military families are as critical to our national dissent as a writer is to a ship -- rutter is to a ship. and we must always act with that truth. today we mark the next chapter of a white house initiative that first lady michelle obama and i started 10 years ago joining forces. this work is personal to me. is it because of my dad? he was a navy signalman in world war ii and went to college on the g.i. bill. his love for this country was a part of everything he did. and he inspired us, his five daughters, to see america through his eyes. or because of my son beau, when he joined the delaware army national guard i felt the pull of both incredible pride and concern that every military mom knows so well. or perhaps it's because of my grandkids. when beau served for a year in iraq, i saw how his children navigated his deployment. and i often wondered how people so small could be so strong. without a doubt, being part of this military community has shaped who i am, but that's not why we are here today. we are here because of you. the people behind me on the screens. because of the stories

power he has now really survived a no confidence vote over claims that he lied about coalition talks rutter has not been forced to resign but his. chances of forming a new government have been dealt a serious blow from. belgian police have clashed with a large crowd gathered in a process park after a fake concert was announced on a social media site as an april fools day prank police said that the re officers were hurt and 22 people were arrested large gatherings are banned in belgium due to surging infection numbers. the world health organization has criticized the speed of the covert 19 vaccine rollout in europe saying that it is quote on acceptably slow the new number of cases across the region has increased for the 6th consecutive week and just 10 percent of the european population has been given their 1st vaccination dose the warning from the w.h.o. comes as the e.u. failed to meet its vaccination targets and distribution schedule by the end of march joining us from copenhagen we have dr siddhartha dr he is the w.h.o. europe regional advisor for the agency's vaccine preventable disease

we have a motor, a propeller and rutters. we can move our assets anywhere we have to.g to do that? >> we have already announced it. we announced that three vessels will start operating in greece and dominican republic lake this summer. we'll announce additional vessels. like the old rock song said, if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. we have to leave or we'll go bankrupt. we raised money to stay afloat. $7 million is a lot of money. a lot of debt on our balance sheets. that only goes so far. if we don't start operating soon, we're going to need more capital. that party is going to end some day badly. we're going to move our vessels so we can survive quite frankly. this year without the pandemic, 33 million people would have cruised. 15 million were americans. america is the largest market, the most lucrative market but it's not the only market. we're prepared to go where customers are and where customers want to go. we're doing it. >> neil: keep us posted. can't believe you're dealing with this. frank del rio the ceo and opt of norwegian cr

as republicans on the help continue to criticize congresswoman maxine waters rutter, the white house to condemn the remarks. speaker nancy pelosi said it's actually not congresswoman waters that she things need to apologize. kevin corke has the story for us tonight. >> good evening, shannon. imagine the roles were reversed and say a republican congressman told a crowd of demonstrators to get more confrontational. what might the white house say then, speaker pelosi come or the media at large for that matter? chances are you certainly know the answer which is why it didn't surprise many today when the white house refused to criticize california democrat maxine waters for her comments that some of suggest were meant to incite violence. >> does the president degree and more confrontational? >> the president has been very clear. >> it was a straightforward question, agree or disagree with congresswoman maxine waters about being more confrontational. the outcome of the chauvin travel. but it took a 312th answer for white house press secretary jen psaki do finally say... >> protests should

left ready for opposition parties because it's better perhaps the devil you know you might say it rutter rather than go back to another general election whilst the global pandemic continues well although i could also think of other creative ways you mention of it is a good car who are at a very good result as are presented herself i think as a potential 1st female prime minister and his 3 of them are lance so they're dead that might still be an option. in any construction of doesn't involve mark with still maybe a bit far fetched but i think in now what has been unthinkable in before the election and even shortly after the election results of which mark of that emerged as a big leader i think are now scenarios where you can consider ok his party will be part of a new coalition but maybe not himself but then again it's too early to speculate about that in a dozen years and call that a tough one mark for nothing so will see if he if you can answers the one of those prices it will see what happens that in the coming days for the members so you're a slower occur from like new diversity thank

jill rutter is a former civil servant who is now senior research fellow at uk in a changing europe, whichut independent research on uk—eu relations. thank you for being with us. you worked in the government at a time when sleaze allegations it seemed to be the norm, sadly. how damaging do you think these allegations are now for thejohnson administration? the for the johnson administration? the bi for the johnson administration? tue: big difference for the johnson administration? tte: big difference to these allegations and the allegations, they miss doings in the major administration is at this time at the person at the centre of it is the prime minister —— me miss doings. at that time there aboutjohn major's government but not about him in particular and he looked quickly to set up a review committing the standards of public life and i think that is the really big difference this time that he person the centre of all these revelations, allegations, and what you will is the prime minister himself. �* , ., ., ., , himself. but there is now an adviser of ministerial _ himself. but there is