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How did the UK get to 100,000 coronavirus deaths? – BBC Newsnight
More than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he took “full responsibility” for the government’s actions, saying: “We truly did everything we could.”
“I’m deeply sorry for every life lost,” he said.
A total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.
How did the UK get to this grim milestone? What could have been done differently?
Policy Editor Lewis Goodall reports. Kirsty Wark is joined by Sage member Proffesor Calum Semple, Co-founder of campaign group Covid Justice UK, Jo Goodman, and Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood.
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Australian MP Helen Haines has been taken to hospital with “critical injuries” after she was hit by a car near her regional office in Wangaratta, Victoria, police have said.
“This wasn’t an accident – there was a deliberate act, it would appear,” said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Police have said they’re investigating whether it was “intentional” and a 43-year-old man, from nearby Tarrawingee, was arrested at the scene by a passer-by.
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The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult, Paul Mackenzie, has been found guilty of murdering 191 people, all but one of them …
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The US president said ‘annihilating’ Iran would create peace in the world and if Tehran were to agree a deal, oil prices would drop immediately.
In a wide-ranging magazine interview, Donald Trump, suggested military action could resume after the midterm elections in November.
Also, we have details of the Iranian national who’s been arrested in London on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection with the incident at RAF Fairford on Sunday in Gloucestershire.
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Today, around 3000 people are being treated in hospital corridors, as nurses and charities call on the government to take action as the annual NHS winter rush approaches.
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As the BBC highlights the case of two-year-old Finlay Roberts who died in a hospital corridor in 2024 – a death the coroner said could have been prevented – we speak to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper about the immediate challenges facing the NHS.
Plus, Zack Polanski speaks to Laura about the Green Party’s controversy over the definition of Zionism.
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Lives “will be lost” unless the UK does more to prepare for wildfires, experts warn, after a record-breaking summer saw 1,350 wildfires in England and Wales alone.
“Tinderbox” conditions created by a long, hot, dry summer brought the worst wildfire season on record in 2026.
Dozens of homes were destroyed or damaged, huge areas of land burned, and one man died.
The UK government banned disposable barbecues, sent a wildfire alert to people’s mobile phones and made £97m available, and a wildfire summit is planned – but are we still behind the curve?
In this episode of Behind the Investigation, Melanie Stewart-Smith speaks to Adrian Goldberg from File on 4 Investigates about what he found on the ground.
0:00 Is the UK prepared for wildfires?
0:42 A record summer of wildfires
1:34 Stourbridge: A couple lose their home
3:45 The man who died fighting a Cotswolds fire
5:21 Reporting on grief and trauma
6:26 From local fires to a national story
7:26 Firefighters at “breaking point”
8:49 Crews sent hundreds of miles
10:25 The wrong kit and training?
11:37 Climate change warning: “Lives will be lost”
13:09 Government response and £97m funding
15:05 On the ground: Wildfire training exercise
17:40 Verdict: How prepared is the UK?
19:24 1.8 million homes at risk
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@MATRIX....
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
It’s all boris Johnson’s fault
@Roland_Tr909_Swing
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
It's all planned depopulation.
@MSMRSCUMPIGFUKR
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Faking statistics
@leefeng5067
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Maybe one day UK becomes a younger country since the old men are gone.
@awasharkhadka1956
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Tribute to all
@awasharkhadka1956
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Percentage is going high and high
@armesisp3201
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
How did it get to 100,000 deaths? Simple, the mass forgeries of death certificates, using the fraudulent high cycle PCR tests. Anyone who dies more than a month after 'testing positive', covid19 gets written on the death cert. These include people who have died in car crashes, falling off 10ft ladders, getting shot by police, and even suicide (A case in Israel). This is a scamdemic on a global scale.
@jantaljaard835
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Why do men get it more then women? What do scientist say.
@MM-jo6kg
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
You got to that number by rigging it, every death is now covid. We are not stupid bbc
@chloeahn27
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Hope Brits take a grief and learn from this pandemic not to repeat the same disasters.
@truthjunkie2325
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
easy….you helped to facilitate bullshit…
@christiansfortruth5953
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Well I can tell you that people are LYING through their teeth about the death toll. It is becoming common knowledge now that people with lets say a DODGY death event are being tagged as Covid deaths when they are NOT. A senior nurse told several people someone who had died from a non covid situation was tagged as death due to covid infection complications. She knows this was a bare faced LIE. SO …. If you know someone who has died recently check the death certificate because this country is being led up the garden path
@acceptableandbornind80s32
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
100 thousand people have lost their lives so they say but millions of people have lost their lives and I don’t mean they’ve died the people who haven’t died have lost their lives to the main things in their lives , like their Jobs they have for years and years their livelihood for Goodness sake and Their routine people have lost their businesses and have no income that’s the result. And saying it’s critical to stay at home I think most people feel the critical shit that’s happened with loosing their jobs and money has just about done it
@housinauthority5258
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
But 100,000 have not died due to Covid, this number is vastly inflated.
@greyfriar9008
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
I call "Bull Sh*t" on this.
By the logic, if you can call it that, if one is tested positive and then, within 28 days, is knocked down and killed by a car then that would be recorded as a Covid death. They may believe we are idiots but they are the idiots.
@acceptableandbornind80s32
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
You get pestered by police in London for going out for a walk alone and not near people and they don’t social distance they come near you start touching you and arresting you saying your not following the rules it’s Bollox doing this to people who are not mass gathering and they are alone.
@user-zz9gn2dc3l
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Worth knowing that the total deaths from this corona virus year are less than total deaths in 2003 and in same ballpark as in 2018. Fear mongering and taking numbers out of any context is the way the government attempts to justify continual lockdown measures. Don't fall for it!
@JLRules
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
"How did the UK get to 100,000 coronavirus deaths?"
Countless people ignore lockdown.
"No idea."
@bobholyoake323
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
more lies . the 100 k death are from flu .pneumonia and died with covid from fake PCR TEST
@bandhsilvers1
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Apparently more deaths than the war in Afghanistan and Iraq when Britain lied to take there oil ….. Remember when press said weapons of mass …..lies same as this
@garybone1516
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Because the world leaders are tossers simple as that .
@Missy-mn6cc
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Government leaving borders open should have closed these January 2020. This was the start. Then you've got the ridiculous tier system and to top it all do what you want for 5 days last Christmas. Oh but the best is yet to come thousands of Hong Kong citizens are set to come to UK during a deadly virus is this government for real
@davidclarke7728
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Because Johnson failed to act in time, even though he had all the knowledge of a pandemic approaching
@slavski33
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
SHUT UP DORIS !!!!!
@isabelcatherinetravis4274
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
This is not your typical war of formal deployment and missiles though; this is a war on our consciousness. One that is cunning, manipulative and insidious to all those who are unaware. Just like unhealthy bodies are hosts for disease, unhealthy minds are breeding ground for manipulation and psychological warfare. And through all of it the same people who are selling you the fear are also selling you the ‘salvation.’ And these people have very very hungry shareholders. Hungry for total domination and control. And because this is the first of its kind, most people have no idea we are currently at war. Humans are incredibly powerful beings and creators. And what we believe creates every aspect of our reality. Do not believe the lies. Do not listen to the propaganda. Do not let them infiltrate your mind any longer. Do not let them trick you into building their future instead of your own. It is time to become your own savior and your own sovereign being. We must unite . The revolution has begun, and it will not be televised.
@rathenn6959
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Dying within 28 days from internal bleeding and other many cases is not the same as dying from covid.
@fingerscrossed2453
January 17, 2024 at 6:16 pm
By abandoning the elderly, and cancelling appointments for those in need on the NHS. Also, by the BBC peddling lie and propaganda to try and justify the lockdown, which has caused national despair, and probably increased suicides.
By pretending death by flu/natural causes is no longer a thing.
Also, by re-assigning deaths as 'covid' when they are of other things (see above).