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100,000 UK Covid deaths: the highest in Europe – BBC News

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The United Kingdom is the first European country to record more than 100,000 deaths linked to the pandemic.

According to the University of Oxford the UK has one of the highest Covid death rates anywhere in the world.

The prime minister Boris Johnson, whose handling of the pandemic has been heavily criticised by some people, said he was “deeply sorry for every life lost” and took “full responsibility for everything that the government has done”.

Almost 250,000 people have been admitted to hospital with Covid since the start of the pandemic.

Professor Chris Whitty, the UK’s chief medical adviser, said there would be many more deaths in the coming weeks.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by health correspondent Catherine Burns, political editor Laura Kuenssberg, and health editor Hugh Pym.

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India’s youth desperation fuelling the ‘Cockroach Party’ | Global News Podcast

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Despite police crackdowns and accusations of brutality during protests this week, India’s ‘youth-led’ Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is showing no signs of slowing down, as it gathers support from the public and opposition politicians.

The group is demanding education reforms and the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who oversaw exams in the country which were subject to corruption claims. The group began after India’s Chief Justice, Surya Kant, allegedly compared unemployed young people and activists to cockroaches and parasites during a court hearing. He later said he was only referring to people with “fake and bogus degrees”, but when graduate Abhijeet Dipke used the name Cockroach Party to start a satirical group online, it gained millions of followers rapidly and grew into one of the most unexpected challenges to the powerful, nationalist government.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to take care of the country’s youth in a midnight video, after the party called for nationwide protests to be held again on Friday and talks between representatives of the Cockroach Party and government officials later took place in Delhi, but as our Global Affairs Correspondent and India specialist Anbarasan Ethirajan explains, the fractures between young people in India and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) run deeper than anger over exam fraud.

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How did Tony Blair’s election win in 1997 change British politics? | BBC Newscast

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Today, we start the first of six Old Newscasts looking at the story of 30 years of British Politics through six votes. We start in 1997, …

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Reform UK report Green Party leader Zack Polanski to police over guillotine T-shirt post. #BBCNews

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