no chemotherapy throughout the pandemic. i don t have much of a choice. and john lewis has warned of further store closures after it made a record annual loss of more than £500 million. good afternoon. prince william has insisted the royal family is not racist, in his first comments since the duke and duchess of sussex told us television that a member of the family had questioned what colour their child s skin would be. william also revealed he hasn t spoken to his brother since harry and meghan gave the interview to oprah winfrey, but said he would do. the duke and duchess of cambridge were visiting a school in east london when they were asked by a reporter about the controversy. have you spoken to your brother since the interview? no, i haven t spoken to him yet, but i will do. and can you just let me know, is the royalfamily a racist family, sir? no, we are very much not a racist family. our royal correpsondent, sarah campbell, joins me now. they are the first comments th
the country remains divided in terms of its willingness to stay the course on mask wearing and social distancing for the final month before the vaccine has been distributed. president biden is expected to preview what a return to normal will look like here. he ll also address the grief of a nation consumed for one whole year. the anniversary marks the day for many americans, the grim reality, from the washington post, quote for most people march 11th was when the crisis first became real. it was the day of a high-profile diagnosis, and official decidingation of pandemic. schools closed, streets emptied and commuters stayed home. we didn t know it then, but the virus had already infected thousands. over the next 12 months, leaders bungled opportunities to quell its spread. case levels rose, fell, rose again. hope endured and more than 525,000 people lost their lives. dr. anthony fauci, who has become a household name, first for his beleaguered attempts, acknowledged today
and it s quite emotionally tough and sometimes you feel like you take on their struggles because they re not able to be at the bedside. this merciless disease has taken its toll on so many staff. malachi started as a nurse exactly a year ago. in the peak, he cared for four patients at once. he was meant to care forjust one. i mean, there were three deaths in the last 24 hours here, on this ward, yeah. and that s a lot. and then you turn around and there s still 12 other patients. it sjust not feasible, you can t carry on like this for a long time. with case numbers now falling, the nhs is turning its attention to its next mammoth task dealing with the backlog of operations that have been delayed by the pandemic. there s a whole group of patients who ve been waiting to be seen in clinic and then go on a waiting list. so the backlog will be, will be huge. the nhs is starting cautiously to look beyond the upheaval inflicted by covid. but this could be a brief moment of calm, a
how about nobody. we were going to take a hard pass on the whole thing. and then we saw this. a few days before the wedding, she was upset about something pertaining to yes, the issue was correct, about the flower girl dresses and it made me cry. and it really hurt my feelings. tucker: so that was the princess or duchess or whatever she is. okay, we re hearing from the control room that she is, in fact, a duchess. not a princess. not that we know the difference. in any case, here s this royal person, one of the most famous and fawned over people in the world telling oprah that she was incredibly wounded because she got into a some kind of petty argument about dresses with her sister-in-law at her wedding three years ago. so stop the presses. abshe and her sister-in-law had a tiff about clothes. that s never happened before. she thinks this is important enough to bring up in a television interview. it was her 9/11. so of course she considers it newsworthy. okay, so she s
now on bbc news, monday in parliament. hello again and welcome to monday in parliament. why are nurses only getting a i% pay rise? most of the public sector is having a pay freeze, even against this backdrop we will continue to provide pay rises for nhs workers. but some conservatives think ministers should go further. will she reconsider and at least, at least propose a larger increase for lower paid nhs workers? and on international women s day, an appeal for better health care. it s shocking that women are up 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed following a heart attack simply because our- symptoms differ| to those of men. but first. the prime minister has defended plans to give some nhs staff in england a i% pay rise. borisjohnson said the government is giving workers as much as we can in the tough times of the covid pandemic. the increase, which is being considered by an independent panel, would cover most hospital staff. in the commons, a health minister brushed off