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and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when ....
relations lawyer. also this afternoon. there were more excess deaths than usual in the uk last year. the highest number outside the covid pandemic in half a century. some shops open at midnight to meet demand for prince harry s heavily trailed autobiography, which is now on sale. and a setback, not a roadblock. the team behind a uk space mission which failed to launch say they will keep on trying. and this picture has been causing something of a stir on social media today, because someone or something is missing. we will be revealing all. good afternoon. in the last few minutes, the government has been introducing draft legislation to limit future industrial action in the public sector. the bill would cover health, fire and railway workers. ministers say it would introduce a minimum level of service. unions have reacted angrily to the proposals, which they say potentially are undemocratic and unworkable, and would limit the right to strike. the business secretary grant ....
No, there are very expensive pair of trainers. elon musk describes himself as a free speech absolutist . he has long advocated a libertarian vision of an uncontrolled internet. his detractors would say it is less about freedom of speech, more about the freedom of reach that twitter has given him. and when he decides he wants to speak. hejust does. last night he summoned the bbc s north american technology correspondent, james clayton, to twitter hq. and in a lengthy and wide ranging conversation the billionaire defended one of the first things he did when he took over: sacking thousands of twitter staff. this may be a good opportunity to answer some questions and i guess, get some feedback too. which under the bbc is none too thrilled about being labelled state led media. i was going to mention that later but they have objected to that and do you want to respond to it? to be as ....
All. he says he recognises pressures faced by all. he says he recognises pressures faced by key workers, but he knows the nhs faced by key workers, but he knows the nhs cannot find the nurses that they need the nhs cannot find the nurses that they need to work on the ward. he knows they need to work on the ward. he knows the they need to work on the ward. he knows the trains don t run even on non-strike knows the trains don t run even on non strike days such such is their non strike days such such is their shortage of staff. so how can he think their shortage of staff. so how can he think that sacking thousands of key workers won tjust he think that sacking thousands of key workers won t just plunge our public key workers won t just plunge our public services further into crisis? ....