With till today we asked political commentators peter oborne and professor Richard Murphy what exactly is going on on the left and the right of british politics i say Westminster Parliament struggles to hold the government to account during the pandemic and the banks that did it will finally arrives but 1st over to alex with your reaction to last weeks show whats your tweets messages and emails. Was a big reaction to last weeks show which featured the 3 top experts on covert 19 and a huge audience of face because well the 1st stop was from a vet an old friend of the sure that it has to come painless and she picked up the thought the free medical experts all mentioned sustainability and Climate Change and population as a major factor and these are measuring viruses and they were the a number of people who were reflecting that perhaps a growing public skepticism about some of the official messages on covert and when some of them for example said i was really hoping that alex salmond woul
A suspected arson attack and burned these 200. 00 homes to the ground in me and ma. And he was the man and known as the king of galilee stanley home has died at the age of 98. Is going on tour across latin america a government struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic the poorest say theyre the ones suffering the most not just from the disease but from lockdowns and spending cuts and its leading to protests as alexey obrien reports. In a quick door they marched in defiance of the lock down angry over government cuts to jobs and salaries brought in to tackle the pandemic. The mayor of the capital quito had asked the crowds to stay home because of the risk of infection but these protesters believe the stakes are too high. We have no fear of contagion on the contrary we were afraid of the hunger that our comrades and hundreds of family members who live jobless will go through. This anger in chile where demonstrations have played. Did for help saying they dont have enough food. This i
Worlds worst humanitarian crisis as we speak to the un in yemen the cemeteries are overflowing the country bombed with u. K. Weapons from u. K. Warplanes trained by the u. K. s Royal Air Force all the some more coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st once upon a time there was a u. K. Government official who told the truth arguably to the public about a risk to Public Health and i had to resign for it joins me now via skype from. Minutes Edwina Currie and we did thanks for coming on obviously a terrible death toll being announced the highest in the World Capital but everything here is about Dominic Cummings horizontals job advice do you think specially after a tweet from the Civil Service that apparently theres an inquiry into Cummings Johnson theyre all a bit naive in the sense that even after a landslide victory they thought that they could get bricks its done my impression is that everyone in this country has behaved very well would lock down that best. Or at least most peop
The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. On bbc news. For viewers in the u. K. And around the world. The u. K. Prime ministers top aide, Dominic Cummings, insists he will not resign and defends driving hundreds of kilometers during the height of the lockdown. I have offered to resign. Anchor President Trump commemorates fallen veterans in the usa, but he has been criticized for his behavior over the weekend. U. K. Government s announced it begin to reopen venues in june as lon as efforts to contain coronavirus continue. And spain said it will lift its orders, lifting the two week coronavirus criteria denying foreign travelers on july 1. Welcome to the program, good to have you with us. If you are here in the u. K. , there is one story everyone has been talking about all weekend. Thats Boris Johnsons chief aide, Dominic Cummings, taking a 4
Networks isnt going to be intimidated to a blow to the United States to give up on that. Weve already seen when we look at the iran policy that the trumpet ministration with substantially and ill use the word blackmailing european cars automotive producers to put a tax tariff on their cars if they dont toe the line i mean jonathan says you know theyre there theyre bucking the trend but i mean it gets kind of leads into where i want to go in the rest of the program is that you know the u. S. Still has not so many levers and coercive levers against europe that they dont toe the line go ahead in london. Thank you thank you for mentioning this thank you for the previous time as you mentioned china because as we know it was not about russia it was about the china we know the. Realistic Foreign Policy thinkers in the United States including john meshaal em out. It was present in 2015 my very own university in poland you know you dont university told us about this very moment that we have arr