people have been killed in gaza and seven in israel. now the israeli defense forces say they have intensified their assault on the gaza strip but have said ground troops have not entered the territory. palestinian civilians have been fleeing their homes and taking shelter outside of gaza, while sectarian clashes betweenjewish and arab citizens who live side by side has also spread to the streets of tel aviv and lod amid warnings of civil war. in india, more than 4,000 people have died from coronavirus in the last 2a hours alone, and hospitals in many parts of the country are being overrun as the country records nearly as many coronavirus cases as the rest of the world combined.

hello and welcome to the week in parliament. a week when the queen set out boris johnson's plans for the new political year. my government will level up opportunities across all parts of the united kingdom, supporting jobs, businesses and economic growth. also, in this program — ex—prime minister's question time. mps grill david cameron over the greensill affair. this is a painful day, coming back to a place that i love and respect so much. britain's top police officer defends the handling of a vigilfor sarah everard. i think it's an extremely hard thing to second—guess when you are looking back at it but i'm proud of the way they responded, and i do think

they took these issues into account. and 80 years on, the speaker recalls the night the luftwaffe bombed westminster. as a bomb was dropping on the lords, in westminster hall, elizabeth tower, but the big bomb that caused the real damage was in this chamber. but first, the state opening of parliament was a dressed—down and socially distanced occasion compared to previous years, but no less significant for that. the queen's speech, which is written for her by ministers, outlined 30 proposed new laws, a signal of the government's priorities for the year ahead. so there was plenty of talk of levelling up, but only nine words and no new laws promised on social care. a bill to ease planning controls in england and another to require voters to prove their identity before casting their vote are already proving controversial, but a been widely welcomed.

some pomp and pageantry did survive the stripped—down ceremony, even if the queen arrived by than horse—drawn coach for her first major engagement since the death of the duke of edinburgh. as is traditional, black rod had the door to the house of commons slammed in herface to emphasise the commons�* independence. usually, party leaders walk side by side to the lords and even chat, awkwardly, but that is not permitted under covid restrictions. the social distancing continued as mps arrived in the lords to hear the speech. my lords and members of the house of commons, my government's priority is to deliver an national recovery from the pandemic that makes the united kingdom stronger, healthier and more prosperous than before. to achieve this, my government will level up opportunities across all parts of the united kingdom, supporting jobs, businesses and economic growth,

and addressing the impact of the pandemic on public services. measures will be brought forward to support the health and well—being of the nation, including to tackle obesity and improve mental health. proposals and social care reform will be brought forward. on his first day as prime minister, borisjohnson promised to "fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared". as mps began to debate the contents of the queen's speech, the labour leader sir keir starmer recalled that promise. 650 days on from that promise, what did we hear in this in this address? proposals on social care reform will be brought forward. no legislation, no new funding, no details, no timescale. failure to act for a decade —

and it was failure to act for a decade — was bad enough, but failure to act after the pandemic is nothing short of an insult to the whole nation. the prime minister promised to publish plans for england by the end of the year. more widely, he promised to level up by spreading opportunity more evenly. the damage that covid has done could not be minimised, but... we must use this opportunity to achieve an national recovery, so thatjabs, jabs, jabs, becomes jobs, jobs, jobs. that is our plan, mr speaker. with scotland's first minister demanding another independence referendum, the prime minister sought to highlight the benefits of the uk. everything we do, mr speaker, will be done as one united kingdom, combining the genius of england, wales, scotland and northern ireland, joined together by blood and family, tradition and history, into the most successful political, economic and social union

the world has ever known. in all its centuries, the union has seldom proved its worth more emphatically than during this pandemic. but the snp said the speech showed contempt for scotland despite the snp's election victory. that electoral earthquake now opens the democratic path that will shape scotland's future — and let's be clear, that future will be in scotland's hands and will be the people's choice, and nobody, nobody else. and there was a reminder of problems in northern ireland after the brexit deal with the eu. it pains me to see young people out ion the streets in northern irelandl once again engaging in violence against the police. _ it pains me to see - the instability that is arising because of concerns i around this protocol. to be clear, mr deputy speaker, violence is not the way to - address this, but politics has to be

seen to be working, and the - government must listen to those of us who have a political voice. i borisjohnson�*s predecessor was among those calling for action on social care. i know it's not an easy issue. i put forward a plan. it was comprehensively rejected. so i recognise the difficulty in trying to come forward with something here, but it is an issue that we need to grasp. and any care policy for england would have funding consequences for the rest of the uk. there is a will across this house to work together on this matter come on this matter. there is a will to come together across all of the parliaments of the united kingdom, to work on this matter together. we have to work together to do it, but we will have failed the people who we serve, if we do not address the care crisis which we have experienced in the last year, and which we know has been there for years previously. liz sample roberts. the former prime minister david cameron faced a tough grilling by

mps over his work for the collapsed finance company greensill capital. he told mps on the treasury committee he was unaware the company was in trouble when he lobbied the government on its behalf. this is a painful day, coming back to a place that i love and respect so much, albeit virtually, but in these circumstances. and i've had plenty of time to reflect on what has happened. it has emerged that david cameron sent more than a0 texts and whatsapp messages to ministers and officials lobbying on greensill�*s behalf. i hope it is accepted that nothing i did was in breach of the rules, but on the wider test of what is appropriate, as i said previously, it would be better to use more formal means of contact. via a letter. he said greensill�*s aim had been to ensure small firms got the finance they needed during the pandemic. greensill was not asking for direct government support or some sort of bailout. and at this stage, april last

year, i certainly had no sense at all that the business itself was in any danger of collapse. the mps wanted to know how much he was paid. there has been all sorts of speculation in the press, some people suggesting to friends that you could, if everything went — that you could, if everything went the _ that you could, if everything went the right way, make of a gain— went the right way, make of a gain of— went the right way, make of a gain of about £60 million and others — gain of about £60 million and others have said that is a vastly— others have said that is a vastly inflated figure. can you tell us something about what you would have expected to have gained had your involvement gone to plan, and you had had an effective exit from the business at some point in future? — well, i was paid an annual amount — a generous annual amount, far more than i earned as prime minister — and i had shares, not share options, but shares in the business invested over a period of time of my contract. he said he had a big economic investment in greensill, but the exact sum was a private matter. you had the enormous privilege of being the prime minister of our— great country. you are one of only five people post—war to have been re—elected to lead our government. do you not feel that

you have demeaned yourself and your position by using whatsapp around whitehall on the back of a fraudulent enterprise based on selling bonds—of high risk debt to unsuspectin- investors? well, my view is that what i did was i made a choice to work for a business which i hope would be a uk fin tech success story, and many people believe that it would, and i wanted to help the company grow and expand and what i did at the time of economic crisis was put to the government what i genuinely believed to be a good idea for how to get money into the hands of small businesses and get their bills paid early. david cameron. earlier in the week, the same committee heard from mr cameron's former boss lex greensill, who began his evidence with an apology. please understand that i bear complete responsibility for the collapse of greensill capital. i am desperately saddened that more than 1000 very hard—working people have

lost theirjobs at greensill. over three hours, he struggled to convince sceptical mps. mr greensill, are you a fraudster? no, i am not. frankly, it smacks of fraudulent behaviourj franks of the sort of stuff- we saw conducted by the likes of madoff in - the financial crisis. that is what it smacks of. it doesn't smack. of a proper process where people could get supply chain finance that is reliable and - credible. when i started greensill, no member of this committee or, indeed, i think almost any institution, had heard of supply chain finance. now, every major financial institution in the world offers it as a product. what would you say to them that makes it clear that it wasn't a fraud, because i think

that is at the heart of what you are being held to account for here. we were using data inside corporate systems to allow the customers or suppliers, if they had to, to be able to — for us to be able to unlock capital, using that information. lex greensill. the northern ireland secretary brandon lewis has said the government is truly sorry for the events in ballymurphy 50 years ago, in which ten people were killed. in the space of 36 hours in august 1971, nine men and one woman were shot in and around the ballymurphy area of belfast in the wake of an army operation. brandon lewis told the commons that the findings of the coroner earlier this week were clear. those who died were entirely innocent of wrongdoing. the events of ballymurphy should never have happened. the families of those who were killed should never have had to experience the grief and trauma of that loss. they should not have had to wait nearly five decades

for the judgement this week, nor been compelled to relive that terrible time in august 1971, again and again, in their long, distressing quest for truth. the government profoundly regrets and is truly sorry and how the investigations after these terrible events were handled, and for the additional pain that the families have had to endure in theirfight to clear the names of their loved ones since they began their campaign almost five decades ago. downing street said borisjohnson had apologised to northern ireland's first and deputy first ministers in a phone call but labour pointed out how a former tory prime minister had behaved. in the aftermath of the bloody sunday inquiry, david cameron came to this house and apologised in a statement. he didn't bried apologies feom disputed calls with politicians. he took full responsibility. where is the prime minister today, and why has he not publicly

apologised to the ballymurphy families and to this house? will he take responsibility as prime minister and show the victims the respect they so obviously deserve? the secretary of state says the british army made terrible errors in northern ireland. joan connolly was a mother of eight — she was shot by the british army four times. she was left lying on the ground for hours, to die. that is not an error. that is sheer, bloody murder. will the secretary of state ask the prime minister to come out of hiding, come with me and meet the ballymurphy families and tau— them to their faces why he wants— to protect their killers. the prime minister is contacting the families directly as well as his public apology on behalf of the state and his conversations with the with the first and deputy first minister, which ijoined him for yesterday. now obviously, members and colleagues will be aware the report was

published on tuesday, which was the first full site we had on the report. we received on tuesday, we put out a statement on the same day. i have now made a statement to the house of commons, having had an opportunity to reflect on but obviously, we will be considering that report a leading unionist spoke of ira terrorists. their victims will never see any justice ever in our country, and therefore, we can't have a scapegoating of our soldiers, of our police officers, a perverse exhibiting and rewriting in an alice in wonderland—like way of what happened in northern ireland, where the peacekeepers become accused of being the peace breakers. now borisjohnson�*s announcement of an independent public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic has been widely welcomed, but his decision to delay

it until next year was equally widely criticised. the prime minister told mps the government was fully committed to learning the lessons at every stage of the crisis. a covid memorial wall outside a hospital opposite parliament remembers those who lost their lives, and the commission will look at ways of commemorating what we have all been through. but the scope of the inquiry won't be decided until after talks with the devolved governments in scotland, wales and northern ireland. and it is unlikely to report until after the next general election. the prime minister said the state had an obligation to learn every lesson for the future. it will place the state action under the microscope and we should be mindful of the scale for undertaking this droplet. the exercise of identifying and disclosing all relevant information, the months of preparation and retrospective analysis and the time people will have to spend testifying in public, in some cases today's government will place a

significant burden on the whole of government and scientific advisors and on many others. the labour leader recalled his meetings with families bereaved by covid. the hardest bit was the details. they told me about not being _ details. they told me about not being able to say goodbye weather in hospital or elsewhere. and not being able to have — elsewhere. and not being able to have a — elsewhere. and not being able to have a funeral in debate that— to have a funeral in debate that they wanted. he thought the inquiry should begin this year. the principle is that the enquiry— the principle is that the enquiry should be as soon as possible _ enquiry should be as soon as possible. i understand a statutory enquiry will take time — statutory enquiry will take time to— statutory enquiry will take time to set up but why cannot it be — time to set up but why cannot it be teter— time to set up but why cannot it be later why cannot it start earlier? _ the snp thought the vaccines are generated out. just as the hope is fragile, so is the economic recovery. this morning's figures demonstrate experience by the economy and the scale of the recovery needed.

the liberal democrats, who called for an inquiry last year, said the announcement was welcome. desperately needed so that the public— desperately needed so that the public can understand why the uk has — public can understand why the uk has suffered one of the highest _ uk has suffered one of the highest death toll is critically important that this enquiry— critically important that this enquiry is properly independent and has — enquiry is properly independent and has the confidence of the public, — and has the confidence of the public, including the bereaved tamities— public, including the bereaved families of over 27,000 people who so— families of over 27,000 people who so tragically lost their lives _ a labour mp shared her family's experience. my my father—in—law died at the beginning of the pandemic. 0ur beginning of the pandemic. our children were not able to go to their grandfather's funeral. let me welcome the commitment to those families for a memorial. but the scope of the enquiry — we know the fracturing of social care, running the nhs at 90% capacity, the strategy in the flu pandemic all forewarned much of what has happened and for those who have worked in

emergency planning, we were shocked at the initial responses. i shocked at the initial responses.— shocked at the initial resonses. . y ., responses. i am so sorry to hear about _ responses. i am so sorry to hear about her _ responses. i am so sorry to hear about her loss, - responses. i am so sorry to hear about her loss, mr- responses. i am so sorry to - hear about her loss, mr speaker and any— hear about her loss, mr speaker and any terms of reference that we could — and any terms of reference that we could devise but we would not include looking back at the state _ not include looking back at the state of — not include looking back at the state of the priorities before covid — state of the priorities before covid strike this country. 0thers raised issues that they felt couldn't wait for the inquiry. if you want to reside in a care home, you have to spend a0 days isolating in your room. can the prime minister look again at the isolation period ——1a days. she is also right to raise the very— she is also right to raise the very painful questions of visiting _ very painful questions of visiting and the ability of care _ visiting and the ability of care home residents to get to leave — care home residents to get to leave that care home safely and, _ leave that care home safely and. mr_ leave that care home safely and, mr speaker, we have to balance — and, mr speaker, we have to balance the risks to them as wett — balance the risks to them as wett we _ balance the risks to them as well. we try to increase the

number— well. we try to increase the number of visitors they can have — number of visitors they can have and _ number of visitors they can have and we hope very soon what will be _ have and we hope very soon what will be possible. time now for a look at some other news in brief. a fire at a block of flats in east london prompted questions in the lords on why some high—rise buildings are still covered in dangerous cladding almost four years after the grenfell tower fire in which 72 people died. a minister said the government had been pressing the developer, ballymore, for more than two years to replace unsafe cladding on new providence wharf. piers were told that remediation work had not been carried out despite the government funding the lion's share of the £12 million cost. we also are paying for expert construction advice on this particular advice and that is been onjuly 2020, prior to the fire and this year i had two meetings. those meetings of the senior ship and

other members of london government to try and get the work started and sadly, it only started this monday. the metropolitan police commissioner has defended the way her officers handled the video in the memory of sarah everard. hundreds of people had gathered on a clapham common in london after her body was found in woodland in kent. the force was criticised after some women were handcuffed and removed from the crowds, although the police inspectorate found a policing appropriate. cressida dick was appearing before the home affairs committee. you talked about people being shocked by the images and i absolutely understand that some people were upset by them. i would underline again that my report points out how well the officers conducted themselves at the time and that they were not heavy—handed at all and that they took a very proportionate approach and they did not rush in. she said her officers had had to enforce the covid regulations and had dispersed weddings, funerals

and itjust that day, two other videos. i think it is an extremely hard thing to second—guess when you are looking back at it, but i'm proud of the way they responded in that they took these issues into account. england's sports minister has said council should look sympathetically at applications to stage park run, 35 kilometre events that, before the pandemic, were held every saturday morning across the uk. they hope to return in england next month although several venues have yet to grant permission. there is nothing stopping them from starting soon and the plan is to start again nationally from early june and i do encourage local authorities to work with park runs so that they can open safely and take the applications very sympathetically because we would all like to see park runs start again very soon. members of the welsh parliament have returned to work after the senedd election, with labour winning 30 of the 60 seats. the party has led the welsh government for 22 years. the plaid cymru, ms, elinjones, fought off a challenge from the conservative russell george to

continue as presiding officer or llywydd. this election is a neighbourly election. the members, i guess in olden times, we would've sorted that out as a dual at dawn on the mountains. but this feels far safer and we will both live to tell the tale. at holyrood, members of the scottish parliament elected on the same day have been sworn in. karen adam, the new snp msp for banffshire and buchan coast made her affirmation in sign language. before becoming the first sikh to take before becoming the first sikh to take the oath, pam gosal of the scottish conservative spoke the words of of the mool mantar, the statement of belief, in punjabi. and britain's newest mp took her seat in the commons after the hartlepool by—election. joe mortimer won the constituency for the conservatives.

it had been labour for almost 50 years, and the defeat prompted a shadow cabinet reshuffle. i swear by almighty god that i will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her majesty queen elizabeth, her heirs and successors according to law. so help me god. getting a warmer section in the commons there. it's 80 years since the chamber was destroyed by german bombs during the biggest second world war air raid on london. the speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, has been looking back at events in may 19a1. plane after plane was dropping high explosive bombs and incendiary devices that were dropping all over london. famous buildings were hit, and none more famous than the palace of westminster. as a bomb was dropping on the lords, on westminster hall, elizabeth tower, but the big bomb

that caused the real damage was in this chamber. completely obliterated. in fact, the tragedy, the luftwaffe was determined to smash democracy. and, as we know, on the tenth, 11th, as it was raining down, 1500 people lost their lives. three people lost their lives in this house, trying to save this building. the speaker and his newly elected house of lords counterpart lord mcfall laid wreaths in a ceremony to remember them. the speaker's chaplin led prayers at what has become known as the churchill arch at the entrance to the commons. 0n today, 12th of may, prime winston churchill came to the chamber to view the destruction. he would make a plea for this archway to be retained in its bomb—damaged state, as a reminder forfuture generations. he looked at the chamber, the chamber where he had been here as an mp, where his father had been. he realised how important it was to the world,

about the home of democracy. and as he surveyed the damage, which was unrecognisable, the spirit of the people of this palace was never going to be lost. and he said, "we will rebuild this chamber as it was, but more importantly, we know the damage to the arch when we walk in. it's not that we don't maintain this building. it is about a reminder of what the luftwaffe tried to do, which was smash democracy. the speaker, sir lindsay hoyle. and that was the week in parliament. thank you for watching. i hope you canjoin me on bbc parliament at 11 o'clock on monday evening for the latest from the commons and the lords. until then, from me david cornock, goodbye for now.

hello. there's been no shortage of wet weather this week and there is plenty more where that came from as we head towards the weekend. thursday was a particularly soggy affair across some southern areas. you can see this curl of cloud on the satellite picture — a slow—moving weather system that brought heavy and persistent rain. there is more cloud behind me in the atlantic — another area of low pressure heading our way for the weekend. in between, well, arguably, a slice of slightly drier weather. there will still be some showers and actually, as we go through the day, the showers will tend to pop up in the areas where we develop some sunshine, so across northern ireland, eventually western parts of scotland, north—west england, wales, the south—west. it will turn into a sunshine and showers day after a dull start for some. but for eastern england and certainly the north—east of scotland, we will hold on to more cloud. where we have more of the cloud, well, there won't be so many showers but it will feel chilly — 11 or 12 degrees —

and there could be the odd spot of drizzle around at times. now, as we head through friday night into saturday, some bits and pieces of showery rain will be replaced by a band of more persistent rain pushing up from the south—west across england, wales, into northern ireland by the end of the night. quite a mild start to the weekend but it is going to be quite a turbulent weekend of weather, actually, with some very, very heavy downpours and thunderstorms, always with some sunny spells in between. 0ur band of rain will continue to push its way slowly northwards during saturday, perhaps getting up into the south of scotland by the end of the day. behind it, sunshine and showers, but those showers really will start to turn very, very heavy for wales and the south—west, with hail and thunder later on. top temperatures between 11 and 15 degrees. and then, we head on into sunday, and this area of low pressure is going to move right across the uk. as this sits on top of us during sunday, it will allow for some very unstable conditions in the atmosphere. that means big shower clouds

are going to develop with some hail and some thunder, frequent lightning potentially in these showers, torrential downpours of rain and some pretty squally, gusty winds. particularly windy for coasts of southern england and the channel islands — gusts here in excess of a0 mph. but in any sunshine between the showers, not feeling too bad — highs of 16 degrees.

welcome to bbc news, i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: palestinians flee their homes in gaza amid fears of an ground invasion by israeli forces massed on the border. meanwhile palestinian militants continue firing barrages of rockets at israeli cities, as the violence shows no sign of abating. india records almost the same number of coronavirus cases as the rest of the world combined. this is not an indian problem. what is happening here could affect the world's ability to recover from the pandemic. the number of cases of the indian variant double in the uk

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