for the right in israel's fourth election in two years — although exit polls suggest he may fail to secure a majority in parliament. three previous elections have ended inconclusively, with mr netanyahu, who faces a corruption trial, struggling to assemble a governing coalition. president biden has urged the senate to take swift action on the hotly—contested issue of gun control — there was another mass shooting on monday, in boulder, colorado. police have charged a 21 year—old man with ten counts of murder. it's just a week since another gunman killed eight people in atlanta. prince harry has begun a newjob at a professional coaching firm in the united states. better up offers counselling, mentorship and careers guidance. the duke of sussex said his aim is to highlight issues around mental health. the role is his latest since stepping back as a senior royal, last year. now on bbc news... tuesday in parliament

hello there and welcome to tuesday in parliament. on this programme, former chiefs of defence staff give their verdict on plans to reshape the uk's armed forces. we can't have it both ways. this is something that is matching money to credible ambition. scotland's first minister survives a motion of no confidence put down by the conservatives. how can parliament have confidence in the words of a first minister whose words have been found to be false. if you think you can bully me out of - office you are mistaken and you misjudge me. i and discrimination concerns over the possible use of vaccine certificates, allowing people to travel overseas. it would be throwing open the floodgates

for us to become a checkpoint society. a former chief of defence staff has told mps that cuts to the armed forces will mean the uk is less able to deploy to conflicts at scale. lord houghton was giving evidence to the defence committee following the integrated defence and security review and confirmation from the defence secretary ben wallace on monday that the size of the army is to be cut from 76,500 to 72,500. we appear to be reducing down to a sort of a one shot, quite long notice, not long sustainment set of armed forces. it's one of the things that it looks like the result of this review in terms of the numbers that have been reduced in terms of straightforward platforms and boots on the ground, that we are less able to deploy to conflicts at

scale. we can't have it both ways. this is something that is matching money to credible ambition, turning hollowed out forces into credible ones but not at the same scale. so it is attempting to balance the books. whether or not that survives contact with the next ten years, i've no idea. another former chief of defence staff worried about what could happen while new equipment and strategies were being built up. the mid 205, i see a significant dip in defence capability before the new capabilities have been properly grown and in that period, an adventurous russia, i'm not suggesting will try to seize paris or berlin, but mightjust be tempted to cause trouble by seizing a chunk of

estoniaor one of the other staes. that becomes a real problem for us. minister. meanwhile in the commons, a defence minister told mps that a british shipbuilding renaissance will be sparked by a shift toward supporting uk industry. jeremy quinn said naval procurement would be changed to make clear the option to choose to procure warships of any description here in the uk. this move is part of a major overhaul of the military aimed at boosting drones and cyber capability. i'm pleased to say the strategy is a detailed policy document and rightly so. its significance can be summed up in a few sentences. it signals a shift away from global competition by default, towards a more flexible, nuanced approach. it provides and we will continue to provide, greater clarity about the technology we seek in the market implications. long before we launch into the market, allowing companies to research, invest and upskill. we believe it is time to spark a renaissance in british shipbuilding. that's why we are today

changing our naval procurement policy, to make clear our ability to choose to procure warships of any description here in the uk. we welcomed the prime minister's extra 16.5 billion in capital funding after the last decade of decline and we welcome the details set out by the minister today. but 30,000 jobs in the defence industry have gone since 2010. and nearly 420 million in real terms has been cut in defence r and d so in many of the uk regions, the money promised today will still be well short of what has been taken away over the last decade. the snp turned to shipbuilding. the snp has consistently called on the uk government to guarantee that any future contracts for warships benefits scotland's shipyards so i welcome the investment to shipbuilding and a new procurement strategy. the minister must make a commitment to ensuring the uk and specifically the clyde will benefit from this investment.

the national audit office concluded in its recent report on the defence equipment plan that the department and i quote continues to make overoptimistic and inconsistent judgments when forecasting costs. and in addition, that information comes from the department's own cost assurance and analysis service so can the minister tell the house and the country what precisely he's going to do differently to make sure procurement and cost management in the equipment plan is managed better? jeremy quinn told her in any organisation with six and a half thousand contracts, there were going to be some that ran into problems but he accepted the department had to do better. msps have voted down a motion of no confidence in scotland's first minister, brought in the wake of her government's botched handling of harassment allegations against alex salmond. the conservatives pressed the vote after two reports were published. an independent investigation chaired by a senior lawyer james hamilton, cleared nicola sturgeon of breaching the

ministerial code. but the scottish parliament committee set up to investigate what went wrong in the government's handling of the complaints claimed miss sturgeon had misled them. i've already said that. i respect the hamilton report's conclusions but he publicly and specifically - handed the question of whether the first minister misled this. parliament back to l the parliament itself. and let's be clear- about what the committee inquiry of this - parliament has found. after taking months - of evidence from dozens of witnesses, even including the first minister's eight hours i of testimony, after all of that evidence gathering and - deliberation, the committeel found nicola sturgeon misled this parliament. how can parliament have confidence in. the words of a first minister- whose words have been found to be false? the honourable thing would be to resign. l whether the first- minister has that sense of honour is now between her and her conscience. - i move the motion in my name. i may not have got everything right in my

handling of the situation. the situation i was confronted with was extremely difficult, politically, certainly, but also personally. i accept and respect that some people faced with the same situation may have made different decisions. but i am clear in my mind that i acted appropriately and that i made the right judgments overall. and i reject entirely any suggestion of misleading this parliament. had mr hamilton's report gone the other way i would have accepted it. had he found that i had breached the code in anything other than the most technical and immaterial of ways, i would have been standing here right now tendering my resignation. but given that i have been cleared by that independent report of any breach of the ministerial code, then my message to all those especially to the conservatives, who now

despite ruth davidson's protestations, refuse to accept mr hamilton's conclusions is this. if you think you can bully me out of office you are mistaken and you misjudge me. if you want to remove me as first minister do it in an election. there are no winners in this debate. not the snp. the spectacle of using a harassment inquiry, a harassment inquiry, as a recruiting tool was grotesque. and the tories in the face of all these failures, playing politics, interested only in getting a scalp. scottish politics - today does not look pretty. talk of lynching. assassination. leaking the private - evidence of complainants. tabling motions of no. confidence before even all the evidence had been heard. - attacking a committee - because it does not agree with the first minister. lauding the performance of nicola sturgeon -

because she talked to - a committee for eight hours, is if the show is more - important than the facts. so here we are. in one hand, we have an independent report by someone with enough professionalism not to go hawking quotes to the press in advance, it clears the first minister of any breach of the ministerial code. and on the other hand, we have a report by a committee of this parliament whose members have prejudged the evidence, called for resignations before listening to it, betrayed the original complainants in the sexual harassment case and leaked their own conclusions to the media. their actions are a betrayal of the trust we have all placed in them when we appointed this committee. and the motion is therefore not agreed. when it came to the vote, ruth davidson's motion of no confidence in nicola sturgeon was defeated by 31 votes to 65, 27 members abstained. some of the uk's leading sports bodies have been challenged to do much more to protect athletes from

concussion. the digital culture media and sport committee inquiry comes as the football association and the rugby football union face growing pressure to act over reported links between concussion and dementia. the mps first heard from an ice hockey player whose career was ended after a head injury. she told the committee she was now being tested for multiple sclerosis. it was the biggest shock of my life. was when they said to me have you ever hit your head at any point? have you ever had a traumatic injury and i obviously spoke about my concussion. and when they told me, i think it's something like 22% more likely that you can have conditions like that. i think for me, a huge thing and that might have been the difference between me getting back on the ice and not getting back on the ice. so i wish someone had stopped me. also before the committee was dawn astle, whose fatherjeff, a

former england footballer, died of dementia in 2002 aged 59. in his case, a coroner recorded a verdict of death by industrial disease. she told the committee of the pathologist�*s finding at the time. trauma all the way through the brain, every slice of my dad's brain had trauma in it and it looked like the brain of a boxer. he wasn't a boxer. he was a footballer. and he believed it was the repeated heading of footballs. she said research was started in 2001 that she hoped would make the game safer but it was never published. and the study was only published when we challenged the pfa and the fa as to where it was and i believe that that study was in a nutshell, shoved in a drawer, that drawer was locked, and it only came out as i said because we challenged where it was.

a former england striker who also lost his professional player father to dementia told the mps their inquiry should have happened 20 years ago. the fact of the matter is is the authorities, the fa and pfa haven't done anywhere near enough, they have ignored, they have shunned, they have turned their back on what has been a massive issue, hundreds of players have died, my father included, he wasn't a big household name, he died and thousands, and we are not just talking about the professional game, we don't even know what has happened in the amateur game. we know that heading damages your health, you know. i worked out that if i headed 100 balls a week which is a low estimate, a0 weeks a year, my career was 18 years, 72,000 blows to my head, that's not going to do me a lot of good. is heading the ball 72,000 times in a career safe?

yes or no. i don't think you can put a number on it. | we have concerns and we wish to decrease the exposure the i players have to heading. that has to be - the direction that we go in. we've been advised that that should happen. - i think as has already been said, we don't. know that there is a number and what that would be and what is i a safe or not but that's not an excuse for not doing anythingj about it. there no argument about decreasing the number, i the amount of exposure - to heading within the game. the main exposure to heading is in- training, from what we can see from the video evidence, and i people's experience, and so. limiting that training in terms of the number, possibly- the type of heading as well, is definitely the direction that we need to go in. | i don't have any dispute with that at all. - mps across the commons had

welcomed proposals to set up a new high risk science agency which will aim to make ground—breaking discoveries. the advanced research and invention agency will be given £800 million in funding over four years and will have a higher tolerance forfailure higher tolerance for failure than normal. higher tolerance forfailure than normal. business secretary said it would have a mandate. this new agency will be characterised firstly by a sole focus on funding high—risk, high reward research. it will have strategic and cultural autonomy. it will invest in the judgment of able people and it will also enjoy flexibility and i wide degree of operational freedom. ., ,., i wide degree of operational freedom-— i wide degree of operational freedom. ., ~ ., freedom. labour like the idea but felt the — freedom. labour like the idea but felt the body _ freedom. labour like the idea but felt the body should - freedom. labour like the idea but felt the body should not l freedom. labour like the idea l but felt the body should not be allowed to do what it wanted. government should set a clear mandate — government should set a clear mandate and framework for this organisation and get out of the way and — organisation and get out of the way and not interfere with its day—to—day decision—making. now, _ day—to—day decision—making. now. i— day—to—day decision—making.

now, i also believe there is a democratic case because the priority— democratic case because the priority goals for spending £800 _ priority goals for spending £800 million over this parliament should be driven by democratic choices, not about the specific items that it funds_ the specific items that it funds but about the goals and mission _ funds but about the goals and mission. it funds but about the goals and mission. , . , funds but about the goals and mission. , ., _ ., mission. it is easy to dissipate _ mission. it is easy to dissipate £800 - mission. it is easy to i dissipate £800 million mission. it is easy to - dissipate £800 million on so many— dissipate £800 million on so many projects _ dissipate £800 million on so many projects that _ dissipate £800 million on so many projects that actually i dissipate £800 million on so. many projects that actually you don't _ many projects that actually you don't get — many projects that actually you don't get the _ many projects that actually you don't get the transformation i don't get the transformation that— don't get the transformation that is— don't get the transformation that is in_ don't get the transformation that is in prospect. - don't get the transformation that is in prospect. that - that is in prospect. that budget, _ that is in prospect. that budget, based - that is in prospect. that budget, based on- that is in prospect. that budget, based on the l that is in prospect. that - budget, based on the evidence we took, — budget, based on the evidence we took, are _ budget, based on the evidence we took, are committee - we took, are committee recommended - we took, are committee recommended there - we took, are committee . recommended there should we took, are committee - recommended there should be no more _ recommended there should be no more than — recommended there should be no more than two _ recommended there should be no more than two focal _ recommended there should be no more than two focal points - recommended there should be no more than two focal points for. more than two focal points for the organisation. _ more than two focal points for the organisation. the- more than two focal points for the organisation.— more than two focal points for the organisation. the snp was concerned _ the organisation. the snp was concerned there _ the organisation. the snp was concerned there were - the organisation. the snp was| concerned there were unknown the organisation. the snp was i concerned there were unknown s. what are the priorities? net zero technology? autonomous vehicles? quantum computing? i don't think any of us would argue if the uk were to face a specific urgent challenge, there would be the need to get money where its needed and fast. the difficulty is here as we are being asked to support a bill to set up a body to fund high—risk research, but we

don't know what they are researching and we don't know why. researching and we don't know wh . ., . ., ., why. how can he or the hard-working _ why. how can he or the hard-working taxpayer| why. how can he or the i hard-working taxpayer be why. how can he or the - hard-working taxpayer be sure hard—working taxpayer be sure that this — hard—working taxpayer be sure that this use of public money delivers _ that this use of public money delivers greater value to the british— delivers greater value to the british public than any other use? — british public than any other use? i— british public than any other use? i accept that would be a difficult — use? i accept that would be a difficult question to answer and — difficult question to answer and we _ difficult question to answer and we need to accept there will be — and we need to accept there will be downsides. but the secretary of state should be clear— secretary of state should be clear about whether this high risk investment is new money or whether— risk investment is new money or whether it's been taken away from — whether it's been taken away from other established and lower— from other established and lower risk programmes elsewhere?— lower risk programmes elsewhere? ., ., ., . elsewhere? you are watching tuesday in — elsewhere? you are watching tuesday in parliament. - the house of lords has conceded defeat in its long—running battle to prevent the government doing trade deals with countries accused of genocide. piers dropped their attempt to change the trade bill to create a panel of judicial experts to assess whether a country was implicated in the crime. the lords had previously defeated the government on the issue three times, amid concern about china �*s treatment of the

uighur muslim people. it’s china 's treatment of the uighur muslim people. it's not sustainable _ uighur muslim people. it's not sustainable for _ uighur muslim people. it's not sustainable for this _ uighur muslim people. it's not sustainable for this country - uighur muslim people. it's not sustainable for this country to | sustainable for this country to be pretending on the one hand we could boost trade and have businesses that my business as usual with china while on the other hand there is ever greater evidence which will of course be come ever more prominent in the media of extreme situation in the western part of china which increasingly resembles a genocide. increasingly resembles a genocide-— increasingly resembles a genocide. the peers have accepted _ genocide. the peers have accepted a _ genocide. the peers have accepted a compromise l genocide. the peers have - accepted a compromise which will see ministers responding to committees and flag up credible reports of genocide. this approach, my lords, allows us to ensure parliament is in the driving seat on this issue. and that it can hold the government to account for its trade policy. debating the issues openly in both your lodger �*s house and on the other place. and it does this whilst respecting the government �*s long—standing policy that it is for competent

courts to make determinations of genocide. courts to make determinations of genocide-— of genocide. ministers have announced _ of genocide. ministers have announced sanctions - of genocide. ministers have | announced sanctions against four chinese officials. a leading human rights lawyer said they weren't necessarily targeted at the right people. one of the things about sanctions, targeted sanctions, go after the people who got the power, the people who have also got the money, who have assets that they put away in different places. go after them, that they put away in different places. go afterthem, deny them visas, make it uncomfortable, shame is something that matters to the powerful. fin something that matters to the owerful. ~ ., ._ something that matters to the owerful. ~., ., ' something that matters to the owerful. ' ., , powerful. on monday, 29 tory mps rebelled _ powerful. on monday, 29 tory mps rebelled against - powerful. on monday, 29 tory mps rebelled against the - mps rebelled against the government over the genocide issue, reducing its commons majority to just 18 votes. last majority to 'ust 18 votes. last ni . ht, majority to 'ust 18 votes. last night, soo — majority to just 18 votes. last night, 300 members - majority to just 18 votes. last night, 300 members of - majority to just 18 votes. last night, 300 members of the house of commons but the government within a whisker of defeat. that and repeated majorities of over 100 in your lodger �*s house have demonstrated that as new genocides occur in places, this argument is far from over

and is unlikely to go away. the trade bill has _ and is unlikely to go away. the trade bill has now— and is unlikely to go away. the trade bill has now completed its passage through parliament and are set to become law. the european commission has announced it will roll out a digital coronavirus certificate to allow anyone who's been vaccinated or tested negative, to travel within the eu. in the uk, the government is looking at whether a vaccine certificate could be used to allow the return of audiences to large events. but a committee of mps has heard the certificates could be discriminatory or even pointless.— discriminatory or even ointless. . , , pointless. what is the purpose. you can see — pointless. what is the purpose. you can see behind _ pointless. what is the purpose. you can see behind people - you can see behind people thinking here, is the idea of someone has the vaccine, then they are safe, they can't pass on the infection and so they can go to public places. but we don't actually know that at this point. we don't have robust scientific evidence. and so, it could be that the vaccine certificates are anyway rather dangerous and that they

could give people false impressions of safety when they are still infectious. fin impressions of safety when they are still infectious.— are still infectious. on the other hand, _ are still infectious. on the other hand, take - are still infectious. on the other hand, take 100 - are still infectious. on the i other hand, take 100 people are still infectious. on the - other hand, take 100 people in a pub, 90 of whom are vaccinated.— a pub, 90 of whom are vaccinated. ' :: . ., vaccinated. 90 are vaccinated, the are vaccinated. 90 are vaccinated, they are not — vaccinated. 90 are vaccinated, they are not going _ vaccinated. 90 are vaccinated, they are not going to - vaccinated. 90 are vaccinated, they are not going to die, - vaccinated. 90 are vaccinated, they are not going to die, they are very unlikely to get very unwell. very unlikely. the people we are protecting are the non—vaccinated, you're saying to people you can go to the public as you might get infected and that's not actually the job of government any more than it is to tell me i should not go rock climbing or whatever, i should not go rock climbing orwhatever, it's i should not go rock climbing or whatever, it's the risk to the ten and that seems to me, the ten and that seems to me, the government has got very confused about, the ethical basis of who you are protecting, protecting the whole population. you're not, you are protecting those who are not vaccinated. the witnesses _ are not vaccinated. the witnesses are - are not vaccinated. the witnesses are good - are not vaccinated. the witnesses are good vaccination certificates were a step towards identity cards but was that a problem? i towards identity cards but was that a problem?— that a problem? i 'ust wonder if there is h that a problem? i 'ust wonder if there is a h that a problem? ijust wonder if there is a growing _ if there is a growing acceptance by the wider population for identity cards because the reality is, in their— because the reality is, in their everyday lives, they are

constantly being required to provide _ constantly being required to provide identification sol wonder. _ provide identification sol wonder, is that the natural progression that we will move towards — progression that we will move towards them and what we should be doing _ towards them and what we should be doing is having that debate about— be doing is having that debate about how we go about it in a secure — about how we go about it in a secure way? i about how we go about it in a secure way?— about how we go about it in a secure way? i think that's what difference _ secure way? i think that's what difference about _ secure way? i think that's what difference about the _ difference about the certificates, - difference about the certificates, it - difference about the | certificates, it would difference about the . certificates, it would be throwing _ certificates, it would be throwing open - certificates, it would be throwing open the - certificates, it would be - throwing open the floodgates for us — throwing open the floodgates for us to— throwing open the floodgates for us to become _ throwing open the floodgates for us to become a _ throwing open the floodgatesl for us to become a checkpoint society~ — for us to become a checkpoint society the _ for us to become a checkpoint society. the implication - for us to become a checkpoint society. the implication beingj society. the implication being that employers, _ society. the implication being that employers, private - that employers, private companies, _ that employers, private companies, perhaps- that employers, private l companies, perhaps even that employers, private - companies, perhaps even public services — companies, perhaps even public services would _ companies, perhaps even public services would have _ companies, perhaps even public services would have the - companies, perhaps even public services would have the right i services would have the right to demand _ services would have the right to demand certain _ services would have the right to demand certain sensitive i to demand certain sensitive health— to demand certain sensitive health information, - to demand certain sensitive health information, let- to demand certain sensitive i health information, let alone identity— health information, let alone identity information- health information, let alone identity information and - health information, let alone| identity information and even biometrics, _ identity information and even biometrics, in _ identity information and even biometrics, in order- identity information and even biometrics, in order for- identity information and even biometrics, in order for you i identity information and evenl biometrics, in order for you to access— biometrics, in order for you to access and _ biometrics, in order for you to access and just _ biometrics, in order for you to access and just live _ biometrics, in order for you to access and just live your - access and just live your normal— access and just live your normal life. _ access and just live your normal life. it _ access and just live your normal life.— access and just live your normal life. it was the last session of _ normal life. it was the last session of first _ normal life. it was the last session of first ministers i normal life. it was the last| session of first ministers in wales of elections in may. questions focused on the welsh government �*s relationship with westminster. a conservative accused the first minister of being a constant critic of the uk government.— being a constant critic of the uk government. you are in fact have notjust — uk government. you are in fact have notjust been _ uk government. you are in fact have notjust been critical - uk government. you are in fact have notjust been critical but i have notjust been critical but you've regularly tried to

undermine the uk government �*s policy, particularly with regard to brexit and you recently described the prime minister, borisjohnson, as minister, boris johnson, as being minister, borisjohnson, as being awful stuff that's not conducive to having a positive working relationship between ministers. , ~ , ministers. the first minister said the uk _ ministers. the first minister said the uk government - ministers. the first minister- said the uk government wanted to roll back devolution and put wales back in its place. i am wales back in its place. i am critical of — wales back in its place. i am critical of the _ wales back in its place. i am critical of the uk _ wales back in its place. i am i critical of the uk government, of course i am. but i do it because i am a firm believer in the future of the united kingdom. and yet we have a government at westminster who every day, stokes the fires of nationalism. it every day, stokes the fires of nationalism.— every day, stokes the fires of nationalism. it was one former first minister _ nationalism. it was one former first minister 's _ nationalism. it was one former first minister 's last _ first minister �*s last appearance at the session. he is appearance at the session. he: is stepping down at the election. do you look forward to a day when the uk has a proper constitution, a proper structure, a time when the rule of law is enshrined in law and not simply a convention, and the time for wales is a full and equal partner in the

governance of the uk? well, i think it's absolutely _ governance of the uk? well, i think it's absolutely fitting - think it's absolutely fitting that— think it's absolutely fitting that the last time that a fornter_ that the last time that a former first minister takes part— former first minister takes part in— former first minister takes part in first minister's questions, that he should revert— questions, that he should revert to a subject on which he has for— revert to a subject on which he has for a — revert to a subject on which he has for a decade, led the debate _ has for a decade, led the debate across the united kingdom. how is it possible to have _ kingdom. how is it possible to have confidence that the uk government is genuinely interested in securing a future for the — interested in securing a future for the united kingdom when at every— for the united kingdom when at every opportunity it has, to do something positive and constructive in that direction, to describe its actions as tardy— to describe its actions as tardy would be to give it the most — tardy would be to give it the most generous possible construction. a most generous possible construction. �* ' ,, construction. a different issue will turn to. _ construction. a different issue will turn to. we _ construction. a different issue will turn to. we you _ construction. a different issue will turn to. we you now - construction. a different issue i will turn to. we you now commit to extending free school meals eligibility? you dropped your child poverty target which we think is a matter of great regret. but will you take this

opportunity to promise a hot mealfor opportunity to promise a hot meal for every opportunity to promise a hot mealfor every child opportunity to promise a hot meal for every child whose family is in receipt of universal credit? i family is in receipt of universal credit? ., ., universal credit? i will not go into an election _ universal credit? i will not go into an election promise - universal credit? i will not go into an election promise and l into an election promise and people — into an election promise and people things that i know are simply— people things that i know are simply not possible. free school _ simply not possible. free school meals, this government has a _ school meals, this government has a very— school meals, this government has a very proud record indeed. the first— has a very proud record indeed. the first government in the united _ the first government in the united kingdom to guarantee free school meals during school holidays, — free school meals during school holidays, during the pandemic, the first— holidays, during the pandemic, the first government in the united _ the first government in the united kingdom to guarantee that will continue for the whole _ that will continue for the whole of the next academic year~ — whole of the next academic ear. . whole of the next academic ear, ., ., , whole of the next academic ear. . ~ whole of the next academic ear. ., ~ ., year. that was mark drakeford. tuesday to _ year. that was mark drakeford. tuesday to mark _ year. that was mark drakeford. tuesday to mark the _ year. that was mark drakeford. tuesday to mark the first - tuesday to mark the first anniversary of lockdown being imposed on the uk. it was on the 23rd of march that a sombre borisjohnson address the nation. l boris johnson address the nation. , ., ., , nation. i urge you at this moment _ nation. i urge you at this moment of— nation. i urge you at this moment of national - nation. i urge you at this - moment of national emergency, to stay at home, protect the nhs, and save lives.- to stay at home, protect the nhs, and save lives. one year on, nhs, and save lives. one year on. people — nhs, and save lives. one year on, people across _ nhs, and save lives. one year on, people across the - nhs, and save lives. one year on, people across the uk - nhs, and save lives. one year| on, people across the uk came to a standstill to remember those who died. the uk �*s

official death toll was 364 on the day borisjohnson called the day borisjohnson called the first lockdown, is now more than 126,000. in the commons, the speakers are lindsay hoyle puzzle proceedings just before noon for a moment of reflection.— noon for a moment of reflection. , , ., ., reflection. every single one of us has been — reflection. every single one of us has been affected. - reflection. every single one of us has been affected. it - reflection. every single one of us has been affected. it is - us has been affected. it is right— us has been affected. it is right that we pause now together with the whole country, and remember those who have _ country, and remember those who have died — country, and remember those who have died and those who are bereaved. have died and those who are bereaved-— have died and those who are bereaved. . ., , bereaved. then the chamber fell silent. and that moment of reflection brings us to the end of this programme. tune in at the same time tomorrow, is borisjohnson faces questions about his handling of the pandemic, when he impairs in front of the liaison committee of senior mps. but for now, from me, goodbye.

hello. the weather is looking decidedly mixed through the rest of this week. there will be some cell spells of sunshine but some showers which will be heavy and briefly, wintry as some cold air digs in. at the tail end of the week. but in the shorter term, we have this frontal system to greet us on wednesday morning. a band of cloud and very light and patchy rain, really dragging its heels, moving slowly south eastwards, taking a good part of the day to get into the far south—east of england. all the while, wells, the midlands, northern england will brighten up northern england will brighten up with lots of sunshine, for northern ireland and scotland, sunshine and showers will be replaced by widespread and heavy rain pushing from the west later, accompanied by a strengthening south—westerly wind. temperatures ranging from seven or 8 degrees in northern scotland, to 13 or may be 14 across parts of eastern england. through wednesday evening, ourfirst frontal system will finally clear away,

this next band of showery rain will push south eastwards and a new packet of showers will push on across northern ireland and western scotland by the end of the night. some clear spells in between, temperatures in most places staying above freezing, a few prone locations could just see a touch of frost. thursday is a classic sunshine and showers today. some of the showers will be heavy. possibly thundery. most wide spread across western and northern parts of the uk. it will be fairly breezy out there as well. temperatures at this stage quite respectable, ten to maybe 14 degrees in places. but those temperatures are set to drop is this cold front swings through during thursday night into friday, it will take the rain with it, some of that will linger on friday morning, behind it we pick up this feed of cold airfrom behind it we pick up this feed of cold air from the west. and that means some of the showers, you can see the splodges on the map, will start to turn wintry over higher ground, some sleet and snow mixing in, some hail and snow mixing in, some hail and thunder possible as well.

fairly windy out there, particularly gusty around the coasts and over the hills. given the strength of the wind, it will feel much colder. 7—9 , may be briefly getting into double digits across parts of eastern england. but it is a short lived cold spell. it will turn warmer again through the weekend, some rain in the north and west, drierfurther weekend, some rain in the north and west, drier further south and west, drier further south and east.

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