Paid £21 million of taxpayers money for acting as a go between to secure ppe for nhs staff. And a new era in commercial space travel begins, the first fully operational private flight takes astonauts to the International Space station. Large parts of scotland are being put into effective lockdown from friday until just two weeks before christmas to try to reverse worryingly high infection rates. More than 2. 5 Million People will be affected in glasgow, as well as east and south ayrshire, renfrewshire and east renfrewshire, west and east dunbartonshire, north and south lanarkshire, stirling and west lothian. Nonessential shops, bars, restaurants, hairdressers and Visitor Attractions will close, nonessential travel outside local Council Areas is now against the law in tier 4. Anyone flouting the rules could be arrested. But schools, nurseries and essential shops can stay open. Our scotland editor sarah smith is in glasgow. Maryhill road in glasgow, the city where scotlands infection ra
And tony blairs biggest mistake. Members of labours ruling National Executive will meet this afternoon to considerJeremy Corbyns suspension from the party last month. And coming up on the programme well speak to 12 year old chef omari mcqueen, whos landed himself his own cooking show on cbbc. Were expecting very shortly the first minister of scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, to stand up and announce whether parts of scotland will be moved into the countrys highest tier of covid 19 restrictions level 4. The first minister is to address parliament at holyrood, but she has previously said it is likely that some regions will face tougher restrictions for a limited period. Lets refresh our memory of the 5 level tier system in place in scotland. Level 0 nearly normal. Allows up to eight people to meet indoors, and 15 people outdoors. Level 1 medium. Lets six people from two households meet indoors or outdoors. Lets go live to glasgow and our correspondent, alexandra mackenzie. Weve had strong hints
Russia repeated virtually non stop that it was willing to continue Energy Supplies to europe, even after gas probs, nordstrom in gas pipeline system, into europe, was mysteriously blown up. Russia was ready, astonish, rules apply though. The boys in the European Union go close enough. They wont, if they say they can just open the tunnel stuff like this. If such decisions are made by a european colleagues with regard to gas supplies for their consumers, all necessary procedures will be carried out to ensure the supplies. So now the narrative being peddled by germany is that it has to nationalized energy companies, including gas problems, assets, because russia cut off europes energy supply. In reality, its the you that cut itself off and then was so oblivious to the damage that it had done that figure that it could treat them like cash cows on top of that to fund the damage that their own sanctions had done to european households ability to pay for the inflation and Energy Price Hikes c
Of ways that it can have an impact, both on the hiring and employee side, as well as on the owner side. On the hiring side, setting standards for hiring contracts with vendors can set a high bar for companies that are receiving the Public Airways to live up to those sorts of standards on the structure that can impact the ownership side. Perverting competition. He surely set off structures that allow for small women and minor minor owned businesses to create compete in the auctions. You may not have all the ideas but we are interested in finding out what other ideas can be brought forward and celebrate the chamber recently reinstating the Advisory Committee on diversity and digital empowerment. Those are the sorts of things we love to see at the fcc where stakeholders can come together and come up with other tactics to promote diversity. Thank you chairman, my time is up. , we hear from senator blackburn. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to thank our witnesses for being here to talk about
Counted for over 50 percent of all did child fatalities the arned my masters degree. However the majority of farmers do not even graduate high school they drop out four times the national average. I am not alone for these are the same harrowing experiences i heard my parents and grandparents and also heard from other farmers throughout my career. Its experience approximate 3000 farm working children today each of them a life, person, part of our community. But would be even more heartbreaking as congress chooses to do nothing will be the same experience youre going to hear from children 20 years from now. Data clearly shows agriculture to the u. S. Child labor laws to the detriment of child farm workers which the majority are u. S. Citizens. The care act sponsored by representative cosponsored by many members of this committee will give children working agriculture the same workplace protection that every other working child is provided. The protect 12 yearolds from exploitation and re