u. k. quarter's rule. that wiki nick saw the julie, the soldier couldn't challenge a decision to extradite him to the united states. now that means he can appeal to the supreme court. us wants to try a song on 18 charges, including espionage. we follow the stories on our website at amazon dot coms, updated through the day. more news in half, nar with peter. but next, it's inside story to stay with us. ah. is the bubble avow to burst for bitcoin? it lost half its value. why day of our crew to currencies are dealing in the bad and weld markets are indic line. what does that say about the global economy? this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i am hasha, marbella, bitcoin, the mother of war crypto currencies has lost half its value in just a few hours. it reach an or time higher, more than 65000 dollars last year. but on friday it dropped below $35000.00 for the 1st time in months. and it's not just bitcoin. some of the biggest names in the block chain have been trading a read some blame r

market happy, and they have to look for price stability and employment was yonce quarter reporting from new york city. the u. k is anxiously awaiting the publication of a report that cord spell the end of prime minister boris johnson's time in office. and internal investigation is looking into his participation in a series of parties that took place while millions in the country were enduring. corona, virus locked downs. on wednesday, johnson faced a fresh grilling and parliament over the scandal that's become known as party gate . but he once again refused to step down. i would prefer to be led by law. the law will he now rosara ango ran high in the yuki parliament as em piece questioned prime minister boaters johnson, lawyer, northern leader, looked opposition. leaders want johnson to resign? seeing that he lied to the parliament, critical reset it, whatever he says in his statement later today or tomorrow won't change the fox. isn't this a prime minister on a government showed nothing but contempt for the decency, honesty and respect to define this country? oh, this is beaca, we love this country, i'm a doi

u. k. government of intentionally escalating tensions unties donald quarter has a big claim from the british foreign office, but not a shred of evidence put forward to back it up at the end of its midnight embargo. the tale of an apparent russian plot to install a puppet government and key of made its way across british headlines. and some of its details were more than fishy enough to raise a few eyebrows. confusion over u. k. claim that potent plants qu in ukraine. foreign office claim of plot to instill pro masika government and cave comes with scant detail. it's unclear what means britain believes russia might use to install a friendly government in chief. the u. k. government made the claim based on an intelligence assessment without providing evidence to back it up. the u. k. foreign officers press release had more than a few inconsistencies take if danny mariah former ukrainian m. p, he cited as moscow's potential candidate to replace the current president vladimir zalinski, except more i of his, on russia's sanctions list on top of that, his party failed to even past the last parliame

and infections a hitting an average of 3 quarters from 1000000 a day. the u. k. prime minister is facing renewed calls to step down after new revelations about a government party held during the height of lockdown. leaked email reportedly shows. boris johnson's principal private secretary invited about a 100 government staff for drinks in may of 202018 baba has this report from london . how many garden parties is a garden party too far? this image shows boris johnson at a gathering behind 10 downing street during the 1st lock down in may. 2020. his office is always claimed. this was a work meeting. now he's under intense pressure. after press reports, he attended another gathering here 5 days later, along with dozens of colleagues, an email from one of his advisors to a 100 members of staff said hi all after what has been an incredibly busy period, we thought it would be nice to make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially distance drinks and the number 10 garden this evening. please join us from 6 p. m and bring your own booze. and i know that peo

perhaps a quarter of workers being off like many countries, the u. k. has tried to mitigate this by shortening the isolation period, but still to say, given that this is a main london train station and this is back to work. day rush hour should be a bit more rocky than if it's not very yeah, it does look a bit empty behind you. what about schools? how they going to contain and another wave if kids are going back to school, well, the government has pledged that schools should carry on teaching face to face for as long as possible. and so what they're saying is that high school students should be testing at least 2 to 3 times a week, either on site or a home thing. the test has to be done before students and staff come back today. and on sunday that we're lines in many of the main these papers saying that high school students are also expected to be wearing masks in classrooms. once again. now that has angered the teaching unions and in many teachers, guess again, the government have done this several times. during the course of the pandemic day with sags

quarter. now pressure continues to grow on the u. k. prime minister with yet another revelation on a series of parties held at his london residence in breach of locked down rules. the mirror newspaper now says, drinks known as wine time fridays, were held weekly during pandemic restrictions with the full knowledge of boris johnson. earlier his office apologized to queen elizabeth after emerge to party was held the day before the funeral of her husband, prince philip with the nation and official morning, as well as locked down. the queen attended the funeral on her own, and so she distance from her family. ah, oh, public opinion appears to be turning against forest johnson with mimi flooding the internet. mocking him a flash mob of parsing, johnson lookalikes even turned up at the gates to downing street on friday, holding bottles and beer and shouting. this is a work event. the arc has more on what this could mean. the bars, johnson, i don't think we can underestimates the kind of political damage this might do to boys johnson in the l

quarter. will he not? i spoke with elis cash for professor of sociology aston university in the u. k. long term took her on all things, sport. he thinks the history and government has put itself in an awkward position with such a high profile. bon got morrison, the a prime minister has paid it himself into a bit of a corner now, because on the one hand, if he allows jug which entry into australia, then it's going to kick off in melbourne because this is the most locked down country in the was they have been hardly able to move for the past 2 years, trying to come out locked down. it's funding it's infection rate is spiraling upwards. and so that's saying now if we let junk of it into the country, this is really sacrificing a policy that we've held in place for 2 years and exactly the wrong time in history . on the other hand, if they exclude coverage, then they're going to have a di valued tennis tournament. no medicine is meant to help the sick, but it appears america's health care system need some serious bedside assistance itself. or documentary this asked why is life expectancy fu

quarter. and i tend to agree with him because all the underpinning fundamentals are good. manufacturing is up in the u. k. what was really hot hit was the services industry, the leisure industry in the hospitality industry. but of course, as we know, the u. k. is doing a lot of deals around the world and that bodes well for the future. yeah, i certainly a lot of moving parts there. hillary ford, which of straw mark development consultants. thank you so much for bringing us up to speed. pleasure. and finally, months after a russian actress and her crew became the 1st to film a movie in the outer space. well, tom cruise is now looking to join that exclusive club with a production of his own. the new project is being launched by the u. k. base space, entertainment enterprise and it aims to build a studio that would be attached to the international space station that module referred to as c. one is currently being developed by axiom a company based in houston, texas. when completed, it could be the world 1st content and entertainment studios and multi purpose arena in space. right now, the date for launches

around 3 quarters of the population has been given at least one dose of the vaccine. there more of relations emerging about the u. k. governments holding parties during the current of iris locked down the daily mirror newspapers as prime minister boars. johnson attended a farewell gathering for a staff member in the run up to christmas 2020. more than a dozen events are being investigated by senior civil servants to grey. she's report a tough question. johnson ne parker has more from london, which is 5 days. his prime minister boys, johnson was forced to stand up in parliament and apologize to m p. 's and the public for attending a drink policy, the garden of number 10 downing street. he said that he believed it was a work event, although that excuse seemed so full and flat would members of his own conservative party, the opposition, and increasingly so with the british public as well. over the past few days, we been learning more about other events that have taken place. we've let also about a, a wind fridge installed in number 10 to allow officials, they're to let off steam and of a regular friday night drinks ev

u. k. tabloids, one of the most popular in the world described brokovich as believing in fairies. he believes that water has memories and, and a lot of people calling about quarter job. alas, what, what did you think of that? does that seem to be almost personal? he's the thing laurie, i don't care what he thinks, because i'm a sports fan, and i imagine any sports fun there with watching a football or a tracking field store tennis per box. so we don't care really what's going on in their heads. we don't believe it, but you know, we don't care if they believe in paris. we'll have all kinds of belief that strike us as fanciful. we're interested in how they perform on the tennis court, or the basketball court will the boxing ring. that's where we get our appreciation from to see how they perform in a competition. and that's what i think really people, i mean, i don't know, joke of it, and i don't really don't care what he thinks. i mean, obviously if you had political views that were totally out of alignment with my own, i'd probably go off him. but that wouldn't make him make me respect him any less as a tennis player. so yes, i know that he's had all these kind o

u. k. launch the investigation into potential locked down breeches by forest johnson's government. it follows a series of revelations about the shindig in downing street with coming to you lie from i had quarter terry moscow, you're watching r t international. my name's peter scott. and here are the top stories this, our croatia says it will withdraw its forces from nato units in eastern europe, in the event of a conflict between russia, ukraine. the statement from the countries president came just hours ahead after the us for more than $8000.00 troops on high alert of a what he claimed would be a russian invasion of its neighbour moscow, as always as denied having any such plans. corporation, president, thought milan of ich making so many century comments on tuesday. he said if there is a conflict between ukraine and russia, he would order the croatian troops to pull out of deployments that they're involved in with nato. now this is a statement, it's not only unlikely to have gone down particularly well in nato headquarters. it's also unlikely to gone down particularly well in ukraine either because mr. milan, which also went on to say that the 2014 might done revolution in ukraine, was a co

u. k. independence policy. thanks for joining us. good. talking to program today. now this decision to put the british navy in charge of petroleum channel, the port walgreens has already been criticized by gone by other quarters as well. why didn't you case considering such, share what are perceived to be drastic measures? is ridiculous. ideas use the navy, the british navy has been cut to the bone anyway, and its purpose is not to repel illegal immigrant boats as a much easier way of doing this. and maps is to announce that anybody who answers the united kingdom via these boats is going to automatically have the request for asylum rejected, which is very similar to what the australian state. but the problems, of course, getting much worse because at the moment we've already had over 1000 illegal immigrants come across the channel this month, which is more than 4 times what we had in january of last year, or any 223. at that moment now we who are concerned about this conservative government's approach to immigration notes, that's pretty patel. i'm secretary often comes out with quite fierce rhetoric when it comes to dealing with these matters. but she never ever delivers. and for example, we are without count