gary 0'donoghue is in washington.ing there, has turned his attention on the world health 0rganisation? his attention on the world health organisation? yeah, he has written a lengthy letter to the who which is conducting it's sort of annual health conference virtually in geneva, as we speak, and he said having suspended the funding the us gives to the who, and that amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, by to hundreds of millions of dollars peryear, by far to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, by far the to hundreds of millions of dollars peryear, by farthe biggest to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, by far the biggest single donor, having suspended that last month, he is considering withdrawing that money altogether and leaving the organisation. he has given them 30 days to reform, to prove they are not a puppet of china. it's not very clear exactly what he is asking them to do, but if you read the letter it's very much addressed directly to the head of the who, and i suspect the head of

lets speak to our washington correspondent, gary 0'donoghue. a while and then almost immediate action, is that right? that is about the sum of it, this took place, the shooting, on the 23rd of february. and the authorities, the local prosecutors in that area of brunswick in georgia effectively said, this was self defence. these guys were trying to conduct a citizen's arrests, there is nothing to see here. then there was complications that emerged with connections between certainly the elder of the two currently accused and law enforcement. he worked in law enforcement, some had worked in one another‘s officers and earlier this week when the video emerged, not exactly clear when prosecutors first saw that video, but there was a nationwide outcry about it, so much so thatjoe biden called the contents and the evidence on the video a lynching. what has been the reaction in georgia and the reaction of the family of ahmaud arbery? well, ahmaud arbery‘s family are glad these arrests have been made, no question, they say he was an innocent man having a

here is gary 0'donoghue on doctor wright's testimony before congress.s criticisms directed particularly at his bosses for the department of health and human services talking about the warnings that he issued them not just about the warnings that he issued them notjust on the swap spot on and 95 mask, on getting samples of the vaccine from china early enough. he said effectively the whole process of getting back to normal and needless death would've happened because of those delays. he was also one of those people pushing back on the president sort of fetish, if you like with hydroxychloroquine the president was pushing for a long time people should take it, one of you got to lose, if you remember that the president said. he said, rick right there was no safety evaluations done of that and that it wasn't something that he would support. as a result of pushback on things like this he was getting frozen out of meetings and he was a senior official at hhs in charge of the vaccine development issues. he was eventually fired from the job. thanks to gary for t

earlier i spoke with our washington correspondent, gary 0 donoghue and asked him what we know about thed byrd is a senatorfrom north carolina, a senior senator, but he is chair of the intelligent select committee. 0ne is chair of the intelligent select committee. one of the key posts inside the senate. —— coronavirus. -- burr. inside the senate. —— coronavirus. —— burr. investigators got a warrant to search his home and see his his phone as part of an investigation over potential insider dealing in terms of selling stock related to companies that might be affected by the corunna virus. so there are no charges at this stage, we have to stress that as far as we know. but the question is did mr burr get information through his briefings as a senator that may have led him to start selling stock from the middle of february to the middle of march? so stock sales are a matter of public record. they are out there and being investigated. and of course the stock market plans, a lot of people sold stock and the question is whether or not he sold ata time question is whether or not he sold at a tim

donald trump and the rose garden a little earlier. 0ur washington correspondent gary 0'donoghue explainsement. it's interesting because it was not really just an announcement about a new effort on the vaccine. in some ways, you'd expect that to be happening right now. full steam ahead on a vaccine with preparations to distribute it. but it was a campaign speech as well. it was peppered, as the president so often does, with superlatives. the biggest, the highest, the greatest, the fastest, etc, etc, etc. it was classic donald trump. the adjectival president as he is in that way. and i think you heard the sort of reality from his vaccine chiefs there, who were saying about the ambition to do this by the end of the year that it's very credible but extremely challenging. if ever someone was nodding in both directions, i think that's what you heard there from the vaccine chiefs. but enhancing the military, thinking them onboard to be part of the distribution, the president hadn't quite worked out the messaging on whether this was an international effort or a purely national effort. he said at

we can speak now to bernard donoghue, who is the director of leading visitor attractions.uly. some may not be open until the end of this year. so if they are highly dependent or solely dependent on generating income from ticket sales, they are in a very precarious financial situation. can you put a financial situation. can you put a financial cost on this? it is in the region of about 35 billion. and that is particularly significant, because tourism is worth 157 billion in a normal year to the uk economy. it is one of the fifth largest industries in the uk, third largest employer, and it is one of the most important employers in every constituency in every pa rt employers in every constituency in every part of the country. so it has a seismic effect across all local, regional and national economies. whilst not wanting people to take risks, you must look at a bright blue sky, look at pictures of the beaches around the country, and wring your hands. yes, one of the great ironies of all of this is that we have had an unprecedented period of really good weather when our attrac