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major speech in this election year. we are waiting for that podium, and we are expected for president biden to be talking to the next quarter of an hour but as you know that the timing of these things can be quite fluid. we will be discussing where the democrats and republicans are just a few months away from polling day. also on the programme. the us secretary of state is back in the middle east the day after israel put forward its plan for the future of gaza. storm henk and its aftermath is deluging notjust parts of the uk, but across europe, too. we ll have the latest. and david soul, who starred in one of the biggest tv cop shows of the 70s starsky and hutch has died at the age of 80. welcome to the programme. 2024 is the biggest election year in history with more than two billion people across 50 countries expected to go the polls this year. and, of course, they include the us, where presidentjoe biden will deliver his first major campaign speech of 2024 in the nex ....
To the war in gaza, saying the territory has become a place of death and despair. martin griffiths said the world was watching on as the people of gaza faced daily assaults on the most basic precepts of humanity. the israeli army says it s carried out more than 100 strikes on hamas targets over the past day. about 85% of the population in the besieged palestinian enclave has been displaced by israel s retaliatory campaign after the deadly hamas attacks on october seven. the hamas run health ministry says more than 22,000 gazans have been killed 162 in the last 24 hours. the include children shows are intense in a small coastal strip, which is rancid is the one place people would be safe. let s speak to harpinder collacott, mercy corps executive directorfor europe. ....
Major speech in this election year. we are waiting for that podium, and we are expected for president biden to be talking to the next quarter of an hour but as you know that the timing of these things can be quite fluid. we will be discussing where the democrats and republicans are just a few months away from polling day. also on the programme. the us secretary of state is back in the middle east the day after israel put forward its plan for the future of gaza. storm henk and its aftermath is deluging notjust parts of the uk, but across europe, too. we ll have the latest. and david soul, who starred in one of the biggest tv cop shows of the 70s starsky and hutch has died at the age of 80. welcome to the programme. 2024 is the biggest election year in history with more than two billion people ....
The direction of travel of government policies and he pointed to taxes going up and spending. he said he was in favour of low tax and he pointed to covid restrictions and being made mandatory. he said he was against that sort of compulsion. what he didn t point to, interestingly, was areas in his own remit. there is not his remit in cabinet, his remit was the relationship with the eu and brexit negotiations. he had led this very sort of combative line towards brussels. what we had seen is that he had been insisting on this renegotiation, as you were just talking about, of the deal that he had done. he went back to brussels and said we need to change this. particularly all of europe and the european court ofjustice most of this week that the prime minister softened his position on the european court ofjustice having no part of the deal. now the uk is saying it could have a role in that. lord frost didn t mention any of that in his letter. but he talked ....
The scenarios for curbing omicron are an echo of lockdown controls from earlier this year, including closing indoor hospitality and limits on mixing of households. i think the longer we wait, the more problematic this is going to be. we have learned from previous experience, surely, that if we dither and delay, we get ourselves into more trouble. the problem here is, of course, we don t fully understand the implications of the omicron pandemic and infection in this country, in terms of severe disease. and that is the dilemma for ministers do they wait until the threat from omicron becomes clear and hope to avoid lockdown measures, or act now as a precaution and risk the wrath of many in their own party and beyond westminster? fergus walsh, bbc news. let s speak now with professor martin mckee, professor of european public health at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. ....