complaints and they sent us this statement. the government s plans to send some migrants to rwanda if they arrive in the uk illegally has dominated the news in the past week when the new home secretary, james cleverly visited rwanda to sign a treaty. the bbc s political editor chris mason went along to report on the event. but
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of political times past, so too was the speech at a global power conference by his former boss, borisjohnson, part of which was shown live on the news channel on thursday. nothing and no one will stop me reciting the song. of the oompa loompas about augustus gloop, which you all remember. # augustus gloop. # the great big greedy nincompoop. that made me weep with laughter as a child. and frankly, i d be very surprised if anybody at cis in vauxhall behaved towards their secretaries as bond behaved towards moneypenny. but that doesn t mean we should be banned from reading fleming s novels. not everyone welcomed the reappearance of the former prime minister, with janet edwards asking. we mentioned a couple of weeks ago complaints about hugh edwards and reeta chakrabarti travelling from london to edinburgh to present news bulletins on the day of nicola sturgeon s resignation, and that this practice of flying news anchors out on location was a regular source of irritation. so regu
but a complicated answer, i suspect. who s winning? clive murray, there, presenting the news at ten from ukraine, where he was all last week. the weary response of mike mckinnon. well, we asked bbc news, not for the first time, why it was felt necessary to send news presenters off on location in that way. they told us. do let us know your thoughts on anything we re covering in this programme or on any aspect of bbc news. there will be details of how to contact us at the end of the programme. you have already been letting us know your views on our new studio, as invited, and here are a couple of comments about, well, this sofa. first, john telfer. and irene mackinnon wondered. we can reassurejohn that this is actually a different, though admittedly rather similar sofa to that used for breakfast. and in answer to irene, i am very much hoping to have some guests to share it with in the coming weeks, and besides, several other bbc programmes use the studio as well. now, for a lon
and wednesday have been suspended after three of the four unions representing ambulance workers agreed to talks with the government. you re watching bbc news. now its time for the travel show. we start this week in brixton, a part of south london that s become the go to for caribbean british culture, from food to fashion and art. but it hasn t always been like this. after the second world war, britain was decimated, and so thousands of people from commonwealth countries were invited here to fulfil labour shortages. so, i m here in windrush square, which was named after one of the first ships to bring almost 1,000 people from the west indies to britain. now, the boat became a symbol for a generation of people who settled here from 19118 to 1971. and this year is a pretty important one for britain, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the boat s first arrival. some of the new arrivals were temporarily housed in clapham, but many found accommodation in nearby brixton after travel