our health reporter jim reed has more. patrick, over to you. thank you very much. patrick vallance was up there at the downing street podium in some of the darkest days of the pandemic. we're also recommending increased social distancing. that's the phrase that you hear. already the inquiry has heard extracts from his private notes or diaries, written in what lawyers described as a brain dump at the end of a stressful day. sir patrick vallance notes in his evening notes, - "number 10 chaos as usual. "on friday, the two—metre rule meeting made it abundantly clear that no one in number 10 - or the cabinet office had really | read or taken time to understand| the science advice on two metres. "quite extraordinary." sir patrick starts what is a busy week of scientific evidence. tomorrow, his colleague at the podium, sir chris whitty, will give evidence, followed by the deputy chief medical officerfor england, sirjonathan van—tam, perhaps best known for his covid football analogies. it's a bit like being 3—0 up in a game and thinking, well, we can't possibly lose this n

jim reed, bbc news. collapsed tunnel in the himalayas after a week of failed attempts. the 41 construction workers stuck in the tunnel in uttarakhand state since a landslide on 12 november, are being supplied with food, water and medicines through a pipe. rescuers had been drilling horizontally through the debris. but they now plan to drill down from the mountain top. zubair ahmed reports. four construction worker raj document this is home away from home. a resident of the state he had been working on the ill—fated tunnel for the last two years. he worked as a loader removing the debris after the rocks are drilled onto a truck to be driven away. when the shift to get sober, we come back to the room, wash our clothes and mission up, then we eat our food, we talk to our families on the phone, we scroll on the phones for a bit then we rest.— then we rest. privacy is an alien concept _ then we rest. privacy is an alien concept here. - then we rest. privacy is an alien concept here. each l then we rest. priva

our health reporter jim reed reports. patrick, over to you. thank you very much.rs are increasing and they're increasing across europe and in the uk. sir patrick vallance was up there at the downing street podium in some of the darkest days of the pandemic. we're also recommending increased social distancing. that's the phrase that you hear. already the inquiry has heard extracts from his private notes or diaries, written in what lawyers described as a brain dump at the end of a stressful day. sir patrick vallance notes in his evening notes, - "number 10 chaos as usual. "on friday, the two metre rule i meeting made it abundantly clear that no one in number 10 or- the cabinet office had really read or taken time to understand - the science advice on two metres. "quite extraordinary." sir patrick starts what is a busy week of scientific evidence. tomorrow, his colleague at the podium, sir chris whitty, will give evidence, followed by the deputy chief medical officer for england, sirjonathan van—tam, perhaps best known for his covid football analogies. it's a bit lik

covid inquiry there and then we have reports fromjim inquiry there and then we have reports from jim reedgiving us a summary of what theirformer ok... here he is giving us a summary of what their former civil servant had to say. just to a reminder, this is live coverage from the covid inquiry that we had there from lord sedwill. he was speaking to... he was giving his testimony there to the covid inquiry and just an up some —— summary of what he had to say. a key focus had been on the decision—making in cabinet during the first few months of the covid inquiry. he told hugo keith, the inquiry. he told hugo keith, the inquiry lawyer, that he had concerns about the fact that that cabinet whilst not as fully participative in the decision—making process as it should have been. he said he raised his concerns with the former prime minister borisjohnson. he also said that he thought the government, when it came into power, that thejohnson government was more like an opposition party coming into power after a general election and that was because of the nature of the brexit process. he said there

yesterday, jim reed said this, markets have been extremely dull over the last 24 hours.nt or because they are waiting for something in particular to be a trigger to go for bull? >> yesterday was in the quiet. it is when the market is waiting for information. we had a lot of information coming out this week. if we were quiet yesterday i think that has a lot to do with it. now they kind of sit on their hands until he get the data. lisa: what is the potential surprise? >> it actually ran counter to our credit card data, counter to a lot of the spending data received from a lot of places. wednesday is going to be a really interesting test for that narrative. people are going to get very bullish about the holiday spending to year-end, or does that mean last month's retail spending looks like a bit of a head faith and we start to compress that down to the credit card and they can mark there's a lot of potential outcome from that data. where lisa: does that catalyze stocks, because that could mean fed rate stock. his head spinning in terms of what this means for a stocks go. fo

reed and henry burnette fought and got the boot. notably, only two house members expelled. 1980, pennsylvania democrat michael myers got caught by the fbi taking a $50,000 bribe. and jimfford from ohio was convicted of bribery, fraud, tax evasion and forcing his aides to do chores on his family farm. notably, they were convicted before expelled. congressman santos has pled not guilty to 23 different charges including fraud and identity theft. he's said to go on trial next year. but that commission alleges that he spent tens of thousands of dollars of political donations, designer brands, the onlyfans website and fancy vacations, allegations that santos has categorically denied. so what would it take for him to get kicked out? two-thirds of the house must vote in favor of expelling him. a figure they haven't reached on two previous attempts to expel the congressman. house speaker johnson saying they are having real reservations about supporting expulsion, likely because of this. republicans control the house by ultra thin, 2 and 18, only 13 more. and we know, brianna, every quote counts. >> certainly does, we're joining by manu raju, barbara comstock and tim naftali. m