the leader of the welsh conservatives has resigned after an investigation found he may have broken coronavirusincident last month involving four members of the welsh parliament happened just days after pubs across wales were banned from selling alcohol. 0ur wales political editor, felicity evans, gave us this update. it's been a very difficult week for the welsh conservatives. these allegations first emerged on tuesday and, at that time, paul davies, the leader of the conservative group in the senedd, along with his chief whip, darren miller, and a labour member of the senedd, alun davies, issued statements in which they said they had had a drink in the tearoom of the senedd, which is a licensed premises, just days after the welsh government had introduced a ban on alcohol being served in licensed premises. although they insisted they did not break coronavirus regulations because the onus in these new rules was on the licence holder rather than any drinkers. but in that statement, they accepted that it might be perceived they hadn't observed the spirit of those regulations, though they insiste

the leader of welsh conservatives paul davies has resigned after admitting drinking on the senedd estatefter a pub alcohol ban was enforced. and the american broadcaster and talk show host larry king has died at the age of 87. good afternoon. police in russia have made more than a thousand arrests at protests in support of the jailed opposition leader alexei navalny, including his wife, yulia. demonstrations have been taking place across russia, including the eastern cities of vladivostok and khabarovsk. in the siberian city of yakutsk, protesters braved temperatures of —50 degrees. mr navalny was arrested last week after he flew back to moscow from berlin, where he had been recovering from a near—fatal nerve agent attack in russia last august. on his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. he described it as a trumped—up case designed to silence him. the largest gatherings are ongoing in the capital, moscow. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. in the freezing cold, out they came. thousands of protesters taking to t

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paul davies has resigned as leader of the welsh - resigned as leader of the welsh conservatives in thenforced. the american broadcaster and talk show host, larry king, has died at the age of 87. now on bbc news, bbc newsbeat goes on a road trip to meet young americans and hear how they think their politically divided country can be unified. let us be the nation that we know we can be, a nation united, a nation strengthened, a nation healed! this is america by childish gambino plays. the nightjoe biden won the us presidential election — but right now, the country is looking torn in ways we have never seen before. if violence happens, like, it happens, but we're not going to start it. i'm daniel rosney, a reporter on newsbeat, which goes out on radio 1, 1xtra and the asian network. covering the american election was like nothing i had ever seen before. bbc news? well, you should go back to the uk over there. just looking at the price tags of the guns, they're not cheap. there's one behind you there for $4,500.

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the leader of welsh conservatives, paul davies, has resigned after admitting drinking on the senedd estateafter a pub alcohol ban was enforced. and, the american broadcaster and talk show host, larry king, has died at the age of 87. now on bbc news, in the weekjoe biden is sworn in as president, click looks at what this could mean for social media. this week, as 45 becomes a6, we'll talk to some of the most important voices in social media to find out what the new president might do to put right the wrongs of big tech. hey, welcome! hope you are you doing 0k and, wow, what a momentous week in world politics this has been. whether or not you're in the united states, what's happened there will affect us all. i, joseph robinette bidenjr, do solemnly swear... lara lewington: joe biden's become the 46th president. of the united states. lots about the last few weeks has broken with convention and almost broken democracy in the process. it reminded everyone just how fragile democratic systems are, even at the heart of the free world. and at the grand finale of this election, the spotlight is now

he was facing questions from the newly—installed welsh conservative leader, andrew rt davies, who returneddays into a ban on drinking in licensed premises. you missed your target, that's straightforward, people understand that. yesterday, for example, i could tell the uk government had four out of five 80—year—olds at vaccinated, 80%. they'd hit their target. what we are seeing constantly is targets being missed by your government, and we are seeing the opening of a postcode lottery here in wales. i'm really sorry, the member is going to have to do better than that. here he is again in his resumed responsibilities. there is no postcode lottery here in wales. instead, he said there was a tremendous effort to get people vaccinated. now, for some other news in brief. new measures have been announced aimed at reducing the number of people travelling to and from the uk. british residents arriving from a "red list" of banned countries will have to quarantine in a hotel, and people travelling out of the uk are being told they'll need a "valid reason" to go overseas. we will introduce a new requir

he was facing questions from the newly—installed welsh conservative leader, andrew rt davies, who returned your target, that's straightforward, people understand that. yesterday, for example, i could tell the uk government had four out of five 80—year—olds at vaccinated, 80%. they'd hit their target. what we are seeing constantly is targets being missed by your government, and we are seeing the opening of a postcode lottery here in wales. i�*m sorry, the member is going to have to do better than that. here he is again in his resumed responsibilities. there is no postcode lottery here in wales. instead, he said there was a tremendous effort to get people vaccinated. now, for some other news in brief. new measures have been announced aimed at reducing the number of people travelling to and from the uk. british residents arriving from a "red list" of banned countries will have to quarantine in a hotel, and people travelling out of the uk are being told they�*ll need a "valid reason" to go overseas. we will introduce a new requirement so that people wishing to travel must first make a declarat

the leader of welsh conservatives, paul davies, has resigned after admitting drinking on the senedd estates after an alcohol ban was enforced. and the american broadcaster and talk show host larry king has died at the age of 87. now on bbc news, bbc newsbeat go on a road trip to meet young americans from all sides to see what they think needs to be done to build bridges in their country. let us be the nation that we know we can be, a nation united, a nation strengthened, a nation healed! this is america by childish gambino plays the nightjoe biden won the us presidential election — but right now, the country is looking torn in ways we have never seen before. if violence happens, like, it happens, but we're not going to start it. i'm daniel rosney, a reporter on newsbeat, which goes out on radio 1, 1xtra and the asian network. covering the american election was like nothing i had ever seen before. bbc news? well, you should go back to the uk over there. just looking at the price tags of the guns, they're not cheap. there's one behind you there for $4,500. 0h, we've got one for $30,000. but

he was facing questions from the newly—installed welsh conservative leader, andrew rt davies, who returned alcohol four days into a ban on drinking in licensed premises. you missed your target. that's straightforward, people understand that. yesterday, for example, i could tell you the uk government have four out of five 80—year—olds vaccinated — 80%. they hit their target. what we're seeing constantly is targets being missed by your government, and we are seeing the opening a postcode lottery here in wales. well, really, the member will have to do better than that. here he is again in his resumed responsibilities. there is no postcode lottery here in wales. mark drakeford. the government's confirmed it's delaying laws to protect nature due to pressure on parliament from the coronavirus pandemic. mps spent the afternoon debating amendments to the environment bill, but further scrutiny has been postponed until the next parliamentary session. campaigners are angry at the latest delay to a bill that was first launched under the previous prime minister, theresa may, back injuly 2018. the neces

alcohol ban from december the 4th but on the eighth there was a group which included three welsh conservativesrmation and we had statements from them, all of them deny wrongdoing, they say this was a work meeting but they apologised and profoundly sorry for the impression of him i have given to people that there was some kind of shindig or christmas party. now we understand it is being investigated by the senedd commission, in case there is any breach of public health. but all the members we have struggled to so far have denied wrongdoing with the apologise may be for the impression. —— we have interviewed. it doesn't come across well when we have alcohol bans in place and well since december the 4th in the hospitality sector in dire straits with people there wondering when they will be able to open again.— there wondering when they will be able to open again. thank you very much indeed- _ joe biden will take office as the 46th president of the united states tomorrow and he'll do so in the midst of perhaps the tightest—ever security for an inauguration ceremomy. thousands of national guard res

exchanges came just before the news that a group of politicians, including the conservative leader, paul davies, drank alcohol on welshstigating. finally, in an age of video conferencing, there are just some days when it all goes wrong. and prime minister's questions suffered a severe attack of the gremlins. first, the chamber lost connection with the snp westminster leader, ian blackford, as he was due to ask his second question. ian blackford. inaudible laughter i somehow think we've lost ian blackford. we'll come back to him. nicole richards. nicole? you're muted. press the mic. i'm not muted. can you hear me? speak. can you hear me? it's not working. the speaker did eventually go back to ian blackford and nicola richards for their questions, but another mp had to fight an all too familiar battle. mrspeaker, thank you... phone rings i'm so sorry. it's excellent that we are - leading europe in vaccinations. phone rings and it-s — excellent that we now have strong health borders. phone rings neil 0'brien later confirmed that the call on a little—used landline was from an insurance company, asking whether he'd recentl

the conservative leader of the welsh assembly has resigned.the senedd premises days after a wales wide alcohol ban came into effect. we will bring you more on that as we have it. exactly one year ago the world saw its first coronavirus lockdown come into force in wuhan, the chinese city where the pandemic is believed to have started. the first cases of covid—19 were found at a market in the city. our china correspondent robin brant has been back to visit. this is inside the building where it all started. a year on, the second—floor shops at huanan market are open. it looks like it's business as usual, but not everyone can get in. we had to be escorted by a security guard. and there was very little sign of what happened beneath here on the ground floor. a cluster of the first cases were found here in december 2019. it was shut down, boarded—up. investigators took samples, a clean—up quickly followed. what you see in there is a place frozen in time. it's boarded up on the ground floor and the sign over the entrance has been long ago taken down.

the conservative leader in the welsh parliament has resigned his position after being seen drinking withd the trust and respect" he�*d built with the people of wales. his colleague, darren millar, who was also seen drinking, has also resigned. the headlines on bbc news... more than 2000 people have been arrested in russia at protests in support of the jailed opposition leader, alexei navalny. senior doctors in britain call for the maximum 12—week gap between administering the first and second doses of the pfizer coronavirus vaccination to be halved. a curfew has come into force in the netherlands as part of new measures to contain coronavirus. one of the giants of american broadcasting, larry king, has died. he was 87. larry king is best known for hosting a nightly talk show on cnn, which ran for 25 years. he was being treated in hospital in los angeles after testing positive for covid—19. daniella relph looks back on his life. for more than 60 years, he interviewed everybody who was anybody. tonight, the legendary liza minnelli on marriage. would you marry again? are you nuts? ..0scar w

welsh parliament premises, days after a ban on serving drinks in pubs came into effect. senedd authorities are investigating the incident involving labour's alun davies and conservative membersbc wales political editor felicity evans is in central cardiff. what more do we know about this, felicity? what more do we know about this, felici ? , . , , what more do we know about this, felici ? , ., ,, felicity? this happened back in december. _ felicity? this happened back in december, just _ felicity? this happened back in december, just days _ felicity? this happened back in december, just days after - felicity? this happened back in december, just days after the l felicity? this happened back in - december, just days after the welsh government imposed what was at the time a very controversial ban on alcohol in pubs and restaurants. these politicians met in the senate, licensed premises and drank wine during what they say was a work—related meeting. this has provoked outrage across the political spectrum and the conservative politicians involved are all frontbenchers and full davies is the group leader in the senedd who wants to put himself forward as a possible first minister

comments on bbc radio 4's today programme, the welsh government had said the reason for spacing out vaccine supply was to avoid wastage. the conservativesccines into people's arms as quickly as possible, why on earth did you actually say that you wanted to roll out the vaccines over a period of time? because that is just a confusing message. and whilst the welsh government may be happy with its go—slow approach, the people of wales are farfrom happy — they want to see action and they want to see it now. in the meantime, people across wales are being held prisoner to this virus. people can't meet up with their loved ones, children are without face—to—face learning, and parents are struggling to manage the competing demands of working from home and home schooling their children. the welsh government's slow progress in vaccinating people just increases people's frustration and anger at a time when the welsh government should be providing them with hope and doing everything possible to expedite its vaccine delivery. the policy of the welsh government is to vaccinate as many people in wales as quickly and as safely as possible. that is how w

welsh parliament premises, days after a ban on serving drinks in pubs came into effect. senedd authorities are investigating the incident involving labour's alun davies and conservative membersg any rules. 0ur wales political editor felicity evans sent us this update from cardiff. this happened back in december, as you say, just days after the welsh government imposed what was at the time a very controversial ban on alcohol in pubs and restaurants. these politicians met in the center, it self a licensed premises, and drink wine during what they say was a work—related meeting. now, this has provoked outrage across the political spectrum. the conservative politicians involved are all friend ventures and paul davis is the group leader in the senate. he wants to put himself forward as a possible first minister in the forthcoming welsh parliament elections in may. labour's alan davis has been suspended from his group pending an investigation. nick ramsey has yet to comment, but all the others have apologized, though, they insist they did not break any rules. they do admit that some might regard their behavior as not being in the spirit of those rules, but despite the apology, i t