britain is in advance for different reasons, because britain took the decision months ago to have an emergency decision—based approach whereas the european union, the commission and the member states were more budget—conscious and had to look on the guarantees our producers were asked to provide for. we were too cautious, and britain was not cautious enough but it revealed to be the right approach. too cautious, you say. and the detail indeed backs that up because we know britain was moving to procure vaccine in the early summer of last year, while the eu didn't make the same moves until the late autumn. so there was a major time lag. the current commission president, your successor, ursula von der leyen, she has said that "we were too late and we were too optimistic when it came to our production targets". do you think she should resign? no. somebody has to take responsibility, mrjuncker, because people are dying in europe because there is now a third wave of infection and it could be said thousands of people in europe are going to die because of these failures. these are not fa

., britain? we looked at ten roduct britain? we looked at ten product groups. - britain? we looked at ten product groups. food, i britain? we looked at ten i product groups. food, verb fridges, alcohol, soft drink, we looked at fashion, we look at high precision tools, we looked at automobiles, homeware products and those with the main products that we looked at. also gaming products such as video games and so on. and thatis as video games and so on. and that is what the results of this survey were based on. great to talk to you and thank you very much. let's get some of the day's other news. facebook has asked a us judge to dismiss anti—trust charges against it — calling them �*nonsensical�*. the federal trade commission and 45 us states sued facebook for alleged anti—competitive behaviour in december. the lawsuit seeks the break—up of the company, which also owns instagram and whatsapp. roblox corp has seen its shares jump 43% in its new york stock exchange trading debut — valuing the company at around $42 billion. roblox is one of the world's most popular

britain is in advance for different reasons, because britain took the decision months ago to have an emergency decision—based approach whereas the european union, the commission and the member states were more budget—conscious and had to look on the guarantees our producers were asked to provide for. we were too cautious, and britain was not cautious enough but it revealed to be the right approach. too cautious, you say. and the detail indeed backs that up because we know britain was moving to procure vaccine in the early summer of last year, while the eu didn't make the same moves until the late autumn. so there was a major time lag. the current commission president, your successor, ursula von der leyen, she has said that "we were too late and we were too optimistic "when it came to our production targets". do you think she should resign? no. somebody has to take responsibility, mrjuncker, because people are dying in europe because there is now a third wave of infection and it could be said thousands of people in europe are going to die because of these failures. these are not f

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this week, we ask what is britain's role in the world? with a huge moment of change as we battle a global pandemic, and brexit has become real, there is renewed interest in what the uk's international future looks like. a new government report, called global britain, focuses on the indo—pacific — suggesting closer ties with india, japan and australia. what does this mean for the relationship with china? a question faced at the moment by president biden. meanwhile, nations all over the world continue to grapple with their vaccination programmes. what do the diplomatic skirmishes over covid tell us about where power lies today? with me are isobel hilton, founder of china dialogue, jeffrey koffman, a us—canadian journalist and formerly war correspondent for abc news, and the bbc�*s chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. welcome, and thanks so much forjoining me today. borisjohnson launched a new foreign policy direction, global britain — the integrated review this week. it was driven by professorjohn bew, a historian known

is britain an outlier. yes. i mean look if you look at the countries that did best among democracies your small distant past would be a marginal politically consensual. but terribly densely populated. and islands and you know if you have 4 of those 6 characteristics you're probably you know ahead of the game islands are easier to control the pacific i mean the small nations in the pacific ocean all shot down almost immediately and almost uniformly have had none or very few cases essent past a populated bit in the book you say population density doesn't really correlate with outcome in the year versus wade in or instance that alone of course the big megacities of china where a coronavirus outcomes are so much better than in. major countries like britain you you keep on putting words in my mouth i don't think i said the density is not related i said it's not one of the primary outcomes but obviously more densely populated places tended to have it spread more quickly new york city being an obvious example i me

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and the brush and he becomes good friends with bad bradford britain and britain goes on to collect over 230 pieces of borene's work. so we're now in the britain house and this is you know, this is the original part of the institution. so for the first 50 years of the institutions history, this was the main thing to see here, but the house dates back to 1892 william moncrief and his brother malcolm billed the house and then william lives here with his wife until 1910 when he sells the biggest part of the ranch to the gallatin family and then in 1923 bradford britain buys the house. and he puts it into this shape in 1928 after a remodel it has five bedrooms in it including bradford's big bedroom down in the wing when britain remodeled it in 1927. he made sure that every bedroom had its own bath. it's just a very ideal home for for a country. gentleman is really what it was. this was the repository of his art and this is where he came to relax and have a good time. it was sheridan. and in those days was the basically the heartbeat of the dude ranch industry and so there were lots of dude r

look britain. canada france any other even russia because i'm talking about the free countries you know that they are the countries that they claim that they support human rights and democracy i blame them more than that countries that they say doesn't support the they don't claim that they support democracy and freedom like russia or signer because i think people are suffering in their countries also you know with democracy so i hope that you will by militia know this. i mean what i'm saying now but let me to say about that return your scale and any other countries you know that support any dictators around the world with any kind of supporting. the it is you know directly or indirectly they are participating with this dictator in his i believe mr against his way people or against any people of. iran in the world and india that they are supporting mohammad beside him and mohammad in killing yemenis when they sell a cell with this to them so it's very important for this country as countries that cl

britain after the war was not the britain the end of the war -- ended the war. his country was impoverished, they needed money. early in the speech churchill says, this is a solemn moment for democracy. the united states of america is at the pinnacle of world power and with that power comes responsibility. churchill realizes his own country is not in that position. in many ways he is shopping for the special relationship to benefit britain. certainly behind-the-scenes in his visit to the united states before the "iron curtain" speech he was trying to broker a deal to secure funding from the united states for his government. he is looking to secure funds to help with the indentedness of his own country. the special relationship was when we talk about today quite a bit, but it was also a relationship, in some ways, of necessity for great britain at the time. we have a new book at the museum that was just published on the subject called "the inspiring history of the special relationship." it is by one of our fellows. it is fascinating. new look at the speech and th

is britain an outlier. yes. i mean look if you look at the countries that did best among democracies your small distant past would be a marginal politically consensual. but terribly densely populated. and islands and you know if you have for all of those 6 characteristics you're probably you know ahead of the game islands are easier to control the pacific i mean the small nations in the pacific ocean all shot down almost immediately and almost uniformly have had none or very few cases essent past a populated bit in the book you say population density doesn't really correlate with outcome india versus wade in or instance that alone of course the big megacities of china where a coronavirus comes in so much better than in. nato countries like britain you you keep on putting words in my mouth i don't think i said the density is not related i said it's not one of the primary outcomes but obviously more densely populated places tended to have it spread more quickly new york city being an obvious example i mean th

the effect of the pandemic do you believe there were deliberate lies here in britain. i don't say were deliberate lies i think most countries and look for injuring or at least not having accuracy just expressed in the beginning why would they fudge the statistics it's as you allege here in britain well obviously the british government denies it's fudging any statistics every country every nation i think fund you statistics at one point or another and you do say the islands. apart from have spread and they have tended to do better i mean imagine new zealand an island nation is it is britain an outlier. yes. i mean look if you look at the countries that did best among democracies your small distant past would be a marginal politically consensual. but terribly densely populated. and islands and you know if you have for all of those 6 characteristics you're probably you know ahead of the game islands are easier to control the pacific i mean the small nations in the pacific ocean all shot down almost immediately and almost uniformly have had none or very few cases essent pa

that entered the war was not britain that ended the war. his country was was impoverished needed funding american's power on the world stage, you know early in the speech churchill says, this is a solemn moment for democracy the united states of america is at the pinnacle of world power. and with that power comes responsibility tr. realizes that his own country is not in that position. so in many ways he's shopping for the special relationship and that alliance and to to benefit britain certainly behind the scenes in his visit. to the united states before the iron curtain speech churchill is trying to broker a deal to secure funding from the united states as opposition leader for his government, you know, he's looking to to to secure funds to help with the indebtedness of his own country from the united states. so the special relationship was one that we talk about today quite a bit, but it was also a relationship in some ways of necessity for great britain at the time. i'm into a little plug here. we have a new book that the museum just pu

britain are doinu and hitting those targets? britain are doing very — and hitting those targets? britain are doing very well— and hitting those targets? britain are doing very well according - and hitting those targets? britain are doing very well according to l are doing very well according to some research that the times got a hold of that the government had done by the government's baseline, we are already 51% done of hitting that carbon neutral targets by 2050, which is quite impressive, really. borisjohnson will use cop26, the great climate change summit, of course britain is hosting that in glasgow in november. he is hosting it as prime minister. that's to encourage others to get to the same targets, china doesn't, they have it for 2060. although this is impressive, you could argue that it has been done largely by closing down: fire power stations, increasing renewable energy, offshore wind and solar. the next 50%, 49%, that may be a little harder, because that will have to be done more through domestic consumption. so that's cars, people who drive electric cars, that mea

budget day as britain's arms companies continue to benefit from the saudi war on geostrategic yemen that began 6 years ago this month the government of bars johnson was u.k. foreign secretary backed weapon sales even after atrocities against civilians is now said it wants to slash aid to one of the poorest countries in the world well joining me now from boston is someone born in the middle east and former british colony the youngest nobel peace prize winner of the time in history to our core common alcohol thank you so much for coming on the show well you know even before i get to yemen a lot of talk in the mainstream media so-called about the cia report on the killing of your friend to the washington post journalist why should we trust the cia when it says that mohamed bin selman was a mastermind of the horrific bone saw killing of your friend did you see a very porous is one of the early part of that was published by the by. turkey by your and by. his friends it's one of their most important reports talking about the death and dismembering. but it is absolutely it is a very important r

in 1807, britain resolved to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. the thing that i think also needs to be said is that this was not simple altruism on the part of great britain. in other words, it wasn't simply the humanitarianism of the abolition movement. it's the britain did not warn other imperial rivals to have the benefit of slave labor when in fact they didn't in $815.00 armed with its naval supreme, britain imposed the cessation of the slave trade on its commercial rivals. as abolition took effect among the leading european slave powers, the decision gradually shut down the northern atlantica slave trade routes. but it also set off fresh deportations too and within countries where slave ownership was still prevalent. by grouping together, the captives born on its soil, the united states was also about to enter a new era of slavery. a fairly small percentage of the people brought over to the americas in the slave trade. actually came to north america, probably 345 percent. and yet, by the time you get to 190825838 very large percentage of the

but what will this mean for britain's relationship with china? the report says the uk should pursue a positive relationship with beijing on trade and climate change but still says it presents a systemic challenge to britain. china represents the generational threat and the reason for that is that the idea that china will become more like us as it got richer or as its economy matured is clearly for the birds. the question for any new foreign policy is not what people at the foreign office think, but whether it changes people's lives. will this new focus on asia make people safer and more prosperous or will it neglect britain's interests closer to home? the report insists britain's commitment to euro atlantic security is unequivocal with nato at its heart but there is little about cooperation with europe on regional threats. like russia, which after the salisbury poison attack the report says remains the most acute threat to britain's security. the review rightly identifies russia as the number one threat that we face, both at home and abroad, but

look britain. canada france any other even russia because i'm talking about the free countries you know that they are the countries that they claim that they support human rights and democracy i blame them more than that countries that they say doesn't support the they don't claim that they support democracy and freedom like russia or signer because i think people are suffering in their countries also you know with democracy so i hope that you will by militia know this. i mean what i'm saying now but let me to say about that return your scale and any other countries you know that support any dictators around the world with any kind of supporting. the it is you know directly or indirectly they are participating with this dictator in his i believe in missile against his way people or against any people. and in the world and india man they are supporting mohammad beside him and mohammad in killing the yemenis when they sell a cell with this to them so it's very important for this country as countries

look britain. canada france any other even russia because i'm talking about the free countries you know that they become terrorists that they claim that they support human rights and democracy i blame them more than that countries that they say doesn't support the they don't claim that they support democracy and freedom like russia or sign or because i think people are suffering in their countries also you know with democracy so i hope that you will by militia know this. i mean what i'm saying now but let me to say about that return your scale and any other countries you know that support any dictators around the world with any kind of supporting. their it is you know directly or indirectly they are participating with this dictator on his i believe missile against his way people or against any people. and in the world and india man they are supporting mohammad beside him and mohamed in killing yemenis when they sell a cell with this to them so it's very important for this country as countries that

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borisjohnson unveils a new vision for britain's place in the world — less europe, more asia global britain is not a reflection of court obligations and vainglorious gesture, the necessity for the prosperity and success of the british people of the decade ahead. the duke of edinburgh returns to windsor — a month after going into hospital for an infection and having a heart procedure meanwhile a us tv presenter friend of the duke and duchess of sussex — reveals details of talks between harry and his brother prince william and their father, prince charles... talked to his brother and he has talked to his father to come at the world i was given was of those conversations were not productive. and i am glad to be of the lease started a conversation. the european medicines agency says the benefits of the astra zeneca vaccine outweigh the risks —— as here the health secretary seeks to offer reassurance: the astrazeneca jab is safe, we know that over 10 million people have had it in this country. and that is what the british regulator office and the world health organization and even the eu

_ to look beyond the eu, and therefore give britain more of a role in parts of the _ give britain more of a role in parts of the world — give britain more of a role in parts of the world that it perhaps needs to have _ of the world that it perhaps needs to have that military threat in order— to have that military threat in order to — to have that military threat in order to make its presence known and felt. certainly there are concerns about _ felt. certainly there are concerns about china and russia, and making sure the _ about china and russia, and making sure the uk— about china and russia, and making sure the uk can defend itself. but an awful— sure the uk can defend itself. but an awful lot of money is involved in this, _ an awful lot of money is involved in this, i_ an awful lot of money is involved in this, ithink— an awful lot of money is involved in this, i think £10 billion has been recommended for the nuclear warheads. and i think of few eyebrows will be raised by this, wondering if this is the best use of those _ wondering if this is the best use of those funds

britain took a bit of a punch, and looked _ britain took a bit of a punch, and looked at — britain took a bit of a punch, and looked at the evidence and said that it looks _ looked at the evidence and said that it looks likely to work with the 60 fives _ it looks likely to work with the 60 fives and — it looks likely to work with the 60 fives and it — it looks likely to work with the 60 fives and it seemed to be an outstanding decision by our senior scientists— outstanding decision by our senior scientists and ministers to agree with them. there were people who definitely— with them. there were people who definitely however were playing politics — definitely however were playing politics with and i am afraid macron's_ politics with and i am afraid macron's comments suggesting the vaccine _ macron's comments suggesting the vaccine did not work at all where i think— vaccine did not work at all where i think incredibly ill advised. frankly— think incredibly ill advised. franklyjust foolish at such an important public health time to be saving _ important public health time to

but what will this mean for britain's relationship with china? the report says the uk should pursue a positive relationship with beijing on trade and climate change but still says it presents a systemic challenge to britain. china represents the generational threat and the reason for that is that the idea that china will become more like us as it got richer or as its economy matured is clearly for the birds. the question for any new foreign policy is not what people at the foreign office think, but whether it changes people's lives. will this new focus on asia make people safer and more prosperous or will it neglect britain's interests closer to home? the report insists britain's commitment to euro atlantic security is unequivocal with nato at its heart but there is little about cooperation with europe on regional threats. like russia, which after the salisbury poison attack the report says remains the most acute threat to britain's security. the review rightly identifies russia as the number one threat that we face, both at home and abroad, but

will it neglect britain's interests closer to home? britain's commitment to your atlantic security is unequivocal, with nato at its heart. but there are regional threats. after salisbury poison attack, it is an acute threat to britain'security. >> russia is the number one threat we face both at hand abroad, but there was no strategy to work with our european partners to try to do with that challenge. there was no strategy to repair our defenses at home. >> to help tackle new threats, there will be a white house staff situation room near downing street and a new counterterrorism operations center. the report says there is evolving surity environment. an old-school weapon is not supposed to be a new strategy. james lerner, bbc news. ross: in a few minutes time, we will hear former first letting michelle obama sharing her thoughts on harry and meghan's interview. the police officer accused of the kidnap and murder of a woman walking home in london has appeared at the old bailey via video link. the case of sarah everard's death two weeks a

the great britain that entered the war was not the great britain that left the war. power on the world stage. early in the speech, the united states of america is at the pinnacle of world power and with that power comes responsibility. churchill realizes that his own country is not in that position. in many ways he is shopping for a special relationship and alliance to benefit britain, certainly behind the scenes in his visit to the united states before the iron curtain speech, churchill is trying to broker a deal to secure funding from the united states as opposition leader for his government. he is looking to secure funds to help with the indebtedness of his own country. the relationship is one we talk about today quite a bit, but it was also a relationship in some ways essential for great britain at the time. we have a new book just published on the subject called "the aspiring history of the special relationship." it is by one of our churchill fellows. it is fascinating any new look at the speech and the history of that relationship. host: let's talk to ned who i

seven weeks and so britain truly on the locks. but of- britain truly on the locks. but of course that doesn't take into account necessarily travel. —— until britain truly unlocked. that seems to be on a lot of peoples minds at the moment, what the restrictions are and what they could be into the late summer. are and what they could be into the late summer-— late summer. justifiably. we all look forward — late summer. justifiably. we all look forward to _ late summer. justifiably. we all look forward to our _ late summer. justifiably. we all look forward to our summer - late summer. justifiably. we all- look forward to our summer holidays. i think the messaging from government on this has been quite contradictory, this mini sense of no holidays abroad and stake patient in the uk. it's a bit conflicting at the uk. it's a bit conflicting at the moment. —— stay vacation. the government are trying to avoid making any hard promises i think i recognise that and said the situation in europe remains quite uncertain and theyjust trying to keep all options on the t

britain — europe, there are problems there, but britain is going in the right direction _ but britain is going in the right direction. ~ , ., ., direction. must have the adult imputation _ direction. must have the adult population vaccinated - direction. must have the adult population vaccinated in - direction. must have the adult population vaccinated in the i direction. must have the adult i population vaccinated in the uk, let's look at the daily telegraph, because they have the moment. the prime minister didn't take his shirt off, unlike the greek leader who did, so there you go. but, susie, you touched upon this, the kind of messaging when it came to astrazeneca and the telegraph picking up on the uk vaccines are describing that it was completely irresponsible when it came to watch angela merkel and emmanuel macron in particular was saying about the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. it got into the telegraph _ oxford astrazeneca vaccine. it got into the telegraph magazine - oxford astrazeneca vaccine. it grrt into the telegraph magazine tomorrow with the biochemist who is in charge of

morgan was bringing in record ratings for good morning britain, of course, but he quit on tuesday after refusing to apologise for his on—air criticism of the royal couple. so, whilst the oprah interview represents an historic move , moment for buckingham palace, is it also a massive deal for british media? perhaps so. does piers morgan's departure show that his brand of highly opinionated journalism is incompatible with an ofcom—regulated tv channel? and will he resurface on the new news channels that's coming to the uk which has promised to capitalise on that exact style of noisy journalism? let me introduce you to our guests. jane martinson is a professor ofjournalism at city university, and was the guardian's media editor. jane, just a moment ago when we were on the zoom call, you were on a phone call which terrified me slightly. who were you talking to and did it have to do with journalism? it was, i was actually talking to the guardian opinion desk, which i had written a piece about the aforementioned piers morgan and his departure from gmb. just give us a quick take. the top l

but what will this mean for britain's relationship with china? the report says the uk should pursue a positive relationship with beijing on trade and climate change but still says it presents a systemic challenge to britain. china represents the generational threat and the reason for that is that the idea that china will become more like us as it got richer or as its economy matured is clearly for the birds. the question for any new foreign policy is not what people at the foreign office think, but whether it changes people's lives. will this new focus on asia make people safer and more prosperous or will it neglect britain's interests closer to home? the report insists britain's commitment to euro atlantic security is unequivocal with nato at its heart but there is little about cooperation with europe on regional threats. like russia, which after the salisbury poison attack the report says remains the most acute threat to britain's security. the review rightly identifies russia as the number one threat that we face, both at home and abroad, but

morgan was bringing in record ratings for good morning britain, of course, but he quit on tuesday after refusing to apologise for his on—air criticism of the royal couple. so, whilst the oprah interview represents a historic moment for buckingham palace, is it also a massive deal for british media? perhaps so. does piers morgan's departure show that his brand of highly opinionated journalism is incompatible with an ofcom—regulated tv channel? and will he resurface on one of the new news channels that's coming to the uk which has promised to capitalise on that exact style of noisy journalism? let me introduce you to our guests. jane martinson is a professor ofjournalism at city university, and was the guardian's media editor. jane, just a moment ago when we were on the zoom call, you were on a phone call which terrified me slightly. who were you talking to and did it have to do with journalism? it was, i was actually talking to the guardian opinion desk, which i had written a piece about the aforementioned piers morgan and his departure from gmb. just give us a quick take. the top li

pageantry, palaces is at the centre of what they do for britain. i think this kind of conflict cannot be good for them. thank you all so much forjoining us today. shaun ley is here next week. from me, for now, goodbye. hello there. saturday was a disappointingly cold and cloudy day for many of us, and disappointing temperatures for early march. a bit of sunshine across western areas but it's looking like sunday is going to be a bit of a repeat performance, it is going to stay chilly with limited sunny breaks and quite a bit of cloud around. the settled conditions are because of this area of high pressure, which will continue to bring settled weather through sunday, but it's slowly going to lose its grip on our weather as we head on to the start of next week. so, early to sunday, it's going to be cold and under clear skies we will see some frost and mist and fog about and there will be patchy rain to northern and western scotland, a bit of snow over the high ground, but where we have the cloud, 4—6 degrees here versus sub—zero further south. so

britain's foreign secretary donna crop is under scrutiny after a leaked audio recording revealed him saying the u.k. should strike trade deals with nations even if they have low human rights standards shadier edwards dusty has been looking deeper into the story. united kingdom is apparently facing its greatest threat since the cold war that is in courting to the foreign secretary dominic roth who is now warning that britain is heading towards a decades where in which democracy is in retreat apparently because upcoming economic powers like that of china are increasing its global dominance in the world in fact it seems as though the united kingdom's own position in the international world order is now under threat democracies him a treat this decade the combined g.d.p. of water credit regimes is expected to exceed the combined g.d.p. of the world's democracy now the government has been accused of saying one thing and doing another and that comes as a leaked all to fall was revealed to the public in the public domain where in which the foreign secretary could be heard saying that the u.

street it's $70000.00 drivers in britain as workers instead of contract this and that means the drivers can now receive a minimum wage paid holiday and if eligible even pension plans this move follows litigation and a recent loss for the company in the british supreme court it's unclear what this means for operations in other countries to take company claims that the status of work unique to u.k. employment law and maintains the drivers are not categorized as employees. well for more let's bring in our business correspondent called frankfurt come on 1st of all what prompted this shift now good morning morning co well there was a supreme court ruling in the united kingdom of few weeks ago where the court said that it was not just a 3rd party booking agent you know with drivers being self-employed but that the drivers were actually workers which have a relationship with of self ordination and dependency with now due to this ruling by the supreme court in the u.k. facing to be sued sued by thousands more drivers so obviously you decided that this was a compromise a viable way to go it seem

but what will this mean for britain and china? the report angered some tory mps for seeking a positive relationship with beijing on trade and climate change, while acknowledging the country still presents a systemic challenge to the uk. china represents the generational threat and the reason for that is that the idea that china would become more like us as it got richer or as its economy matured is clearly for the birds. the question for any new foreign policy is not what people here at the foreign office think, but whether it changes people's lives. will this new focus on asia make people safer and more prosperous or will it neglect britain's interests closer to home? the report insists britain's commitment to euro—atlantic security is unequivocal with nato at its heart, but there is little about cooperation with europe on regional threats. like russia, which after the salisbury poison attack the report says remains the most acute threat to britain's security. the review rightly identifies russia as the number one threat that w

britain doesn't have that, remember. their slavery was done overseas out of sight. there absolutely needs to be an education especially amongst journalists and the media. >> what do you think the prince's response to the question -- you didn't like the question, but what did you think of the response? >> i thought it was more telling

well, it very much defines brand britain, i to brand britain? well, it very| much defines brand britain, to be honest. this family that has builtan empire be honest. this family that has built an empire and ruled and empire around the globe, it's been around for over 1000 years, so it's a core part of what defines the united kingdom, and so in the eyes of americans, the pomp and circumstance around the family, its traditions, but also the values that it upholds around what this country stands for, is quite meaningful and americans are drawn to this country, in large part, because the royal family is something that we in the us don't have, and so it's attractive, it's interesting, it's intriguing, and of course because of our own history in the us, it is something that we look at with both intrigue and great interest, and how intensely the allegations and the stories that we heard and that with 0prah that we heard and that with oprah winfrey, how impactful that will be on demand for interest in coming here is yet to be seen but it certainly will

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in the women's race two sisters won two medals for great britain. cindy sember and tiffany porter finished second and third respecitively behind the gold winning nadine visser from the netherlands. sember took silver — she's porter's younger sister. and in the last half hour, britain have another silver medal — in the women's 4 by a00m relay. the british quartet of zoe clark, jodie williams, ama pipi and jessie knight came in second just behind the netherlands. the men's quartet took bronze in the same event. two golds across the week for british athletes mean they finish third in the overall medal table. in cricket, england's women have continued their run of fine form, completing a clean sweep over new zealand in the t20 series, to add to their one—day triumph last month. after setting the home side a victory target of 129, they bowled them out forjust 96. mady villiers took a career best 3—10, and nat sciver wrapped up a 32—run win in wellington. it's brilliant to be able to come out here and play as a group again. we haven't played 0di

pageantry, palaces, at the centre of what they do for britain. i think this kind of conflict cannot be good for them. thank you all so much forjoining us today. shaun ley is here next week. from me, for now, goodbye. hello, it is another largely dry day out there for most parts of the uk, not everywhere, temperatures still a little bit down on what we'd expect this time of the year, so really through the rest of today expect a fairly chilly feel to the weather but there will be some spells of sunshine breaking through. other areas going to be seeing a little bit more on the way of cloud so it's a bit hit and miss in terms of cloud amounts out there today. fairy cloudy skies across parts of eastern england for a time, probably the best of the sunshine, wales, down towards the south—west, too. northern ireland clouding over from the west through the day, and scotland, some sunshine in the south but patchy outbreaks of rain further north. seven or eight degrees across england and wales. scotland and northern ireland about eight to ten celsius thro

will continue to criticize it a little bit not to want to watch britain unveil this review if you're sitting in beijing must be a frankly bewildering experience there is no question the trial it would pose a great challenge for a loop in society such as ours. but we've also worked with china where that is consistent with our values and interests boris johnson essentially saying that his response to issues like democracy in hong kong or the plight of the week is it will be empty words because that britain why essentially because we have a strong trade relationship with china was divided 1000000000 pounds trying is the 2nd largest economy in the world he's talking as if no one in china can actually hear him say he's pretty flexible on the old values thing sounds a bit of money to be had some of the more confusing detail when on the one hand this review decides that britain needs the ability to blow up the world another couple dozen times so it commits to a 40 percent increase in its nuclear stockpile while at the same time to be deterred a nuclear arms reduction indeed we believe that

morgan was bringing in record ratings for good morning britain, of course, but he quit on tuesday after refusing to apologise for his on—air criticism of the royal couple. so, whilst the oprah interview represents a historic moment for buckingham palace, is it also a massive deal for british media? perhaps so. does piers morgan's departure show that his brand of highly opinionated journalism is incompatible with an ofcom—regulated tv channel? and will he resurface on one of the new news channels that's coming to the uk which has promised to capitalise on that exact style of noisy journalism? let me introduce you to our guests. jane martinson is a professor ofjournalism at city university, and was the guardian's media editor. jane, just a moment ago when we were on the zoom call, you were on a phone call which terrified me slightly. who were you talking to and did it have to do with journalism? it was, i was actually talking to the guardian opinion desk, which i had written a piece about the aforementioned piers morgan and his departure from gmb. just give us a quick take, the top li

will continue to criticize it a little bit not to want to watch britain unveil this review if you're sitting in beijing must be a frankly bewildering experience there is no question the trial that would pose a great challenge for a loop in society such as ours but we've also worked with china where that is consistent with our values and interests boris johnson essentially saying that his response to issues like democracy in hong kong or the plight of the week is it will be empty words because that suits britain why essentially because we have a strong. drive that was divided 1000000000 pounds trying to is the 2nd largest economy in the world he's talking as if no one in china can actually hear him say he's pretty flexible on the old values thing there's a bit of money to be had some of the more confusing detail when on the one hand this review decides that britain needs. the t. to blow up the world another couple dozen times commits to a 40 percent increase in its nuclear stockpile while at the same time we're committed to a nuclear arms reduction indeed we believe that china should