>>13634399

Live: The Queen State Opening of Parliament in first public appearance since Duke’s death

SWEEPING powers to jail Russian and Chinese spies are to be unveiled by The Queen today.

The State Opening of Parliament marks Her Majesty's first public event since Prince Philip died last month.

Long-awaited reforms to the Official Secrets Act will be outlined in the Queen’s Speech.

Her Majesty will attend Parliament this morning to unveil Boris Johnson’s agenda for the coming months.

Front and centre stage will be a Counter State Threats Bill.

The changes will allow the UK to prosecute Russian, North Korean and Chinese hackers; Iranian spies who target the UK’s Middle East bases and those caught spying at British embassies.

Stream is on a break (more to come), but Queen leaves Buckingham Palace approx 45mins back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzPwtqQH-sg

>>13634461

>Technically, she has veto power, but little else.

Or so we've always been told…

>>13634392

Russia shooting - 11 killed in school gun & bomb bloodbath as pupils ‘die jumping from windows’

AT LEAST 11 people have been killed - including a number of children - in a school shooting incident in Russian city Kazan.

Terrified children jumped from windows and wounded pupils with appalling gunshot wounds lying on the ground outside the school.

Two children died after jumping from windows in a bid to escape, reports RIA news agency.

An explosion was also reported and police found at least two unexploded bombs in the school.

Reports said two gunmen opened fire at the school, with one holding six or seven children hostages in the building.

But Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs has said that there was only one shooter involved.

The suspect has been named as 19-year-old Ilnaz Renatovich Galyaviev - who reportedly left School 175 some four years ago.

He reportedly killed eight pupils in the eighth grade - aged 13 to 14 - and one teacher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKFGbOd_1Bg

COVID-19 vaccine passport available on NHS app from next week so Brits can go on foreign holidays

VACCINATED Brits will be able to travel abroad for their holidays using the NHS app from next Monday, Matt Hancock declared today.

The health secretary confirmed the Covid certificate system will be up and running in time for the reopening of our borders.

Asked if the necessary changes to the app will be ready on May 17, he replied: "Yes.

"The certification, being able to show you've had a jab, is going to be necessary for people to be able to travel.

"So we want to make sure people can get access to that proof, not least to show governments of other countries that you've had a jab if they require that in order to arrive.

"Israel is a good example, they've said they'll want proof of you having had two jabs for you to go to Israel as and when they open up - they're on the green list of course.

"So we'll make sure you can get access to that to prove that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lR3Q0WpWFg

No surprise to anons, as all politicians are just tag-team, double-speak liars:

Covid-19: No plans for 'vaccine passport' - Michael Gove

Published 1 December 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55143484

>>13634560

>I wish he could say, Fuck Off Fauci, that would make my day!

KEK.

Preferably PDJT gets to say "Fauxi, you're fired!! Get outa here! (by way of Gitmo)"

>>13634615

> after setting fire to one of the holiest places in Islam mythology

A tree…

Charlie fell asleep.

US ships fire shots to fend off Iranian speedboats ‘harassing’ ballistic missile sub

A US ship has fired 30 warning shots to fend off Iranian speedboats "harassing" ballistic missile sub in Strait of Hormuz.

According to the Pentagon, the shots came after thirteen Iranian speedboats "conducted unsafe and unprofessional" manoeuvres near it.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the speedboats from Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came as close as 150 yards to six U.S. military vessels.

The warning shots were fired from a .50 calibre machine gun before the Iranian vessels left, he said.

It comes as earlier this year Iran's military leader vowed to turn US aircraft carriers into "sinking submarines, "a year after a US drone strike killed Iran's revered commander Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Back in January Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi warned that Iran would hit back as the US had been conducting B-52 bomber flyovers and sent a nuclear submarine into the Persian Gulf.

Iranian international news network Press TV quoted the top military brass vowing: "We will never initiate a war, but we will respond decisively and with our utmost power and readiness if anyone attacks Iran."

Washington also recalled home the Navy's aircraft supercarrier USS Nimitz in "an abrupt reversal of its anti-Iran strategy", Press TV added.

Iran told reporters that it reserves the right to take military revenge against the "assassins of Gen. Soleimani and his companions".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TlehiUEUvk